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Below you will find many felt crafts for kids including fun beginner's sewing crafts for kids, Christmas Ornament crafts, finger puppets, wall hangings and many other arts and crafts projects that use felt.

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How to Make Felt Wallets or Felt Purses

To make this craft, you will need 1 piece felt that is about 8"x4 1/2", scissors, 1 piece of bright-colored yarn, raffia, or string that is about 48" long. Cut the felt and punch holes in it with a hole puncher (sketch a). Be sure to fold felt before punching holes so that holes will coincide. Show younger children how to lace yarn through holes, starting at top of purse. When last hole is reached, crisscross lacing through holes back to top to hold sides together. Tie ends securely. (Sketches b and c.) Boys May carry wallets in their pockets. Girls may tie a double string through the top hole on each side for handle to make a pretty purse (Sketch d.)

Making a Velcro Bullseye Ball Tossing Game to Make for Children - Today we will show you how to make a game that is like darts, but safer. This is a Bulls-Eye Velcro Ball Tossing and Aiming game. All you need are a few things that are probably already in your house.

Easter Felt Butterfly Napkin Rings Crafts Table Decoration Ideas for Boys and Girls - Children’s art may not always have a place on your Easter table, but these simple felt napkin rings in pretty spring colors will complement your decor perfectly.

How to Make Tri-Fold Picture Frame from Cadboard and Felt - Most picture frame crafts are for one photograph, but this one holds 3 photos. This would be perfect to make as a gift for Dad or Mom for family photos…and it would look great on their office desk. If you want to learn how to make a tri-fold picture frame, then look at the directions in this arts and crafts activity for children.

Make a Felt Handbag for Mom -These is a cute litle purse that you can make your Mom.

How to Make Eye Glasses Cases with Felt - Do you need a gift idea for Mom on Mother’s Day or Dad for Father’s Day or for somebody’s birthday? If your loved one or friend wears glasses, why not make them an eye glassescase? It is easy to make and you can personalize the case with the person’s name or initials.

Decorate Address, Schedule or Appointment Books with Felt Crafts Idea - Do you want to decorate your address books, appointment books, scrap books, or schedule books with felt. If you like to sew, then this is a great craft to get your sewing fix in. You will make your special book into a personalized keepsake. Have fun.

Laced Felt Book Cover - Learn how to use simple felt and ribbon to make a laced book cover with useful pockets.

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American Flag Wall Hanging Felt Craft - Make a cool American flast with felt.

Billiards Clock Craft for Kids - How to make a pool table / billiards clock craft. Surprise Dad this Father's Day with this funky felt billiards clock, ideal for a rec room.

Brown Felt Christmas Stocking Craft for Kids - Make a great Christmas stocking from a brown paper grocery bag. You can hang it from your mantle and stuff it with Christmas goodies.

Cute Critter Clutch Felt Craft - This felt pig and her seven friends (see links below) have so much animal magnetism, your child may want to make enough of them to fill a zoo. Click here for the piglet template.

Cuddly Bantha Star Wars Craft for Kids - Every Tusken Raider needs a trusty bantha to ride around Tatooine. These elephant-sized creatures with long ram-like horns first showed up in A New Hope. It's easy to make your own cuddly bantha with some felt, stuffing, thread and a lot of love.

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Easy Pin Cushion Craft Project - This is an easy sewing project and the result is a useful tool! This craft is great for those with little experience in sewing, or for kids who are just starting out. Makes a nice gift for Mom or Grandma.

Easy Kids Crafts - Felt Flowers - I’ve got an easy kids craft, perfect for getting kids interested in sewing. Presto! An easy spring-time flower - and quick enough so you can make an entire bouquet :-)

Felt Apples With fall comes an abundance of apples. Make these cute little candy apples, caramel apples and apples from the orchard with felt foam balls.

Felt Stitched Ornaments Craft - After playing with stitching them on paper, I decided that I wanted to try to adapt the idea to fiber. For the images shown here, I used the same pattern as in my earlier post. I poked holes through the pattern and then taped it to a piece of felt. I then used a fine-tipped sharpie marker to make dots on the felt through the holes.

Frog Bean Bag Felt This is terrific first sewing project for children. If using it as such, I recommend having the children sew the body pieces together using a running stitch or a blanket stitch and then glue the remaining pieces together. I would fill with pillow stuffing instead of rice ... stuffing won't leak out as easily if the child didn't keep their stitches tight enough.

Felt Board Spinning a tale comes naturally for many children, especially when inspired by a storytelling board with movable characters and props.

Felt and Button Christmas Tree What better way to learn to sew than while creating adorable felt and button christmas tree ornaments? This craft can be made in a variety of ways, with paint or glue as an easy alternative for very young kids.

Felt Beads As they create this soft, colorful jewelry, beginners will learn the basic sewing skills of cutting shapes and using a needle and thread. Kids will also enjoy making up color patterns. If you happen to have felt scraps left over from other projects, it's an excellent way to use them up.

Felt Checkers Game Kids learn a little bit of sewing when they make this game and bag to store it in. It also makes a great gift for any checkers fanatic.

Felt Flower Pins Craft for Children - These colorful corsages bloom year-round. Want a few more rosy design ideas? Leaf through a seed catalog or wildflower field guide for inspiration.

Felt Names Craft - A great birthday gift for kids to hang on their door or in their room, this Felt Names craft is sure to spell out fun.

Felt Masks I have just completed a very successful class project that I thought others might enjoy. My class was doing plays of children's nursery rhymes, and I thought the plays would really come to life if the children made and wore masks to represent their characters. Making the mask was fun, although at times a little messy.

Felt Freshener Sweeten the prospect of a long car ride with one of these decorative fresheners.

Felty Friends This Felty Friend is similar to cloth dolls made in the 1800s, except that we've inserted a pipe cleaner skeleton to make the doll posable. We should warn you, though, that when one Felty is completed, it will inevitably require a friend, clothes, a sleeping bag, and a pet.

Felt Gift Stocking Craft for Christmas - Sock away gifts in these one-of-a-kind personalized stockings.

Felt Dreidel Pin Hanukkah Kids will enjoy making this Felt Dreidel Pin craft and be proud to wear it for Hanukkah.

Felt Landscape Piecing together a decorative wall hanging is a fun way for a child to depict a favorite place, be it his own backyard or an imaginary landscape. Plus, it can be a true work in progress to which he can add new elements with the changing seasons, in celebration of different holidays, or whenever the mood strikes.

Felt Pups Craft for Dog Lovers & Kids - Here's a pattern for an adorable dog with movable legs. It's a basic shape that's easy to transform into various breeds. For instance, add spots with a fine-tipped permanent marker for a Dalmatian, or sew on pom-pom poufs and voila, a poodle.

Felt Wall Hangings Make a cool felt wall hanging to decorate a kid's room and showcase his or her interests. Young craftspeople can proudly draw or stencil their own designs.

Felt Menorah Hanukkah Craft for Jewish Kids - One of the high points of Hanukkah is getting to light the family menorah. This holiday wall hanging features felt candles and stick-on flames, which makes it easy -- and safe -- for even very young kids to participate in the ritual.

Felt Photo Frames Ornaments Decorate your Christmas tree with pictures of loved ones with these felt photo frame ornaments. Kids enjoy seeing small photos of their friends and relatives framed by a craft they've made.

Felt Snakes Curl these slinky felt snakes around your drinking goblets, a place card, or anywhere you want. A fun addition to a kids' Harry Potter party or a Chinese New Year gathering.

Felt Elf Christmas Ornament Craft - free Christmas elf sewing instructions and full size pattern to make an elf Christmas ornament Learn to make an elf Christmas ornament from felt with our full size pattern and free craft instructions.

Felted Recipe Box Craft - Make this useful gift from a recycled envelope box. Your mom can store all of her favorite recipe cards neatly in this pretty container. If she’s a real recipe hound, make this project from a tissue box or even a shoe box!

Flower Power Crafts for Kids - Spring is on its way! Jump-start the growing season with these cheery felt blossoms.

Felt Dr. Seuss Hat Learn to sew this Cat in the Hat style felt hat. What a great item to wear to celebrate Dr. Seuss day! Change the colors to green and white and wear it for St. Patrick's Day.

Felt and Ribbon Bookmarks Craft - This is a quick and simple craft idea suitable for all ages of children. The bookmarks are perfect for a special present for a teacher, mummy or granny - and also lend themselves to a production line if lots are required for a class or party bags!

Felt Needle Case Craft - The needle case in the photo has been created for Valentine's Day, but you could obviously adapt this craft for other times of the year.

Felt Covered Snowball Box Wrap your gifts up in creative boxes that you decorated yourself. Make the presentation just as special as the present!

Fluffy Tin Can Lamb Craft to Make -If you are looking for a super-easy craft to make as a gift, this is the ideal project. This sweet little lamb makes a wonderful teacher’s gift, pencil holder for mom’s desk, or a candy or coin holder for your kids!

Flowerpot Felt Santa Craft to Make - This cute little santa has his arms stretched out to welcome guests to your home. He’ll look equally at home on your desk at work. They are so easy to make, why not make several?

Fun Felt Pens Great gifts for siblings, cousins, and friends, these friendly-faced pens are so simple to make, your child can create a zoo in an afternoon. Just be sure he keeps one for himself -- it might encourage him to write those postholiday thank-you notes!

Funny Felt Faces This felt man is a master of disguise -- just give him a shake and he'll put on a new face.

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Ghost and Ghoul Party Puppets - Dress each one of these fun and colorful ghosts in fancy attire and have fun pretending you are the Ghost Host!

Halloween Craft This unique Halloween witch is a craft and a treat in one. Perfect for Halloween parties, Scout troop meetings or as a classroom party treat!

Hopping Right Along Bunny Pillow It would be so much fun to create a whole litter of bunnies in different colors and sizes.

Ladybug Felt Bean Bag You could put in stuffing instead of rice to make this more of a "pillow ladybug" than a beanbag. There is a choice between a small bean bag (regular sized beanbag) and an extra large beanbag (basically the size of a full sheet of paper). This is a terrific first sewing project for children.

Ladybug Treasure Holder Instructions for making a ladybug using a tuna can.

Learn to Sew Ghost Learn to sew Halloween ghost from felt with full size patern. Easy kids sewing project This charming ghost is a great project for teaching children to sew! Includes tips to make the project easier and full size pattern.

Learn to Sew Snowman - Teach kids to sew this felt snowman as a Christmas decoration or Christmas pillow. Teach a child to sew with this felt crafty snowman project! Includes tips to make sewing your snowman easier. Includes full size pattern.

Learn to Sew Gingerbread Man - Teach Children to sew with this simple felt Gingerbread Man - Makes a great Christmas gift. Fun and simple, this stuffed gingerbread man is a great project for teaching children to sew. Complete crafting instructions and full sized gingerbread man pattern included.

Lost Tooth Pillow Felt This is a pillow to put your child's tooth in so that the Tooth Fairy can always find your child's lost tooth. The project requires either sewing or hot glue skills. A child of age 7 or so could do the project with adult supervision.

Lucky Charm Bag Craft - Keep your favorite good luck charm safe in an easy-to-make felt bag.

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Mouse Toy (for Cats) Felt The project requires either sewing or hot glue skills. A child of age 7 or so could do the project with adult supervision. Younger children can help stuff the project.

Mosaic Felt Family Frame You can have the warmth and charm of mosaic art without the mess, wait time and expensive materials. Try our family frame and display where all can see!

Make Your Own Portable Game Set Craft - This homemade 3-in-1 game board lets players take their pick of challenges, with tic-tac-toe and checkers on one side and a penny-pitching target on the other. Roll it up like a scroll and take it on vacation for a rainy-day diversion.

Melty the Snowman Craft - This whimsical windowsill decoration serves as a sign of spring no matter what climate you live in.

Mitten Bookmark Felt Clip This cute project is fun to make, uses minimal supplies and also makes a great gift. You can use it as a bookmark or a fridge magnet to hold your favorite art work and pictures. While this craft is probably more appropriate for older children, your little ones will love to help decorate.

No-Sew Felt Bean Bag Chick Great for Easter - No-Sew Felt Bean Bags.

Octopus Sock and Felt The project requires either sewing or hot glue skills. A child of age 9 or so could do the project with adult supervision. Younger children can help stuff the project and would love to receive it as a gift from an older sibling, parent or grandparent.

Out-of-this-World Christmas Stocking Make Christmas an out-of-this-world experience with a robot stocking, created with colorful felt and Aleene’s® Fabric Fusion™! Add shimmery ribbon and buttons for extra digital effects.

Owl, Dog, Sheep, and Felt Rabbit Finger Puppets t - Learn how to make felt finger puppets of an Owl, Dog, Sheep, and Rabbit Finger Puppets

Paper Bag Pirate Felt Puppet Activity - Arrgggh, swab the deck matey, and hoist the anchor! It’s time to make some cute paper bag pirates and create your very own puppet show. Make this ornery little sailor for Halloween, and create a few more seamen (or even a parrot) to round out the crew!

Penguin Ornament Felt Learn to craft this Penguin ornament with a little sewing for your Christmas tree. What could be cuter than this Penguin Ornament on your Christmas tree? Make one today! Full size pattern and complete instructions included Free!

Poliwag Pokemon Craft for Kids with CDs and Felt - Instructions to make the Pokemon Poliwag character using old CDs.

Pumpkin Wall Hanging - Free Halloween sewing pattern to craft a Pumpkin wall hanging from felt. fun felt project. This easy sewing project turns ordinary felt into a special Halloween decoration. We have provided the full size pattern to help you make a Jack-o-Lantern for your home.

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Recycled CDs into Adorable Animals with Felt - Find out how to make a variety of animals, bugs, and even birds using unwanted CDs and some basic craft supplies. They can be used for room decorations, magnets, gifts, and so much more. You can start out by making the creatures I designed and then start creating your own. This is a great craft for all ages and the time it takes to complete each creature will vary depending on how much you embellish it.

Santa Hat Ornament Instructions to make Christmas tree ornament that looks like Santa's hat! Easy craft made with felt and cotton balls.

Scottish Stick Puppet The traditional clothing of the Scottish includes a tartan kilt and a jacket accessorized with white hose, shoes and a sporran. This cute craft depicting typical tartan dress is a fun way to celebrate Tartan Day (April 6th), Scotland Week, and Scottish heritage.

Sleepy Bunny This cute little bunny fell asleep inside of one of your Easter eggs! Shhh, don’t wake him--he needs his strength to deliver those goodies.

Snowman Felt Pins Crafts for Kids - Sew Snowman pins from warm & natural batting using included blanket stitch instructions. Sew a cool snowman pin to wear every where you go! Great Holiday craft project.

Sport Pennant Felt Paint your message and add foamies to decorate.

Spring and Easter Crafts for Kids : Peek-a-Boo Felt Chick - Who is that peeking out of the cracked egg? This chick is making his grand appearance just in time for Easter. This project is easy and finished within 30 minutes.

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Turkey Decoration Felt Thanksgiving Craft a Turkey decoration for Thanksgiving out of Styrofoam and feathers. Great kids Thanksgiving project! This easy to craft Turkey makes a unique Thanksgiving decoration and provides children with a fun positive crafting experience.

Valentine's Day Craft with Felt Flowers - Here's a project for some flowers made with recycled materials that can be found around your house. I think these would be very sweet for teachers or grandparents.

Advent Calendar Tree Craft - Make a Christmas Advent craft with felt.

Finger Puppet Craft - Make finger puppets with felt.

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