The Handbag Addiction Starts Early With a Felt Purse
If your little girl wants to be just like Mommy and the big girls with her own purse, this is a creative way to give in without actually spending money on expensive accessories for a pint-sized clothes horse. It could easily be made as a pouch or satchel for a boy as well.
Crafts Materials That You Will Need:
One full sheet of felt or scraps to equal two half sheets
Hole punch (if you don’t have a new and well working hole punch this could be a painstaking process)
Scissors
At least 3 feet of ribbon (I repurposed ribbon from a gift)
A button about the size of a quarter with large holes
A pipe cleaner
1. Cut your felt so you have two half sheets. Then, fold one sheet 1/3 of the way down and cut off the top third. (See next photo.)
2. Line up pieces of felt and evenly punch five holes in the side and two on the bottom of both pieces. Then punch two more holes at top center of the shorter piece for your button.
3. Cut the top of the longer piece into a flap for your purse.
4. Thread your button with a 3″ piece of pipe cleaner, twist to secure. Thread it through the holes you punched in the middle of the top of the shorter piece of felt, twist to secure, and cut off excess.
5. Thread ribbon through holes in purse as you would if you were sewing.
6. cut a slit into your flap for the button hole and voila!
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28 Comments
Shalini Nandakumar
06.30.2009
Would like to have new ideas.
april silva
07.08.2009
This is a neat i plan on trying this with my daughter tommorrow!!!
JXL63
10.22.2009
No further explanation required. ,
Aiman
11.18.2009
it is very good
kristen
11.29.2009
that is cool how the do that
Elina
02.09.2010
Cool and cute for a little girl
nocoll
03.10.2010
i can do beter but good
Suma
03.11.2010
very cute!!! for daughters it is a perfect gift
Raha
03.11.2010
hello
it is very nice and a wenderfull ideas.
thank you a lot .
paige hicks
03.19.2010
this is very cute and i think it was hard to make
grace
03.20.2010
very sweet!!
Thanks for the idea anyway, I am going to teach it for my kindergarten students…
Regards from Jakarta, Indonesia
kittu
03.31.2010
hai……………i am very thankfull 2 u………..i made it and present it 2 my best friend’s baby.she like it verymush……thanQ…………………………………………
sidra
04.09.2010
very amazing
chandhini
05.27.2010
A cute eco-friendly hand bag for kids……….Excellent.
Sumana
05.31.2010
wow! this is cool stuff! My daughter is gonna love this
teresa
08.25.2010
wow this is amazing! i wonder how many more things that i can learn?
kaylee
08.25.2010
sooooo cool i want to do it so made but i dont have the right stuff to do it! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
ayush
10.12.2010
GOOD
Maaha
10.30.2010
It is very cool that gating more creative in life
Loga
02.21.2011
very nice and cute
vikrant
03.21.2011
this is great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my Sis will love this
rhineyten
04.05.2011
tnks but its a litel CHILDISH ( i wanted 1 for me /14 year old , )
though i like it i need 2 save money
pipa
04.10.2011
i made it for my mum and she loved it <3
jade
05.01.2011
kids should be thinking of being kids not adults
and having fun being kids
Jenn
07.20.2011
nice idea, but kinda looks thrown together. I would make the ribbon smaller stitches along the bag, so that it holds together better. maybe double the layer of felt too. little girls always want their own purse, to be just like their mommy. nothing wrong with that. doesn’t mean they’re being ‘too grown up’ making this craft! all in all, a nice easy craft idea. great to do on a rainy day with a little girl. thanks for the share.
sagarika
03.29.2012
it’s awesome it helped me so much in my craft exam
Darlene
04.19.2012
wow i like this art.
a .abdullah
06.16.2012
i like this very much .it is cute
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