How to Make a Felt Book

A few pieces of colorful felt, some cardboard, a pair of scissors and a glue stick are all you need to make your own felt book.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• The "felt sandwich" you just made
• More felt
• Glue stick
• A plastic zipper bag

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1. 
   Cut Your Cardboard

   Cut three pieces of cardboard. Two should be five inches by seven inches and one should be five inches by one half inch.

2. 
   Step Two

   Put glue on the back of each piece of cardboard. Lay your pieces of cardboard on an eight-inch-by-ten-inch sheet of felt with the narrow piece between the two wide pieces. Press to make the glue stick to the felt. Let dry for about ten minutes or so.

3. Lay another piece of felt on top of the felt and cardboard, making a "sandwich" of felt covering the cardboard. Let dry.

Finish It Off!

4. Place a piece of felt on top of the felt sandwich, pressing where the narrow piece of cardboard was placed so that the glue sticks properly to the felt. Let dry.

5. 
   The felt is shown getting smaller so you can see the colors being used.

   Repeat step five with different colored pieces of felt until you have as many pages as you want for your book. The picture shows the felt pieces getting smaller so that you can see the different colors. Each piece of felt should be the same size.

6. Cut out letters and numbers from felt to use in your book. Glue felt to the backs of pictures you cut from magazines to make characters for your book. Keep your letters, numbers, and characters in a plastic zipper bag with your book.