How to Make Halloween Felt Crafts

Felt is an inexpensive and easy-to-use material. This makes it ideal for seasonal decorations that can be made quickly and for an affordable price. This Halloween, consider using felt to make your own festive holiday decorations. Read on for information on how to make a felt wreath and felt garland that will make your Halloween crafts as easy to make as they are easy to enjoy.

Things You'll Need

• Felt in assorted colors
• Scissors
• Sewing machine
• Batting
• Ribbon
• Rafia

Instructions

Felt Wreath

1. Choose one or more Halloween shapes for your wreath. You could choose to make a wreath made of black cat faces, orange pumpkins, green monsters or any other Halloween shape. You could even do a combination of several different shapes and colored felt.

2. Fold your individual pieces of felt in half and cut out your shapes. This way you will have two identical felt pieces to sew together.

3. Sew a stitch around the edges of your felt to connect your two sides of felt. Leave a small opening for batting.

4. Stuff with batting and stitch your opening closed.

5. Decorate your felt shapes as desired. For example, add whiskers to your cat faces, carvings to your pumpkins or a face to your monsters.

6. Repeat until you have enough felt pieces to make your desired wreath size.

7. Position your stuffed felt pieces in a circle and stitch together.

8. Add ribbon or other décor as desired.

Felt Garland

1. Choose one or more Halloween shapes for your garland. This time you could choose to make garland out of white ghosts, black bats, little vampires or any other Halloween shape. You could even do a combination of several different shapes and colored felt.

2. Repeat Steps 2 through 5 of the previous section until you have enough shapes to string together as your garland.

3. Sew your felt shapes to pieces of raffia to create your garland.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish