Felt Craft: Materials for Making a Felt Lady Bug

Series Summary

Felt crafts are a great way to teach kids how to work with their hands and build artistic creativity. Felt craft projects can include making cats, dogs, and bugs such as lady bugs. To make felt lady bugs with beans is easy and teaching kids how to make them is easy and fun. If you would like to learn felt crafts such how to make a felt lady bug, you can learn for free online.

In this free felt crafts video series learn the felt craft of making a felt lady bug from felt craft enthusiast Carie Ellington. Carie will teach you all the steps for making a felt lady bug. She will demonstrate how to cut out the felt body, how to make the felt legs, how to attach the felt legs, how to attach googly eyes, and how to fill the felt lady bug with beans. Once this felt project is completed the kids will have a toy to play with as well!

Video Transcript

"We've got a great felt craft we're going to make. This is a ladybug, and it's kind of like a beanie bag. And, you're going to fill it up with rice or beans. They're really great to make with kids, really simple. You only need a few things to do this. You're going to need one piece of black felt and one piece of red felt as well. You're also going to want to get some googly eyes from the local craft store. You can get these in about a pack of eight, so you can make a few at a time. Going to have a generous-size bowl of rice or beans. You want a good filler. A spoon to fill your beanie bag with. Also, a glue gun-- hot glue gun. Or, you want to use a fabric glue or an epoxy glue. You're going to need a standard-size pair of scissors to cut out your shapes for your felt, and, again, a pen or a pencil to trace your felt designs. And once you have all these assembled, you're ready to start your felt beanie bag. "