DIY Felt Christmas Trees | Felt Christmas Tree Free Patterns | Wall Hanging Felt Christmas | DIY Felt Christmas Tree Tutorial | Felt Christmas Tree PatternAs I shared last week, our family’s goal for the holidays this year is to worry less about stuff and more about giving from the heart, spending quality time together, & serving others. The girls and I are on a mission to not only make all our gifts this year, but to also create many handmade decorations and do lots of baking this year as well. I thought it would be fun to share some of our projects & ideas throughout the next month in a very casual series I am calling “Handmade Holidays” (I know, so original, right?)

Let me just warn you right off the bat that this will not be a power series like the 31 Days of Living Well & Spending Zero and I will NOT be posting every day from now until Christmas. That one just about killed me! Instead I will be sharing our projects, recipes, & activities–of which we have many planned–at a much more leisurely pace, if and when I can.

I hope our projects inspire you to create some of your own, but even more so, I hope you are inspired to slow down this holiday season as well.

And now, on to the crafts!

These DIY felt Christmas trees make great holiday decorations.

A few weeks ago I spotted these darling felt Christmas trees in the Land of Nod catalog and immediately fell in love. I probably would’ve ordered them right away had we not still been on our spending freeze. Instead, I decided to figure out a way to make them. On November 1st the girls and I made our long-awaited trip to Hobby Lobby and picked up 3 styrofoam trees and several sheets of felt to make our trees.

The original plan had been to make 3 cream-colored felt trees, but as we pulled into the garage I spotted a role of jute cord on Husband’s work bench & I decided to improvise just a little.

The girls had SO much fun doing this project with me…..it was one of the first “grown up” craft projects we have all done together and they kept saying, “Mommy, I LOVE this!” and “This is so much fun!” I’m not sure why, exactly, but I think it had something to do with letting them handle the normally off-limits stick pins. I think we might make a few more just because they were so into it!

Here is what you will need:

3 styrofoam cones (these range from $4-6 dollars each at craft stores–use a 40% off coupon!)
6-8 sheets of felt
straight pins
jute cord (the rough kind found at Home Depot)
clear glue-on gems in assorted sizes 
white or tacky glue
glue gun (preferably low-temp)

Cut out small circles from felt pieces.

Trace small circles (approximately 1.5″ diameter) onto felt. We used a K-cup to trace them. Cut out several layers of felt at a time using a very sharp scissors. You will need a LOT of felt circles, especially if you do all 3 trees in felt.

Stack your felt circles and set them to the side.

Begin pinning overlapping circles to base of your styrofoam cone.

Begin pinning overlapping circles to base of cone. I did the first row, showing the girls what to do, then let the girls pin the rest in place. I generally had to help them place the circle in the correct spot, but they did both did great.

Get the kids involved and have them pin the circles onto the cone.

Hold the styrofoam cone as your kids pin the felt circles.

Use one felt circle to cover the top of the styrofoam cone.

Before we finished the last row, we used one circle to cover the top of the cone, pinning it in place. We then hot glued the top row of circles in place to avoid seeing any pins. To finish them off, we hot glued some clear gems to the top.

Hot glue the twine in place to the cone.

For the jute cone, I hot glued the twine in place for the first few rows, then spread white glue over the rest of the cone. The girls then helped me wrap the cone in the twine. Every 4-5 rows I would use hot glue to secure it.

Continue gluing the twine to the cone until completely covered.

Wrap the twine around the cone but leave the top felt circle.

Like the felt trees, we secured a felt circle to the top, then finished wrapping the thread around the felt.

Cover styrofoam balls with twine to make festive ornaments.

We found a few styrofoam balls in our craft supplies so we decided to make a few matching ornaments. We found the mega bucket of gems at Hobby Lobby for 50% off–only $7.50 for a whole POUND! Score! I have a feeling our Christmas decorations will be VERY sparkly this year!

Glue gems to the twine ornaments for some added sparkle.

The girls helped glue the gems to the jute. We used regular white Elmer’s glue because we were out of Tacky glue, but tacky glue would’ve probably worked better for this particular project. It all dries clear, though, so in the end it didn’t matter.

Attach gems to the felt covered Christmas trees using glue.

We were so thrilled with how they turned out. They are a little on the plain side right now, but I can’t wait to see how pretty they look amid all the Christmas greenery after we put up the rest of our decorations next weekend!

These felt covered Christmas trees with gems are great holiday decorations.

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