DIY Felt Heart
Creating a DIY felt heart is a delightful and charming project that is perfect for adding a touch of handmade warmth to any space. With just a few simple materials, you can easily craft a lovely felt heart to hang on your wall or give as a heartfelt gift to a friend. Get creative with different colors and patterns of felt to personalize your heart and make it truly unique. Whether you're an experienced crafter or just starting out, this project is a fun and rewarding way to express your creativity and spread a little love.
Items needed for this project:
- 2 pieces of Felt (we found these for about 25¢ at Walmart)
- Small amount of stuffing
- Scissors
- Erasable pen or chalk
- Sheet of regular paper to draw your heart template (The thicker the paper the better but not required)
Instructions:
First we took a regular 8 x11 sheet of paper and drew a heart on it. This is the paper template you will use to cut your heart out. Then we drew a second heart in the middle of the paper. Now cut out the felt heart shapes as seen in the photo below. We stacked both sheets of felt on top of one another so when we cut them out from the template they would be exactly the same.
Next we traced the inside heart on the felt with a erasable pen. The erasable pen required a little wet towel to wipe off. Chalk would also work. You are tracing the inside heart because you need to know where to stop cutting your strips at.
Next, start cutting strips around the outside of the heart (as seen in the photos). Tips: I started out cutting at the bottom of the heart where the point is so that I could make sure the bottom was not off centered. I also made sure to cut the strips very thin to make sure my fingers could tie it in a knot. The thicker the strips the harder it was to tie a knot. The strips I cut where 1/4 inch wide.
Finish tying the ends but when you are almost 75% done be sure to leave a little opening for a hand full of stuffing. You need very little stuffing for this project. We always like to recycle old stuffed animals that are no longer wanted. We actually took a small stuffed animal and reused it’s stuffing for this project.
