I love fall. The colors, the smells and the cool temperatures. After our visit to the Mountain Home Berry Farm and brought home colorful pumpkins, we decided we would bring more of the color into our home.
We decided to start with a colorful felt leaf garland. It is so easy to make and yet is so cute! Don’t you think it looks nice with the shades of fall?
To begin, simply select eco-felt sheets in the colors you enjoy. You can use whatever type of string you would prefer. We used a cream colored yarn that was easy for the children to use with large plastic needles. The eco-felt sheets are $.23 at our Wal-Mart and the plastic needles were $1.77.
You can cut them from the single piece but I found it easier to cut the sheet into three pieces.
Some of the leaves I cut free hand, others I traced a leaf cookie cutter with a pencil and then cut out right inside the line.
For a more diverse look, cut several shapes and sizes from various colors.
If you were doing this yourself there would be no need to cut slits in each end of the leaves to push the needle through but for the children it makes it so much easier.
For the first leaf I pushed the needle through one end so the knot wouldn’t slip back through. Then lace each leaf one at a time onto the yarn.
You can space them however you prefer, we filled the entire string with lots of laughs and silly faces while we were threading them.
Austin was so proud that he did it all by himself, next time he wants to do a much longer one to hang around his door. If you are looking for a great way to spend time indoors, this is an easy kid’s craft that is a fun yet simple way to teach your children colors and bring the beauty indoors.
That’s really cute and looks like something my kids would love to make. I’ll have to keep it in mind for a rainy day activity. We’ve got a lot of them ahead of us.
Love this! I made a fall garland like this with my son using construction paper and hung it from the ceiling beams. The felt looks really cute!
Very cute! Now if only these were real leaves so that I actually had something to do with the huge pile in my backyard!!
I just bought felt so I could make garland! I guess I can let my kids help!
What a great idea! So simple and great for kids! 🙂
I love this! I think we’re going to use our pumpkin cookie cutter to make a similar garland for our fireplace mantel. So creative.
Oh great idea! Cheap and cute!!
what a GREAT idea to use the cookie cutters and felt!!! love it! my 4.5 yo is likes to cut cut cut and this is a cool project for us to do thanks!
Mine do to and it is so easy and something they can really take on with just a little guidance.
I love it! How simple yet very cute. This would be perfect to do with my girls. Thanks so much for the tutorial.
That’s so cute! I think it would look great above our balcony doors. I might do it before the relatives come over for Thanksgiving…if I can find the time!