Cute Cozy Sweater Felt Ornament Pattern W/ Kids Easy
Felt ornament pattern w/ kids! This felt ornament pattern can be made with your kids as a wonderful Christmas family tradition! This post includes the tutorial for a sweater Christmas ornament, material’s list needed for the project, a few tips for sewing with children, as well as a free template PDF download. Everything you need to complete this project all in one blog post!
Christmas Crafting With Kids
Are you tired of Christmas flying by without you crafting with your children? You mean to year after year but life gets busy and it doesn’t happen?
Not this year! I give you everything you need to be sure you don’t miss another year!
Today I have the materials list for you, free templates for 5 different Christmas ornaments, a few tips to help you sew with your children, and of course the cute cozy sweater tutorial itself!
Free PDF download for, Christmas tree felt ornament template. Included: Shooting star, Christmas tree, gingerbread man, sweater, stocking, and angel.
Free Printable Felt Christmas Ornament Pattern
Felt is such an easy material to work with which makes it the perfect kid friendly material! Your children can make this their own and put more effort or less effort and still come out at the end with an adorable Christmas tree ornament!
To begin you need the sweater template which is found right here. I filled the template with other felt Christmas shapes. To be more specific:
- Felt stocking
- Felt shooting star
- Felt angel
- Felt gingerbread man
- Felt Christmas tree
Feel free to use all or just the sweater pattern for your family’s craft tradition this year!
Tips For Sewing With Kids
I have a few tips to help you have as smooth a crafting time with your kids as possible.
- If your family is new to sewing, and you are as well, then it is a good idea to tell the kids you are getting them set up, one at a time. I start with my oldest in hopes that they understand what we are doing sooner then the younger ones would so they can help if needed.
- Children about 4 and under can be playing with play dough or in bed while the magic happens. Alternatively you could have them sew with a sewing card.
- Use the whip stitch if the blanket stitch seems to tricky for your beginner sewers.
- Mark with a black marker where the line to follow is for ages 7 and younger.
Materials List For The Felt Sweater Pattern
- Needles with point tips and large eyes, holes, for ease of threading. one for each adorable sewer.
- Fabric and paper scissors.
- Printer, to print out my free Christmas ornaments template.
- Embroidery floss of what ever Christmas color you choose. The most traditional colors would be, white, green, blue, gold and red.
- Felt of whatever color you want. Again the traditional colors would be, white, green, gold, blue, and red.
- Glue gun with glue sticks
Felt Ornament Pattern With Kids Easy Tutorial
Ready for your felt ornament pattern w/ kids tutorial? Let’s begin!
- Begin by downloading my free Christmas sweater template here.
- Cut it out and pin it to the felt color of your choice. I obviously chose red, because that is the color of Christmas sweaters. Don’t ask me how I know this, I just do, ever since I was a little! Oh the silly ideas we get into our heads! I’m not the only one right? Now plug in your glue gun.
- Fold the felt in half. Knot your thread and thread your needle. Begin at the right sleeve. Pull your needle inbetween the felt, for young ones, don’t be too picky about this.
- Now loop around to the back, put your needle through and pull back to the front. This is the first stitch.
- Next move a little way to the left and poke your needle out the back. Grab your embroidery floss, wrap around your needle from right to left as if your poor needle is cold and needs a shawl.
- Pull all the way through to the back. Now you begin again.
- Frog leap over to push the needle from the front to poke out the back again, wrap your poor cold needle around from left to right, and pull through.
- Repeat until you have made it all the way around. You can make it simpler and just sew around the bottom of the sleeve, and both sides if this works better for your children.
- stuff the body with fluff or scrap felt. I used scrape felt. until the desired tummy sized is achieved!
To Finish
Glue on what ever decorations your children wish to with the glue gun making sure you are careful with whom you let use this wonderful, but pain inducing craft tool. Glue on the loop. Hang on your tree and admire your handiwork and those of the other family sewer!
It’s a sweet memory you just had with your children.
Felt Ornament Pattern W/ Kids
I hope you liked your free Christmas ornament pattern! I also hope you found the supplies list helpful as well as the tips I share, template, and the tutorial itself. Congratulations you finally had your Christmas craft making as a family Christmas tradition this year! After years of trying doesn’t feel good to succeed?
Again the free Christmas sweater ornament template can be found here.
I am so glad you let me guide you in this journey!
More Kids Making Ornament Ideas
As I am sure you noticed, my template contains many more options than just the cozy Christmas sweater template.
Your kids can also make:
Angel
Christmas tree
Shooting star
and ginger bread man.
Though there are slight differences with each pattern, they do share many similar steps. Click on the words to find the tutorial you and your children wish to tackle next.
I hope you and your family have a merry hand made Christmas!