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This round-up post brings you ideas, patterns, and step-by-step tutorials to make your DIY felt toys. Felt toys are cute, soft, and fun for kids to play with. They offer endless possibilities for imaginative and pretend play and that's why I like them so much. With this article, I help you to enter the world of felt toy making, sharing tips on how to make these toys at home. You'll see that some of the patterns are easy enough for kids to hand-sew. Wouldn't it be great for kids to make their own plushies? I'll also share some of my easy sewing patterns. So, explore these felt toy patterns from cute felt animals and delicious felt food to other playset toys. 

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How to Make Felt Toys

Learn how to make felt toys with these beginner-friendly felt craft tips. Buy felt sheets in your favorite colors and gather basic supplies such as a pair of sharp scissors for felt, an embroidery thread, and a needle. Search in this post for your favorite free felt sewing patterns, or get creative and make your own felt designs. Start by cutting out your chosen felt shape from the felt sheet and then use hand-sewing techniques to stitch it together. A simple running stitch is perfect for beginners, but feel free to experiment with different sewing felt techniques.

Add some personality to your felt craft by incorporating handmade felt details like embroidered eyes or a stitched smile. These small touches can really bring your felt play toy to life. Whether you're making a sewing project for yourself or as a gift, sewing with felt is a fun and rewarding way to express your creativity. 

Tips for DIY Felt Toys

• The first step is to choose the pattern for a felt toy you would like to make - choose simple patterns that use running stitch when you are a beginner. With more experience, you can move to more complicated patterns using whip stitch or blanket stitch and embroidery.

• Next, gather your supplies - I would recommend choosing wool felt or wool blend felt for felt toys. You can learn more about different types of felt in this practical guide to felt fabric. The guide includes online stores where you can buy felt. You'll also need a sharp pair of scissors. I use KAI 5 1/2 inch Embroidery Scissors or Fiskars Stitcher Scissors (No. 5) for small shapes. You might want to have longer shears for larger felt pieces. The last two supplies are embroidery needle and thread or polyester threads and standard needle. Polyester thread is stronger and more reliable.

• After you've chosen your colors, carefully cut out the shapes from the felt sheet using scissors. You might want to use tape or freezer paper for the perfect cut.

• Continue sewing the pieces together using the given stitches (running stitch or whip stitch will be the most common ones).

• In the next step, fill your felt toy with stuffing. You can use polyester fiberfill or wool roving (not washable). Stuffing might also be a great way to use felt scraps. You need to cut them into small pieces and fill the toy. It's not as soft, though. I've also used worn-out pillow inserts.

• In the final step, finish sewing your felt toy. 

DIY Felt Toys with Free Patterns

DIY felt toys with free patterns are a fun and creative way to create ornament or plush felt projects at home. You can easily make a felt plushie or stuffed animal with the right DIY templates and PDF patterns. Hand-sewing your own felt toys allows you to customize the design and choose the perfect colors for your cute felt plushies.

1. Felt Elephant Free Pattern

   With this easy felt elephant sewing pattern, you can quickly create your little felt elephants! Whether you want to make a cute elephant toy for yourself or create a great gift for someone special, this felt elephant pattern will surely bring joy and happiness.

2. Fuzzy the Felt Mouse Free Pattern

   This simple mouse felt pattern inspired by my niece drawing is an easy free pattern for kids to sew. You can use this free sewing pattern for mouse softies to hand sew with your kid and teach them hand-sewing basics.

3. Cute Felt Lion with Free Pattern

   This easy sewing project provides all the instructions and free templates needed to create your very own felt lion. The felt lion toy pattern can be used to make a cute plushie or an ornament, perfect for decorating your home or gifting to a loved one.

4. DIY Felt Shark with Free Pattern

   I really like the simplicity of this DIY felt shark. It comes with a free printable pattern and beautiful photos. Follow the simple sewing tutorial and make your shark.

5. Monkey Felt Animal Felt Pattern

   Sew this adorable monkey felt toy with the free felt pattern. Follow the felt toy tutorial, learn several embroidery stitches, and sew the cute monkey felt animal.

6. Little Panda Felt Toy

Sew this simple little felt panda pattern following the instructions from Sew a Softie. It is easy enough to sew with your kids. My son would love this felt panda softie.

7. Free Unicorn Softie Pattern

Find a lovely free sewing pattern for a white unicorn felt toy. You'll need to have white felt and some scraps of colorful felt. Use blanket stitch and backstitch for this cutie.

8. DIY Koala Plushie Felt Craft

This cute koala plushie animal pattern is a fun felt sewing project. I think that it's going to be a really nice pocket critter.

9. Felt Toy DIY Flower Kitty

What a lovely project presented at Benzie Design! This free flower kitty pattern is so cute with its dress and flowers. I like the idea of using cotton pipe cleaners to move the arms and legs into a position.

10. Easy DIY Unicorn Felt Toy

One of my free felt animal templates is a felt unicorn softie pattern that you can make. My daughter made them with friends, and they were all very happy with their cute DIY felt unicorn.

11. DIY Bunny Felt Toy

This felt bunny toy pattern is so cute, ready to jump in puddles with his rain boots and umbrella. If you want to learn how to give movement to your DIY felt toys, definitely check this pattern out.

12. DIY Felt Toy Pattern - Bird

I like this simple to sew DIY bird ornament that can look so lovely as a decoration. Find beauty in the simplicity of this bird free felt toy pattern.

13. Felt Seahorse Tutorial With Template

You can make this lovely plush animal toy with the felt seahorse tutorial and free template. What a cute felt sea animal pattern!

14. Woodland Animal Finger Puppets with Free Template

My finger puppet woodland animal set pattern is a simple toy felt pattern for anyone who wants to try making finger puppets. You could also fill them with stuffing and make little ornaments. 

Felt Food Toys DIY

Fun felt food toys are entertaining for kids and can also be a great way to encourage creativity and pretend play. With the rise in popularity of DIY crafts, making your own felt food toys has become a popular choice for many parents. Find sewing tutorials and sewing projects here that can guide you through creating the perfect felt toy for pretend play. If you're interested in more DIY felt food, explore the complete collection of 25 free felt food patterns. 

1. Felt Toy Pizza Felt Board

Preparing pizza with the DIY felt pizza flannel board is a fun way to play. This is one of my free food patterns. It's great for preschool kids. Kids can create their own pizzas.

2. Felt Avocado Plushie with Free Pattern

The next on the list are these cute felt avocado plushies from Easy Things to Sew. They will be lovely in the play kitchen or as ornaments to hang.

3. DIY Felt Food Popsicles

The next free felt toy pattern brings summer. Following the tutorial, you can sew felt popsicles. Their lovely bright colors will be a great addition to the play kitchen. They remind me of the ice creams we ate in Mexico.

4. Plush Pancakes

Learn how to make felt hotcakes and pancakes. You can make these pancakes for breakfast. It's an easy felt project for beginners with little embroidery.

5. Felt Biscuits Pattern

Laura from Bugs and Fishes has a tutorial that teaches you how to make a felt version of jam-filled biscuits. There are two versions: one with a star and one with a circle. They are also excellent for tea parties and pretend play.

6. Felt Donuts with Free Pattern

Easy tutorial to sew delicious felt donuts. Molly and Mama shares this free food pattern and detailed tutorial so that you can also enjoy this delicious treat.

7. Felt Sandwich Pattern

You shouldn't miss this felt sandwich pattern from One Creative Mommy. The pattern offers various toppings.

8. Movie Felt Playset Tutorial

If you want to make your movie food felt playset, visit the easy-to-follow tutorial from A Beautiful Mess. You can make felt popcorn, a corn dog, and a salty pretzel. There is no actual pattern, but the instructions are straightforward.

DIY Felt Doll Toys

Felt doll toy patterns offer various options to create adorable felt plush toys. If you want to create more felt dolls, visit my articles 20 free patterns for felt dolls or 15 mermaid doll patterns.

1. Felt Paper Doll Tutorial

With this felt toy, your kids will have much fun. This paper doll is easy to make, following the tutorial. Find the tutorial for the felt doll and the clothes pattern in the blog post.

2. Little Felt Mermaid Free Toy Pattern

Follow the doll sew tutorial to make this super cute Little Felt Mermaid. You learn a lot about felt doll sewing from this pattern. I definitely recommend this pattern for anyone wanting to sew an adorable felt doll toy.

3. Hummingbird Doll with Free Pattern

This free pattern is fantastic, though more complicated. With its cute accessories, this hummingbird doll is adorable.

4. Nutcracker Dolls Tutorial

Get ready to create your own adorable Nutcracker felt dolls! The tutorial will guide you step-by-step through the doll-making process.

Other Inspiration for DIY Felt Toys

If I should highlight some other great sources of inspiration for DIY felt toys, look no further than Lia Griffith. She offers many felt craft toy patterns for a monthly subscription fee, providing endless options for creating unique and adorable toys. Additionally, sites like ETSY offer individual patterns for purchase, making it easy to find the perfect design for your next felt creation. I follow these stores that offer felt toy patterns: YellowBirdhouse, littledear, DelilahIris, nuvolinahandmade, and Gingermelon. The last resource I want to share, especially when you want to sew with kids, is Sew a Softie. This website has an amazing collection of free sewing patterns for kids.

Conclusions Felt Toys DIY Projects

In conclusion, creating felt toys through DIY projects can be both enjoyable and rewarding. Whether you are making little felt animals, felt play food, felt woodland animals or even ornament felt, there are endless possibilities to explore. With some sewing skills and patience, you can sew your felt creations, such as a cute cat or a lion pattern. The best part is that these patterns are free, and you can customize your designs to suit your preferences. 

If you want more inspiration for your felt crafting, head over to my Pinterest board Free Felt Patterns!

Be sure to visit this website for more embroidery and sewing tips and tricks to help you out as you stitch my patterns. For free felt patterns, visit my Freebies page.

Let’s craft together!

XO, Anna