Felt Fun Friday

{Colorful} April Showers

April 25, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Our April showers in the midwest have included not only rain, but much to my dismay even SNOW! For today’s Felt Fun Friday project I thought I’d put a colorful spin on the April Showers theme with a 3D Rainbow Raindrop Mobile.

I’ve had the idea of a cloud with rainbow raindrops floating around in my head for awhile, and at the last minute I thought about the 3D aspect, so I gave it a shot.

I think it turned out pretty cute, don’t you?

It could be cute as a baby mobile, but since our girls aren’t babies anymore, and we just took down the crib :::sniff, sniff::: I hung it from the fan pull.

I really like it, and I’m inspired to try more 3D applications with felt. What 3D creations have you made with felt?

For My {Easter} Peeps

April 18, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

I don’t know about you, but my kids get more than enough candy at holidays so I’m always looking for some fun alternatives that won’t rot their teeth. Today’s Felt Fun Friday project is another quick and easy project just in time for last minute Easter basket additions!

Make a dozen of these little cuties to stick in baskets or hide around the house along with eggs and candy! I made mine single sided but you could make them double sided very easily by adding another colored piece of felt on the back side. =)

Here’s a free printable pattern:

Similarly, you might also be interested in these adorable Peeps Spring Paper Doll printables I found online!

Interchangeable Felt RainBOW Hair Clip Set

April 11, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Felt is a wonderful material for teaching tools, but it’s also a very fun medium for making your own fashion accessories, too! If you haven’t noticed from some of my other projects, I LOVE COLOR! This is one reason I love working with felt so very, very much…there is such a HUGE assortment of colors and patterns you can select from when working on your projects. Today’s Felt Fun Friday project is great for those who can’t decide on just one color. =)

Feeling a little blue today? How about pink? Maybe green? What little girl wouldn’t love a whole pile of these vibrantly colored rainBOW hair clips to mix and match with a favorite outfit, currently holiday, or mood?!

An interesting feature of these hair clips is that they are detachable and interchangeable. So you simply pull one off and attach another in no time at all!

Plus, the clips are fully lined and have a no-slip grip so they work great if your kids are like mine and have really thin, or barely-there hair!

Ahhhh…so cute!! I’m looking to add these to my online shop(s) soon. =)

*Big thank you to Ali Brown Photography for some beautiful shots with her adorable model!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar 45th Anniversary Felt Set

March 20, 2014 by admin 2 Comments

Today’s Felt Fun Friday project couldn’t wait until Friday, because TODAY is the 45th anniversary of the pre-school classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

I’ve had this set on my To Do list for months, so today seemed to be the perfect day for it to make its debut, don’t ya think?!

I love it. Just absolutely love it. I say this over and over, but each new set is my new favorite. I can’t help it, it’s just so darn cute!

My girls love it too. With 23 large pieces that range from a 14″ caterpillar to a 10″ butterfly and the most adorable 5″ felt cupcake I’ve ever seen in my life 😉 they are perfect for little hands. Each piece is made with 2+ layers of bold colored felt, the back layer is expertly cut from stiff black felt making them nice and durable.

A girl after my own heart, Kayden promptly grabbed all the sweet treats from the board. =)

Ahhhh the sweet details…from the curly antennae to the sparkly lollipop. Love. This. Set!

Stacking 3D Felt Rainbow

March 14, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Today’s Felt Fun Friday project was a custom request by a fellow Signing Time instructor, and just in time for a last minute St. Patrick’s Day project!

3D Felt Rainbow by Candyland Studio

The request was for a 3D stacking rainbow design like so.

3D Felt Rainbow by Candyland Studio

But I thought every rainbow needs clouds, right?! You can’t tell in the photo but these are sparkly clouds made with glitter felt. All backed by stiff black felt, which not only adds a very nice contrasting outline, but makes the pieces nice and firm for handling.

I threw in a few ASL hands for a photo opp to show how much I L-O-V-E this little set. =)

3D Felt Rainbow by Candyland Studio

This stacking rainbow set would be great for teaching colors and would be a fun add-on to the Signing Time Volume 6 DVD: My Favorite Things because it has a really cute “Colors of the Rainbow” song.

Signing Time DVD Volume 6: My Favorite Things

Check it out:

So, do YOU know the colors of our rainbow?!

I really wanted to create a PDF template for you so you could make your own, but honestly it needs to be a bit larger than what you can print on a piece of paper because the pieces get pretty thick with all the double layers. You can probably make your own fairly easily. If it helps, the clouds are approximately 2″ x 4″ and the largest layer of the rainbow (which is the last black layer) is 6″ x 12″. Then keep sizing down your pieces leaving about 1/4″ difference between the black backing and the colored piece of felt.

However, I do have a couple non-felt related things for you if you’re looking for more rainbow/St. Patrick’s Day activities and inspiration. This is a tri-fold display board I made to go along with my colors class. The photos and words are attached with velcro to make it more interactive. I used laminated cardstock for the lettering.

Candyland Studio Rainbow Board

After we learned our color signs we glued green rice to the shamrock for a fun sensory activity.

Printable Green Shamrock Activity

You can download the shamrock printable HERE. Happy crafting and don’t forget to wear your green on Monday!

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