Life-size felt letter patterns. DIY felt letters, making and using

Felt is an amazing material. It is easy to cut and sew: it does not fray, does not require machine sewing skills, and the choice of colors provides great opportunities for the expression of imagination. It is not surprising that needlewomen enjoy creating a variety of felt crafts.

Due to its pleasant texture, felt is often used for children's toys, including educational toys. Felt letters and numbers decorate soft books, children's wall metrics and garlands.

Original ideas for felt letters

Do you want to make your children's room bright and attractive? Decorate it with original children's metrics and mobile phones. Bright felt is perfect for them.

You can make any form of metrics:

round wreath;
cloud;
seven-flowered flower - for a girl;
boat or anchor - for a boy.

You need to make a life-size template of the base from paper and cut it out of felt. Think over and design the decor: the child’s name, additional elements. The letters can be made multi-colored - this will make the original metric brighter.

There are many photos of felt letters on the Internet. There you can also find options for games with them. For a child younger age you can make an entertaining soft alphabet book. This is not just a toy - it is a visual aid that will help a child learn the alphabet through play and learn to distinguish between consonants and vowels.

For older children, you can make a teaching aid for learning to read: sew the entire alphabet from felt, make a soft “board” from carpet, and equip the letters with Velcro or place magnets inside.

How to sew a felt alphabet

Ideas and templates for felt letters can be taken from the Internet. You can involve older children in making the soft alphabet: the products are sewn by hand, so the work is not difficult even for younger schoolchildren. Moreover, it is even useful because it develops fine motor skills of the hands.

The size of the elements will depend on how you plan to use them:

for a garland or metric, you can sew letters measuring 6-10 centimeters;
for use as didactic material– a size of 4-5 centimeters is sufficient.

Detailed instructions for making letters for beginners:

Print letter patterns of the desired size on paper and cut them out. Choose felt: for a personalized garland it is better to take soft felt– Spanish or Korean, wool or wool mixture. Hard felt is not suitable for three-dimensional letters: after printing, it will cause folds and creases.

Place two sheets of felt together. Place the patterns on the sheets of felt close to each other. This is not fabric, no seam allowances needed! Trace the patterns and cut out the letters.

Next you need to sew each letter. Place the two cut out letters next to each other and have a needle and thread ready. The letters need to be sewn together using an overlock stitch, initially inserting a needle between two parts (this way the knot will be inside the toy and will not spoil the appearance.

As the letter acquires a three-dimensional appearance, it needs to be filled with holofiber or other filler. After finishing the seam, carefully secure the end and hide it inside the toy.

How to make letters from felt correctly:

Choose a font with wide elements, such as Georgia.
You need to stitch the letters A, B, C, D, O, R, F, Y, I with internal seams: This will make stuffing the toy easier.
The corners of the pattern should be rounded: this will make sewing easier.
The letters can be decorated with additional decor: butterflies, flowers, or embroidered with an ornament.

In addition to the method described in the master class on felt letters, they can be sewn on sewing machine. It is important that they do not unravel during play, because felt is a non-woven fabric.

We told you how to sew a letter from felt with your own hands. Using the same principle, you can make numbers to teach your child counting and mathematical operations. You can make letters of different sizes, sew consonants from felt of one color, vowels - another, numbers - a third.

If you plan to use them to teach reading, it is better to make several sets so that you can form words with the same letters. This way the toy will turn into a useful teaching aid.

To store felt letters and numbers, sew a fabric bag or make a bright box. You can sew a book with pockets, where each letter will have its own “house”.

Photo of felt letters

A convenient and practical material for creating letters with your own hands is felt. It consists of compressed wool fibers. Steam treatment creates a dense layer that does not crumble. The closest relative of felt is felt. But felt is made from more delicate fibers.

The popularity of this material is achieved due to several factors:

wide range of colors and bright colors that do not fade during use;
easy to glue and sew;
edges do not require additional processing;
felt has no front and wrong side, which allows you to make double-sided products;
various thicknesses (from 1 mm to 5 mm) for different purposes.

Description of felt

The thinner the felt, the more accurate the crafts will be. Therefore, use it to create three-dimensional products or make small parts. Make the base for a book, house or bag from thicker felt.

Felt sheets differ not only in thickness, but also in composition. Pure wool felt contains from 90 to 100% wool fibers. Its naturalness has a number of disadvantages. It may become shaggy, pills may appear, after washing it may shrink and lose its original shape, it wrinkles easily, and is very soft. Best suited for creating jewelry.

Master class. Required materials

felt;
scissors, matching threads, needles;
filler: padding polyester, padding polyester, holofiber.

Master class. Step 1. DIY letter patterns

You can spend time searching for patterns on the Internet. But it’s faster and more convenient to do it yourself. In a text editor, type the letters, set their size, select a thicker font, set an additional thickness of the letters by selecting the “bold text” indicator. You can use the “insert” menu and the “WordArt” function.

To avoid mistakes in sizes, pay attention to the ruler along the edges of the sheet.
Once you have achieved the desired result, all you have to do is print it out and the patterns are ready. When cutting out paper blanks, use scissors to round the corners. This will make it easier to cut and sew.

Master class. Step 2. Transfer the pattern to felt

You can transfer patterns to felt using a special disappearing marker, chalk, a simple pencil or a bar of soap. Due to the fact that felt has a different structure and there are no longitudinal or transverse threads, patterns can be laid out in any direction, saving on the space between the letters.
Attach the stencil, pin, trace and cut out. With felt, the edge does not require special processing; you don’t have to turn the finished letters inside out; the seam will be visible. Allow only a few millimeters for it.

In addition to the fabulous pleasure from the process of creating with felt, you can also get great benefits by creating educational things for your baby. Development fine motor skills takes up the most important place in child development preschool age. To do this, it is important to surround it with a wide variety of shapes, materials and colors. With this intention, you can create a million interesting things for him. Instead of cards with drawn letters and numbers, you can create your own from different materials letters different sizes and flowers. This will significantly diversify the baby’s pastime, and will also provide a huge field for rapid development. As an example, letters can be made using both Velcro and magnets. Both will not be ignored, since such toys will have different properties. And the child needs to repeat at least a hundred times a day the action that causes him delight and curiosity. Hence the conclusion - you need to create a lot of letters so that they are everywhere possible - this way he will only learn them faster. So let's make letters from high-quality felt quickly and easily with our own hands!

We make products with letters from felt with our own hands with photos

Don't let your imagination be limited by such an inconspicuous word as the alphabet. Of course, if you make all the letters three-dimensional and in several color options, this is great and the child already has useful fun. But everything is made of felt, and felt, as you know, is an excellent ornamental material. You can make large letter pillows in the shape of the child’s name and place them on the sofa or baby’s bed. If you collect the phrase “happy birthday” and make it like an educational garland, then you won’t need to take it out every time, because the child won’t want to hide it. Perhaps, except that you will need to complete missing letters or find them in the most unexpected places. If you cut out letters from thin felt, you can make an applique on his things for school or kindergarten, on notebooks, book covers, pens, pencil cases, in the form of his initials. How about just names above the cribs, what's the idea?

To begin with, it is important to determine that felt does not like sharp corners, especially when sewing parts together. Therefore, it is important to smooth out any clear shape. If you don’t want to bother creating a template for each letter, you can use the stencil shown below.

You can make it even simpler and choose your favorite font, for example “cooper”, type the words you want to create and cut out the templates. In this case, you can roughly imagine what the garland or just the letters will look like if you are planning a complete alphabet.

So, after a little fiddling with the stencil and scissors, we have a pattern. Next, it is important to prepare the material involved.

felt - 4 or more multi-colored sheets;
scissors;
needle with a large eye;
floss threads of different colors, combined with the color of felt;
textile fastener (or Velcro tape).

For each letter there will be two identical parts. Velcro is sewn onto one part and only then it is necessary to sew both parts together along the contour. The desired seam can be chosen as a simple stitch or overcast, it all depends on your imagination. In this case, the Velcro fastening seam will not be visible from the front side. Two fasteners can be attached if the letter is wide, like “Ш” or “М”.

Now you can take a stiffer sheet of felt and put it in a frame without glass and you will get a tablet for folding words.

Let's try to create a funny felt alphabet with our own hands

A boring paper book, nothing interesting. An ABC book where the letters come to life and you can stroke them - this friend will quickly teach your child letters and words. And besides, a felt alphabet book is a wonderful toy from birth. Therefore, one book can serve more than one generation. You can use the example of the letter “I” to see how this might look.

We have this sketch

Divided into components, we have the following details:

The author of the idea uses backing material to secure the location of the parts so that the parts do not move from their position in the picture during sheathing. But they can be basted or glued in one drop - it is not necessary completely, since it will be processed with a seam.

The iguana can be decorated with beads or other beads, and you can also embroider a mouth, paws and a pattern on the back, this will add tactile sensations to the picture and it will be easier for the child to remember the associations if as many senses as possible are involved. The sheet of felt on which the applique is made is sewn with an overcast stitch to the previous page of the book.

Below are templates for the Latin alphabet.

But if you want to create a Cyrillic primer, then you can make animal patterns yourself from the already familiar stencils for letters and finger toys.

Good luck to you and your kids!

Video selection based on materials

Among the video materials presented, you can find both master classes and just ideas for creativity.

I’ll say a platitude: “But how quickly children grow”! It seems that just recently my son and I were discharged from the maternity hospital, and this fall we are planning to send him to kindergarten. Before we know it, we'll be off to school...

There was material (11 sheets of multi-colored felt), there was a desire to sew and time was found. Therefore, I decided not to procrastinate, prepare in advance, and sew the letters to learn the alphabet. We already have an ABC book (got it from our nephews =)

I sewed 33 letters =) But you can already form words without repeating letters and even phrases such as “ Felt letters » =) Then I plan to finish the frequently repeated ones, but first I’ll see how things go.

I spent a lot of time searching for a font, I looked through a bunch on the Internet: I looked for sans serif, “chubby”and with rounded edges. As a result, I still found it more or less satisfactory for me! I’m sharing it with you, maybe some of the young mothers will find it useful (templates at the end of the post).

First I chose a different font, which says “Manual Happiness”in the header of the page. I cut out the letters for the name of the blog and then discarded them (I didn’t sew the whole alphabet for them, it was too incomprehensible for a child). But everything that is not done is all for the better: but now my blog has a header =)

I sewed with melange threads so as not to change the thread every time to match the color of the felt. Although it would not have been necessary, each letter took the whole (not very short thread =) I stuffed it with padding polyester during the sewing process. I amused myself by calculating from which edge it would be better to start sewing, so that it would be as convenient as possible to stuff =)

I remember the time when my parents taught me to read, for my mother it was horror, horror. I made scandals, no arguments that reading was very interesting and I would like it didn’t help = (So I went to school, knowing only individual letters and not really knowing how to put them into words. I don’t remember what turned my mind upside down, but by the 2nd grade I had caught up and surpassed many of my classmates. How my relationship with books developed further is a separate story (but I will say one thing: I still fell in love with reading =)

I really hope that my son will love to read. And the learning process will take place without scandals: felt letters will help us =)

And the promised bonus - templates for letters (open in a separate window and save). 5 sheets, for printing in A4 landscape sheet format. The height of the letters is 8-9 cm. If desired, in the letters “B” and I " you can close the loop. There are 30 letters on the sheets:"E" and "S", "I" and "Y" didn't share. Soft sign - inverted letter"R" or part of a letter"Y" =) Have fun learning!