DIY: Felt Faces

The fun part in this homemade felt version is how you can customize your felt face which can involves the whole family. Young children like to simply identify features while older children can help design and cut out the silly felt face features. This fun activity of changing up different features of the face will entertain children for hours and produce plenty of giggles with all the fun combinations they come up with.

Supplies Needed:

Scraps of crafting felt
Stiff piece of cardboard (like a piece of a cardboard box)
Strip of Velcro, sticky-back
Scissors
Needle and thread
Fabric glue
Chalk

Start by tracing a large oval onto a piece of felt for the face. Cut out. Cut the same shape out of a sturdy  cardboard piece and glue the felt on top of the cardboard piece. This will make a nice sturdy felt face base.

Start cutting out some shapes for the face. Since I'm not great at freehand drawing, I looked up some cartoon shapes online to come up with some ideas. I traced with chalk first onto the felt before cutting. Cut out a couple different types of ears, eyes, hair, mouths, mustaches, eyebrows, hats, etc.

For the hair pieces, you may want to use your face shape as a guide to cut the right size.

Arrange a few pieces on the face to see how they look and note where you should attach the velcro on the face. Then cut the velcro into a few small pieces.

Arrange the teeth-side velcro onto the face in the locations where the face features will go.

Attach a piece of the soft side-velcro onto each face feature.

Use the fabric glue to reinforce each piece onto the face.

Make a few small stitches to reinforce the velcro onto the face features. You may not need to do this depending on the strength of your glue.

You're done! You can place the face features in a plastic ziplock bag for storage.