Felt tree

Hi everyone!
I have been working on some projects and ideas to share with you.
I’m so excited for this post!
We got our tree put up and decorated the day after thanksgiving, it would have been up sooner but I haven’t won the argument with my husband...yet! But I’m working on it. You’d think by now I’d know not to ask first and just start slowly decorating here and there. ANYWAYS, we got out annual Hallmark Christmas ornaments. James and I started a tradition when we were engaged to buy a special ornament every year. So we all go to the hallmark store and choose an ornament.
K got to really choose for herself this year, it was so cute seeing her little face light up as she said “wow!” To each ornament and then lovingly squeezed the Finding Dory ornament we brought home.
B chose an Elsa ornament it took her FOREVER to choose, and she is way past the Frozen obsession stage. I think she chose Elsa because the cape is cloth and not plastic like the rest of the ornament. Haha she cares way more about “fashion” than Frozen and she thought that cape was super fashionable. Silly girl
Once the tree was decorated sweet K decided she wanted to keep taking ornaments off and replace them elsewhere. This was never an issue with B, who was content just looking and not touching the tree, but that is not the way of our sweet K.
Years ago, I saw the idea of making a tree for toddlers to decorate and redecorate so they wouldn’t break the fragile ornaments on the real tree. I thought it was so cute but never did that when Brielle was a toddler. Seeing K have a hard time leaving our tree ornaments alone I decided to make her and Brielle a felt Christmas tree to play with as they wish.

I bought 1 yard of green felt to be the tree, I had my sweet husband cut it out for me so I could get to work on tracing the ornament shapes.

For the ornaments I used cookie cutters and a couple random shapes from Ks toys to trace the shape on the small sheets of felt I had. I figured this is a good way to work on our shapes and colors with K.
 So I wanted familiar shapes along with the “christmasy ones”.

I’m not the best at cutting, it pretty embarrassing how terrible I am at it. As I was cutting the ornaments I realized keeping a black outline on the ornaments actually looked better than trying to make a clean cut.

I think you can see in this picture how much better the shape looks with a little outline verses without one. And I couldn’t resist drawing in on the snowmen. They’re so CUTE!


Once I had everything cut out it was time to hang up our tree. I used command strips to hang ours. I thought I bought the Velcro ones but I mistakenly bought the sticky ones 😞
I tried the sticky ones anyways which only lasted about a week before losing the stick. You know, from the felt sticking to the stick and not the whole felt tree... so I recommend not using the sticky command hooks. Hoping the Velcro works better! If it doesn’t I will definitely let everyone know.

Here’s what it looks like all done!

Super easy to make and the girls love it! The only thing I may change/ add is lighter colored ornaments. You can’t really tell the difference in this picture but there are pink and red  ornaments. They’re just too close in shade so I may pick up some more lighter colored felt to add to our tree. For now the girls love this one. I’ll have to post a pic of K with the tree another day. She refused to wear anything but a diaper on this particular day and I’d prefer her fully clothed for blog posts 🤣