Advent Calendar: Part 3

Welcome to part 3 in my advent calendar tutorial. Today, you'll find the final 10 patterns to finish your calendar. Again, no sewing is required for any of these squares.

Just a reminder, my squares are 4 1/2 inches wide by 5 1/2 inches long. Copy and paste the patterns into a word document to scale to your desired size. Get your fabric glue ready and let's finish those squares.

A Christmas wreath.

 

Supplies: green felt, red poms, red ribbon for a bow on your wreath {square is dark blue}.

Trim a Christmas tree.

Supplies: Green felt and multi-colored mini poms {square is dark blue felt}

Decorate a gingerbread house.

Supplies: tan, white, red and light blue felt {square is dark green felt}. Use multi-colored mini poms as candy to decorate.

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Supplies: gray, pink, black and cream felt {square is blue felt} and 2 black poms for the eyes. I wanted to embroider 'not a creature was stirring' but when I made this, I was still new to embroidering and ran out of room.

Frosty the snowman.

Supplies: white, orange and felt in whatever color you like for the scarf {square is blue felt}. 2 black mini poms for the coal eyes and 3 blue poms for the body of the snowman.

All the other reindeer...

Supplies: brown, cream, white, dark brown and black felt {square is blue felt}.

The North Pole.

 

Supplies: red, green, white, yellow and brown felt {square is blue felt}. I embroidered 'North Pole' on the sign.

Ho Ho Ho.

Supplies: red felt {square is dark green felt}

Santa's right hand man, an Elf.

Supplies: red, green, white, brown, black and white felt {square is tan felt} and 4 yellow mini poms for the belt, shoes and top of hat. *To make the elf's rosy cheeks: put a dab of glue on his cheeks, add some red fibers from the red felt to the glue and instantly you have a rosy cheeks.

Last but certainly not least, Saint Nick.

 

Supplies: red, white, peach and black felt {square is blue felt}. A white mini pom for the top of the Santa hat. *Use the technique for rosy cheeks that you used with the Elf.

Finish your squares up, peel the glue off your fingers and then come back to get some tips on putting it all together in Part 4.

The rest of the tutorials can be found here:
Advent Calender Part 1
Advent Calender Part 2
Advent Calender Part 4

Advent Calendar: Part 2

Welcome to part 2 in my advent calendar tutorial. Today, there are 10 more patterns to look through. Again, no sewing is required for any of these squares (though I did add some embroidery on 2 squares, it's not necessary). Fabric glue is the key in getting your squares created.

The squares I made are roughly 4 1/2 inches wide by 5 1/2 inches long. If you prefer to make a smaller version, you should be able to copy my patterns into a word document and scale them to the size you want.

Let's get started:

A Christmas train.

Supplies:  Felt: tan, black, red, light green, dark green, dark brown, cream, yellow, blue and dark blue {square is red felt}. Optional: Add an initial to the train.

3 candles with a holly base.

Supplies:  Felt: red, green, yellow, black {square is light blue felt}

Technique: to give the flame of the candles some warmth, place a dab of glue in the center of the flame. Using your nail, remove some fibers from red and orange felt and lay them down onto the glue. This adds a little extra dimension to your candles.

Simple polka dots.

Supplies:  Felt: cream {square is red felt}

A stocking ready to be stuffed.

Supplies:  Felt: dark green, red and cream {square is tan felt}. The stripes were made out of thin strips of cream felt.

Warm mittens.

Supplies: red and cream felt and some string for the mittens {square is dark green felt}

The December flower: poinsettia.

Supplies: red, green, dark green and yellow felt {square is light blue}

A few snowflakes to make for a White Christmas.

Supplies: light blue felt {square is dark blue felt} and 6 white mini poms

I created my snowflakes by folding a square of felt in fourths and cutting out a few shapes {like the good old grammar school days or making snowflakes out of paper}. Roughly, the shape that resulted has been turned into a pattern below.

A Christmas penguin {?}.

Supplies: black, white and orange felt {square is light blue felt}, 2 white poms for the eyes or 2 googly eyes.

10 drummers drumming.

Supplies: red, cream, tan, green and yellow felt {square is light blue} and 6 yellow mini poms

JOY.

Supplies: dark green and light green felt {square is red felt}, 3 red mini poms for the berries on the O - wreath, ribbon for the bottom of the square and 5 green mini poms for the top of the square

Come back tomorrow to check out the rest of the patterns you can use to finish your own advent calendar.

The rest of the tutorials can be located here:
Advent Calender Part 1
Advent Calender Part 3
Advent Calender Part 4

Advent Calendar: Part 1

Welcome to Part 1 in a 4 part tutorial on how to make your own knock-off Pottery Barn for Kids felt advent calender.

If you want to follow along, go get yourself a wide variety of felt, a package of miniature multi-colored pom poms, some ribbon and lots and lots of fabric glue. 

*No sewing was involved in decorating each square.

Each of my squares is roughly 4 1/2 inches wide by 5 1/2 inches long.

 
The bigger squares allowed for greater detail to be achieved BUT the bigger squares also resulted in a BIGGER tree and BIGGER pockets to fill.  Feel free to scale down the patterns provided to the size pockets you desire.

Let's get started!

First, a partridge in a pear tree.

 Supplies:  Felt: cream, burgundy, dark green, green, oatmeal, yellow and black {the square is tan felt}

A red candle, with a holly base.

Supplies:  Felt: red, yellow, black, dark green, green {the square is light blue felt}

A Christmas tree light.

Supplies:  Felt: red, green, black and white {the square is dark green felt}

Simple holly.

Supplies:  Felt: Green and red {the square is dark blue felt}

An ice skate.

Supplies:  Felt: cream, red, blue, yellow, gray {the square is tan felt}. *I used yellow felt for the laces but looking back, it would have been cute with embroidered laces as well.

Peel the glue off your fingers and check out the remaining 3 parts to this tutorial to complete your own advent calender.

Advent Calender Part 2
Advent Calender Part 3
Advent Calender Part 4
And be sure to check out my other Christmas inspired posts:

DIY Pottery Barn Candle

DIY Star Wars Ornaments

DIY Santa Beard