A fun November craft

I have had fun making a few things with felt this week.  I recently followed this tutorial and made these felt pinecones.

 

I love them.  They look so cute in this gold bowl on my coffee table.

I decided that I wanted a few acorns to go in with them.  So I came up with a way to make acorns.  They are so simple and look adorbs with the pinecones.

I used the small egg shaped Styrofoam balls that came in the same bag that I used to make the pinecones. I love when I don’t have to buy anything to create something.  It is nice to make something out of things you have on hand.

What you need:

small egg shaped Styrofoam balls

golden felt

brown felt

a glue gun

Start by cutting a large circle out of you gold felt.  Put your egg smaller side down on top in the center of the felt.

Run a bead of glue down the four sides of the egg.   Then push the felt up against the glue so it looks like this:

Then take the felt that is not glued and put a bead of glue inside the pocket it made. Squeeze the pocket together so it looks like this:

Now take your scissors, and cut right up next to your egg.  Cutting the overhanging felt that you glued together.

 

Cut all four sides.

 

This will leave you with a nice acorn bottom with four pretty seams.

Now cut a smaller brown circle for your top.

Glue it on the center top of your acorn.

Then continue to glue it around the sides make a few pleats.

Now your acorn has a top.

Next, cut a small rectangle out of your brown felt.

Run a bead of glue down the center leaving the bottom free of glue.

Roll up the felt to make a stem leaving the bottom open like a half circle.

You will put the glue in this half circle part to give you a base to glue to your acorn top.

Wah-Lah!  Now you have a felt acorn.

Add them to a pretty bowl with your felt pinecones, and you have a cheap autumn detail.