Learn how to make felt petal flowers using this easy, fun faux flower tutorial.
Felt flowers are fun and easy to make, and can be made in a wide variety of sizes, styles, and variations.
We have made felt mums, tiny felt mums, and felt roses. Now we are going to make felt petal flowers, using the same simple craft supplies!
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Why You'll Love This Craft
- Just like our tutorials for felt mums and felt roses, these felt petal flowers are easy to make and SO cute!
- You can customize them by choosing your felt colors, the shape of the flower petals, and the size of the mum center.
- You can use hot glue to assemble them, or craft glue or tacky glue if you want to make it a craft for kids.
Craft Supplies Needed
- Felt
- Scissors
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue
How to Make Felt Flowers - Petal Flowers
Step 1. Cut the felt into equivalent leaf shapes.
Step 2. Put a dab of hot glue on one end of a felt leaf, and pinch the sides together.
Step 3. Using the felt mum tutorial, cut a small strip of felt, and cut fringe along the length.
Step 4. Roll the felt fringe into a mum flower, hot gluing it as you roll.
Step 5. Hot glue the pinched felt petals in a circle, and glue the mum into the center.
Step 6. You can also use teardrop-shaped felt petals. Download the template we used in our leather earring tutorial, from our resource library.
Common Questions
You can use any type of felt to make these petal flowers - cheap craft felt or higher-end wool felt. As long as you can manipulate, fold, or roll the felt, you can make it into flowers. Pick the colors you like best.
You can do all kinds of things with felt flowers, including using them as gift wrap embellishments, attaching them to hair clips or headbands, or stringing them together to make a garland.
If you don't have felt, you can make flowers with fabric like muslin, or even book page petal flowers. You can also make flowers using burlap ribbon, or even rosettes with fabric like shop towels.
These petal flowers make a great addition to felt mums and felt roses. They can be made with any color felt and in any size too.
You can make small petal flowers to put on barrettes, hair clips, or jewelry like earrings or rings.
Larger petal flowers can be attached to headbands or made into embellishments for bags, pillow covers, or even gift wrap!
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How to Make Felt Petal Flowers
Materials
- Felt
- Scissors
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue
Instructions
- Cut the felt into equivalent leaf shapes.
- Put a dab of hot glue on one end of a felt leaf, and pinch the sides together.
- Using the felt mum tutorial, cut a small strip of felt, and cut fringe along the length.
- Roll the felt fringe into a mum flower, hot gluing it as you roll.
- Hot glue the pinched felt petals in a circle, and glue the mum into the center.
- You can also use teardrop-shaped felt petals. Download the template we used in our leather earring tutorial, from our resource library.
Notes
- You can use any type of felt to make these flowers, as long as it's pliable enough to fold and roll into the petals and mum center. Go for the colors you like!
- Hot glue flowers onto headbands or hair clips, use them as gift embellishments or string them together to make a pretty felt flower garland.
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