The Link Home: DIY felt Christmas tree

Y'all, this little project is so easy. I did it all during one of Pearson's naps!!

I made the template for tracing the Christmas Tree with wrapping paper that had grid lines. It made it really easy to make a symmetrical tree.

You can see a little better in the picture below how I made the template.

A while back my Grandma found a large Craps table cover for a great price at a garage sale and bought it because it looked like a nice big piece of felt. It had been sitting at my Mom's house waiting to be used for a fun little project. Instead of buying a large piece of felt, I used this!! If you have to buy your felt, I'm sure you could find a large piece of felt in the fabric section of Hobby Lobby or at Hancock's or JoAnne's.

I bought all of the ornament and present felt pieces at Hobby Lobby. They were 4/$1.00 except the Houndstooth was 2/$1. I used 2 red, 2 green, 1 yellow, 1 white, and 2 houndstooth. I traced the ornaments with a little circle tupperware and I googled "star clip-art" and "christmas light clip-art" to printed a picture off the internet to use as my template for the star and lights.

I used these Command Velcro strips to hand it on the wall.

I put our little tree underneath our bar next to our real Christmas tree. I absolutely love how it turned out!! I originally wanted to make this felt Christmas tree because I thought my busy 18 month old was going to be all over our real Christmas tree. I thought this would help distract him by giving him his own little tree.

Oddly enough, he could really care less about our Christmas tree. He has a pretty good time decorating and un-decorating his little felt Christmas tree though. I think Pearson will look forward to playing with his special Christmas toys each year, especially this one!!