Easy Felt Heart Plush Craft For Kids With Printable Template

February 1, 2021

This beautiful yet simple felt heart plush craft is easy to create and requires very few supplies. Even better, the supplies you need are probably already close at hand. With only a handful of traditional sewing supplies, you can create decor for Valentine’s Day. Place soft pillowy and eye-popping hearts everywhere you can dream of.

Felt Heart Plush Ornament or Pillow Craft Made from Soft Felt

The Size of Your Heart

You have complete creative control over how big or how little to make these hand sewed felt decorative hearts. You can do a lot with these felt heart plush ornaments depending on the scale you decide to use. Small hearts make lovely ornaments and larger hearts make terrific accent pillows. Make a single plush heart or arrange them in clusters. It all starts with what size heart you want to begin with and how you decide to use the plush hearts you craft using the supplies and techniques below.

Decorative Uses of Heart Plush Ornaments

Typically, when we think of an ornament, our mind goes straight to Christmas. We think about the Christmas tree and how we’d like to decorate it. These homemade felt heart plush ornaments can be used as Christmas tree decoration, but the iconic Valentine’s Day symbol is not merely meant to adorn a fir tree each December. Instead, use it year-round, or as a way to spruce up your home (no pun intended) once the tree is tossed out. These heart ornaments can hang from walls, windows, and even beams across your ceiling.

More Ideas for Felt Heart Plushes

They also make gorgeous fillers for large vases, and you can even use them as a tag when you tie them to the handles of a gift bag for a special occasion like Mother’s Day. Larger felt heart plushes make excellent homemade throw pillows or seat cushions. They are perfect for a night of watching movies on the couch, or a special Valentine’s Day dinner. No matter what you plan to use these DIY heart plush ornaments for, follow the simple guide below and grab some cotton to what you need in minutes.

Felt Heart Plush Ornament Craft

List of Supplies

Felt (red, pink, fuchsia, etc)
Cotton stuffing
Pencil
Scissors
Embroidery Needle
Thread: Cotton Embroidery Floss is ideas
String or yarn
Free printable template

Notes

For larger felt heart plush ornaments or pillow craft, simply trace the heart the size you would like and purchase more cotton stuffing.
You can use different coloured thread or matching thread.
The best thread to use for hand sewing on felt is the cotton embroidery floss. It comes in many colours and is inexpensive.

Easy Felt Heart Plush Craft For Kids supplies

How To Make The Felt Heart Plush Ornament or Pillow Craft Made from Soft Felt

Step 1

Select a coloured felt fabric of your choice. Trace 2 heart shapes on the selected felt fabric. Cut out the heart shapes nicely. You can decide the size of the heart shapes from the provided template; it includes 3 different sizes for the heart shape.

Step 2

Cut a piece of strand or yarn, double the length of the required loop for the ornament. Fold the strand into half and tie a knot with the open ends to form a loop.

Step 3

Place any one of the heart cutouts on a flat surface and then place the looped strand on the top-middle part of the heart cutout. The knotted side of the loop should be placed inside the heart shape. Prepare a needle with the white thread (you can use different coloured thread or matching thread) and tie a knot at the open end of the needle attached strand. Draw the needle through the knot of the loop and the top end of the heart cutout.

Step 4

Now, place the other heart cutout on the top of the previous felt heart. Carefully stitch both heart cutouts together around the sides.

Step 5

You can work with any stitch you like; I’m working running stitch around the side.

Step 6

Make sure to keep a small opening to stuff the felt heart pattern. Use cotton to stuff the felt heart through the opening.

Step 7

Fill the felt heart with enough cotton to give it a nice and fluffy look. Stitch the opening to secure the stuffing.

Step 8

Tie a knot and then draw the needle through the plush and then randomly drawing it out again. Cut off extra strand if necessary.

VALENTINE’S DAY CRAFT IDEAS

If you are looking for more DIY Valentine’s Day craft ideas, you can make one of these:

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