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Simple Hand Sewn Felt Easter Tree Decorations

March 20, 2015 By Ann Maes 10 Comments

Join me in some crafting fun today as we’re making simple hand sewn felt Easter tree decorations.

Making an Easter tree is a tradition in some parts of Europe. When I was young, we used to go out and find curly willow tree branches with the soft budding blossoms on, telling us spring was here. Many families would decorate their Easter trees with colorful eggs in all sizes and a variety of items that remind us of spring.

Aside from the traditional mini eggs, there are so many fun, creative. cheerful ideas to decorate your Easter tree. This year we decided to sew felt eggs in all kinds of colors. It is going to look (and feel!) gorgeous.

This craft project is another one of our mother/daughter collaborations that we love so much. Miss Glitter (4) likes nothing more than to work alongside her mama, and I so thoroughly enjoy our precious time creating together.

Let me talk you through our creative process, as we usually make things up as we go along. Hopefully you’ll feel inspired to get out your craft supplies, hack down any random tree branch and make your own unique Easter tree decorations.

Simple Hand Sewn Felt Easter Egg Tree Decorations

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Make it Together: Simple Hand Sewn Felt Easter Tree Decorations

Here’s what we used:

  • felt
  • fabric scissors
  • embroidery floss
  • blunt needle with large eye
  • tree branch and vase! (any pretty looking branch will do)

Once we had our materials out, Miss Glitter immediately went through all the felt to sort out the colors. She’s got some strong opinions!

While I cut out the first egg shape, I asked Miss Glitter to start lining up the felt she wanted to use and make a pile of the felt she didn’t want to use.

This gave me some time to cut out the felt and get started on blanket stitching around each egg shaped piece of felt.

You can let your children cut out the egg shapes should they want to. It doesn’t have to be perfect, it’s your tree and truly handmade decorations are way cuter than picture perfect ones.

Miss Glitter didn’t feel like cutting out anything, she was far to busy sorting out the felt and matching them with different colors of embroidery floss. Which is an important job to do of course.

For a while there we got into a comfortable rhythm of me stitching and her telling me what colors to use and why.

When she was done I invited her to do some stitching herself to decorate the eggs I made so far.

We’re talking very simple stitching here. I simple threaded a needle (we used a normal needle) and let Miss Glitter have a go. She could stitch whatever she wanted. She mostly experimented with randomly stitching from side to side.

By the way, felt is an excellent material to use for introducing or practising hand sewing because it’s such an easy going material. Keeping the thread short helps with preventing the thread from entangling and keeping the frustration levels low.

In the end I tidied up the loose ends by either making a knot or stitching into the felt (as you’ll see on the image below).

Simple Hand Sewn Felt Easter Tree Decorations

As you can see what we did is pretty straight forward: blanket stitch around the egg shaped felt, let your child stitch around in the center and add some string to hang it up in the tree!

Simple Hand Sewn Felt Easter Tree Decorations

This image shows how you can stitch into the felt. You can see how the needle goes through the felt without coming out the other end. This is how you can hide loose ends: stitch through the felt, cut off and let the loose end just sit in there somewhere.

Simple Hand Sewn Felt Easter Tree Decorations

Finished result! Miss Glitter’s favorite. Because pink is her favorite color and green mine. So sweet.

Simple Hand Sewn Felt Easter Tree Decorations

Our entire collection of Easter tree decorations!

Simple Hand Sewn Felt Easter Tree Decorations

Miss Glitter’s favorite got ‘the best place’ in our tree.

Getting ready for Easter!

I hope you’ll enjoy all of your Easter preparations and that the bunny will bring you lots of chocolate … Should you be looking for more Easter inspiration, you’ll find all kinds of fun projects, activities, diy decorations, crafts, recipes and more here on Pinterest. More is definitely more when it comes to Easter and Spring, wouldn’t you agree?

Enjoy!

Ann*

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Filed Under: Arts & Crafts in Play, Mom Projects in Play Tagged With: Easter, embroidery, felt, preschoolers, school kids

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Comments

  1. Evelyne says

    March 21, 2015 at 2:34 am

    I love these Ann! Beautifully done… and I never knew about the Easter Tree! Fascinating!

    Reply
    • Ann Maes says

      March 21, 2015 at 9:49 am

      Thanks! And there you go, always something new to learn!

      Reply
  2. Nell says

    March 21, 2015 at 4:05 am

    These are so wonderful! I can’t wait to make some for our easter tree on our spring nature table 🙂

    Reply
    • Ann Maes says

      March 21, 2015 at 9:48 am

      Thanks Nell. Hope you have fun!

      Reply
  3. Crystal & Co. says

    March 23, 2015 at 3:13 am

    Oh how I love all things felt!! What a fun project!

    Reply
    • Ann Maes says

      March 23, 2015 at 9:47 am

      Me too! Thanks so much for stopping by Crystal.

      Reply
  4. Emma T says

    April 6, 2015 at 9:28 pm

    These look great, really simple but effective. Might have to try these with my son next year.

    Reply
    • Ann Maes says

      April 6, 2015 at 11:13 pm

      Yes! Pin for next year! Thanks for stopping by, hope you had a great Easter this year!

      Reply
  5. Shannon says

    March 4, 2016 at 1:54 am

    How beautiful! I’m sure your Easter Tree was gorgeous 🙂 Thanks for allowing me to share in my Easter Roundup

    Reply
    • Ann Maes says

      March 4, 2016 at 11:22 pm

      Thank YOU! Love your round up!

      Reply

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