Felt Trees

I'm sure you've seen the "toddler proof" felt trees circling social media- well I decided to take one on.

Here's how it turned out:

This was the final (for my house, I had enough felt that I actually made another for family friends with 5 little girls).

I cut my tree our of the green, and then I sewed the trunk to it, several times to make sure it was secured.

(The trunk was a felt sheet- the ones that come 8.5x11- cut in half.)

Then I googled a few ideas for ornaments. I found a site that had several templates, but I can't find it now- sorry :( I also used a set of Christmas cookie cutters I own as a template.

(These are the first initials of the little girls in our friends' family.)

 I sewed, some hand, some machine, to secure the decorations. I contemplated leaving some changeable, but then thought that they would end up pretty quickly in my twin Ks' mouths so secured would be best. What I did leave changeable was the ribbons for the presents (which I don't have a close up of- other than this one that I added a bow and used a silver Sharpie for definition).

What I had the most trouble with... trying to figure out how to mount it to the wall. :/
I settled on sewing velcro to the tips of the tree branches, and then attaching the other side of the velcro to the wall with mounting tack. Although my twins found the velcro and had fun removing it from the wall, and then found the tack, which they tried to eat. So it wasn't completely toddler proof, and I had to move it to the hall, where they have some time with it, but not unlimited access to it. And I think next time we may use Command Strips instead of mounting tack. But overall not too bad.

Here's a shot of the little ones playing with it to end the post:

That's all for now,
Jo!