I am sharing a Felt Christmas Tree today!  Give your kids a tree that’s up to them to decorate as they please!  My kids have mostly been pretty good at leaving the ornaments alone on our tree.  I put all the keepsake/breakable ones up on top and all of their ornaments and the plastic ones on the bottom! 

{{Funny side story:  When Michael was young, our tree was in the corner of our living room in MN and shielded by the arm of the sofa and the hearth of the fireplace so he was pretty good at leaving it be.  Well with Ryan, it was just plain out in the open right in front of our huge living room windows in our house in Joplin.  So he was more of a challenge to keep away.  I told him that he couldn’t touch the ornaments but he COULD wave at them, blow them kisses, tell them hello, give them thumbs up or tell them they were pretty!  So you would walk into the room and he’d be standing there, crouched down saying “I wuv you!” or waving at them…so stinking cute! }}

OK back to the felt tree!  This project is so easy and really is not limited to as the options you can do! 

Supplies Needed:

• Green Felt (I bought the Creatology Basic Felt which comes 36” square)
• Colored Felt for Ornaments
• Scissors
• Double Sided Poster Tape
• hot glue/glue gun
• chalk

First I folded the Green felt square in half and used some chalk to draw the shape of a tree.  I realized it needed to be much wider to hold ornaments for TWO boys so I made it wider.

Then simply cut along your pattern lines:

Next I started cutting ornaments.  I used a glass to form a circle and then freehanded a star and “pointy ornament” as Michael calls them! 

I cut a bunch of small circles to use as decorations on the ornaments themselves or as lights on the tree!

I then cut some squares and rectangles for presents.  I hot glued strips in a plus sign to resemble the ribbon wrapped around a gift and a bow to go on top!

Here’s what it looks like put together!

If you keep all your squares and rectangles the same size then you can just make several “ribbon” pieces and they are all interchangeable on the gifts!

Last but certainly not least…gift tags!

Here is the kids’ felt tree!

The Santa Bin I made last year as found it’s use for this year!  To hold all the felt pieces of the tree!  Because as much as my kids love decorating their felt tree…they love un-decorating it even more!!  I had felt pieces all over the place!

They mix and match and have a great time!  Michael used all the gift bows as tree tip decorations and it looked really cute and then he used all the polka dots for the presents!  I love their creativity!  They also set up their Little People Nativity under their felt tree too!  SO CUTE! 

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