12 Felt Christmas Crafts from Wool or Recycled Plastic Felt

Felt makes Christmas crafting so accessible!

Felt is a magical material. If you don’t craft with animal materials, you can buy recycled plastic felt. If you prefer nature crafts, you’ll love wool felt. Whichever you choose, you can pick from an infinite variety of colors. Felt is easy to cut with precise details, and even a preschooler can sew it.

In other words, it’s perfect!

Because it’s so accessible and has so much variety, felt is also the perfect material for Christmas crafts. Whether you’ve got kids to entertain or you want something stunningly detailed for yourself, you’ll find a felt Christmas craft on this list that’s perfect for you.

Thanks to all the colors that felt comes in, you can garland yourself with some VERY improbable candy cane flavors! There’s some hand-stitching involved in this project, but also a decent amount of Aleene’s glue to help you out.

These little felt Christmas ornaments end up looking a lot fancier than you’d think, considering how easy they are to create.

My older kid LOVES alpacas, so a set of these little guys is definitely part of our felt Christmas ornaments this year. I love how depending on the felt color, you can have alpacas that look typical… or fancy!

Using a clothespin to make this candle clip-on is such a clever idea! It looks more authentic in regards to the olden times when Christmas trees were major fire hazards, and it saves space for even more hanging ornaments.

This garland would be a great gift for a college kid away in her own dorm room for the very first time. I love how the infinite variety of colors of felt means that you can have a light strand that matches your decor… or your college kid’s alma mater!

This is an easy-to-create activity that will sneak a little learning into a young child’s holiday excitement. For a slightly older kid, give them a plastic needle and embroidery floss and let them really stitch the buttons to the tree.

This project is a little different, because it calls not for sheets of pre-made felt, but instead for felted wool sweaters. It’s a LOT harder for me to thrift 100% wool sweaters than it was back in the day, sigh, but they’re still out there! My favorite type to find was the wool sweater that someone had clearly accidentally felted in the wash and then donated, because then I knew that I wasn’t potentially taking the sweater off of some person’s back when I cut it up and crafted with it. Sweaters that get accidentally felted in the washing machine are destined for craft projects!

I LOVE how artistic you can be while making this felt mandala. Even if you don’t think of yourself as super artistic, give it a try anyway–mandalas are very forgiving!

If you like to sew but you don’t want to sew something super finicky right now, these patchwork and felt ornaments are perfect! Piece something pretty for the center of each ornament, then give it its special shape by adding a cut felt piece around it. I love the idea to stuff the ornaments with “non-traditional” materials, lol!

Any tutorial you can find to make a mini felt stuffie can also be turned into a Christmas ornament!

The construction of this ornament uses a really interesting and unusual technique. It looks like it’s been embroidered with chunky yarn, right? The real method is so much easier!

This felt Christmas garland makes a very solid substitute for those awful plastic tinsel garlands. I’d much rather have this washable, colorful, DIY garland than microplastics in the waste stream!

P.S. Do you have a felt Christmas craft that you love? Share it with us in the Comments!