30 Cute DIY Felt Halloween Crafts: Spooky Decor Ideas
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As Halloween approaches, it's time to get crafty with some spooky decorations. Felt is a versatile material that is perfect for creating cute Halloween crafts. I share tutorials on how to make ornaments, decorations, or toys. There are plenty of fun and easy DIY projects to try. In this article, I'll show you different ways to incorporate felt into your Halloween decor, from creating spooky ghosts to crafting adorable pumpkins. Don't miss some of my free patterns.
Let's decorate with spooky felt crafts!
Felt Crafting Tips for DIY Felt Halloween Crafts
Before starting with the felt Halloween crafts, you might want to go through these felt crafting tips. They help to make your felt cutting easier, teach you what glue to use for felt, and how to sew felt. With these tips in mind, you'll be ready to tackle your DIY Crafts for Halloween with ease.
TIP for sewing with felt: Explore the felt sewing tips to help you while sewing felt. You get to know what types of felt exist, what’s the best needle and thread for felt, how to trace on felt, and how to cut felt shapes.
TIP basic embroidery stitches: You can read the guide on nine basic embroidery stitches for felt if you want to know how to stitch French knot, running stitch, backstitch, or whip stitch.
TIP felt glue: Have you wondered what is the best felt glue? Find the findings of a test comparing 8 different glues for felt.
TIP felt scissors: Are you curious about what scissors to use for felt? Learn the secrets of the best scissors for cutting perfect felt shapes in Felt cutting made easy.
TIP for cutting felt: If you would like to learn tips on cutting out felt pieces, you can read my post about 6 techniques for cutting felt shapes.
Spooky DIY Halloween Decorations from Felt
A step-by-step guide can be incredibly helpful for those looking for detailed instructions on creating felt Halloween decor. Follow the guide to make felt garlands, Jack-o'-lanterns, or spooky spiders for a cohesive and charming Halloween display.
Felt Halloween Garland and Banner Ideas
Make a Halloween felt banner with this easy-to-follow felt banner tutorial. The free pattern includes letter templates. You can make any sign you wish.
DIY Felt Halloween Garland. Craft your felt Halloween banner with the free pattern from Kunin felt. The decoration includes a ghost, a pumpkin, and a bat.
Halloween Hocus Pocus Banner. The next addition to your Halloween decor is a hocus pocus banner. You can make the banner entirely from felt. It comes with an SVG file for Cricut machines.
Definitely check out this super cute Halloween garland. The pattern is for free and you can make so many lovely combinations of garlands.
How to Make Cute Felt Ghosts?
You can sew these cute not so spooky ghosts from Mommy made that. This pattern is free and easy to make.
If you prefer to sew a more complicated pattern, you can choose the ghost cookie pattern from ETSY. This girly ghost is adorable.
These felt ghosts are also cute and you can make DIY felt ghost banner with them. The best part is that the pattern is for free.
If you prefer to try a kit, I recommend the felt ghost banner kit. It's easy to make and will look lovely at your Halloween party.
Image: Mommy Made That
Image: The Yellow Birdhouse
Image: ETSY
Creating a Felt Pumpkin for Halloween
Felt pumpkins are a delightful addition to your Halloween decor. To make a cute felt pumpkin, gather orange and green felt, polyester fiberfill stuffing, needle, and thread. Cut out pumpkin shapes from the orange felt and stitch them together, leaving an opening for stuffing. Fill the pumpkin with the stuffing and sew it closed. Add a green felt stem to complete the look.
If you prefer to craft with your kids, download this free pattern and sew an easy felt pumpkin. I’ve used the pattern in my sewing classes with kids and it was lots of fun. You can also do a no sew version of this pattern.
These pumpkins will be such an adorable autumn decoration. Follow the tutotirla and sew your DIY felt pumpkins. I already imagine having them in a bowl nicely set on a window.
This pumpkin wall hanging is a slightly different pumpkin decoration. I like this way of working with felt, combining felt and embroidery.
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Image: Benzie Design
Image: The Yellow Birdhouse
DIY Felt Halloween Ornament Ideas
Felt ornaments are perfect for adding a festive touch to your Halloween tree or garland. You can create fun Halloween shapes like bats, witches, or black cats using felt and embroidery floss. These ornaments can be hung around the house or used as party favors for a Halloween gathering. I've written a different post on DIY Halloween ornaments, check the patterns and ideas there.
Easy DIY Halloween Felt Crafts (Kid-Friendly)
Get children involved in the Halloween crafting fun with kid-friendly felt craft ideas. Simple projects like felt ghost puppets, pumpkin magnets, or bat ornaments are perfect for little hands to create. Let their creativity run wild as they make their own spooky decorations.
Try these selections of Halloween crafts for kids. If you need help sewing with kids, use these tips on teaching them to hand sew.
Easy spider brooch accessory that you can attach to your clothes.
Voodoo doll pincushion is an easy kids project.
The Halloween mason jar monster is a fun idea to make with jars.
Easy Halloween bookmarks that are spook-tacular
This is a pumpkin felt board for kids. The kids' favorite activity will be making the pumpkin cry, smile, and be spooky.
Image: Red Ted Art
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Image: Mommy Made That
Image: Red Ted Art
Felt Treat Bags Ideas (Free Patterns)
With the spooky season approaching, it's the perfect time to get started on some easy Halloween crafts using felt treat bags. You can find Halloween felt patterns here to help guide you through creating your own crafty projects. Simply cut out the pattern pieces from the felt and sew them together to make adorable treat bags for Halloween parties or trick-or-treating.
Making Felt Masks and Costumes for Halloween
Felt masks are a fun and easy way to add a touch of whimsy to any costume. Whether you're looking to create the perfect Halloween outfit or birthday party or just want to keep the kids entertained for an afternoon, 50 DIY animal masks are a great choice. These felt animal masks can make for great Halloween costumes.
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Other Halloween Craft Ideas
Looking for more Halloween craft ideas? Here are share other patterns for fun Halloween felt toys or finger puppets. These adorable creations can make great gifts or decorations for the holiday. Another creative craft project could be making a spooky felt skeleton or a colorful sugar skull to add some festive flair to your Halloween decor.
Halloween finger puppets with free pattern. These Halloween finger puppets can also be made into ornaments by filling them with fiberfill and closing the below opening. If you are making Halloween ornaments, you can sew a ribbon or string into the top of the finger puppet to hang them later. These finger puppets can be given as a Halloween treat when filled with small candy.
Poisoned apple felt is a Halloween pattern for spooky season handmade decor.
Halloween poison bottle ornament pattern that you can use as part of a banner.
Halloween zombie girl. Sewing pattern where you can use your Cricut machine to cut it out.
Felt witch doll sewing pattern. This pattern includes accessories pumpkin, black cat, poison.
Sugar Skull felt pattern. This pattern can be sewn by hand. SVG file is included for your Cricut machine. After living in Mexico, I do like sugar skulls. They remind me of the lovely time we had there.
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Image: ETSY
Conclusions: Transforming Your Space with Cute Felt Halloween Crafts
Embrace the spirit of Halloween by transforming your space with 30 cute felt crafts. Whether you opt for playful characters like witches and pumpkins or sophisticated designs like intricate spiders and haunted houses, incorporating felt into your decor is a delightful way to celebrate the spookiest time of the year.
If you want more inspiration for your Felt food crafting, head over to my Pinterest Felt Halloween Board!
Be sure to visit this website for more embroidery and sewing tips and tricks to help you out as you stitch my patterns. For free felt patterns, visit my Freebies page.
Let’s craft together!
XO, Anna
