These three dimensional DIY felt Christmas trees are an easy craft to make and look amazing! Try neutral Christmas trees like I did or make a colorful forest of trees!
Hey friends! I am back today to share one last Christmas craft before I get to show off my decor. These cute little DIY felt Christmas trees turned out so great! I think they are my favorite craft this year!
This was a super easy project that anyone could do. You can cut these felt Christmas trees out by hand like I did, or if you have a cutting machine, feel free to convert the PDF files to SVG files for your own personal use. That would also save you a bunch of time as the most time consuming part of this craft is cutting out the trees. But like usual, I did it while watching a TV show. 😉
I love the look of these simple felt trees. They would fit in perfectly with the Scandinavian style that is so popular lately. You could have your own little Scandinavian Christmas trees.
I made my neutral Christmas trees to coordinate with the Christmas tree in our dining room. However, you could literally make these felt trees in any colors! Felt is so easy to find in an array of colors so I have no doubt you could make them to coordinate with any color scheme.
Supplies to make DIY felt Christmas trees
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- Felt sheets in colors of your choice – I used the colors cream, sandstone and copper canyon from Hobby Lobby and walnut, smoke and cashmere tan from Walmart.
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- Scissors
- Wood dowels
- Wood craft rounds
- Felt Christmas tree patterns (get below)
- Straight Pins
Watch the quick video
Don’t want to read all the instructions? I have included a video in this post showing you how to make these DIY felt Christmas trees. If you can’t see the video, turn off your ad blocker. Also, if you ever want to slow down the video, just click on the three dots in the lower right hand corner of the video and you can change the playback speed. If you want more detailed instructions, continue reading.
Print out the felt Christmas tree pattern
The first step is to print out the felt Christmas tree patterns onto regular paper. When you are printing, make sure you print this pattern at 100% to make sure the size is correct. Every printer is different so just make sure your settings are not set to ‘fit to page‘ or that the box is not checked letting your printer make changes.
I made two different sizes of trees. The larger tree is 6¾” tall and the shorter tree is about 4¼” tall. These heights do not include the dowels and wood rounds, this is just the tree itself. For the larger tree, I used 3 pieces of paper/felt for each tree. For the smaller trees, I used 1 piece of paper/felt per tree.
How to make DIY felt Christmas trees
This tutorial covers the larger tree only, but the smaller tree uses the same process. Once you have your Christmas tree patterns printed out, cut the pattern in half so you have two individual trees. Also, cut a piece of felt in half. Place a tree onto the half sheet of felt and pin it in place. This will help to make sure your felt doesn’t slip while you are cutting.
With a sharp pair of scissors, start cutting out the Christmas tree. Follow the pattern on the line. I found it easier to cut around the whole tree first, then come back to do the indentations into the tree. You can see this in the video.
Take out the pins and you should have an exact copy of the pattern now in felt. 🙂 Trim off any sharp corners if needed.
Assemble the 3D felt Christmas trees
For the larger tree, I used 3 pieces of felt, which gave me 6 felt Christmas trees. For the smaller tree, I used 1 piece of felt, which gave me 4 felt Christmas trees.
Starting with the first felt tree, add some hot glue along the perimeter of one half of the tree as shown in the picture below. Cover this tree with another felt tree trying to keep all the edges lined up to make it completely symmetrical. Lightly press the hot glued area down to make sure it is adhered to the first tree. This will leave you with a stack of two trees, with one half glued down.
For the next layer, fold back the unglued portion of the second felt tree, and add hot glue to the other half of the first felt tree. Add a third felt tree on top of the hot glue, again lining up the edges. This will leave you with two unglued halves sticking up in the middle.
Going forward, you will fold back all the top layers of felt trees and add hot glue to the bottom one. Add a fourth felt tree onto the glued portion.
Continue with this same process until you have added all six felt trees. After you have added the last felt tree, you will glue the two unglued halves together. This will be the top most tree to the bottom most tree.
You may have to add some glue to the top of the tree to get it closed all the way. The bottom will have an opening which is where you will add the wood dowel for the stand, so you don’t want to glue that shut.
Lastly, you can trim up any uneven edges. This is the nice perk to them being made out of felt!
Prepare some wood dowels and wood rounds
You will need to prepare some wood rounds by drilling a hole the same size as your dowels into the center of the circle. In this case, my dowels were 3/16″ in size. So Mr. Wonderful used a drill press to add some 3/16″ holes in the centers. If you don’t have a drill press, you can just use a regular drill too.
The wood dowels I got were 12″ long, which were too long, so I also had to cut those down. Using a small hack saw, I cut them in half to 6″ for smaller Christmas felt trees. For the larger trees, I tried some different sizes to get varied heights. I cut some dowels to 8″, 9″ and 10″ long.
Add the felt trees to the tree stand
Take one of your wood dowels and insert it into the hole in the wood round. It might be a tight fit but you don’t want it to fall out. I did not need to add any glue to it. Next add a 3D felt Christmas tree onto the wood dowel using the opening on the bottom of the tree. The dowel should fit inside all the way up to the top of the tree. I did not add any glue to these either as I want to be able to remove the felt trees later when storing them. I think they will be able to fold down flat and store easier that way.
Make a whole forest of DIY felt Christmas trees
Easy peasy, right? I made quite a few felt trees as I wanted to use them in my DIY sugar mold on my dining room table. I will be sharing that and all my decor with you soon!
Yikes! I better get moving as we are at 9 days and counting! 🙂 Chat soon!
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Luv these felt Xmas trees & want to try making them. But….I don’t own a drill. Could you glue the dowel to the base instead?
Hi Benita! You could absolutely try that. I would definitely use hot glue, I imagine it would work just fine as the felt trees are very light. Good luck and Merry Christmas! 🙂
I just made a pair of these and I used a glob of hot glue to hold them. It works well, although I imagine they might be delicate.