DIY Fall Gnomes Craft
Try this easy and whimsical fall gnomes DIY project for an adorable addition to your cozy woodland themed mantel display.
Yield: 3 Gnomes
Equipment
- 1 pair of scissors
- 1 Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Materials
- 3 Pillar candles 3 x 6 inches any color
- 6 Sheets of felt in fall colors
- Scraps of felt in fall colors
- 3 Wood beads
- 12 in Strip cream roving wool
Instructions
- Wrap a sheet of felt around each candle and cut off the excess.
- Glue the edges with hot glue.
- Make a cone with 3 additional sheets of felt to create a hat shape and run a bead of hot glue down the length to secure. Then cut away the excess.
- Add a bead of hot glue to the top of the felt on each candle and attach one of the felt cones.
- Next, cut about 3-4 inches of the roving wool and hot glue each piece under the brim of the felt hat.
- Trim each piece of wool to a point.
- Hot glue one of the wood beads to the center of the wool just under the felt hat on each gnome.
- Finish by cutting two basic leaf shapes for each gnome out of different scrap felt and hot gluing them onto the hats.
Notes
Stiff felt seemed to work better but I worked with both stiff and regular felt in this project and both were adequate. If the hat is too floppy you can add some cotton batting inside.
You can use faux fur or curly doll hair for the beard instead of the roving wool.
There's a lot of hot glue going on in this project so you may want to wear gloves.
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