How to Make Fake Succulents with Felt
Enjoy making fake succulents to create a planter centerpiece with felt and a few simple patterns.
Yield: 24 or more
Cost: $20
Equipment
- pencil
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Materials
- Felt in shades of green blue and purple
- Wood box or planter
- Cardboard
Instructions
- Print out templates in black.
- Cut out templates.
- Trace templates with a pencil onto felt.
- Cut out templates.
- Cut a 1/4 - 1/2 inch spiral in the felt.
- Roll up the felt into a loose flower shape using hot glue to keep it together.
- Cut another template in the same color and then cut it into a spiral.
- This time roll the spiral tightly from the inside out using hot glue to secure the shape.
- Glue the small flower onto the larger loose flower shape.
- Continue making different colored succulents in different shapes including the spiky template for a snake plant which is simply rolled into a coil.
- Cut a piece of cardboard to fit into the wood box planter.
- Glue all your felt succulents onto the cardboard.
- Create small rosettes or additional spike-like succulents to fill in empty spaces.
Notes
Be careful using the hot glue on small pieces of felt. You can use the eraser side of your pencil to hold the felt in place for several seconds until the glue sets up.
You can vary the sizes and the spirals as well as the color to make different looking succulents.
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