Today our advent activity was creating a felt Christmas tree. As I mentioned in the original advent post, we will be hosting a play date this month, and we have included many activities in our advent that will help us prepare for it. After making the tree and playing with it a bit, we will put it away until the play date. Then we will keep it out through Christmas.
Our Felt Christmas Tree
We had a lot of fun making and embellishing different items for our tree. Lovey especially liked adding some jewels and sequins to make it extra sparkly. We haven’t attached it to the wall yet, because we will be putting it away to save for next week. I like that we can easily change out certain pieces as we pull it out to reuse in future years.
Materials
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- Large green felt cut into a tree shape
- Assorted felt sheets cut into ornament, gift, light, and star shapes
- Sharp craft scissors
- Assorted sequins and spangles
- Tacky glue
More Inspiration for Creating a Felt Christmas Tree
There are so many adorable felt Christmas trees out there that I wanted to do a little research before making our own. Below are some of the felt trees that I found inspiring.
The Felt Christmas Tree only costs a few dollars and will provide your kids with endless fun.
This Felt Christmas Tree is a great craft for your little ones to play with while you decorate the real tree.
There are so many ways you can incorporate felt into your Christmas decor with these Pinterest Christmas ideas. Check out the awesome Felt Play Christmas Tree!
Bring Frosty the Snowman right into your home with this Play Felt Christmas Tree activity.
This reversible Felt Christmas tree is a beautiful way for your kids to decorate the tree this Christmas.
Have your toddler decorate their own tree with this Felt Button Christmas Tree.
Your kids will love decorating and redecorating these Felt Christmas Trees.
This Simple Felt Christmas Tree Shape Activity is a great hands-on way for your kids to learn about shapes and colors.
Create a beautiful button tree for your kids to allow them to “hang” ornaments on their very own Button Felt Christmas Tree.
Let your kids design and decorate their own tree with this Christmas Tree Felt Craft.
This Felt Christmas Tree costs less than $10 and is hours of fun for your kids!
This fast and easy Felt Christmas Tree Activity is perfect for moms who are short on time!
If you are looking for a way to add a little more Christmas spirit to your crafts this holiday season consider making this Felt Christmas Tree with a twist.
This Felt Christmas Tree is so easy to make, and it will give your kids some Christmas fun that they can play with over and over again.
Your kids will love designing their own ornaments and creating their own unique Felt Christmas Tree design with this activity.
Get free printable tree patterns to go with this beautiful Felt Christmas Tree.
No time to make one? Try this…
This 3 foot tall double-layered felt tree is already made for you, and the ornaments have velcro.
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Explore the symbols and traditions of Christmas and incorporate reading, math, science and more in this 169-page preschool secular Christmas lesson plan set full of fun and playful Christmas learning activities for preschool. Watch this short video to see just a few examples of the types of activities and printables included in this set:
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1) Beginning Letters Gift Sorting Game (in color and b/w)
2) Reindeer Math Mats (2 versions in color and b/w)
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4) 0-35 Christmas Number Cards (2 versions in color and b/w)
5) Christmas Counting Syllables Sorting Game (in color and b/w)
6) Christmas Picture-Word Cards (in color and b/w)
7) Ornament Play Dough Mats
8) Candy Cane Play Dough Writing Task Cards (shapes, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, number 0-20)
9) Christmas Light Patterns Activity Pieces (in color and b/w)
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Tricia
Great list! A bunch of moms are going to be making some felt Christmas trees together this week. I’m sure my son is going to love it!
Shesta Kimble
Perfect! We will be doing this today.
Shaunna Evans
Awesome! I hope your students have fun.
chelsey
Thanks so much for adding our little felt trees!! 🙂
Angela
Great collection of Christmas trees! Check out also our Felt Christmas Tree where you can see the trick we use to have a perfect Christmas tree shape.
Shaunna Evans
Your tree looks great. I really like your ornaments. Thanks for sharing.
samantha
Ooh! I love your tree! I made one for L a few nights ago too. Ironically, she will be getting it as a Chanukah gift this year so she can play with it for the rest of the month. As their Christmas gift to her, J and M are going to be making a huge felt board to hang on her door, complete with letters and shapes for playing. We are so excited and can’t wait to make other felt sets for her to learn and play with throughout the year.
Shaunna
That is such a great idea, Samantha! How nice for them to be involved in making a gift for her. And there are so many great felt creations to make throughout the year. I am sure it will get a lot of use.
Dee Dee
Hey Shaunna! Your tree looks great 🙂 I especially love your string of lights.
I made a felt tree this year for my daughter. I think I’ll need to incorporate some of your ideas (sequins) to make mine snazzy like yours 🙂
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Shaunna
Thanks! I do like the extra shine from the sequins, but I am waiting to see how well they hold up. My girls are pretty gentle and tend not to pick things off, so I think they will be fine. Let me know how it works out if you try it, too. 🙂