How to Make Felt Flowers

This is a felt flower tutorial for how to make easy felt flowers for headbands, hairbands or really any decorative piece.

My daughter is a total tomboy so I’ve been trying to get her interest more girly things because isn’t that half the fun of being a girl Mom?

She didn’t really take to these headbands but I ended up gifting them to one of my many other family friends with a girl who actually appreciated this super cute handmade gift.

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Materials for DIY Felt Flower

Felt – You can use craft fleece as well which is what I ended up doing for a few of the flowers. Just be sure to use craft glue instead of the glue gun for fleece because it can melt. I love all the assorted felt packages available through Amazon.

As a point of reference, using my templates, I cut a 6-inch wide pattern on a 7″x7″ piece of material and this made a flower that is roughly 1″ to 1.5″ wide (depending on if you flare out the petals or not).

Glue – I just use tacky glue. A glue gun works as well on real wool felt.

Headbands – I love these basic elastic ones from Amazon

Template – I’ve included my free felt flower pattern template which includes both the felt flower template PDF and felt flower template SVG in my resource library.

How to Make Felt Flowers – No Sew Method

First, cut out the pieces from the template.

Starting with the end without the base tab, start rolling the flower. I find it is easiest to grab the petals and roll from there.

Glue the rolled flower to the base.

I then take a bigger scrap felt piece and start assembling the leaves with the flowers on top. Once you’ve decided on the layout, glue the leaves first and then the flowers. If you want to make sure this part is super secure, you can also just sew everything on.