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Felt Board Tutorial Series: Weather Templates

By on January 2, 2012 in Crafty Tutorials

This was already posted on Frugal Girls, but I have gotten several requests from my readers to repost it here so that you can easily access the templates, no problem!

Welcome back to my Felt Board Tutorial Series!  Previously, we have discussed How to Make the Felt Board  and I have also given you a downloadable template for Making Felt People and Clothing .

Now, let’s move on to some more shapes dealing with the Weather.  These would not only be great just for home use, but also for teachers to use at school or even for parents to use in their homeschooling classrooms!

Let’s begin!

Download and Print your Weather Templates HERE   AND HERE  ( there are two pages to download and print for the weather templates)

Same as with the Felt People, gather your supplies:

 
Supplies Needed
Printed Templates
Scissors
Fabric Paint
Paint Brushes
Felt in various colors
Sharpie Markers in fun colors
Disappearing Marker (not necessary, but good to have!)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
You will cut out all of your shapes from the templates I have provided above:
 

At this point, you can either use your markers to trace onto the felt or you can just cut, while holding the pattern piece:

Here is what the rainbow will look like after being cut out:

Now for the fun part… Painting!  You do NOT need to be an artist for this, trust me!  Have fun with it and remember that it is a toy for children and they won’t care if there are imperfections…. just enjoy the process!


Oh, and think back to grade school when we learned the colors of the rainbow:  ROYGBIV  (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)  

Let the fabric paint dry for at least 4 hours:

Continue on with the same method for all of your shapes.  Trace, cut, embellish!  You can either embellish with paint like I did with the cloud….

OR you can embellish with a colored Sharpie marker like I did with the sun!

LOOK!  I even added some “bling” to the snowflake!  Do whatever makes you happy!
I hope you have enjoyed this edition of my Felt Board Tutorial Series!  Next week, I will have more templates ready for you to download and print, including Sea Life and Scenery!  Please check out my blog  Welcome to the Mouse House for more details!  You can also find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mousehousecreations .  
 
 
 
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Hayley Crouse is a wife, mother and multifaceted designer. Her love of sewing, crafting, cooking and interior design infuses her daily life and naturally spills over into her online presence. She pushes the envelope of her creativity and hopes that others will be inspired to do the same. She currently authors the Welcome to the Mouse House Blog, is the pattern designer behind Mouse House Creations and is a collaborative designer with Willow & Co. Patterns.
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6 Responses to Felt Board Tutorial Series: Weather Templates

  1. Eva Scott January 2, 2012 at 6:29 pm #

    What a great idea! Pinning this for the future. 😉 Here from Skip to My Lou linky party!

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  2. Tutus & Tea Parties January 2, 2012 at 7:41 pm #

    This is great! I love using felt boards!

    I’d love for you to link up and share: http://tutusandteaparties.blogspot.com/2011/12/pinteresting-link-party-week-twenty.html

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  3. The Mouse House January 3, 2012 at 1:03 am #

    THank you!

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  4. Judy January 15, 2012 at 1:11 pm #

    Love the idea! What do you ‘stick’ the pieces to the board with?

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  5. Casey Medlin February 24, 2012 at 7:18 pm #

    Love this idea… Going to use it for my 2 year olds weather wall (Pinned it for this weekends project)

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  6. saad ismail July 5, 2014 at 8:57 am #

    Love ur tutorial but thing I wanna ask is that how do u stop it from falling off as in if the kid is playin with felt toys on the felt board which is standing upwards wont the toys fall off how do u stop it from falling

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