Felt Christmas Tree...for toddlers!

This is such an easy, fun, and cheap way to create a tree for your little ones!  It helps distract them away from the real tree!  All the felt was purchased at Hancock Fabrics for around $8.00.  I did this project with a friend so we were able to swap the felt color squares to share between us!    

Materials Needed:

• 1 Yard of Green Felt for the tree (add more if you'll be creating another tree if sharing with a friend)
• Multiple colors of felt squares for the ornaments, quantity and color variety per individual discretion
• Scissors
• Elmer's Glue
• Heavy construction paper or Brown Builder's paper
• Dark colored pen
• Cookie Cutters for desired shapes for ornaments or various round shapes to make simple circle ornaments
• Blue Painter's Tape or another paint-safe tape
• Straight edge or ruler

1) Determine the shape of your tree.  We folded the green felt in half so each of the sides were equal. We had to draw an example of a tree out on a scratch piece of paper to envision the correct shape. Using a straight edge, start at the top and draw lines to create the desired tree shape.  Then cut it out.

2) Take some heavy paper or builder's paper and trace the top triangle of the tree.

3) Then cut out a bit less inside of the line to ensure the paper won't be sticking out on the sides.  

4) Take your glue and glue down the piece of paper on the back.

This way allows you to use paint-safe grade tape to hang up your tree, instead of using pins to poke holes in your wall. 

5) Now comes time to cut out your desired shapes.  If you have any Christmas cookie shapes, that works great! I ended up deciding that I wanted to keep the tree a bit on the simple side, so I just used a variety of round shapes to cut different size circles.  Use, glasses, mugs, or bowls!