I have fond memories of the felt board and felt pieces that I grew up with and was wanting to buy some flannel board stories recently. I never knew how expensive felt pieces are! Even the set I found on Craigslist was over $100! After doing the iron-on onesie designs, I decided to use the same T-shirt iron-on transfers to make my own felt pieces!
Make Your Own Flannel Board Felt Pieces
I’m super giddy and thrilled at how perfectly they turned out, because this opens a whole new world of possibilities for the different felt characters and images I can make. I made these cute farm felt pieces using my printable quiet book pdf, and then just ironed them onto felt. It took probably five minutes! Now I have cute felt pieces to go in my portable felt book!
How cute is this?! I found the 3 Little Pigs printable from kizclub and made felt pieces from them. You can get the 3 pigs pdf here: 3 Little Pigs Printable
You can also make felt scripture story characters! I have a plan to do one new story each week so that eventually I have a filing cabinet full of each of the stories. You can get all of the scripture stories here:
Scripture Flannel Board Stories
Make Your Own Bible and Book of Mormon Felt Pieces
Tips For Making Your Own Felt Pieces:
- Just make sure that if you are ironing on an image with letters or numbers that you remember to reverse the image! I forgot that the pigs had numbers on their shirts so I skipped this step (the numbers are backwards).
- Use the snipping tool to copy and paste as many images to one page as possible so that you don’t have to use as many transfer papers. I try to leave as little white space as possible, giving me more felt pieces per page.
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Chrissy Jordan says
March 11, 2013 at 2:10 pmWhat an AWESOME IDEA!! I have wanted to make my boys a felt book for years but didn’t have time to make the individual pieces.
I’m totally pinning this.
Also, I’d love it if you would share this project this week for F-it Fridays-
http://www.parloandlogi.com/category/f-it-friday/
Tina M says
March 11, 2013 at 2:19 pmThanks Chrissy! I’ve been wanting to make felt pieces for awhile too, but like you never found the time. This is SO FAST and easy.
Beth says
March 11, 2013 at 10:57 pmomg that’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. consider yourself pinned.
Bethany says
March 12, 2013 at 11:32 pmAwesome idea! I will have to try this!
laurendaisycottagen says
March 13, 2013 at 7:18 amWhat a wonderful idea!! I’m going to have to give this a try. I know my little girl would LOVE having some felt sets to play with. I’d be thrilled if you’d link up at this week’s Off the Hook!
ntcreations says
March 13, 2013 at 7:52 amwow, fun idea!!! Yes, this reall open up what can be put on felt! I’ve been wanting the make a felt nativity advent calendar but was overwhelmed but creating the people… now I can just find the graphics online… pinning!!
Kara says
March 13, 2013 at 10:47 amWhat a GREAT idea! I will definitely be trying this to add to our Sunday bag. Thanks for sharing!
Rosey says
March 14, 2013 at 10:41 amWhere were you when I was a Sunday School teacher?? 🙂
I may do this with my youngest, in face maybe my daughter and I will do it with my youngest. Thanks for sharing!!
I’m visiting today from Linkin’ with my Ladies.
Tina M says
March 14, 2013 at 12:42 pmDo it Rosey! They are so fun and easy to make.
Julia Forshee says
March 14, 2013 at 2:30 pmI LOVE this. I can’t believe what kind of options these felt characters will open up for my kids. I recently started a Thursday link-up party (yes, today:), and I would really love to see this post and/or any others you would like to include. I am at allthingswithpurpose.com. Hope to see you there and for many more Thursday’s to come!!
Natalia says
March 15, 2013 at 10:38 amOh my goodness, this is gold! I am totally pinning so I can do it later. I would love to do the scripture ones & I am off to check out your quiet book right now, my son needs it!
Jillian @ Hi! It's Jilly says
March 15, 2013 at 2:40 pmUh, SMART!! What a great idea!
balisha says
March 16, 2013 at 8:06 amI was first introduced to felt boards in Sunday school back in the 40’s. I used to love it when our teacher told us Bible stories using simple pieces of felt. She would choose someone to help her and i always had my hand in the air. Thanks for reminding me.
Claudia says
March 17, 2013 at 6:20 amI remember Flannel Boards being used when I was a kid – I went to some sort of Bible Lesson every week that was held at my school. I wanted my very own Flannel Board! This is a great idea.
Thanks so much for joining in this week!
xo
Claudia
momstheword2008 says
March 18, 2013 at 12:45 amWow, you are so creative! That was amazing! 🙂 How fun to create it yourself!
My kids used to love to play with their felt board! Kept them busy for a long time, lol!
Thanks so much for linking up to “Making Your Home Sing Monday” today! 🙂
Niki @ For Journey's Sake says
March 18, 2013 at 11:56 amI love this idea! Thank you for sharing.
Allyson says
March 19, 2013 at 9:41 amOh wow, my son would LOVE this! …and who knew how easy this could be?! Thanks for coming by to link up up at Sharing with Domestic Superhero Thursday Link Party! I love this so much! I hope to see another project this thursday!!
chanda says
September 14, 2013 at 8:28 pmi am so in love with your genius …thank you for this idea
heatherKamala says
December 9, 2013 at 2:46 pmThank you so much, I will try this in my preschool.
rebecca says
April 17, 2015 at 10:13 pmHi Tina! You said you used the snipping tool to get the characters closer together.. how do you do that? Is it with some sort of program? Any other details would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much 🙂
Tina M says
April 18, 2015 at 12:10 amPC OR MAC?
Lisa says
August 6, 2015 at 1:46 pmI love your idea, I’m just having a hard time figuring out how you get the designs on the felt…?
Mrs.K says
February 25, 2016 at 2:39 pmHi, I have really been wanting to do this. Any tips on not screwing up? I ordered a different type of sheet and had a lot of trouble with transferring. Thanks for any tips.
Staci says
April 23, 2016 at 5:54 amJust regular felt, right? The ones that come in like 9×12 sheets? Just making sure I understand correctly…or is it flannel material?…or are they the same thing? Lol #craftychallenged
Stephanie L Thayne says
June 26, 2017 at 4:40 pmI LOVE this!! Thank you!!!