Back to School Cookies Tutorial

This week we just had to share one of our all time favorite tutorials from the talented Arlynnda—her felt back to school cookies! 🍎✏️ With the season of sharpened pencils and packed lunchboxes just around the corner, this sweet and simple felt project is just too cute! Whether you're crafting teacher gifts or adding a playful touch to your classroom decor, these cookies are the perfect handmade treat to kick off the school year!


Materials: 


  • Felt 

  • Embroidery floss in colors matching the felt

  • Embroidery needle

  • Scissors

  • Beads or sequins

  • Quilt batting 


Steps:


  1. Cut out shapes from felt. I print out templates on cardstock, pin them to the felt, and cut around them. But you can also draw your own templates or just free-hand it! You should cut out the part you want to be the "icing" or decorated part of your felt cookies, then cut two larger pieces out of the cream colored felt (this acts as the "cookie"). These pieces should be slightly larger, so you can see a cream border around each one.

  2. Sew your "decoration" pieces of felt onto one piece of the cream colored felt. For example, for the pencil I sewed on the pink, silver, yellow, tan, and black pieces onto the cream "background" piece.

  3. Embroider/sew on any additional designs/beads/sequins. This is when I added the stitches to make the lines on the paper and then added the beads and sequins.

  4. Place the top of your cookie onto the other cream background piece and use a blanket stitch to sew around the edge, leaving an opening big enough to insert your quilt batting to stuff your cookies.

  5. Insert a VERY THIN layer of quilt batting. Remember, these are cookies, so you want them to still be relatively flat.

  6. Sew around the remaining edge of your cookie to close.


I hope you love these back to school felt treats!

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