No-Sew Woodland Felt Animals – Free Pattern

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Removing the paper backing from felt pattern pieces after cutting all of them out.

These cute felt woodland animal appliqué patches are easy to make and a fun craft for teens and adults. Use them to decorate cards, journals, or wearables, or string them together to make a garland. Below are all the details, and a link to the free patterns.

Supplies

How to Make Woodland Felt Animals

STEP 1:

Print the PDF patterns directly onto the matte side of Freezer Paper OR…

Woodland Animals felt applique pattern printed on freezer paper. The photo shows that pattern printed on the matte side of the freezer paper with a corner lifted and rolled to see the glossy side on the back which is what can be ironed to the felt to make it easy to cut out.
Pattern printed on freezer paper.

Print the PDF pages out and trace the pattern onto the matte side of a sheet of Freezer Paper.

Tracing woodland animals applique patch pattern pieces onto the matte side of a sheet of freezer paper using a fine point black sharpie.
Pattern traced onto freezer paper

STEP 2:

Roughly cut around pattern pieces and arrange them onto felt sheets by color.

Choosing felt colors to make a bear, rabbit, fox and moose felt applique patch.

STEP 3:

Iron the shiny side of the freezer paper onto the felt using medium, dry heat. You only need to press for a few seconds.

Ironing pattern pieces that were printed on freezer paper to white felt.
Iron pattern pieces to felt.

STEP 4:

Cut out the pattern shapes using sharp fabric scissors and embroidery scissors for smaller pattern pieces, and remove the freezer paper.

Pattern pieces cut with fabric scissors and smaller pieces with embroidery scissors to make felt woodland animal appliques. The paper backing has not been removed yet.

STEP 5:

Apply fabric glue to the back of the felt pieces and assemble each using the reference page as a guide. For smaller felt pieces use a toothpick to apply the glue.

Photo of Gorilla fabric glue applied to the back of the rabbit felt applique to assemble.
Closeup of using a toothpick to apply Gorilla fabric glue to smaller felt pieces to make woodland animal felt appliques.

STEP 6:

To finish, draw the eyes on each with a black fine-point permanent marker.

Closeup of three of the four woodland animals, a moose, a rabbit and a fox. Shown is a fine point black sharpie marker used to make eyes onto these cute woodland felties.
Photo of four handmade felt animal faces, one of a black bear, a rabbit, a moose and a fox. The image shows different uses like the fox patch on a leather journal and the bear is on a card. Beneath the card is a natural brown envelope. This is a vertical image to pin to your Pinterest craft board to come back to this project later.
Star divider used has two hand drawn lines with a star in the center, used as a content break and signals new or different content below. This doodle style illustration is in a medium charcoal gray.

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