How to Make a Felt Turkey
Make an adorable felt turkey with this easy sewing project that's perfect for Thanksgiving decorating or crafting with kids. Just print the pattern, cut out the pieces, and stitch together a cute turkey with colourful felt feathers!
Yield: 1 felt turkey
Cost: $2
Materials
- FREE Felt Turkey Pattern
- Felt (brown, red, orange, yellow)
- Embroidery floss (brown; or sewing thread)
- Polyester fiber fill
- Googly eyes (10mm)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Sew the turkey together
- Cut out the pieces from our free printable felt turkey template. Use them to cut 2 body pieces from brown felt, legs and a beak from yellow felt, and a wattle from red felt.Then cut out the feathers. You'll need 4 red, 6 orange, and 9 yellow. You can play around with the number of feathers, or change up the colours. Whatever colour is at the back is what you'll need the most of.
- Line up the 2 pieces of the turkey's body and use a double layer of brown thread (or embroidery floss) to blanket stitch the edges together.Begin by inserting your needle through both layers of felt, about 1/8 inch away from the edge. Pull the thread through, leaving an inch or so as a tail. Tie a double knot in the thread.
- Tuck the thread end inside the pieces of felt, and bring the needle in from the bottom of the felt, about 3/16 inch (5mm) away from the last stitch.Wrap the thread around the needle before pulling it through. This creates your first blanket stitch.
- Repeat, keeping an even distant between your stitches. Continue sewing the edges together until there's a couple inches left open.
- Stuff the turkey with poly-fil until it's nicely stuffed.
- Set the felt feet between the 2 layers of the body. Continue sewing around the edge of the body, sewing them into place.
- Make your last blanket stitch and go through the stitch several times to secure it. Then bring the needle up through the center of the body.Cut off the excess thread and wiggle the felt around to make the thread end disappear inside.
Step 3: Add the feathers and face
- Add hot glue to about 1/3 of a red feather.
- Place the feather on the back of the turkey, so that it's sticking up and off to the side of the head.
- Glue the other 3 red feathers in place. 2 should be sticking up and 2 will point towards the side.
- Now add the orange feathers. Arrange them so they stick out between the red feathers.
- Finally, glue the yellow feathers in the next layer. As you add them you can peek at the front to make sure the placement looks good.
- Flip the turkey over so you're looking at the front. Glue the wattle into place with the point facing up. Then add the beak so it overlaps a bit.
- Then add 2 googly eyes to finish the turkey's face.
- Your felt turkey is complete!
Notes
Looking for more felt craft patterns? Here's a few of our favourites:
Felt Pumpkin Pattern
DIY Felt Burger
Felt Llama Pattern