Valentines - Heart Shaped Felt Pouches

We have a Valentines party at church for our Sunday school class. I was needing to come up with something to give each couple that is going to be attending. I could have just went & bought the little box of valentines & been done with it but I wanted to do something a bit more fun! No, I don't want to go to the store & have to buy anything so I looked all over the internet for some fun ideas & came up with these.

I only had to make 25....1 per couple so it didn't take that long.

I happened to have all the felt & embroidery thread on hand already so it worked out great.

You can open these up & put candy inside!

It closes up nicely after the candy is inside.

I think everyone will enjoy them almost as much

as I enjoyed making them!

Easy Felt Pine Cone Tutorial

This is a simple & pretty quick craft project!

Gather supplies..........

Hot glue gun

Brown felt (i used the 8.5 X 11 sheets)

Scissors

Embroidery Thread (I call it cross stitch thread)

Rotary Cutter & Mat

Small egg shaped Styrofoams

 cut 1" strips from felt

I want to say it took 4 strips per pine cone



I'm not really sure if this has a name but make your

strips look like this! :)

Making a loop....glue a piece of your embroidery thread to one side of you strip.

You only need to do this is you plan on using them for ornaments.



Just start rolling the strip up 

Once your almost done rolling it up put a good bit of glue on the bottom to stick to the styrofoam. Hold this down for a fewseconds because it tends to rise up.

Keep wrapping each new piece around the styrofoam (placing glue at the beginning of each strip). When you reach the bottom it should look something like

this. 

You could add small pieces to the bottom to cover up

the last little bit of styrofoam but found this works just as good.

Cut something like this.............



 Glue in place & there you go!

A very cute pine cone ornament. :)

You could also make a bunch of these & put them in

a clear glass vase which would be very neat.

Right now since I don't have my tree up yet I have them sitting on our mantle with the strings tucked in behind them. I am trying to drag out the Christmas decor this week to put out so my mantle doesn't look so plain.

I thought these would also make neat Christmas

gifts! Trying to think of a fun gift to give a close friend or neighbor? You just might be getting pine cones for Christmas! :)