Super easy felt flower tutorial

This is a birthday week in my family.. Sunday was my father-in-law's birthday, today is my niece's birthday and Friday is my mom's birthday! And I want to make some small special something for all of them.. whew!

I bought a dress for my niece Angel for her birthday, and then decided to make her some new hairclips to go along with her new dress! Here is how they turned out (pictured with the dress)..

These are pretty easy to make, and once you make one, you will be hooked onto making more and more!

So let me start with the things needed:

Felt sheet

Green/Brown felt sheet for leaves

Some cute small buttons (small buttons work best for these type of flowers)

Scissors

Double prong hair clips (you can put these flowers on any hair accessory - double prong, single prong, hair band, fold over elastic, give me some more ideas!)

Hot glue gun

Pen for marking on felt

Any object to trace circle (should be as big as the flower you want to make)

Here is the finished product:

Lets start with the steps to making these easy-peasy felt flower hair clips:

Trace 4 circles onto the felt and cut the circles just inside the pen mark so that the marks don't show in the    flower. Cut 1 more circle a little smaller than the first 4 circles. This will be the base for the flower which should not show from below.

Take 1 bigger circle, dab a small dot of glue in the middle and fold it in half so that both sides stick slightly with each other. Do the same with the other three bigger circles as well. Here is how it should look like:

Now follow these steps in order:

Now take the smaller base circle, put a small dot of glue in the center and place one of the above circles on the glue like this.

Place 2 more circles clockwise. One half will be sticking to the circle before it and the other half will be sticking to the base circle.

Take the fourth circle and place it such that one half will be on top of a previous circle and the other will be below it. This is how it should look like.

Now put glue in the middle and place your button. Your flower is ready.

Now for the leaf (which is optional - these look cute without the leaf too!), cut this shape from the green/brown felt and glue it at the back of the flower:

You can attach this flower to a clip directly, but I like my clips all neat and tidy. So I line my clips with some nice ribbon, attach the flower, and then glue no-slip liner also, so my li'l munchkins are comfortable wearing these clips all day long!

I just LOVE these buttons! And the flowers! And the hair clips! :):)

 And yeah.. I cannot forget my inspiration for these.. this site has a very nice tutorial for  beautiful fabric flowers. 

Would love to see you making these and sharing what you made. Its very easy and worth a try. These can be used oon hair clips, head bands, glued onto your kiddo's t-shirt, onto cushion covers, on that personalized gift wrap! 

Have an awesome day ahead..

~ Tavleen