Monster Fun!

Felt Monsters

You will need:
Felt pieces

Threads

Beads and buttons etc

Stuffing

Paper and Pencil

Sharp Scissors

Needles

OK let’s begin!

To start this project you will an idea of who or what your monster is. Are they friendly? Are they shy? Are they gentle or are they ferocious? Where do they live? What do they like to do? Who are their friends? What do they like to eat?

Using some paper and pencil, draw your monster and the answers to some of these questions.

Use your knowledge of colour and shape to design your monster:

When you have an idea about some of the characteristics of your monster sort through your materials and and see what you have to relay the characteristics you have chosen.

For example: a shy monster might be softly coloured with only a few delicate beads or buttons; whereas a bold outgoing monster might be brightly coloured with loads of busy buttons and beads for decoration. A sinister monster might be a dark colour without any buttons or beads at all.

Now draw out your monster in a very simple form. When you are sewing you don’t want to many fiddley-bits, so make it as simple as you can without loosing it’s character.

TIP: If you don’t have the right colours or materials, go back and adapt your monster to fit in with what you do have.

Let’s get sewing:

Using a seperate piece of paper and draw an outline of your monster. One for the front and one for the back. These need to be exactly the same, just opposite facing to each other. A good way to get the pieces exact is to draw your body, arm leg etc shape on a seperate piece of paper or card.
Write an F on one side, and a B on the reverse. Draw around the F side very carefully. Flip over your template piece and draw around the B side really carefully. When you come to sew them together they should line up perfectly.

**not to scale**

• If your monster has eyes ears noses etc these need to be attached to the front of your felt before you sew it all together.
• If you are adding extra arms, legs feet etc they will need to be sewn together and stuffed before you put the main pieces together. Sew these pieces together, leaving a small hole big enough to push your stuffing through. You can poke it down with the end of a pencil. Then sew up the gap. 

Using a running stitch or a blanket stitch, sew the main body pieces together, catching any arms legs etc in the seams as you go. Don’t forget to leave a gap for the stuffing.

Stuff your monster and sew up the gap. VOILA!

TIP: Use your monster as a character in an illustration, story, graphic novel or comic.