Cute DIY Gnome Christmas Ornaments (free pattern)
These Cute DIY Gnome Christmas Ornaments are a fun Christmas craft for kids that will make them laugh out loud! With a free pattern, felt, fur beard, and a bead nose, you'll have a mischievous friend to hang on the tree in just a few minutes.
Servings: 1 DIY gnome Christams Ornament
Cost: $5
Equipment
- A hot glue gun and glue
Ingredients
- Free Gnome Christmas Ornaments Pattern 1 copy
- Felt in any color for the hat
- Fabric backed faux craft fur white (or grey) for the beard
- A wood bead or wood ball for nose, about ½"
- Hat decorations Rick-rack, decorative trim, sprigs of artificial greenery or berries, bells, buttons, etc.
- White pom-pom
- Narrow ribbon or trim
- A hot glue gun and glue
Instructions
- Copy the Free Gnome Christmas Ornament Pattern. Then cut out the pieces. Choose the smaller size or the larger size. The smaller gnome is about 5 inches long and the larger gnome is about 6 inches long.
- Draw the pattern of the hat onto a piece of felt. Draw the pattern for the beard on the fabric side of the fabric-backed faux fur. You want the fur to brush down towards the curved end of the pattern.Cut both the felt and the fur piece out.
- Cut a piece of ribbon that is about 7 or 8 inches long. The ribbon is hot glued in a loop to the tip of the felt hat piece.Put a line of hot glue on one of the straight edges of the hat. Bring the other straight edge over the top of the glue. The ends of the ribbon loops will be inside the tip of this cone shaped piece of felt that will be the hat.
- Put a line of hot glue on the inside of the hat across the back of the hat. Slip the straight edge of the beard fur into the hat so that it rests on top of this line of glue, hold them in place.
- Glue a wooden bead on to the fur so that it his right below the the front of the hat line. Glue a pom pom to the tip of the hat.Add decorations to the rim of the gnome hat. This can be the contrasting piece of felt, rick rack, decorative trim, a little piece of greenery, and a bell or a button.
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Notes
The free pattern, tips and variations are on the post.