Felt Wand

Delight your toddler by making this precious felt fairy wand. Older kids can also make it as a first sewing project.	Safety Tips An adult should supervise kids who are still learning how to sew. Keep the glue gun out of young children's reach. Watch out for this sign . It means an adult's help is needed for the particular step.
Materials Felt Wooden dowel Fabric ribbon or any water-based paint Needle and thread Pencil Scissors Scotch tape or masking tape Tacky glue or hot glue gun Cotton, polyester or felt scraps Buttons, beads, sequins, etc. (optional)

Steps

	1.	Choose your wand's main shape from any of these printable patterns and print the page out on Letter or A4 size paper: Butterfly Flower Heart Star Strawberry
	2.	Cut out the paper shapes and trace around them on felt.
	3.	Cut out the felt shapes. You may notice that some patterns (e.g. flower, heart, star) include smaller shapes that you can optionally place at the center of the main shape. The strawberry pattern includes a pair of leaf crown shapes that you can position on top of the strawberries.
	4.	If your pattern includes smaller shapes as described in Step 3, sew on each smaller felt shape at the center of a main shape. For the strawberry pattern, sew each leaf crown on top of a felt strawberry.
	5.	You can further stitch on some beads, buttons, sequins, small pompoms, more felt shapes or other little charming details.
	6.	Put the two felt shapes back-to-back and aligned along the edges. Stitch the two together along the edges, leaving a 1.5 to 2-inch opening at the bottom of the shapes. This opening is for the dowel and the cotton stuffing.
	7.	Obtain a wooden dowel and decorate it either by painting it with any water-based paint or by wrapping a fabric ribbon around the entire length of the dowel. Fix the ends of the ribbon with a glue gun or with tacky glue.
	8.	Apply hot glue gun adhesive or tacky glue on one end of the dowel. Insert this end inside the opening of the felt shape and press it against the felt to glue it in place.
	9.	Once the glue has set, stuff cotton, polyester or small scraps of felt inside the wand shape. You may add a small bell or two for a fun rattling sound.
	10.	Sew the opening shut to complete your felt wand. This cute wand can be used as a rattle, an exciting pointer (to spice up a child's first learning activities) or worn as part of a charming fairy costume.

More Ideas

	If you wish to minimize or refrain from sewing, you can replace some or all of the sewing steps with hot glue gun. This strawberry wand made use of both sewing and hot glue. All the details were attached using hot glue gun except for the edges, which were hand-sewn. An important thing to note is that using hot glue gun is a lot quicker but it doesn't bond as strongly as good stitching does. If you plan to make a wand for kids below the age of three, it is strongly recommended that you sew the parts instead of gluing them on. Small objects coming off such as beads or buttons can be a choking hazard.
	To make additional details that protrude out of your wand's main shape such as this butterfly's felt antennae, you can glue or sew the detail onto one main felt shape before proceeding with Step 6.
	Create an easier version of this project, a paper fairy wand that kids can do themselves.

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