Learn how to make a gnome for Christmas!
These felt gnomes are very easy to make with paper cones, felt, and simple supplies.
Skills Required: Beginner.If you could use a hot glue gun, you could do this project.
There is some simple stitching as well, but a blanket stitch is very easy to learn.
Jennifer from Brave New Home here to share another festive holiday craft with you.
Youre going to love these fun Scandinavian inspired Christmas gnomesmade with feltand paper cones!
Adults can make these and kids will love them too.
you might keep them up from Christmas throughwinter.
DIY Gnome for Christmas
Gather These Supplies
Cut your felt for the hat and the body.
For this, I taped the felt around my cone and cut accordingly.
Then take the embroidery floss and do ablanket stitcharound the bottom.
Once youve stitched around the bottom of your hat glue the body piece of felt to the form first.
Then hot glue the hat to the form.
Do not glue the bottom of the hat where the stitching is.
You will tuck the cotton beard under this part of the hat.
Unroll your cotton ball to create the beard.
Then tuck it under the hat.
you might add a little hot glue to the cotton to secure it in place if you like.
Hot glue the back of your wooden doll head and place it where the beard and the hat meet.
ensure the wood is glued to the felt hat at least partially.
This will hold it better in place than gluing it to the cotton alone.
Repeat this process for as many Scandinavian-inspired gnomes that you desire.
I chose to make two so I can prop them up to look like theyre talking to each other.
You could add glasses, pigtails for a female gnome version, etc.
to alter the looks of your Christmas gnomes.
I think it would be fun to make gnomes of varying sizes for each member of your family.
I hope you enjoy these playful Nordic felt gnomes.
Here are some other projects weve done:
