DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial & Pattern

We love camping in the great outdoors so making this DIY Felt Campfire was a must. We have been enjoying the cooler weather and getting totally crafty this season. This felt campfire is an easy project to create with the tutorial and free pattern that I am sharing today. It should take less than three hours to make and your kids are sure to love it as much as mine do!

We absolutely love camping as a family and I am always looking for fun ways to bring camping home during the winter months! Our twin boys are going to have so much fun with thisDIY Felt Campfire set! I can’t wait to see their little faces on Christmas morning! Here is how you can create your very own Felt Campfire…

First you will need to print out our pattern. Here is the free fire pattern 1 and 2, log pattern and marshmallow pattern. Next cut out all of your pieces of felt using the pattern as a template. You will need: 3 brown sheets of felt, 1 tan sheet of felt, 3 red sheets of felt, 2 orange sheets of felt, 2 yellow sheets of felt, 2 white sheets of felt and two wooden dowels. I used various scraps of grey felt and flannel (about 4″x4″) to create bean bag sized rocks around our fire too (pattern not included).

How to create felt marshmallows:

Sew the short edges of the white large rectangle together. Sew the long edges and the top of the small rectangle together.
Do this again for the two other rectangles.

Sew the solid circle to the end of one of the large tubes to create a cylinder.
Repeat for the second marshmallow.

Now lets create a pocket for the wooden dowel to go into the marshmallow. Sew the small tube into the center of a circle with a hole cut into it. I stitched this part by hand. Repeat for the second marshmallow.

It should look something like this.

Now sew the circle with the small tube attached to the base cylinder.
Right sides facing, leaving a small 1″ hole for inverting.
Repeat with the second marshmallow.

Invert the marshmallows and fill with stuffing. Sew the little hole closed and insert the wooden dowels to complete the marshmallows. Whew. That’s the hardest part of the project all done. Yay!

How to create a felt fire:

Start by layering the yellow, orange and red felt pieces from the pattern. Sew one of each colour on top of each other.
Do this twice so that you have a fire front and back.

Sew the front and back together leaving the bottom open.

Now sew the oval bottom to the edges of the fire.
Leave a 2″ hole for inverting.

Invert, fill the fire with stuffing and sew the hole closed.

How to create the felt logs:

Finally sew the three brown pieces of felt into tubes, sew the circular tan pieces to either end of each log {leave a 1.5″ hole for inverting}, invert, fill with stuffing and sew closed.

Add bean bag sized grey rocks if desired.