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DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial & Pattern

diy felt campfire pattern We love camping in the great outdoors so making this DIY Felt Campfire was a must.  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!

 

free felt campfire pattern

We have been enjoying the cooler weather and getting totally crafty this season.  If you love crafting with the kids you should check out our felt monster finger puppets or felt owie owls too!

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern

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 this DIY  Felt Campfire set!  I can’t wait to see their little faces on Christmas morning!  
 
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How to make a DIY Felt Campfire:

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

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, poly fil 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 for the rocks not included). 

How to create felt marshmallows:

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

1. Sew the short edges of the white large rectangle together.  
2. Sew the long edges and the top of the small rectangle together.  
3. Do this again for the two other rectangles.  
DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys
4. Sew the solid circle to the end of one of the large tubes to create a cylinder.  
5. Repeat for the second marshmallow. 

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

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

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

It should look something like this. 

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

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

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

11. Invert the marshmallows and fill with stuffing.  
12. 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: 

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

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

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

3. Sew the front and back together leaving the bottom open.

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

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

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

How to create the felt logs:

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

1. 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.
 
2. Add bean bag sized grey rocks if desired.

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

All done!

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

An awesome DIY Felt Campfire would definitely be a hit with your little one!
It is a fairly inexpensive project to create too.  
The felt, stuffing and dowels cost under $10 at our local dollar store.DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

More of my crafting essentials for kid crafts:

  • We love using these Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints to add bright color to all of our projects.
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  • This art supplies kit is our favorite because it has everything we needed to get started.
  • This rolling storage cart helps to keep our craft supplies organized.

DIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The BoysDIY Felt Campfire Tutorial and Pattern ~ One For The Boys

If you make one of these felt campfires will you let me know?
I would love to see it!
 
If you love this easy felt craft, please give it a five star review and help me share it on Facebook and Pinterest!

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  1. Emily Thompson

    December 14, 2013 at 5:43 am

    seriously.so.cute!!! My boys would LOVE this… pinning!! AND I’ve featured this on my weekend sewing features. thanks for linking up to create link inspire party! Awesomeness!! I’m also going to give a shout out on all my social media.. hope you are able to do the same… Happy Weekend! Emily
    https://www.nap-timecreations.com/2013/12/top-five-christmas-sewing-tutorials.html

    Reply
  2. ed-glen families

    January 7, 2014 at 4:09 am

    Just saw this in Facebook! My granddaughter loves to camp, so I see a birthday present in the near future!

    Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      January 8, 2014 at 1:45 am

      Awwww that would be so cute! Do you mind me asking where on Facebook? We can’t seem to find the source but I am so glad that you found us πŸ™‚

      Reply
  3. Anne Weaver

    April 30, 2014 at 2:05 pm

    Wow, this is so awesome!! I’ve linked to your tutorial on Craft Gossip:
    https://sewing.craftgossip.com/free-pattern-felt-campfire-play-set/2014/04/30/
    –Anne

    Reply
  4. [email protected]

    November 16, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    Adorable! What boy or girl wouldn’t want to play with this?

    Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      November 18, 2014 at 11:30 pm

      Perfect for all kids for sure!

      Reply
  5. Tara @ Anything & Everything

    November 16, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    How fun! This is such a great idea and so cute! Pinning!

    Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      November 18, 2014 at 11:30 pm

      Thanks Tara!!

      Reply
  6. kathy

    November 17, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    I printed the pattern for the campfire, but I do not see where it tells you the size you cut the parts out to be. Is the photo of all the pieces to be used , to be cut out as the pattern for each piece??? Would like to make this soon. Awaiting your response.
    Thanks,
    Kathy

    Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      November 17, 2014 at 5:18 pm

      Hi Kathy!
      If you have printed the pattern full size on 8.5 x 11 paper then you would cut it out to use as a pattern pinned to each piece of felt. Hope that helps!
      Heather

      Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      November 18, 2014 at 11:29 pm

      I hope that you received my email Kathy. Happy creating!

      Reply
  7. Heather

    May 2, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    Thanks so much for such an awesomely cute idea! Just finished sewing mine up and have plans to make another set for a friend’s children. I’ve only been sewing for a couple months, so, this was a great simple practice project. It is going to go great with the teepee my son has. I can’t wait to finish stuffing everything tomorrow so I can let him play with it!

    Reply
  8. Deonna Wade

    May 19, 2015 at 6:48 pm

    I am SOOOO making this. I looked on Land of Nod and their’s is super cute but also expensive! Yikes! My son plays pretend campfire everyday with nothing so he will flip out for this. Thank you for the easy tutorial πŸ™‚ Cant wait to share it with my readers!

    Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      May 20, 2015 at 4:20 pm

      Have fun and thanks for visiting!! xo

      Reply
  9. Becky Jorgensen

    September 17, 2015 at 9:35 pm

    This felt campfire is genius! What an awesome idea! Thank you so much for sharing! Love it! It was featured here: https://www.plushiepatterns.com/diy-felt-campfire-tutorial-pattern/

    Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      September 19, 2015 at 9:48 pm

      Thanks Becky!!

      Reply
  10. Vickie

    November 14, 2015 at 3:11 pm

    I am making my 4th campfire set now. I’ve made it for two of my grandsons already and they love it. I also made a felt S’More Kit with it that has graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate bars that are stored in a decorated plastic box. So cute! Thank you so much for the idea and pattern!

    Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      November 15, 2015 at 2:23 am

      That is wonderful!!! πŸ™‚

      Reply
  11. Debbie Miles

    January 15, 2016 at 2:42 pm

    Thanks so much for this tutorial and pattern. My daughter-in-law asked if I could make a pretend camp fire similar to the one on Land of Nod, then I found your tute and pattern! I plan to give it a go, so will let you know…

    Reply
  12. Babs

    July 23, 2017 at 5:01 pm

    Can you tell me the dimensions of the large marshmallow rectangle? My printer isn’t printing the entire pattern. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      August 28, 2017 at 10:18 pm

      I’m sorry I no longer have the original pattern to measure.. I hope that it worked out for you!

      Reply
  13. Debbie

    January 11, 2018 at 6:20 pm

    I downloaded the patterns but do not see a pattern for the oval at the bottom of the fire. I only saw one page with the flames. Do you have a pattern for the bottom oval? Thanks for your help.

    Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      January 11, 2018 at 10:28 pm

      Yes, it should be with the other downloads…

      Reply
  14. Donna Burkle

    January 13, 2018 at 9:29 am

    Hi Heather,
    Forgive me, but I am confused. The logs say cut 10, but only cut 4 tan. Wouldn’t you double the tan to put on all the logs? Is there supposed to be 10 logs? Thanks, Donna

    Reply
    • Donna Burkle

      January 13, 2018 at 11:50 am

      Never mind, I think I figured out the log part, but are the square x 10 and the oval x 10 the rocks and do you sew two together to make one rock? Why do you only make tan x 4 when you make 3 logs? Wouldn’t that mean x 6? Sorry to ask so many questions, I am just not understanding. Thank You so much! Donna

      Reply
      • Heather Painchaud

        January 16, 2018 at 11:04 am

        Yes, the x10 are rocks and yes, 6 tan pieces for the logs. Sorry for the confusion xo

        Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      January 16, 2018 at 11:05 am

      Three logs πŸ™‚

      Reply
  15. Lucy

    August 2, 2018 at 5:11 am

    I tried making this and the fire did not come out this good with the template provided. The template is hand drawn and are not straight. The oval and the circles are not a good shape. I wish the template shapes were more accurate and straight. I wasted a lot of felt for nothing!

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    • Heather Painchaud

      August 8, 2018 at 11:14 am

      Sorry to hear that you were disappointed πŸ™

      Reply
  16. Adele

    January 5, 2019 at 4:39 am

    Thank you for this awesome little camp fire. I just made a set for my nephews and niece and it’s such a hit! You’re brilliant ?

    Reply
    • Heather Painchaud

      January 7, 2019 at 9:26 am

      Oh I’m so glad!! Thanks for sharing <3

      Reply

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