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Make your own felt Easter eggs that you can reuse year after year as a DIY alternative to plastic eggs!
Making felt eggs is an easy hand sewing project kids or adults can do.
Materials
First you’ll need some felt to make felt Easter eggs. I made two eggs that are the same color on both sides and one with different colors on each side. Use your felt scraps from other projects if you have them. Wool felt is nice, but the stuff from the craft store or big box is fine, too.
You’ll need a template for your egg, which I got by searching for eggs on Canva (you can search for Easter egg clip art if you don’t use Canva) and tracing the image off my screen. You can make eggs in different sizes; mine are all about 3 inches across and 4.25 inches tall, or 7.62 by 10.8 cm.
I used embroidery floss in a couple of different colors for my eggs, and I sewed one on the sewing machine just for fun, but hand sewing supplies are all you need (needle, thread, small scissors). If you want to be fancy grab your fabric scissors, too.
How to Make Felt Easter Eggs
Cut out two pieces of felt in your egg shape for each egg you want to make.
Cut one of the piece in half. You can cut straight across the middle or a little higher up than center, it doesn’t make a huge difference either way.
Place the cut egg pieces on top of a whole egg piece.
Sew the pieces together. Pro tip: Hide your knots on the inside of the egg when you start sewing.
I used whip stitch for this one.
This one is a decorative stitch from my sewing machine.
The last one I did blanket stitch.
You can also decorate the edges of the pocket if you like. Here I used chain stitch.
Of course you can embellish the other side of the egg as well, adding stitching, beads, drawing with fabric paint, whatever you like. Mine are plain for now but I may change that. If you want to decorate the other side, think about how you’ll do it and whether that needs to be done before you sew the pieces together.
Using Felt Eggs
If you have smaller pieces of candy, you can stick them inside the pocket of your felt Easter eggs and cover with the top flap. YOu can see how this looks on the blue egg above.
Really big pieces like this egg won’t fit well in eggs the size of mine, but they can go in the pocket without the flap closed.
You can use these for indoor Easter egg hunts or just to add cuteness to a basket. I don’t think I’d use them outside if there was a possibility of them getting wet because they won’t protect treats as well as plastic eggs do, but they’re still really cute!
