Felt Easter Eggs {A Tutorial}

My daughter has a bunch of the plastic food from a big box store, and some of it has held up nicely. Her eggs, however, have been "eaten" and stepped on by her sweet little brother. So, as part of Project: Project's fun little series, Play Eats, I decided to make a tutorial for felt eggs. AND since it is so close to Easter, I thought, why not make BOTH kinds of eggs?? The colored variety and the plain 'ol whites. So here we go. Be prepared to have bit of fun with these:)

What you'll need:

• scrap felt 
• needle and thread 
• batting 
• egg template

Felt Easter Egg

First, cut out 3 pieces of felt felt using the egg template.

Sew two of the pieces right sides together, sewing from marks a to b.

Open up the un-sewn side and place the third piece right side in and pin one of the openings completely and sew from points a to b. Then sew the other opening from points a to c.

(holding the other two sides out of the way in order to sew the opening closed)

Clip all of the seams so as to make smooth rounded edges when the egg is flipped right side out.

Flip the egg right side out and slip stitch the opening closed. Then embroider!

I'll be stuffing these sweet little things in their Easter baskets this year. What will YOU be doing with yours?

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