Tuesday Tutorial – Felt Owl
While brainstorming some night-owl ideas for a upcoming slumber party, I stumbled across a Martha gallery of craft winners featuring these miniature felt owls. No directions, no clue. A little more digging brought me to Charlotte’s Fancy’s site, and armed with a little more direction, I was obsessed with making my own owls.
The catch is, there are no existing templates for all the pieces. I had to stretch the creative muscle a bit and after a bit of trial and error made my own but I can at least share the length estimates. Since Valentine’s Day is coming up I thought pink owls would be perfect!
4″ styrofoam ball
24 mm google eyes
4 9″X12″ pieces of felt (3 in your choice of colors and one in brown for beak and ears)
glue gun
tacky glue (I use Aleene’s)
nickle (for stabalizing) 
One owl’s face is made of two layers; the larger layer measures 4″ X 3″, the smaller is 3 1/2″ X 2 1/4″. The feather measures at 2 1/4″ long. The head covering is a cone, cut from a corner of the felt, sides measuring 4″ and I made the curve came from a small plate.
Using my templates, I cut out feathers in tan and hot pink, and working from the bottom up, glue them on in staggered layers almost to the top. 
Make the layers for the owl’s face, head covering and cut a feather out of brown for the beak.
Glue the pieces together, but don’t round the corners off the cone of the head covering yet, that comes later.
The ears are triangles about the size of the feathers. Hot-glue the corners together to create a pinch. 
Ok, now the fun comes in. You’ll have to hot-glue the ears on the head first before you layer on the owl’s face, but only after you figure out the placement where everything will go. This includes rounding out the corners of the cone. Once you’re sure where you want everything, a few dabs of hot glue will work. I hot-glued a nickle underneath because the owl keeps rolling.
For the second owl, the beak, ears and feathers are the same. There are two sets of eye patches, the larger circle is 2″ and the smaller is 1 5/8″.
Since this owl doesn’t have a head covering, you’ll need to cover up the whole owl in feathers; assemble his eyes and then play around with the placement of his eyes and beak, because that will determine where his ears go. Hot-glue those on first with a little pinch on them so they don’t lie flat.
Hot-glue on his beak, then the eyes and you’re set!
You will definately see a few at future parties, he’s actually easy to make once you get the templates figured out. As you can see, I also made a white one since the boy is all about Harry Potter and wanted a snow owl of his own. 
If you want to plan a party around your new creation, check out my previous post for throwing a hootenanny!
The winner of the Martha Stewart contest and original inspiration for these felt owls is Kangaroopals; she has an Etsy shop full of these cute critters, for those of you who want your own and not have to sit there and cut out oodles of feathers!
Get your craft on!
Get your craft on!
You did a great job! Adorable Valentine Owls!
Come share your pretty Valentine Owls this Thursday on my Thursday's Treasures party!
You did a great job! Adorable Valentine Owls!
Come share your pretty Valentine Owls this Thursday on my Thursday's Treasures party!
I love this little guys! Too cute!
i love you for posting these- i saw these on martha and was dying to know how to make them. such an adorable gift.
ps: thanks so much for sharing my inspiration board giveaway! 🙂
i love you for posting these- i saw these on martha and was dying to know how to make them. such an adorable gift.
ps: thanks so much for sharing my inspiration board giveaway! 🙂
These are just the cutest little guys ever! Love them! Great job!! 🙂
These are just the cutest little guys ever! Love them! Great job!! 🙂
Oh my gosh, these are the greatest!! Thank you for sharing!
Oh my gosh, these are the greatest!! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for inspiration! My daughter loves owls, so we instantly made them 🙂
Thanks for inspiration! My daughter loves owls, so we instantly made them 🙂
ADORABLE owls!!
Thank you for sharing at Thursday's Treasures!
Come share again this week!
ADORABLE owls!!
Thank you for sharing at Thursday's Treasures!
Come share again this week!
Sooo cute. Clever idea & sweet looking too:)
Sooo cute. Clever idea & sweet looking too:)
Love this! I'll be trying it out!
Love this! I'll be trying it out!
Great tutorial and supercute owls! I bet you could cater this to any of the holidays by using different felt colors! Do you mind if I share a link/pic to your post on my Owl blog? Also loved the Hootenanny post!
Great tutorial and supercute owls! I bet you could cater this to any of the holidays by using different felt colors! Do you mind if I share a link/pic to your post on my Owl blog? Also loved the Hootenanny post!
Your owls turned out very well. You did a great job of figuring out how to make them. Thanks for sharing the how-to.
Your owls turned out very well. You did a great job of figuring out how to make them. Thanks for sharing the how-to.
So cute, thanks for the link!
So cute, thanks for the link!
I linked your tutorial to my owl party inspiration board (had another and link isn't working, plus yours was better!). Thanks, Carli-DimplePrints
http://dimpleprints.blogspot.com/2010/03/owl-party.html
So cute! I'm in love!
I'm a new follower from Blue Cricket Designs because of these owls. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!!
Oh my goodness – These are so adorable! Love them! Would love to have you stop by the Sunday Showcase Party. Hope you are enjoying your weekend! Thanks for the great tutorial! These are super cute!
Really cute! I'm bookmarking this–perfect craft for some 10 year olds at a sleepover! Thanks!
Cute. Well done!
This is so cute! I have been looking for owl stuff to match my toddler's bedding. Thanks for posting!
Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing at the Sunday Showcase Party! I greatly appreciate it! Your owls are simply adorable! Hope you have a great week! ~ Stephanie Lynn
Hi Dawn! I'll be featuring your owls today! Love them! Stop by and grab a featured button if you like! Thanks so much for joining the Sunday Showcase! ~ Stephanie Lynn
Umm… these may be the cutest things ever! Love them!
I love these owls!! I've already made a trip to HL to get the supplies!! Thanks for posting your tutorial on them!!
These are really cute and with the popularity of owls right now, just perfect! Thanks for linking up!
Yes Yes Yes… they inspired my little monsters!
Thanks for the comment! I'm so glad you liked them!
Have a fabulous week!
anj.
super cute!! And I love the monsters they inspired as well. Great job!
How sweet! What a great idea to do using old Christmas ornaments instead. Thanks for sharing … I've posted a link.
ADORABLE! I may have to make these as favors for my twin girls' birthday party this fall. Off to explore the rest of your blog.
it's been quite a time since you posted theese, but I just ran into themand fell in love! They are so cute, we collect owls, so I will be doing some for winter (I live in Chile) and for some for Christmas!!
Thanks for the wonderful tutorial. Hoo cute!
I think you did GREAT! You figured out the whole process on how to make them and came out with a template too. Congratulations!
I am the creator of those owls “Your Best Handmade Creations” on Martha Stewart. I learned how to made them when I was in 2nd grade art class. These owls I didn't use a template. I just cut and cut the shape I need…(a lot of cutting). I can glued them with regular kids school glue and reinforce with pins… or sometimes I just use pins.
To keep the ball rolling, before you start, flat a small side of the ball for the bottom of the owl. I hold the ball and push it against the floor.
I hope everyone enjoy crafting them!!
Oi.
Lindas corujinhas e parecem fáceis de fazer!
Amei!!!