These fun pencil toppers are easy to make and they look so cute at the ends of your pencils. These adorable accessories are great gifts for friends as well.
Pencils are pretty boring they all look the same for the part. That is why you should take this opportunity and make your pencil stand out from all those around you!
Adorable Pencil Toppers
It can really difficult to get kids excited about going to school or doing any sort of work in general. With these pencil toppers, they will get excited when it comes time to use them.
Encouraging kids so very important, even thought it can be a pretty difficult task. What better way to get them interested than to add some arts and crafts to the mix?!
These toppers will sit at the ends of their pencils and make working a little bit more fun for them. They can make different kinds and name them if they want to!
Whether you choose to make your pencil toppers with a Cricut machine or simply with scissors and glue is completely up to you. Here, you have options, and no option is better than the other.
If you choose to use your Cricut machine, there are free SVG files available to you. If you would like to use scissors, there are free templates that you can use.
No matter which option you choose, you will be left with the most adorable pencil toppers you could make. There are different animals you can choose from too!
These pencil toppers are a great way to get kids excited to work and write and they are so darn cute! Adults and kids will love to have these decorate their pencils!
If you are still feeling crafty after this craft, you should definitely check out the Adorable Paper Squirrel and Paper Frog!
How To Make Adorable Felt Pencil Toppers With Free Templates
It can really difficult to get kids excited about going to school or doing any sort of work in general. With these pencil toppers, they will get excited when it comes time to use them.
Materials
- Fabric scissors
- Hot glue gun and clear glue sticks
- Printable pencil topper template
- Pencils
- Felt Fabric
Tools
- Cricut Maker machine with rotary tool for SVG (optional)
Instructions
- Gather supplies.
- Print off paper pattern template. (see notes for Cricut)
- Place the owl/frog/penguin pattern pieces over top of felt sheets in the color of your choosing.
- Using fabric scissors, cut along the solid lines to cut out the pattern pieces.
- Preheat the hot glue gun.
- Carefully glue the smaller felt pieces (the owl belly, eyes, and beak) to the largest felt owl piece pressing in place.
- Apply a bead of glue along the outer edges of the smaller body piece leaving the bottom without glue.
- Press the prepared owl front piece to the back piece and press in place until the glue sets.
- Carefully glue the smaller felt pieces (the frog belly and eyes) to the largest felt frog piece pressing in place.
- Apply a bead of glue along the outer edges of the smaller body piece leaving the bottom without glue.
- Press the prepared frog front piece to the back piece and press in place until the glue sets.
- Carefully glue the smaller felt pieces (the penguin belly, eyes, and beak) to the largest felt penguin piece pressing in place.
- Apply a bead of glue along the outer edges of the smaller body piece leaving the bottom without glue.
- Press the prepared penguin front piece to the back piece and press in place until the glue sets.
- Insert a pencil into the felt animal toppers and enjoy!
Notes
- Upload the SVG to Cricut design space.
- Using fabric grip mat, cut all of the pieces using the colors of your choosing.
- Cut two pieces of the cloud pattern, two pieces for the eyes and cheeks, and one piece for the remaining patterns.
- Follow the instructions above to put the pieces together.
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