Dec 13th: Felt Key Chains

Today's craft is fairly easy to make and won't take too much time. We'll be making little key chains from felt. You can probably already guess that I'm really into Winnie the Pooh, right? '^^
Anyway, let the crafting begin!

You will need:

Felt
Ribbon
Key rings
Scissors
Marker
Hot glue
(Note: I'm using hot glue here despite some pieces being really tiny since any other glue didn't work for me. Most liquid glue will be visible through the felt (cf. poor Pooh). You can of course sew these, too.)

Pattern

How it's done:

Cut out the pieces of felt according to the pattern. For the penguin (the five pieces on the bottom right), the black part can be substituted by any color you want, like light blue or something like that.
Once you have all the pieces, cut a piece of ribbon (mine are about 10 cm) fold it in half and glue the ends together.
Now you arrange the pieces as shown in the pictures, placing the ends of the ribbon between the front and back piece. Place the feet and ears of Pooh and Piglet between the front and back too. The rest of the pieces go onto the front or back of the character.
Carefully take the front (with the face on it) from the back and put hot glue around the edges (just leave the ribbon, legs and ears resting on the back piece and pretend they aren't there). Quickly press the front onto the back piece before the glue hardens.
Then, glue on the face pieces and any other details. Be really careful not to burn yourself. You might want to use tweezers to put small pieces like the eyes onto drops of hot glue on the front. Don't try to put the glue onto small pieces, they'll either stick to your tweezers or you'll burn your fingers!
You can decide to leave the key chains as they are (and use them as Christmas tree ornaments) or you can shove the ribbon onto a key ring like I did.

Layout

Happy crafting!