Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) Adorable Reindeer DIY

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This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color and personality to your Christmas Tree. With a few scraps of felt, and this free pattern these ornaments are easy to put together – no sewing required!  This classic reindeer can be made with a cute black or red nose and can be used in garland, ornaments, and table décor.

Felt reindeer ornament pieces ready for assembly, fleecefun free template and tutorial

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YOU WILL NEED:

  • Cricut Maker
  • Fabric Grip Mat
  • Light Grip Mat
  • rotary Blade
  • Fine point Blade
  • Scrap of Heat Transfer Vinyl in black
  • EasyPress Mini
  • Felt in White (needs to have some wool in it to take the heat for the HTV)
  • Felt in light brown
  • Felt in dark brown
  • Scrap of felt in light pink, red, dark pink, green, black and light green (This is my FAVORITE place to buy felt)
  • Blush
  • Brush
  • Aleene’s Quick Dry Tacky Glue
  • Get the free template and cut files (SVG) here.
Cut felt pieces for handmade reindeer ornament, fleecefun free template and tutorial

This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color & personality to your Christmas Tree. Make with a few scraps of felt & glue!

Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) Adorable Reindeer DIY Instructions:

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Step 1 – Cut Out the Pieces to the Felt Ornament Pattern

You can cut out the ornament manually using the FREE PDF pattern or using the FREE SVG file.

Cut felt pieces for your DIY reindeer ornament using the fleecefun free template and tutorial

  Since I HATE fussy cutting I’m opting to use my Cricut Maker.

Fleecefun free template and tutorial: Cutting felt pieces for an adorable reindeer ornament

Cut out the base of the felt Reindeer Ornament from white.

How to cut felt pieces for a reindeer ornament, with a free fleecefun template and tutorial

Next cut out the horns of the Felt Ornament Pattern and top of the nose from dark brown felt.

Prepare felt pieces for your Christmas reindeer ornament with the free fleecefun pattern

Cut out the ear tops from dark brown as well.

Light brown felt being pulled from fabricGrip Mat.

Next, cut out the bottom ears and nose piece from light brown felt.

All layers of the Reindeer Cut out.

Cut out the holly leaves in two different green colors, the black (or red) nose, holly berries in pink and red.  Finally cut out the inner ears and 1 berry from light pink.

Weeding the HTV.

From the black HTV cut out the eyes.

The HTV weeded.

Weed the vinyl.

Step 2 – Make the Face to the Reindeer Tree Ornament

Craft a cute reindeer face for your felt ornament using fleecefun free template and tutorial

Now that all of the Felt Ornament Pattern pieces are cut out.  We need to start to make the very bottom of the face.

Making the reindeer face for your DIY felt ornament with fleecefun free template and tutorial

Start with the white base.  Lay down the strip of HTV eyes, then place the light brown felt.  Adjust the placement of the eyes as needed.

Learn how to craft the reindeer face for a handmade felt ornament with fleecefun free pattern

Remove the light brown felt and iron the eyes into place.

Design the reindeer face for your Christmas felt ornament using the fleecefun tutorial

Add some blush to the cheeks with a brush.  This step is optional but looks really cute.  Use your fingers to blend the blush a little.

Step 3 – Glue the Felt Christmas Tree Ornament Together

Time to build the Felt Reindeer Ornament from the base up. CAUTION: be careful it’s NOT symmetrical so make sure you are adding glue to the correct side of the felt piece before you start gluing things down.

Assemble and glue your felt reindeer ornament with fleecefun free template and tutorial

I prefer to use tacky glue as it looks nice and is easy to use.  Hot glue tends to make things look lumpy.

adding the anterlers. This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color & personality to your Christmas Tree. Make with a few scraps of felt & glue!

Starting with the dark brown antlers on the wrong side  apply little dots of glue all around the piece. Glue to the felt ornament pattern.

Adding the base nose piece. This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color & personality to your Christmas Tree. Make with a few scraps of felt & glue!

Now it’s time to add the light brown ear and nose. 

adding the nose top. This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color & personality to your Christmas Tree. Make with a few scraps of felt & glue!

Add glue to the wrong side and glue into place.

Glue on the nose peice. This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color & personality to your Christmas Tree. Make with a few scraps of felt & glue!

Now add the dark brown center nose piece on top of the light brown.

Adding the nose. This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color & personality to your Christmas Tree. Make with a few scraps of felt & glue!

Next, it’s time to add the nose.

Nose Added. This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color & personality to your Christmas Tree. Make with a few scraps of felt & glue!

Now let’s add the pink inner to the felt ornament pattern. Make sure that they’re a little sliver of white between the light brown and the pink inner ear.

Adding the top of the ears.

Then add the dark brown tops to the ears.

Top of ears added.

Finally glue on the holly leaves and berries to the reindeer.

Holly and berries added.

I’ve found that it’s easy just to place the ornaments on the tree, but you can add a bit of twine to either side of the antlers to hang.

This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color & personality to your Christmas Tree. Make fith a few scraps of felt & glue!

That’s it!  You just completed the Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) Adorable Reindeer DIY.

This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color & personality to your Christmas Tree. Make fith a few scraps of felt & glue!

DOWNLOAD THE free Felt Ornament Pattern FILE BELOW (FILL OUT THE FORM)

By downloading you are agreeing to pattern terms of use. Click on the photo below and fill out the form to get the SVG and PDF file.

Handmade Christmas Felt Ornaments with the shape of a Reindeer's head made frome free svg FILES and tutorial from fleecefun.com, with the text "CLICK TO GO TO DOWNLOAD" displayed at the bottom.

This adorable Felt Ornament Pattern (Free) is a wonderful way to add some color & personality to your Christmas Tree. Make fith a few scraps of felt & glue!

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