Felt Cactus Bookmark Craft

Craft a Felt Cactus Bookmark with Your Kids

Looking for some unique crafts as you spring into the summer? We’ve got a terrific one for you.

This quick and easy felt cactus bookmark is a great craft to do with your kids this summer! And better yet, it’s a useful craft because it can be used as a bookmark for all those books your kids are (hopefully!) reading during the season.

List of Supplies for Felt Cactus Bookmark

Colored felt fabric
Needle and thread
Pencil
Hot glue gun
Paper clip
Scissors
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Instructions for the Felt Cactus Template

Step 1

Select green felt for the cactus pattern, brown for the pot, and any colored felt of your choice for the flowers. Trace the template patterns on the selected felt fabrics and cut them out nicely.

Step 2

Place the 2 pot cutouts together and stitch along the 2 sides and the bottom side of the pot cutouts to join them together. I worked a flat blanket stitch around the sides. Remember to keep the top end open.

Step 3

Grab any one of the cactus cutouts and prepare the needle with black thread. Stitch straight lines along the cactus cutout, vertically. Work a simple running stitch along the lines.

Step 4

I worked 3 lines of running stitch on the cactus cutout. The stitched piece of the cactus cutout will be the front side of the cactus plushie.

Step 5

You can either use cotton or scrap felt to fill the cactus felt pattern. Place the 2 cactus cutouts together and stitch around the sides and top. Keep the bottom end open.

Step 6

Fill the felt cactus pattern with scrap felt through the bottom open end.

Step 7

Fill the felt pot with scrap felt too, if you wish to.

Step 8

Insert the bottom end of the felt cactus pattern inside the top end of the felt pot pattern. Make sure that both patterns overlap each other by a cm. Apply hot glue to close the open ends and join the pot with the cactus. Or, you can stitch them together, whichever you prefer.

Step 9

Stitch or glue the small flower cutout on the top-front side of the cactus plushie.

Step 10

Attach a paper clip onto the backside of the cactus pattern. Attach a small piece of felt to cover the top glued side of the paper clip and make sure to keep the bottom side of the paper clip intact, so that it can be used to clip papers or as a bookmark.