Halloween is coming up, which means that people of all ages are racking their brains to come up with clever costumes for the occasion! If your little ones are feeling crafty and want to be involved in creating their own costumes, these woodland animal masks are a wonderful kid-friendly project for an afternoon spent crafting.
This project is especially great for teaching your kids some introductory sewing skills, as the masks require a combination of gluing, hand stitching, and ironing.
We’re quite fawnd of these masks
You should be able to find the materials for these woodland animal masks at your local craft store. Be sure to pick out wool felt or nice wool blend felt because you will be ironing the masks. Ironing acrylic felt will only make it melt. Once you have gathered your materials, you can print out the PDF patterns below. Each pattern also includes a diagram of how the mask will look with all the felt pieces assembled, so choose your felt colors based on these template pieces.
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Tools
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Iron
Materials
- Wool Blend Felt in colors of your choice
- Embroidery Floss
- Embroidery Needle
- Fusible Bonding
- Tacky Glue
- Elastic Cording
Ready to start crafting? Watch our easy-to-follow video tutorial to craft your woodland animal masks! Feel free to adjust the size of the masks or eye holes to fit your child’s face as you go. We also have a free printable version of these masks if you want to make them out of paper.
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Check out our other fun kid’s crafts, like our yarn pom-pom monsters. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest to see our daily projects. I would love to see the woodland animal masks that you create, so please share them with me and the team using #MadeWithLia on Instagram or Facebook. Cheers! ~ Lia
Are you having trouble? Feel free to contact us and we will be happy to help you out.
16 Comments
When I download the templates, it puts all the patterns on one page. What am I doing wrong?
If you are downloading the SVG files, those will appear on one page. If you are downloading the PDF, the patterns are on separate pages so just make sure you are downloading and viewing from your desktop, not within the browser. Hope that helps!
We just made a fox mask. It is very cute, but I feel the eyes are positioned too far and looking at the photos on this page I can see it is the same problem with other animals. You can even see how the masks on the children partially cover their eyes. I think the pattern should be adjusted to move the eye openings closer together. Otherwise it is great pattern and very good instructions.
Thank you for the feedback, Maria– we’ll take a look at this.
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What colors in the benzie craft site would
You use for these? For some reason I thought there was a link to the site on this tutorial but I think I mixed it up. Thanks ! 🙂
Hi Chloe! We used a few brands of felt for this specific project, which is why there’s no link or list of specific colors to Benzie’s site 🙂
Hi Lia!!! My Name is Marcia and I’m a brazilian and I bought a SacnNCut recently and trying to cut this felt masks and I can’t. Didn’t you sell only two molds of them? Only a fox and raccoon. How much? Thanks.
I don’t use the Scan n Cut so am not sure if it cuts felt. We have all three here: https://liagriffith.com/craft-school/course/easy-kids-crafts/felt-woodland-masks/
You can download any of our patterns as a member for $10.
LIA, I’AM SORRY I CAN’T GET ANY PATTERNS TO SHOW UP IS IT ME AGAIM
JUDY JAMESON
Hi Judy! The pattern is under the Craft School link in the post– go here and select “Patterns”: https://liagriffith.com/craft-school/course/easy-kids-crafts/felt-woodland-masks/ 🙂
Hi Lia!
I’m a 5th grade teacher in Salem, OR, and I’m ready to make my life easier by buying a machine that can use the SVG files. Which do you recommend? I’m looking for good quality and low to medium price.
Thanks for your help!!
Denise
Hi Denise! The Cricut Explore Air is my favorite. It retails at $299 which is pretty comparable to other cutting machines with the same capabilities. You can always look on Ebay or Craigslist for a used one in good condition. Some shops that sell the machine (Michaels, JoAnns) have sales or special discounts for teachers and students, so you could call around!
There is nowhere to print these patterns? Am I missing something?
Hi! Follow the links in the post to this lesson in Craft School– there is a link to the pattern there 🙂