Felt boards are a wonderful way to get kids telling stories. This embroidery hoop felt board is easy to make and use!

I love felt boards! Storytelling with felt boards helps kids develop their imagination and encourages them to think outside of the box. My first ever blog post was a felt board tutorial. We enjoyed that board until we left Massachusetts, when I decided to leave it behind. In between, I wrote about two travel felt boards – one file folder felt board and one that was more durable. I also made a geometric shapes series for the felt boards, a felt map of the world, and felt dress up bears and dolls.
How to Make This Felt Board
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Our new storytelling felt board hoop was really easy to make! I stretched some fleece across this large quilting hoop, trimmed it, and hung it on the wall using one of these 3M Command hooks. I used blue fleece because it provides nice contrast with most felt board items. The blue fleece also doubles as a beautiful blue sky! Fleece didn’t exist when felt boards first came out, but it is easier to use since it is stretchy. I find that fabrics stick to fleece better than they do to felt or flannel. The hook keeps the hoop up on our playroom wall, but it is easy to remove the hoop if we want to use our felt board somewhere else in the house.
Storytelling with a Felt Board

Five-year-old Lily was instantly enthralled with our new felt board! She took two of our little fashion bears and created quite a storyline for them!

From the looks of what I found on the board a couple hours later, their story got pretty exciting! This activity also got Lily thinking that she need some overalls. Does anyone have a nice sewing tutorial for children’s overalls?
More Resources for Storytelling with Felt Boards
There are some great ready-made felt boards you can buy, if you don’t want to make your own. Here are three great options:
- Flannel Tabletop Easel. This one is nice because it stands up on its own. It is fairly large – 18 by 24 inches.a
- Felt Notice Board. This one stands out because it is very large – 36 by 24 inches.
Living Felt Visuals sells fun ready-made felt pieces. Here are a few of their fun sets:
- Three Little Pigs Felt Board Set
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Felt Board Set
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear Felt Board Set
- Wild Animals Felt Board Set
Please share in the commends if you have any fun felt board resources that you recommend.
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MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
So does fleece stick to fleece or do the items need to be made of felt? I love this, thanks for sharing!
Fleece does stick to fleece, but I personally prefer felt because fleece on its own can sometimes roll up; felt lays flat.
Thanks for sharing. These are great!
Thanks, Sabrina!
What a great idea! I’d think it would be easily portable, too, for things like road trips.
Absolutely! This hoop is a little large, but it’s easy to buy smaller hoops!
So cute! What a brilliant idea for a felt board!
Thank you! It is so cute and easy, and the kids are loving it.
So much fun! I love your idea of a hoop felt board.
It is so easy, cute, and it works really well! The kids are really enjoying it.
It’s wall art too! Love it!
Exactly! I am so happy with how it turned out!
I love that you shared a felt board! It seems that they are falling to the wayside with all the other techno stuff out there! LOVE it!
Thanks, Stephanie! We are really enjoying this simple felt board!
You are a genius with felt! I love the idea of a felt storyboard!
Thank you, Mia!
Brilliant!!
Felt boards make me happy.
Me too :)