This file folder travel felt board is easy to make!
How to Make a Simple Felt Board for Travel or Quiet Time
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MATERIALS:
- One sheet of felt – make sure it’s the regular kind, not the stiff type. You want to choose a color that is different from the color of the shapes you intend to use with the board. Craft felt
works fine for this activity. - File folder
- Glue stick
works fine for this activity.
STEPS:
- Trim the felt to fit inside the file folder
- Cover the back of the felt with glue using the glue stick. If you’re using liquid glue, spread it very thinly – otherwise it will soak through the felt and make it so that felt shapes don’t stick as well
- attach felt to inside of file folder
- Enjoy :)
Emma’s new travel felt board with a “castle” created using some of the geometric shapes from these activities.
And with her dress-up bear:
More Travel Felt Board Activities
Here are some more felt board activities your kids can enjoy doing with this board:
If you are looking for more polished looking felt board shapes, 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
- Calendar Felt Set
- Emotions Felt Figures
- Pete the Cat Flannelboard Set
Do you have more activities for this travel felt board? Come share a link on my Facebook page, or tag me on Instagram!
MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
I love this idea! Brilliant!
Thanks, Emma!
Oh my gosh MaryAnne! A file folder felt board is GENIUS!!! We love love love felt around here and that is the perfect way to keep it somewhat organized! Thank you for this!
Thank you! :D
angel bug baby, double sided tape is definitely worth a try – that stuff can be pretty strong!
Great idea! I love it! I’m sure kiddos would get hours of entertainment out of this one.I will post about it at DollarStoreCrafts.com next week or so!heather
Great idea. I should do this.Mike< HREF="http://somethingaboutparenting.typepad.com" REL="nofollow">http://somethingaboutparenting.typepad.com<>Twitter: < HREF="http://twitter.com/AboutParenting" REL="nofollow">AboutParenting<>
Hi MaryAnne! I’ve been following your blog for sometime, but don’t normally comment. I think this is a great idea…I will definitely be making these for all of my kiddos. I wonder if double sided tape would work ok for this??? I’m out of glue at the moment (3 year old got to it!) :) Thanks again for the great idea! amy texarkana, tx
I think Elijah would so love this! I want to make him felt food, any suggestions?
Brilliant idea, Catherine :)
I love this idea–what about making several of these felt folders with different felt backgrounds in each? You could create some simple scenes like a beach or a meadow using a couple colors of felt for the board.
Oh, I LOVE this!!! :-)
What a great idea!Thanks for the compliments on my blog today!