More Rainy Day Summer Fun: Felt Sea Creature Bookmarks

As I mentioned in my last post, I love having activities lined up for rainy summer days, especially back when my kids were younger and finished with camp for the summer! These felt bookmarks are a perfect NO-SEW project to use your stash of fabric scraps, ribbon scraps, and yarn.
The idea here is to sandwich two pieces of fabric together and then cut them to your shape. Felt works great for this and doesn’t unravel or fray, but woven fabrics will work well too once they’re glued together! If you can get your hands on iron-on adhesive (like Heat N’ Bond), even better! If not, fabric glue or even regular white glue will work…just brush a thin layer to the back of each of your pieces of fabric. You can make any animal you want.

You can watch the how-to video here on Craftsy! (They mention templates which I don’t see, but you can just use these photos as a reference since they’re fairly simple shapes.)

You can sandwich snips of ribbon and yarn between the two layers of fabric that you’ve glued (or iron-adhered) to create the water coming out of the whale’s blowhole or the octopus’ arms (below).

I hole-punched some felt dots for eyes and spots and used a Sharpie to make the pupil.
TIP: If you’re having trouble punching through felt, punch it and a piece of copy paper at the same time!

Another tip: pinking shears are an easy way to make teeth or spikey edges!
Happy crafting!