Let’s make pretty fabric covered letters to hang on the wall! Decorate your walls with our fabric covered letters craft. Make one letter, or make a word, it’s up to you. This is a fun craft for all ages.
How to make fabric covered letters
These fabric covered letters are so easy to make. They require very few supplies, and we show you below how inexpensive this craft can be. It’s a great project for kids through adults. The DIY wall letters can easily be customized home decor.
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There are so many options available to make these wall letters. All you need is a little creativity, and a few basic supplies, and you are ready to make this quick and easy craft and letter wall decor.
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Supplies needed to make fabric covered letters
- Large letter – wood, paper mache, cardboard, or foam board
- Fabric – assorted colors and patterns
- Hot glue gun with glue sticks
- Scissors
We have used a large wooden letter ‘S’ for our project. You can use any letter or group of letters that you like. You also don’t need to purchase a wooden letter because there are many other options available; a paper mache letter, cut a letter out of a cereal box, or cut larger letters out of foam board.
Instructions for making fabric covered letters
Step 1
Group together between 3-6 different fabrics to wrap around your letter.
Use your scissors to snip the end of the fabric about 1-1.5 inches wide. Hold the fabric with one hand and with the other tear the fabric (at the scissor cut) into a long strip.
The reason we tear the fabric instead of cutting it is that it gives it a frayed edge instead of a completely smooth cut edge. I think the frayed edges overlapping one another look so much nicer wrapped around the letter.
Step 2
Using the hot glue, glue one end of a strip of fabric to the edge of your letter. Wrap the fabric strip around and around the letter, overlapping it slightly as you go.
Step 3
When you need to change colors, make sure to start on the edge, even if that means you are overlapping slightly with the previous strip.
Our finished fabric covered letter
We love the idea of using these large letters on the wall of a nursery, playroom, as a monogram, kids’s room or anywhere in your home, classroom or apartment. The texture of these colorful wall letters really set it apart from other DIY letters like wood letters or cardboard letters.
Here are even more wall letters that we have made previously with kids.
Fabric Covered Letters
Make our fabric covered letters to hang on your wall.
Materials
- Large letter - wood, paper mache, cardboard, or foam board
- Fabric - assorted patterns and colors
Tools
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun with glue sticks
Instructions
- Snip a section of fabric approximately 1-1.5 inches wide. Put one hand on the fabric and use your other hand to tear the strip of fabric from the cut to make a frayed edge on the fabric.
- Using hot glue attach the end of the fabric strip to the edge of the letter. Wind the fabric around the letter overlapping it a little.
- Repeat step two with as many different fabric strips as you like.
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Have you made your own fabric wrapped letters? Did you make just one letter or a full word?
Love this idea. The girls and I are building fairy houses this week. I want to start letters next week so that we end closer to school starting. This would be a fantastic way to celebrate each letter.
I love this idea. Family Fun had a idea using sticks and paint which I was planning on doing but I think I like this idea better. We could do both. For the giveaway we’ve been really into making books and wall art. These supplies would help us out tremendously with our continuous art activities. With 5 homeschooled children one can never have enough art supplies!
Oh wow what an awesome giveaway! I love the design the children came up with. Well we would use the craft supplies to decorate our new home! We will be moving to another state. Our homeschooling crew will use it to decorate their room and have an under the sea theme..a wall dedicated to oceans and each day they can see their under water adventure. We would use the fabric letters to make their ocean vocab words and make little fish all over the wall with our art supplies… My homeSCHOOL of fish would love this!!
well since my kids just had their rooms painted this weekend and new carpet comes tomorrow I’m thinking they would love to take their cork boards and give them new life/decor to match their new room colors. Similar to your letters, cover the boards with fabric, add ribbon for holding photos, add sequins around the edges and more. whatever they wanted!!
My daughter would make animals, dinosaurs, and probably puppets–she currently loves puppets. Great giveaway!
I’d like to make a hair bow holder with my toddler! Maybe a foam flower top, with ribbons hanging down to hold barrettes and bows? !
LOVE the letters you all made- very cool looking!
Love those letters!! We’d love to use those supplies along with a couple boxes we’ve been saving to make a dinosaur cave + parking garage, because my son’s been wanting a place for his two loves (dinosaurs and cars) to share.
We would make some funky frames to highlight the first day of class.
Your letters are great! I like the “painted” look of them.
Oh my! How can we top your wonderfully gorgeous letters? They look fantastic? What would we make? What would we make?
We love the craft foam in our house too and would probably make more “pegs” for our art washing line.. we colour the pegs in bright colours and then cut out funky animal faces out of the foam and glue it on. Perfect.
Thanks for a fab giveaway
Maggy
I think we’d use any or all of those Elmer’s supplies in all of our crafty art projects! I have a letter one like yours in process, but never thought of the collage aspect for it! It looks so nice! I guess we did something similar for our Birthday “3”.