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?
I’m in Australia, so not eligible for the competition – but wanted to say how cute I thought the letters were! This would be great for kidlets learning their first letters – I know my girls would be highly motivated to make their own initials!
This project is so fun and creative! It’s great that at first thought you’re making a mess but apparently it comes out actually quirky and colorful.
Those letters are really beautiful!
Next month is my son’s 4th birthday. I’d love to use those supplies to make some dinosaur decorations. I could cut dinosaurs from the foam board. Then we could use fabric and tissue paper to cover them (similar to what you did, but without the string). I’d do several different colors (blue dinosaur, green, red, etc). I think I could also make a cool volcano with tissue paper and ribbon spouting from the top and flowing down the sides. Once his party is over, we could move the decorations to his room; multipurpose!
I’d also like to make a picture board for my daughter. I’d cover a foam board with fabric and criss-cross ribbon around it to hold pictures (the ribbons would appear diamond shaped from the front). I’d add a Panda bear to a lower corner for her too, she loves pandas! Then she could easily stick pictures in the diamonds without tacks or anything and I would have a bunch of tacked-up pictures on her wall.
I’m thinking these supplies would be good for making Christmas Decorations.
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Those are awesome! Hmmmm … where can we put some of those great letters? You’ve got me thinking. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the letters! We may have to make some.
If I win the prize I can only imagine the project my son would come up with. One that we’ve been wanting to do is make a “town” for his cars to drive through. Complete with stop signs, roads, buildings. This prize pack would be perfect to put this city together!
Rachel,
These are GORGEOUS!
🙁 Why do I have to live in Canada eh?! LOL
I LOVE THESE!! the letters are so great. And I love how all the kids came together to make some fun stuff.
I ask my 5yr old son what would he like to do with somthing like this and he said “We could make the airplanes for my wall MOM!! And we coould cut out stars and wrap them in your shiny fabric and put them all over the ceiling or paint them with glow paint. Then we could make some planets and decorate them in more fabric like blue and green for earth and red and brown for the Mars one then some how make rings around a big one!!!”. He is excited and his little mine is working so he ram off to draw is idea on paper, lol…. I would have to make some cupcakes wrapped in fun fabric for the shop, and try and see if this would be the perfect thing for some large fairy wings covered in lots of fabric scrapes for a custome I’m making.. :c) fingers crossed on that last one..
Thank you for the chance to win
I’ve been thinking about creative ways to “illustrate” our favorite story books. My plan was a basic popsicle stick theater with pictures we print and color. We could get much more interesting results with all that great texture. Thanks for getting my wheels freshly turning.