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?
Great craft project!
My littles have been very interested in making a family tree for our ‘school’ wall ~ this would be perfect for that! =)
What fun wall letters! Love it that the kids can help!
I would use these supplies for countless fun art and craft projects in the preschool class I teach. The first one would be a community collage Where all of the children get to participate in beautiful collage as our first activity as a new classroom community. They will all glue on found objects and old things. Then as a group we will paint it all shiny and colorful. It Will hang in the classroom all year as a reminder to us about all being integral parts of a great community.
We will share pictures of it in its glorious completion of course.
I just learned how to make stars with one and cut and I would love to make stars with the boards (that glow in the dark) for my sons’ room. I want to make planets too using that balloon wrap the string/yarn method. I think he would live it!
With school about to start, I would suggest we make customized message/bulletin boards for notes and artwork. But, knowing my boys, they would probably end up making buildings, airplanes or treasure boxes.
Wow! That looks like fun! I’d love to have these for school supplies. My daughter starts kindergarten this year.
Simple and lovely. Thanks for sharing! I would love to do an alphabet for the long hall this way.
We could really use all of those art supplies! Hmmm! What would we make? My girls really love scrapbooks and journals, so I think we would use cereal boxes and the Elmers supplies and make our own creative books.
My little girl and I would love to use these supplies to make a pasta and dried beans collage! first we will draw out a basic flower garden scene with some bugs and a path and then fill out with varied pasta, beans shapes. or maybe a fun seaside theme collage with some coconut trees, a tranquil sea, seagulls, sand etc depicted with wool / paper/ cloth scraps from past projects. the possibilities are endless!!