Easter Egg Felt Pouches Craft

Learn how to make colorful felt egg pouches that can hold candy, toys, money, or more as a plastic DIY Easter egg alternative!

Every Easter, we all hear the same story. It starts with the family traveling to spend Easter with my father’s side of the family in Ohio. Being from Texas and not used to the cold, my grandparents hid Easter eggs for my sister and me throughout the house.

They gave me a purple stuffed bunny doll holding a carrot bigger than me! They wanted so much for our first ‘Yankee Easter’ to be a smashing success, and it was!

They were still finding eggs for weeks and weeks after; my sister and I didn’t. It wouldn’t have been such a big deal, except they were all real eggs, and the smell was terrible—the stuff of legends!

Now that there are little ones in my family to hunt eggs, my mother buys plastic eggs like crazy, terribly afraid that a child will jam a time-release stink bomb somewhere that cannot be found. The plastic ones are okay, but they can be impersonal. The whole fun of Easter is that it’s an arts and crafts fest for decorating, right? With Easter looming around the corner, I bought a lot of felt and started working on a plastic egg alternative!

Supplies Needed to Make Felt Easter Egg Pouches

• print file for egg pattern
• acrylic felt in a variety of colors
• felt glue
• embroidery floss in several colors
• pre-cut felt shapes (sold at craft stores)
• glitter
• buttons
• ribbon
• rick rack
• paints
• fabric markers
• pom poms
• googly eyes
• other decorative items

How to Make Felt Easter Egg Pouches

Print your PDF file and use it to cut out your egg shapes. I cut freezer paper to the size of letter paper and ran it straight through my printer. I then ironed it onto my felt and trimmed it out accordingly.

Decorate an egg-shaped cutout however you like. You can either work with a theme or go crazy and do whatever comes to mind.

Provide children with a variety of decorations and glue to prepare them for work. Here, I cut out paisley shapes of yellow felt, embroidered blue doodles, and then embroidered neon red in the leftover space.

Some other designs I used included placing two flower cutouts together and attaching them to my egg with a bright yellow button, cutting a thick strip of orange felt and tacking it on with decorative cross stitches, and placing a hot pink rick rack on top and bottom. I also sew buttons onto circular pieces of felt, then trace the circles imperfectly with bright, white floss.

While I primarily used methods with sewing, kids have great imaginations, and with a decent stash of supplies, I’m sure they’ll get after it with a glue bottle!

Take a blank egg shape and fold it in half vertically. Carefully cut a slit around the center of the egg. Since felt doesn’t fray, you don’t need to worry about finishing the edges of this or any other cut in this project.

There are two options for closing up your pouches. One is to stitch closed, and the other is to place a ring of felt glue and then put the front and back pieces together. Don’t smash together – lightly tap into place and set it to the side. Pushing shoves the glue into the felt, and the pieces become hard but don’t adhere. Also, please note that the felt will get hard where this glue dries, making it difficult to stitch through.

If using glue, wait until it is scorched before proceeding. If needed, take your pouch and trim any excess felt that appears over the edge of the back piece.

Take ad place candy or other goodies into the slit in the back and prepare to hide this baby away!

And take comfort in knowing that if you find one jammed into the cushions of your couch 3 weeks out, Tootsie Rolls don’t start to stink!