Felt Envelope and How to Make Funny Bee Envelope Easily

Lebaran or Idul Fitri is the popular name for Eid al-Fitr in Indonesia and is one of the major national holidays in the country. Lebaran holiday officially lasts for two days in the Indonesian calendar

Lebaran is a very important moment for Muslim. Celebrate Eid with giving envelope has become a tradition since a long time. Giving envelopes to children is something that is commonly done by older people. Children will be happy when they receive it eventhough the nominal is not how much and will be more memorable if the envelopes that used are unique envelopes.

Here, I want to share envelope tutorial. You can make own funny envelope and unique characters like mine. How to make Eid envelope, you can read it in this article.

Funny Envelope from Felt Fabric

Various envelopes of cute character models from this felt material is definitely a favorite of children. Creating a character envelope like this you can do in your spare time as a fun activity.

Besides can be used own, funny and unique character envelope is be able to be used as a profitable business field ahead of Eid. I give them name Bee Envelope

If usually felt envelope that we've seen, the processing is stitched, but this envelope without sewing or just glued it. So the process is obviously easier and simpler but the results are as you see in the picture above. They are funny, aren't they?

Well, here I share how to make Lebaran envelope, unique funny character envelope so you can also make it.

Making bee envelope is very easy and fast. So it is suitable to be a side business. There is no need for large felt fabric to make an envelope. Enough with a piece of felt fabric size 25 cm x 25 cm can produce 10 bee envelopes.

How to Make a Bee Envelope

To make this bee envelope we only need materials and equipment as follows:
1. Felt fabric
2. Puppet eyes
3. Pencil
4. Scissors
5. Glue gun

Step by step Creating Bee Envelope

1. Cut the black felt fabric rectangular pieces with length of 7 cm and 6 cm wide. Cut the black felt fabric into a circle to be the head of the bee. Cut out the yellow felt for the bee wings.

2. Next,  roll the rectangular felt with the help of a pencil. Give glue gun at the edges and then glue it.

3. Cut the yellow felt fabric to be used for the bee's body. After that give glue shot and attach the yellow felt on the bee body and the result looks like in the picture.

4. Remove the scroll of the felt from the pencil. Bee envelope made in tube shape.

5. Next, cut the end of the envelope to form a triangle to make the bee tail part. After that give the glue gun and paste it to close.

6. The next step is to make wings of bees. Cut the yellow felt fabric that had been prepared earlier to form a wing. After that stick the wing on the body of the back envelope.

7. The next step is to make an envelope cap. Create a small circle piece for the envelope cap. Keep the color of the fabric the same as the color of the envelope. After that give glue to the mouth of the envelope. Give glue to the semicircle then attach the lid. Envelopes have lids so the money does not fall easily.

8. The next step is to make a bee head. Paste the bee's antenna, the pair of puppet eyes and the bee's mouth as in the picture.

9. The last, paste the bee's head on the top envelope and done.

That's Felt Envelope and How to Make Funny Bee Envelope. May be useful. Thanks for reading this article.