How to Make Fabric Covered Letters • Kids Activities Blog

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.

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.

How to make fabric covered letters

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.  

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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.

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

Here are even more wall letters that we have made previously with kids.

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Have you made your own fabric wrapped letters? Did you make just one letter or a full word?