On chilly days, slip kids' hands into mittens you've decorated to look like ferocious beasts. Try a pair of fire-breathing dragons for maximum toastiness. If it's bitingly cold, however, our shark works best. Lion mittens are especially good when the wind roars. To create them, simply sew features cut from felt to fleece mittens. Buttons and embroidery will complete the face.
Mittens How-To
Download and print the monster mittens template. Attach felt pieces to fleece mittens with all-purpose thread and a sewing needle. Use embroidery floss to create nostrils, and sew on buttons for eyes.
Mr. Shark
Cut out three felt fins; sew on. For teeth, sew white rickrack to front curve of glove.
Senor Leo
For mane, cut 2 wide felt pieces to cover the top 3/4 of mitten. Crease felt lengthwise down the middle with an iron. Pin pieces together, and cut a fringe on each side with pinking shears. Sew to mitten along the crease. Glue pink and orange felt triangles together for ears, and sew on; cut a felt tongue, and sew on underside of mitten.
Flames McGee
Cut two same-shape felt pieces for scales. Stack; slide top piece down. Pin; crease down the middle with an iron, and sew to glove. Sew on a notched rectangle for a darting tongue.
Resources
The felt used for this project can be found at magiccabin.com.
These are so adorable! Think I'll make a pair for myself even though I'm 29 :) ! I've seen adults wearing those animal knit winter hats, so why not. Think I'll make the dragon ones, just have to find adult size mittens! Did they show a pic of the dinosaur ones, or was it shown on the segment? Don't seem to remember seeing a finished product for them.
There doesn't appear to be a pattern for the mittens. The directions say "add felt to fleece mittens". Apparently you provide the fleece mittens and decorate them. A pattern would have been nice.
to get the pattern you download it
How do I get the mitten pattern. Tried to no avail. Only templates for decorating tops
this is a neat patty idea!!
I wanted the horse pattern and deleted the episode from Tivo before I could get a good look at it. Any suggestions?
The template is in the copy of the article... Mittens How-To
Download and print the monster mittens template.
you will see the area that is in a blue color and not black text. click you mouse over the words and it will pop up a pdf template for you. As for the penguin. Dont see that template..
Unable to download any pattern. Anyone else having that issue.
these look fantastic! i think my son will love them next winter
I don't know where to find the penguin template but the template that came with the "Monster Mitten" page I'm on now didn't have it and this page was a pop up from the day it ran. Personally, I'm not too happy with the results of this website.