Acorns are good for something: An Acorn Tutorial

We have these huge...I mean gigantic acorns in our yard!  Every late summer and fall, the squirrels come to our yard in gangs, fighting each other for the bizillion acorns that will fall.  So I had seen and been told about how you could use felt or wool to make acorns for fall decorations.  This is my version of an acorn...

Supplies:

Acorn caps

Glue gun

Quilt batting or pillow stuffing

Felt or welted wool

1.  First things first...you must go outside and walk around the outdoors exploring the ground and looking for leftover acorn caps.  The dolls and I had a great time one afternoon lolly gagging around.  

This is doll #1's hand...almost the size of the cap

My hand...

 2.  Once you have collected and semi cleaned out the caps, go back inside and grab that felt and glue gun.  I used a little quilt batting as the inside of my "acorn," but you could use anything even extra felt.  I simply put a large amount of glue in the inside of the acorn cap.  Then I took a circular piece of felt and added my quilt batting to the middle of it.  Once I situated it in my hands like I wanted it in the cap, I shoved the felt and batting into the acorn cap.  Done...easiest and cheapest decorations ever.

Hints...You do want to make sure you get all the outside of your felt in the acorn cap and touching some of the glue.  I have mine sitting in a bowl, but you could do so many things with these...acorn garland...scatter them around the TV...what ways will you use yours??? Share below.