Fall makes me want candy corn and I love candy corn. Of course, I'm leading up to these little pins and magnets I made that resemble candy corn.
To make these, I used the hard plastic place mats for the backing and three colors of felt, orange, yellow, and white. The felt with the sticky back can also be used or use a sticky glue like E-6000 for the regular felt and also for sticking on the pin or magnet to the back and for the eyes and nose.
You will need a small tac type pin or a small magnet to glue to the back of the plastic place mat backing. I used googly eyes and a small bead for the nose.
Instead of glueing my 3 pieces of felt directly to the place mat backing, I sewed my pieces to a solid white felt backing. I used pins to hold the pieces to the felt backing while sewing the face design on. I trimmed the edges, then glued the completed face to the place mat back.
It would be easier to use the sticky back felt and stick the 3 pieces directly to the plastic back. Then use a black fine line felt marker and draw the face. It depends on which way you want to make it. Sometimes easiest is the best.
My pins and magnets are about 2 inches high x 1 and 1/2 inch wide.
I found a similar idea for the faces that were hand drawn on foam. I put my own ideas to it and this is what I came up with.
If you would like to use the patten below, right click on it and save a copy to your computer.
