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Felt Mail Playset

By Vixenmade @vixenMade
My kids have been bugging me to create some play mail so they can pretend to send mail to each other.  Finally, I found a container for the mail box and pulled out my felt and made them this.
Felt Mail Playset
Here's the container I used.  Straight from the dollar store.  
Felt Mail Playset
I used a utility knife to cut out a mail slot.
Felt Mail Playset
Then hot glued on the felt surrounding it.
Felt Mail Playset
I also added felt along the underside of the lid just to reinforce the opening.
Felt Mail Playset
Like so.
Felt Mail Playset
I added felt around the container.
Felt Mail Playset
Then made a mail sign with blue and white felt.
Felt Mail Playset
Felt Mail Playset
I used my scraps of sturdy felt to trim around the lid and I was done.
Felt Mail Playset
Felt Mail Playset
They love having the handle to tote their mailbox around or use it as a 'mailbag'.
Felt Mail Playset
I couldn't stop there though.  They needed some felt envelopes.   Using gray felt, I cut out different sized rectangles and glued over the folded edge to make an envelope shape.
Felt Mail Playset
Felt Mail Playset
Then I used the adhesive velcro pieces for the flaps.
Felt Mail Playset
Felt Mail Playset
Perfect for little hands.
Felt Mail Playset
To create the addresses, I cut out squiggly lines out of felt and glued them to the fronts of the envelopes.
Felt Mail Playset
Felt Mail Playset
And I cut out small squares out of white felt for the stamps.
Felt Mail Playset
Using my fabric markers, I wrote out stamp prices on each one.
Felt Mail Playset
Then glued them onto the corners.
Felt Mail Playset
Done and done!
Felt Mail Playset
My daughter loves to write her own notes to send out for mail.
Felt Mail Playset
Felt Mail Playset
Felt Mail Playset
Felt Mail Playset
They love adding the mail to the slots.
Felt Mail Playset
Felt Mail Playset
Go have your own fun creating with felt.
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