These Yarn Craft Teepees are a little fiddly to make but they really are worth the effort as they look amazing and add a gorgeous pop of warm colour to your home. They are beautiful as decorations, table lights, festival accessories or just to play with.
If you’re after a few simpler yarn crafts then you might like these mini yarn heart decorations or these cute Yarn Monsters or even have fun learning how to use Finger Knit Yarn Bombing in your garden! You can even make your own chunky yarn out of old T-shirts and then make your own T-shirt Yarn Bracelets or even a Spooky Halloween Wreath using T-shirt yarn.
Please note you need to use battery operated tea lights not candles. Flames, kids and wool don’t work well together!
Materials Needed – How To Make – More Yarn Crafts
Materials Needed To Make A Yarn Craft Teepee
Yarn/Wool
Twigs
Cardboard (an old cereal packet is perfect or you can use heavy card stock)
Glue gun
Scissors
Pen/pencil
Battery Tea Lights
How To Make a Yarn Craft Teepee
Take five sticks roughly the same length and some small bundles of coloured yarn
Tie three sticks together and spread them out around a circle shape to work out what size cardboard base you want. I use cookie cutters but a cup or glass would work just as well.
Cut out your cardboard circle and cut five notches around the edges making sure to leave a wider gap between two of them for the entrance (wide enough to get a battery operated tea light inside).
Using a glue gun glue the three sticks into the notches you cut out of the circle.
Glue the remaining sticks in place before tying the yarn around them.
Now start wrapping the yarn tightly around the sticks until you drop just below the join of the two sticks that form the opening to the teepee.
Wrap the yarn around the door stick, up and over the next stick, wrap straight across all the other sticks until you come to the other door stick when you start the whole process again. Go backwards and forwards doing this until you have wrapped the whole teepee.
Carefully cut off the overhanging cardboard.
If you like this then you’re sure to like some of the other #SimpleSummer stick crafts from
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Messy Little Monster – Nature Stick Paint Brushes
In The Playroom – 2D & 3D Stick Building
ET Speaks From Home – Pick Up Sticks
I adore these, so beautiful. They would make great places for toys to live too!
Yes, they’s be great to put little toys in … my girls mini Zelfs look very at home inside them 🙂
Oh wow well done! These are so cute! I feel like a crafting afternoon is needed, they would make lovely table decorations.
Oh wow well done! These are so cute! I feel like a crafting afternoon is needed, they would make lovely table decorations.
Yes, they’s be great to put little toys in … my girls mini Zelfs look very at home inside them 🙂
So cute and look like so much fun to make!
So cute and look like so much fun to make!
Oh wow these are really cute, what a great idea x
Oh those are so cute – I can just imagine they being used on a camp out! x
ohh these are so cute!
They are very pretty, and so creative an activity too!xx
Lovely idea and they look great (and not actually too complicated!)
Lovely idea and they look great (and not actually too complicated!)
These are so flipping awesome!!!!!!
These are so flipping awesome!!!!!!
These are very cute! xx
These are very cute! xx
Absolutely brilliant! I’ll have to show this to my daughter’s Brown Owl.
Absolutely brilliant! I’ll have to show this to my daughter’s Brown Owl.
These look awesome, I’ve seen so many projects with wool recently and they just look so pretty 🙂
These look awesome, I’ve seen so many projects with wool recently and they just look so pretty 🙂
Cute! It would make a sweet doll’s tepee.
Cute! It would make a sweet doll’s tepee.
I could see the Barbie dolls having their own festival with crafts like this!!
I could see the Barbie dolls having their own festival with crafts like this!!
These are very cute – will you be decorating the tent with them at Camp b?
These are very cute – will you be decorating the tent with them at Camp b?
A fab little craft, so simple but really effective. Mich x
Oh these are so pretty! I love them, they’d look fab on my windowsill x x x
I find these Native American appropriations culturally offensive. Please change the name to something that does not suggest it has any Native American reference. Maybe “yarn pyramids”…
I love these native american teepes! So adorable!!!