Ladybug Place Mat

Create these adorable ladybug place mats for your next Ladybug Birthday Party. The place mat was created using the oh-so-sweet ladybug plate and felt pieces. A contrasting stitching was used to give the place mat an old fashioned look, however, you could also just use the glue gun to put the pieces together making it an ultra easy party decoration project!

Lady Bug Party Supplies

Supplies needed

Ladybug Party Decor : Place Mat Supplies (1)

1/2 yard Lime green felt
1/4 yard White felt
Black embroidery floss thread
Black permanent marker
Needle
Ladybug Dessert Plate
Scissors

Theme Parties and Birthday Party line divider

Ladybug Party Decor: Place Mat Directions (1)

Ladybug Placemat, How To Make Your Own DIY - Trace plate

Step 1. Place dessert plate on the felt and trace around it with a permanent marker. Notice I used the whole stack of plates still in their wrapper only so I wouldn’t mark up the edges with my permanent marker or dirty the plates.

Ladybug Placemat, How To Make Your Own DIY - Trace leaf around circle of felt

Step 2. Divide the circle into 8 sections. Place a small piece of paper over one section and trace a leaf shape by hand. Don’t worry if it is not perfect. Leaves come in all shapes and sizes in nature and our place mats will all look different. Cut out the paper leaf section from your paper tracing and then place it on the edge of the circle. With your marker trace out leaves all around the circle. This will be your bottom leaf layer.

Ladybug Placemat, How To Make Your Own DIY - Cut out leaf layer

Step 3. Cut out the bottom leaf layer with scissors. Cut out another layer by placing the original leaf layer on the green felt and tracing the whole thing again. Cut the second leaf layer out when you are done tracing. You will now have 2 leaf layers.

Ladybug Placemat, How To Make Your Own DIY - Make flower shape

Step 4. Use the plate (or stack of plates) again to trace out a circle lightly with pencil on the white felt. Again divide the circle into even sections i.e. 16 sections. For each section, draw out a flower petal free hand. Cut out. Use the first white flower cutout as a template to trace the remaining white flowers. You will need one white felt flower per place mat.

Ladybug Placemat, How To Make Your Own DIY - Sew around edge with black flossing thread

Step 5. Place two green leaf petals on top of each other, making sure that the leaves alternate and do not cover each other between the layers. Place the white felt flower on top, making sure it is centered. Use black embroidery floss thread to sew the three felt pieces together. Try to make the stitching evenly and close to the edge as possible. (At this point if you want to skip the sewing part, just glue the 3 pieces together with hot glue gun).

Ladybug Placemat, How To Make Your Own DIY - Place Mat is finished and ready for the party

Step 6. Once you have sewn the stitching all around the flower edge, you are done. The first flower place mat is ready for the Ladybug plate and Ladybug Birthday Party!