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DIY Fleece Hand Warmers For Winter

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Three colorful DIY Fleece Hand Warmers are shown with round tags reading Warm Winter Wishes, surrounded by scattered paper hearts on a dark surface. The image promotes making your own hand warmers with a free printable tag.

It’s warmth literally on your fingertips!!! That’s what today’s DIY Fleece Hand Warmers & Free Printable post is all about!

With this simple DIY tutorial, you can spread some joy this holiday season by keeping your loved ones {as well as postmen, military members or even a complete stranger’s} fingertips nice & warm while they brave the bitter cold.

With just some simple patterned fleece and uncooked rice – these hand warmers are perfect for last minute gift giving and stocking stuffers. You don’t even need any special skills, tools or a ton of time to create them. I even made it EASY for you to gift them with a FREE “Warm Winter Wishes” gift tag printable – which can be found below with our step-by-step tutorial.

So what are you waiting for? If you love handmade, you’ll love sharing handmade gifts even more. Gather your materials and start making these today! You can find ALL the details and free file below!

A pair of green-handled scissors, a spool of white thread, a small white bowl filled with rice, and colorful pieces of patterned fleece fabric are arranged on a wooden surface for making DIY Fleece Hand Warmers.

These hand warmers are the perfect quick and easy gift idea for Christmas. They’re made with some simple patterned fleece and uncooked rice, so they can be whipped up in no time at all! Plus, they make a great stocking stuffer too.

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Two square pieces of fabric with colorful polka dots, pinking shears with green handles, and part of another fabric piece are arranged on a dark wooden surface—perfect for crafting DIY Fleece Hand Warmers. “GluedToMyCraftsBlog.com” is written at the bottom. A hand holds open the end of a purple and pink sock filled with uncooked rice, next to a white bowl of rice on a wooden surface—perfect for making DIY Fleece Hand Warmers. The text GluedToMyCraftsBlog.com appears at the bottom. Two square DIY Fleece Hand Warmers with pink, purple, brown, and gray polka dots on a white background are placed on a dark wooden surface. The edges of the sachets are neatly finished with pinking shears.

Directions:

  1. If desired, first make a template for the hand warmers on cardstock paper. {think circle, heart etc} I decided to free-style mine and make my hand warmers a 4 inches wide/tall square. You can make these any size or shape you like, but remember these will need to fit into coat pockets.
  2. Using your pinking shears, carefully cut out your shapes from the fleece. Two fleece pieces for each hand warmer.
  3. Then using a needle & thread, stitch the two pieces of fleece together, but make sure to leave an opening so you can pour in your rice.
  4. Using the open slot, fill your hand warmer with about 3/4 of uncooked rice.
  5. Then to finish it off, stitch it completely closed. Then download, print and add the “Warm Winter Wishes” gift tag to your new creations.

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A small, colorful fabric gift tied with twine features a red, scalloped tag that reads WARM WINTER WISHES in white letters. Perfect as DIY Fleece Hand Warmers, the package rests on a dark wooden surface.

When adding the “Warm Winter Wishes” gift tag printable to your handmade fleece hand warmers – you can also write a personalized message on the back and let the receiver know that all they need to do, is warm it up for 1 minute in the microwave and then tuck into their pockets to enjoy. These hand warmers are also great to keep in the freezer for when a “boo boo” comes along {speaking from experience right there!}

Happy “warm” crafting {and gifting} my friends! Don’t forget to share those pictures with us! You can ALWAYS tag us on Facebook or Instagram for easy sharing! #gluedtomycrafts

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