How to Make a Fun Yarn Faux Fire

As many of you know, I have a faux fireplace. My dream house some day will have a real fireplace, but for now I am going to have to warm myself by a wool fire 🙂 I thought I would create a blazing “fire” to sit by using black poster board and different colors of yarn. It’s kind of fun and kitschy yarn craft and really easy to Make a Fun Yarn Faux Fire! I love how it turned out for the house walk. The step by step directions are below.

To create my yarn faux fire, I used a large piece of 3 x 4 ft.black foam core from the craft store. It was the perfect size for my opening. If you have a larger space you want to make this for, two pieces can be taped together.

I used white craft glue to “draw” the lines for my fire. It actually helps if you let the glue sit for a few minutes before adding the yarn. It gets a little tacky that helps the yarn stick better. I drew freehand “flames” to make my fun yarn faux fire.

I then just cut my yarn to size and laid it on the wet glue to dry. I found it was a nice effect to use various sized yarns.

I had the colors on hand. I used red, orange and yellow. I just pressed them into the glue lines. If regular craft glue isn’t strong enough, you can also use what tacky glue.