3 Easy and Festive Crochet Christmas Turtles (Tree, Gift & Santa)

In this post, you’ll learn how to crochet three adorable Christmas Turtles including a Santa Claus Turtle, a Gift Box Turtle, and a Christmas Tree Turtle all with one step-by-step tutorial from Chubby Cheeks. These crochet turtles are cuddly, soft, and perfect for holiday gifting and decorating. With the professional and squishy finish of plush yarn, everybody will love them.

These plushies will certainly enhance your design skills. Intermediates should try them even though the tutorial is very detailed. The complete video guide for crocheting them will be available at the end of this post. For learning more about this amigurumi, read more below.

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Skills Used: You will need to be comfortable with basic stitches such as single crochet (sc), double crochet (dc), chain, half-double crochet, and slip stitch (sl st). Additionally, you’ll work with magic rings, which are essential for starting each turtle’s parts seamlessly in the round.

Shaping the turtles involves various increases and decreases, and you’ll also need to be good in color changes for festive features like the Santa hat and Christmas tree decorations.

Guide Span: 1 hour 23 Minutes

Personalization Tips: You can also crochet these Christmas turtles small by choosing a smaller crochet hook and less weight yarn. The only drawback is that you may find working with the small details a bit difficult.

Crochet Christmas Turtles Tutorial

This crochet Christmas tutorial is 3-in-1 super detailed crochet tutorial and displays top themes for crocheting the turtles. The idea is to customize the shell of the turtle and provides many colors for the body.

Abbreviations

Following are the abbreviations used in the on-screen pattern of the tutor and quick instructions that will help you crocheting them:

ch – chain: Yarn over, and pull through the loop on the hook.
sl st – slip stitch: Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through both the stitch and loop on hook.
MR – magic ring: Create a loop of yarn, insert hook, yarn over, pull through the loop, ch 1 to secure.
SC – single crochet: Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through both loops on hook.
inc – increase: Make two single crochets in the same stitch.
dec – decrease: Insert hook into the next stitch, pull up a loop, insert hook into the following stitch, pull up another loop, yarn over, pull through all loops on the hook.
hdc – half double crochet: Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through all three loops on hook.
dc – double crochet: Yarn over, insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two loops, yarn over, pull through remaining two loops.
FLO – Front loop only: Insert hook into the front loop of the stitch, yarn over, and complete the desired stitch.
R – row/round
[] – total stitch count