Well, I can't express in words my love for felting. It's a fresh love; I've been talking about it for years but took the plunge this past winter. Today? I introduced Van and his friend to it!
What we used was loose wool roving, 2 small, square buckets, bamboo knitting needles (or little fingers) and a small amount of warm soap water. You'll also need some fun shaped cookie cutters- we used a moose and a bear! I'm excited to do simple shapes too that don't have as many little spaces to fill.
I'd fill the bucket just enough to cover your cookie cutter, place the wool into the cookie cutter, as much as it takes to fill it all in. Poke poke poke to manipulate the wool and to start the felting. These guys were at it for no more than 5 minutes, then I took over before grabbing a spatula and scooping them out onto a plate (in the future I'd lay them out onto a towel) then just press it in a paper or cloth towel to remove the water.
Can you believe that was the last step? Well you can if you want, otherwise break out the sewing kit and start embellishing!
I just trimmed the little bear in black thread to give him a bit more of a shape, added little golden thread eyes and a pink nose, added some cute ribbon so he can be hung up and that was all!
I may have been a bit more excited than the kids for the finished product but they loved being hands on picking out the colors of wool and which cookie cutters.. Originally we were going to do letters but the animals won. Another idea is to mix colors, the roving can be found at Michaels Craft Stores and in so many colors.
What i would really like to do next is make a garland for vans room out of letters and shapes that he likes- let the hunt for more cutters begin!!!
What we used was loose wool roving, 2 small, square buckets, bamboo knitting needles (or little fingers) and a small amount of warm soap water. You'll also need some fun shaped cookie cutters- we used a moose and a bear! I'm excited to do simple shapes too that don't have as many little spaces to fill.
I'd fill the bucket just enough to cover your cookie cutter, place the wool into the cookie cutter, as much as it takes to fill it all in. Poke poke poke to manipulate the wool and to start the felting. These guys were at it for no more than 5 minutes, then I took over before grabbing a spatula and scooping them out onto a plate (in the future I'd lay them out onto a towel) then just press it in a paper or cloth towel to remove the water.
Can you believe that was the last step? Well you can if you want, otherwise break out the sewing kit and start embellishing!
I just trimmed the little bear in black thread to give him a bit more of a shape, added little golden thread eyes and a pink nose, added some cute ribbon so he can be hung up and that was all!
I may have been a bit more excited than the kids for the finished product but they loved being hands on picking out the colors of wool and which cookie cutters.. Originally we were going to do letters but the animals won. Another idea is to mix colors, the roving can be found at Michaels Craft Stores and in so many colors.
What i would really like to do next is make a garland for vans room out of letters and shapes that he likes- let the hunt for more cutters begin!!!
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