Felting in Florida
My husband I recently went to Florida to visit our son and his family. I usually try to bring some wool for my grandsons to play with. We also babysat while our son and daughter-in-law took a weekend away for their anniversary. It’s always good to keep the boys occupied indoors since it was unbearably hot and humid outside.
This time I thought it would be fun to do pictures. So, I had them each draw a picture.
Here they are busy creating. Luke, the six year old, drew dinosaurs. Josh, the four year old, is into a game or video called Stickman, so Stickmen it was along with an emoji.
I had brought some white prefelt for the background and colored prefelts for cutouts and a variety of colored roving for them to chose from.
Luke was able to cut most of the big shapes himself, but I helped on the smaller details. As we worked, we discussed the best way to add each part of the picture. He had very definite ideas. Since he had done felting before, he was able to do most of the rubbing and rolling himself.
Josh also had very definite ideas on colors and shapes. In his picture, we used mostly roving. The eyes were too hard for him, so I did that. He’s a very good supervisor giving detailed instructions on what colors and were to put everything. He started the felting process, then lost interest. So, Grandma had to finish. By the way, those are bananas on the tree. Evidently, Stickmen like bananas.
Unfortunately, the vinyl tablecloth I used to protect the wood table began to leach color into the felt even though we used bubble wrap. So, there are a few pink spots in the corners. The boys didn’t seem to mind though.
If they ever get a trampoline, I can see them using Zara’s method to felt a rug. I know they’d enjoy that!