Felt Easter Decorations
Here is an original craft for Easter! Tracy shows us how to make these
pretty felt Easter decorations which you can use to adorn your Easter cards,
felt Easter eggs, or your Easter table.
Needle felting, or dry felting, is a simple way of transforming wool into
felt creations. It requires little by way of equipment but does involve the use
of very sharp needles so children will need supervision. Felting needles are
very sharp and are barbed – this is what helps mesh the wool together to form
the felt.
You will need:
Assorted wool rovings (available online or from large craft retailers)
Felting needle (available online or from large craft retailers)
Suitable cookie cutter
Large sponge
Instructions:
Place your cookie cutter on to a sponge. (Please note that you can buy
specially designed mats for needle felting, but we have always been happy with
the results we have got from using a large sponge – far cheaper.) Place a layer
of wool rovings into your cookie cutter – try not to make it too thick, you can
always add more wool later.
Very carefully stab the needle through the wool into the sponge – this is the
basic process. You will need to work your way over the wool many times so keep
stabbing your needle in to the wool until you can see that it is felting
together.
Next you need to ensure that there is an even filling of wool so check for
any patches. If you find any, and add more wool rovings there and repeat
process.
Finally once you are happy that the shape is evenly covered you need to turn
the shape over and felt the reverse. You will probably find that the felt has
started to felt to the sponge, so peel it carefully off the sponge and reverse
shape. Then continue stabbing the reverse of the shape to create the felt.
Here is the reverse before felting ...
..and here is the reverse after felting.
You may want to add more felt to add details to your shape. We added a small
piece of wool roving to make a tail on our rabbit shape.
We have found needle felting quite addictive, so be warned, you may end up
with a whole host of creations!
Here is one way we have used our felt Easter decorations:
And here is another:
See also Felt Easter Eggs
More Easter Crafts for Kids
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