Felting Fun! Grades K-2 Recap

 We had so much fun in our K-2 Felting Fun Class!

Week One

Learning Targets:

• What is Wool Roving and where does it come from?
• What is wet felting?
• Make a flat picture using wet felting 

We read the book Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep which is a story about how the sheep have their wool sheered, made into wool roving (which we will be using!), the roving turned into yarn, and the yarn knitted into sweaters for the sheep.  I enjoy reading this book because it does a great job a teaching the different stages of wool and yarn. 

To wet felt, we made many criss-cross layers of roving, put it in a zip top bag with soap and water (felting is a good clean fun 😉), and then agitated it with our hands. Here is one example of a student’s wool roving before felting.

Week Two:

Learning Targets:

• What is needlefelting?
• Learn how to safely work with felting needles
• Looked at the needle felting work of Madison, Wisconsin artist Tamara Tsurkan    

Students used needle felting tools to create their own “wool painting” from a planning sketch.  These turned out great and were so unique to each artist!

                                 

Week Three

In week three, we continued to use needle felting to make a teeny tiny meal.

Learning Targets:

• Continue to refine needle felting skills and safety
• Generate an idea of their favorite meal and turn it into a felting creation

Are you ready to get hungry?  I really wanted to pick up a pizza on the way home from this class for some reason 🤔