Needle felting a bird is probably one of the easier animal felting projects you can do. Especially when you felt it out of one large piece of wool batt and simply shape the head rather than needle felting a head separately and adding it on to the body of the bird. While there are many different ways to needle felt, I'm showing a modified version that I think works especially well for beginners and students. While I don't recommend you do needle felting with children under 8-10 years old, my daughter has been joining us in our needle felting projects since she was 5 years old. Her projects reflect her abilities and each time they've turned out lovely.
This project is for my 12-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter for our Bird Unit Study. They each chose a bird to needle felt. My daughter chose a blue bird and my son chose the red tanager, both were depicted at the back of the book by Dianna Aston called An Egg Is Quiet. I chose a house sparrow from the book Birds, Nests and Eggs by Mel Boring because we found a sparrow's nest in our front yard. After over a year, we finally removed the nest and brought it indoors where we made little eggs from Ultra Light Oven Bake Polymer Clay by Scupley.
For this project, we used materials from A Child's Dream. We used various colors of Ashford Corriedale Wool Roving over a base of undyed wool.
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We used small needle felting needles, finger guards and a foam pad.
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While you can find kits by WoolPets with all the supplies you need to needle felt a bird (or other projects), we opted to do our own with the materials we had one hand.
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One main difference between how we needle felt versus how you'll likely see other crafters do it, is that we keep our finished projects rather full and soft and squishy. Usually projects are needle felted until they are firmer. While this is a great option if you wish to work more closely with what other crafters do, the main advantage I see with working the project less is that we finish faster and the final project is softer. Finishing fast shouldn't be a goal in and of itself, but if little hands are tiring from a project like this, know that you can needle felt just enough to shape the animal. I actually prefer this look over the firmer projects, but I encourage you to try it the way that works for you.
Find more pics and details for this project on my website on the blog post for our Bird Unit Study.
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Check out the other videos in our Bird Unit here:
• Bird Unit Study
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18 сен 2019
