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Wednesday 13 August 2014

Sea Life School Felt Project












 I recently worked with two Year 6 classes (11 year olds) and two Year 2 classes (7 year olds) at a local Primary School. We decided to do sea life since their school logo is two dolphins.

One Year 2 class dyed prefelt with Kool Aid ...






































                                                                                                                                                                  Whilst the other Year 2 class made some lovely textured pre felts....

























































































One Year 6 class made sea anemones / coral ...







                                                                                                                                                                     
And the other class made tropical fish...




























       

         





















The Year 2 children then spent a day putting it all together.

They made the dolphins...






































                                                                                                                                                            They then worked in groups to lay down the background using wool tops on a layer of blue prefelt ...






They cut the prefelts they had made into seaweed, coral, a couple of jellyfish and starfish.  Each child had already used their prefelt to cut out a small fish to be used in some shoals of fish.










And then they positioned everything - which did prove difficult since there was so much to fit on!






It was almost complete in the above photo - there were still two jellyfish and some shoals of fish to squeeze in!

Once everyone was happy there was a lot of rubbing to do - which luckily the children usually really enjoy - especially the wetting out bit.








After the rubbing and some rolling it measured around 110cm by 160cm which was just right for mounting on a 1 metre by 1 and a half metre canvas.







Here are the two dolphins ...










And here it is in it's new home...






                               


































I think the children did a brilliant job. They also made something for themselves - either a jelly fish or a tropical fish.

Pippin thought it was great!



And she like's her new jellyfish friend!


























6 comments:

  1. Wow - this is such an amazing piece of felt, the children must be really proud (most adults would not be able to make something so beautiful), I hope it is hanging where they can all enjoy it.

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    1. Thanks Teri, It's in a well used corridor so the children will be able to see it and feel it too - the different textures made it very tactile!

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  2. Super project!!! I'm sure you've started a new group of feltmakers on their way!!

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    1. Thank you Heather. Hopefully the project will have inspired some new feltmakers. Last year I worked in the same school and a ten year old girl told me she wanted to be a feltmaker when she grew up!

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  3. It looks absolutely fab finished and mounted. good job

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