I love wool, I wish I had known about this great textile when I was a child. Wool roving dyed many different colors is so appealing to work with. Not only do my little ones love to wet felt with it, I love to needle felt it.

This afternoon I found myself feeling rather uninspired with what to do with the girls. It was a hot afternoon, and I found my brain dragging. So I set them outside to play and I soon joined them with my small basket of different colored wool roving, my felting needles and felting pad.

As I sat there in the shade wondering what I should make, my oldest (almost 4) comes over, asking what I was making. My honest answer was “I don’t know yet”. So I asked her what color should I start with. Wonderfully dyed blue wool was chosen from the basket. Okay, I thought. This could be sky. I loosely needle felted it in place. Then, chose some green for fields…soon, my youngest was also joining in, and we started to design a picture together, with the sun, a road, and a sheep. The questions started, “where does the sheep live?” “What does he eat?” “Who are his friends?” Soon I was telling a story, and we all enjoyed it! I realized that this was just another way to expand our imaginations as well as throwing in some factual learning as well.



My oldest is always asking me to draw her things, so this is just an extension of that concept. We also started making a tree today which we will finish in the coming days. I envision making the leaves really full and adding branches. Then we can add all the animals who live in the tree, and start telling stories to each other about how the animals live/interact with one another. In fact, my 2 year old and 3+ year old are exceptional story tellers. I dare say they are far better at it than I am! ;)

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