This summer we added to our outdoor play space mobile by making a sun out of a styrofoam ball, pipe cleaners, and then needle felting two shades of yellow wool over top.



Sophie (age 2.5) helped hold the pipe cleaners as I placed them around the ball.



Once we got them where we wanted, I started needle felting the pipe cleaners.



This is a project I was making up as I went along, so after I had one pipe cleaner felted I tested to make sure it would indeed poke into the Styrofoam.



Success!



It was a bit of a tedious process, but Sophie had her own project on the go. :)





The finished project…




At home with the cloud & the butterfly. :)

I would recommend that a layer of wool be needle felted over the entire body to make sure the pipe cleaner rays are in there good and snug.