Showing posts with label farm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farm. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 July 2012

The felt farm



I love exploring with felt and have recently made a wonderful discovery! that t-shirt transfer works to transfer images onto white felt. Due to our theme of animals I decided to make Little Boo a Felt Farm.  Here is how it went.

I printed images of the farm animals and people on to the transfer paper, do not forget images need to be mirrored when printing so when completed they are the correct way around. These images were from  Twinkl and Dltk

Cut out  images and place face down on the felt.  It was important this was white as the transfer paper I had was for light fabrics. Please be careful when ironing place a t-towel over the felt and pieces and keep rotating the iron.  Mine needed ironing for quite a long time.  Do not use steam. 

The completed piece.  I also made, the sun, house, gate and had the tractor from a cheap felt set I had brought. 

Little Boo playing with her new felt farm. 


Putting the ducks in the pond 
It was great fun playing with this and got Little Boo thinking she started making up little stories about the farm and setting the scene with the felt pieces.  This also encouraged counting as I asked questions such as "how many ducks are there?"