Crafting with wool is one of the most popularActivities for small children. It promotes fine motor skills, the ability to concentrate and is a lot of fun. We offer you several craft ideas with wool for children in kindergarten and primary school. This means you have a leisure activity for which the children do not need any prior knowledge. Without blobs of paint on the table and hands with glue that leave sticky fingerprints on furniture and textiles!
Crafting with wool: Make your own wool monster from Pom Pom
First, we'll explain how youcute monstersYou can make your own from leftover wool. You need the following materials:
- Wool in different colors (purple, green, brown, pink)
- craft wire
- Felt in white and black (for the monster eyes)
- Glue or hot glue
- a pom pom maker or two rectangular pieces of cardboard, one measuring 4cm x 7cm, the other 3cm x 5cm
- a pair of scissors
- Pipe cleaner, a 10 cm long piece
Directions:
- Wrap the wool around the first, larger piece of cardboard.
- Once you have wrapped enough wool around the cardboard, pull a 15cm long piece of wool and insert it between the cardboard and the wool. Tie the ends of the thread together (see photo instructions below).
- Now use scissors to cut the wool along the edge of the cardboard piece.
4. Carefully remove the cardboard.
5. Do the same with the smaller piece of cardboard and make severallittle pompoms.
6. Cut out several circles with a diameter of 3 cm from the white felt.
7. Cut several circles with a diameter of 1.5 cm from the black felt.
8. Glue the black circles onto the white circles.
9. Attach the eyes by securing them with hot glue.
10. Cut several 10 cm long pieces of craft wire.
11. Insert one end of the first piece of craft wire into the larger pom-pom and the second into the smaller pom-pom. Alternatively, you can use the pipe cleaner.
Crafts with wool for children: hedgehogs
The next craft idea is fora beautiful collagemade of colored paper. You need the following materials:
- self-adhesive colored paper in white, cream
- little red pompoms
- a black fineliner
- a toilet paper roll
- Leftover wool in brown
- Wooden popsicle stick
First, work with the children to cut out a tree trunk from brown colored paper, a tree crown, blades of grass and a bush from green paper, the sun from yellow colored paper and several flowers from pink paper. Glue everything onto a beige piece of paper and attach the red pom-poms with glue. Next, wrap the toilet paper roll with brown colored paper or cut out a 10 cm wide and 30 cm long piece of colored paper and glue the sides together.
Cut out a hedgehog silhouette from beige colored paper. Wrap brown colored paper around the wooden stem and glue the stem to the back of the hedgehog silhouette. Draw the hedgehog face and apply glue to itHedgehog bodyon. Cut out many 1cm long pieces of wool and attach them.
Crafting with leftover wool: Make a beautiful rainbow with the children
You can make a beautiful rainbow with the children using foam rubber and leftover wool. Cut out 6 semicircles from foam rubber in the following colors:
- Semicircle with a diameter of 1 cm in purple
- Semicircle with a diameter of 3 cm in blue
- Semicircle with a diameter of 5 cm in green
- Semicircle with a diameter of 7 cm in yellow
- Semicircle with a diameter of 9 cm in orange
- Semicircle with a diameter of 11 cm in red
Glue the semicircles together to form a rainbow. Use a compass to poke two holes in each semicircle. Cut out two red, two orange, two yellow, two green, two blue and two purple pieces of wool yarn, thread them through the holes and knot them.
For the next craft idea with wool and rope you need 7 pieces of rope and wool in purple, blue, light blue, grass green, yellow, orange and red, knitted fleece and hot glue. Proceed as follows:
Cut the rope into 7 pieces, the first should be 7 cm, the second 9, the third 11 etc. and the last 19 cm long. Then wrap the first piece with purple, the second with blue, the third with light blue, the fourth with green, the fifth with yellow, the sixth with orange and the seventh with red woolen yarn. Leave 2 cm free on each side. Cut out a piece of the knitted fleece in a rainbow shape and glue all the rope pieces onto it. Now all that's left is to fray the ends of the rope.
Crafting with wool and cardboard: idea for children in primary school
The next craft idea is a lot of fun and can be completed quickly. You can create geometric patterns on cardboard or wood using wool yarn. For this purpose you need:
- Several rectangles made of wood or cardboard
- Wool yarn in different colors
- a flat brush
- Discolored
- adhesive
- Knitting needle
- Pencil
First, draw geometric patterns on the cardboard or wood with a pencil. Then mark the locations of the holes. Drill the holes in the wood or poke holes in the cardboard. Stick the masking tape on half of the wood or cardboard pieces and paint the other half with the flat brush. Let the children help with this. Then wait for the paint to dry. Thread cotton yarn into a knitting needle and pass the needle through the holes to create beautiful geometric patterns.
Craft ideas with wool for children: wool animals
With a little creativity, you can turn wool pom-poms into cute magical animals. You will need the following materials: wool, small pom-poms, pipe cleaners, feathers, googly eyes glue, scissors. First make three pom poms. Glue the feathers and googly eyes in place. The smaller pom poms will serve as feet. Then wrap the pipe cleaners around a pencil and insert them into the large pom-pom.
By the way, small devices for making pompoms are sold in the USA. These pom pom makers are made of plastic and are similar to the two cardboard rings used in Germany. A pom pom maker can be used to make pom poms of different sizes. It is therefore the perfect choice for DIY beginners. But experienced DIY enthusiasts also use it because they can make pom-poms much faster.
This craft idea is ideal for families with toddlers of kindergarten age. The children can practice cutting and gluing and are sure to have a lot of fun. To be on the safe side, parents should first practice using scissors and glue safely with their children and never leave the little ones unattended while doing crafts.
Crafts with wool: flowers
Next, we present you a particularly cool and simple idea: make flowers out of wool and pipe cleaners. All you need is wool yarn, green pipe cleaners and decorative ribbon. First, make a pom-pom out of the wool. Then fray the ends of the wool yarn. Then take three 15 cm long pipe cleaners (you can also cut a longer pipe cleaner with secateurs or pliers). Then insert the stems (the pipe cleaners) into the flowers (the pompoms), attaching them with glue if necessary. Then tie the three flowers together with the decorative ribbon. A beautiful bouquet of flowers is ready, which is ideal as decoration in the children's room or in the kitchen.
Craft ideas with wool for children: Make your own butterflies
Make cute butterflies out of wool, wooden sticks and pipe cleaners. You need the following materials:
- two wooden handles
- two wooden beads
- Wool yarn in purple, light green and orange
- two pipe cleaners
- adhesive
- a pair of scissors
Cross the wooden stems and glue them together. Wrap the stems first with the light green, then with the purple and finally with the orange wool yarn. Glue two pipe cleaners to the center. Thread the pipe cleaners through the wooden beads.
Crafting with wool: heart
The next garland is a lovely Valentine's Day surprise that you can make with your children. For the garland with hearts made of wool yarn, all you need is a heart made of cardboard and wool yarn, which you will wrap around the template.
