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| "Home Sweet Home" Scene in Felt |
 catie writes, "Just like a preschool felt board, simple shapes combine to create a happy house on a hill."
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Materials:
Plain paper
Colored pencils
Empty cereal box
Felt in various colors {I like eco-felt made of recycled plastic bottles}
Scissors
Sewing machine {with thread}
1) Make a Sketch
Using plain paper and colored pencils, sketch out your scene. Use large, simple shapes that will be easy to cut out of felt.
2) Cut Felt Shapes
Older kids can do this step themselves. For younger kids, cut the shapes for them, using their sketch as a guide. Use sharp fabric scissors to make cutting easier. The house is a square or rectangle with a triangle roof. The sun is a circle with several long triangles to make the rays. The sky can just be a long blue rectangle across the top. Add as many or as few details as you want.
3) Make the Canvas
Cut the front or back rectangle from a cereal box.
4) Arrange Felt Shapes on Canvas
Lay the pieces out on your cardboard rectangle until you are happy with how they look. Let the shapes overlap, as this will give your piece a more 3-D appearance.
5) Sew
Carefully remove and set aside the pieces, leaving only the ground and sky. Using a sewing machine, stitch the ground and sky directly to the cardboard. Add the other pieces back, stitching them as you go. Just a few stitches in the center will hold them down, but you can also use the stitches in a decorative way to outline your shapes. Try sewing extra shapes into the felt, like windy swirl stitching added to the sky. Allow a few of the felt pieces to hang off the edge of the cardboard to give it a more artistic look.
Other Ideas:
~ Swap the felt for whatever kind of fabric you have on hand.
~ No Sew Version: Skip the sewing and simply glue felt to cardboard.
~ Make a little village, using smaller house shapes all in a row.
~ Add a raincloud out of white or grey felt. Make it rain with long sewn stitches coming down from the cloud.
~ Add flowers by bunching up a piece of floral-print fabric and stitching to your scene {see example in the photo}.
Catie Eyer
Artist, mom, and blogger at http://five-ten-fifteen.blogspot.com/
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Posted on Jun 02, 2012 07:41am.
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