Sunday, October 9, 2016

Making Felt Forest Animals

Hand-sewing is a hobby for me.   I like to do it while riding in the car, while waiting for meetings to start, or in just about any spare few minutes.

I've been making felt toys such as felt doll families, felt puppets, and felt dinosaurs . . .



And now have made a new pattern set . . .  it is for felt forest animals.  This new hand-sewing project is available at my educational materials shop on Etsy, AlltheTimeLearning; here is a link: Forest Animals Felt Pattern Set 



Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Making Paper Clowns!

Here are two different clown designs, to be used as craft projects --

First there is a clown that has hinged joints, using metal brads:


For this clown, the pieces are first colored, then cut out, and joined together.  Notice that if you want to make a shorter clown, the same parts can be used, but without the upper arm and leg sections.  

This was a really fun project to make.  The clowns can be posed in various ways, and played with, so it is a craft that also can become a toy.


The second clown project is a simpler project, but also makes a moveable figure.  The body is an accordion-folded strip of card stock, and the head is a cardstock circle, with a triangle hat.  Both arms are made together as one long strip, that is taped or glued to the back of the folded body.





For pattern pages to make both types of papercraft clowns, see Gentle Shepherd's Arts and Crafts Freebies page: www.gentleshepcurr.com/arts-and-crafts-freebies