Felting….today my lad learned to felt at the Art Museum of London. They have a homeschool art program there.
the program he attended was called
Never Felt Better Children will learn the sculptural technique of wet felting, in which crisscrossed layers of wool are dampened with warm soapy water and agitated by rubbing and rolling, and will experiment with felting around a form to make three dimensional pieces.
about 20 children all told. Some of us parents chose to help. Good thing we did or the singleton teacher would not have coped particularly well with that many students.
The lad had a hoot.
He at first didn’t much like his snake, but later he was quite intrigued by it.
He does DISLIKE intensely the mat that he made. “it doesn’t look like anything mommy”. So we may end up throwing it out.
It was a good experience for us. Next time we’ll try to get there a bit earlier so parking isn’t so expensive.
the next one we’ll go to will be on book binding.