Needle Felted Hearts – Beginner Needle Felting Project for Kids
Over a year ago I brought a set of supplies for needle felting with the idea of trying the craft out myself and then introducing the kids to this handicraft. This week I finally got the equipment out and for this weeks theme for early elementary (key stage 1) learning theme of Valentine’s Day I decided it was as good a time as any. So we created some Needle Felted Hearts ideal for Valentine’s Day. Please check out the end of the post for other Valentine’s Day themed learning activities for early elementary aged students.
Materials
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Needle Felting Foam Pad (US) Foam Felting Mat (UK)
Needle Felting Tool (US) Needle Felting Tool (UK)
Heart Cookie Cutter
Natural Wool Roving, Red (US) Red wool roving (UK) {Other Colours are available}
PRINTABLE FUN VALENTINES GAMES IN OUR RAINY DAY MUM STORE
Some fun Valentine’s Cards for Toddlers and Preschoolers to make too!
How to make Needle Felted Hearts with Kids
My kids are almost 5 and 6 and I did this one on one with the kids instead of as a group activity the Needle Felting Tool is extremly sharp and I wanted to make sure that we didn’t have any accidents of stabbed fingers.
Reading about Needle Felting in craft magazines and on notices in one of our local craft stores I realised that using a cookie cuter would be an ideal way to start with the kids and we had a small heart one which would be perfect for the activity.
Start of with taking a small section of the wool roving and then tear it up breaking up the straight edges and creating soft ends to the wool.
Pack the heart cookie cutter with the wool roving.
Then take the needle felting tool and stab the wool – it has barbs on it so that it will start to force the wool together compacting it.
Take off the cookie cutter and the heart and turn over to do the other side.
Stab until you have a felted sheet. – I tried this as well as the kids first so that I could teach them and it was really relaxing to stab the wool down and watch it come together.
The hearts – my youngest is struggling at school at the moment and she took her heart with her in her lunch box to remind her of me and hold when she was feeling upset. My eldest decided to be inspired by our Virtual Book Club for Kids Author Dr Seuss and Create a Green Needle Felted Heart for the Grinch.
See how we adapted this Needle Felted Heart into a Heart Book Mark over on Red Ted Art.
More Valentine’s Day Learning Activities
Low Prep Rounding Activity by Life Over C’s
Conversation Heart More or Less Activity by Raising Little Superheroes
{FREE} Valentine’s Math Game for PreK to 4th Grade from Preschool Powol Packets
Tile Printed Heart Cards from Peakle Pie
Broken Hearts Compound Words from School Time Snippets
Spelling with Hearts sort the right and wrong spellings from In The Playroom
Kid’s Engineering: Valentines Heart Bombs from Thriving STEM
We have never done needle felting before– looks lovely!
Cool! I love how it came together–we might need to get some felting supplies now!