Felting a football for the Little Friends
The Crafting with the Little Friends is great fun and provides entertainment in the playroom! If your little ones are real Little Friends fans and also like to play soccer, they will definitely enjoy this short tutorial. With a few simple steps your kids can make a football for the Little Friends team – with materials you definitely have at home. Let's go!
What you need for felting
a large towel as a work surface
white wool batting
a bowl of warm water
bar soap
a bowl of clear cold water
Felting with the Little Friends
Step 1: We start with the bar soap
First put some bar soap into the warm water and dissolve it. Then dry your hands thoroughly, because the wool batting must not get wet! Now take a small piece of wool batting and shape it into a loose ball:
Step 2: Moisten the football
Now moisten this ball with some soapy water …
Step 3: Shape a perfect sphere
… and gently roll it back and forth between your hands.
Step 4: Make it firmer with wool batting
During this you keep moistening it with soapy water. The firmer the ball becomes, the more firmly you roll it between your hands. When the small ball is nicely firm, place a new layer of wool batting around it, …
Step 5: Rinse with water
… moisten it and continue rolling the ball. When the ball is really nice and firm, wash it in clear water, squeeze it well, …
Update: The ball is already finished!
… and let it dry thoroughly. As soon as it is dry, it's ready.
Step 6: The final touch
For Matze the ball should have a diameter of about 2 cm. Of course you can also felt larger balls in colorful shades for yourselves in this way by gradually adding more and more layers of wool batting around the ball. If you want to give the ball the matching 'soccer-ball look', you can draw small pentagons on the ball (e.g. with a black fabric marker), then it will look like in the picture on the left.
Final result
And now you've reached the end of the felting tutorial. Great result, isn't it? Now the big soccer tournament can begin!