Winding Wool Art

Time

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4 3 2 1 Early-Mid Stages

Benefits

Participants

One to One, Self Led or Group Activity

What you need

Various colours of wool
Card (A4 or A5)
Pre-prepared card templates, with images cut out (e.g. a rabbit, tree, cat, flower, butterfly, star or shapes)
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Intro

Wile away an afternoon winding colourful wool around pieces of card to create some lovely, tactile artwork. This activity is super simple to set up, but ever so relaxing.

Just get the wool and card out, and if in a group or with family and friends, chat, sip tea and wind to their heart’s content. Or give someone some TLC and set up the activity as a one-on-one.

The Activity

Invite people to choose one colour of wool to use first
Tape the end of the wool to one side of the card, about 2cm down
Begin winding the wool around the card, keeping each line close together
Wind it round as many times as they like, then stop at the back, cut the wool and tape it to the same side as the other end
Pick another colour and do the same again
Keep going until they’ve used all the colours they want to
Glue another piece of card to the back to hide the taped wool ends
Pick a card template and glue it on top of the wool-wound card
People can now give this decorative, tactile picture to their friends or family as a card, or they can hang it somewhere for all to admire

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