Wool Crafts for Children

Sheeps' wool can be used by children to make crafts.sheeps wool on a wire fence image by hazel proudlove from Fotolia.com

Wool is a versatile crafts material for children. It comes in many different forms including raw balls, felt and yarn and is easy to handle. Children can use wool and their imaginations to create pictures, animals and games and to tell stories or to make gifts for friends and family members.

Wooly Sheep

Create a cuddly sheep toy from cardboard tubes and wool. Stuff an empty paper towel cardboard tube and four toilet paper tubes full with raw wool. Glue white paper around each tube, and glue the tubes together. Break off tufts of raw wool and glue it to the outside of the cardboard tubes to create a fat, woolly sheep toy.

A wool octopus is easy to make out of thick wool yarn. Wrap the yarn lengthwise around a book about fifty times until you have a handful of yarn on each side of the book. The taller the book, the taller your octopus will be. Cut the yarn from the yarn ball. Slip the yarn off the book, and tie it about 2 inches from the top. This is the octopus' hair which you can leave in loops or cut through the loops to create spiky hair. Move about 6 to 7 inches down from the hair, and tie off the yarn again. This forms the face where you will glue on wool felt eyes and a mouth. Cut the yarn loops below the face, and braid and tie it off to form eight legs.

Your children can tell their favorite stories over and over again by making a felt wool storyboard. The storyboard becomes the stage for the story. Cover a piece of stiff cardboard or wood with wool felt by stapling or gluing the felt to the back of the board. Cut out different story characters and objects from the wool felt. Your children can now tell the story by adding these cutouts to the board where they will stick as the story is told until your children take them down for the next scene change.

Wool ghosts are a decoration to make for Halloween or a scary diorama. Wrap black yarn lengthwise around a book about 25 times. Cut the black yarn from the yarn ball, and tie the yarn end from the book to the end of an orange yarn ball. Wrap the orange yarn around the book about 25 times, and then cut it from the ball. Remove the yarn from the book, and tie it off about 3 inches below the top to form the ghost's head. You can stuff bits of tissue paper into the head area before you tie it off if it needs to be rounder. Cut the bottom loops to form the body fringe. Cut out black eyes and a screaming mouth from wool felt. Glue them to the ghost's head. Start with the orange yarn instead of the black yarn if you want your ghost to look more black on the outside. In that case, use orange felt for the eyes and mouth.