Last year one of my amazing student teachers Grace Rogers taught me this super fun welt felted bead process. She had learned this process from a National Art Education Conference. My first thought was why doesn't every art teacher know about this?I know you are all like wow she has such a big hear always worrying about everyone else, I do. I tried to convince her to present it at our Wisconsin Art Education Fall Conference. Of course she was not a big fan of that idea. So, I decided to sign us up to present it together. I am a really thoughtful cooperating teacher like that.
We had such a blast making these beads and I think the art teachers that came had fun too. Of course all of their beads turned out at least ten times better then mine so I thought I should probably share the results with you and the process visuals so you can try it on your own. Note: I will not be sharing any of the my examples (Mostly because they look like poo compared to everyone else's...I know I know I am not good at making felted beads YET!!!)
We had such a blast making these beads and I think the art teachers that came had fun too. Of course all of their beads turned out at least ten times better then mine so I thought I should probably share the results with you and the process visuals so you can try it on your own. Note: I will not be sharing any of the my examples (Mostly because they look like poo compared to everyone else's...I know I know I am not good at making felted beads YET!!!)
So, above is our process visuals for the art teachers because we know they like lots of pictures.
No, but in all seriousness I am super excited to try out this process in my classroom. I am planning on having my 3rd graders use this process to make some fun sea creatures, and sea anemone(I just threw that word in their so you could have fun trying to say it) for their wet felted fish project. I know you all have much better ideas of how you can incorporate this project into your curriculum and I would love to hear them!