Making A Felted Christmas Tree

Brother Bear needed to make a decorated Christmas Tree to have displayed at school.  Every year on every holiday the kids will make some sort of holiday item to hang on the walls.  Between Sister Bear and Brother Bear, I have made (or helped make) a bazillion of these projects.  This time, I asked Brother Bear if he wanted to change it up a bit.  Of course he said yes so...we decided to throw away the paper (ok, set it aside for another project) and use the resources we have here on the farm....Alpaca Fiber.  Yes, we were going to felt our Christmas Tree.

Brother Bear helped me pick open the fiber before we ran it through My Precious and he helped me arrange the fleece prior to felting.  We started by wet felting then needle felted final embellishments which he arranged.  Now, I did have to take over after he broke three of my felting needles, "It was just an accident, Mom" but I knew going in that would happen.  I wanted him to learn and I learned too plus how can I resist those gorgeous blue eyes.  He even offered to pose for the Santa hat photo.  I love that Bear!

It was the perfect ending to the perfect weekend being creative with my son.  I hope his teacher enjoys our thinking outside of the box and off the paper.