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Exceptional Tutorial! Intermediate to Advanced Needle Felters, Feathered Dragon!

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I just love it when I find a beautifully detailed and stunning project for the more advanced felter like this one.  For those of us who are past the beginner basics it can be hard to find something with a bit more substance to stretch us and help us learn more about this wonderful craft.

This project is a great blend of needle and wet felting.   Alena Bobrova takes you step by step through creating the gorgeous feathers in this project and if you haven’t wet felted before her tutorial is very detailed with wonderful results.  She doesn’t take you through creating the dragon itself but this is why I consider it to be a more advanced project as you can create anything yourself that you would like to add leaves or feathers to with this technique and the more advanced felter will have no trouble coming up with something they want to try this on!

You can find the tutorial here!

So if you haven’t tried blending dry and wet felting techniques yet this is your chance to give it a go.  And, as usual, I’m a great advocate for extending your learning and taking on techniques that really get you thinking of other ways you can make use of them.

Have a wonderful time checking out this tutorial and I do hope you enjoy it.

Happy Felting!

 

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Tropical Bird Crafts and Learning Activities

I don’t know why tropical animals feel like something you should learn about in the summer, because these tropical bird crafts and activities are great to do any time of year. Let’s take a look. 

Homeschool Giveaways has a printable tropical birds copywork book kids can use to practice cursive or print writing. They also have links to more fun printable activities, mostly about parrots, toucans and cockatoos.

Homeschool Share has a printable lapbook all about parrots. This one is a lot of fun because it includes things like the pros and cons of owning a pet parrot and some parrot jokes alongside information about where parrots live, why they have hooked beaks and their lifespan, among other things. 

Use colorful bird puzzles to reinforce number order with this free printable puzzle collection from Craft Play Learn. It includes five different bird puzzles that are each eight pieces. 

And if you want to look at toucans in particular, check out this toucan study guide aimed at elementary students from Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus. This isn’t a free resource but it’s 31 pages all about toucans, their life cycle, anatomy, what they eat, role in the rainforest ecosystem, activities and more well worth the cost. 

How about some tropical bird crafts? This 3D macaw parrot from The Craft Train is a great one, also not free but super cute and easy to make with the printables. 

I Heart Crafty Things has a super cute parrot made with cardboard and card stock. If you hang it from the ceiling it will even spin.

Or try the cute cardboard tube parrots from Kids Craft Room, which kids will love to decorate (you could even use feathers if you have some). You can also make a parrot (or whatever other tropical bird you like) from a paper plate with these instructions from Crafts on Sea.