Magic Wool: Creative Pictures and Tableaux with Natural Sheep's Wool

Freya Jaffke and Dagmar Schmidt; Translated by Donald Maclean

Price:	£9.99
Publication Date:	01 Sep 2011
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Activities with unspun sheep's wool, also known as magic wool, offer a wide range of creative possibilities for both children and adults. In this book Dagmar Schmidt and Freya Jaffke combine their talents and experience, and show how to create beautiful pictures, as well as table-top scenes featuring figures and animals.

They explain the process of carding and dyeing unspun wool to make magic wool. They focus on making pictures with wool, including scenes from several well-known fairy tales and festivals, before showing how to make simple dolls and animals, building up to an entire nativity scene. Detailed instructions, diagrams and colour photographs are provided throughout.

About the Author(s)

Freya Jaffke is an experienced Steiner-Waldorf kindergarten teacher in Germany. Her books on early childhood have sold well over quarter of a million copies worldwide and include, Toymaking with Children, Work and Play in Early Childhood, and Celebrating Festivals with Children.

Dagmar Schmidt is a craft teacher in Tübingen, Germany.

Useful Things to Know

More wool crafts for children:
Creative Wool: Making Woolen Crafts with Children by Karin Neuschütz
Magic Wool Fairies by Christine Schäfer
More Magic Wool by Angelika Wolk-Gerche