Needle Felted Jack O'Lantern, Ages 10 +

This is a fun intro class to the cool process of needle felting also known as wool painting. This is a dry felting process using a barbed needle and wool roving to create a felted Jack O'Lantern.  Suggested age is 10 and up due to the sharp barbed needle required. 
The dry felting process of needle felting is achieved by continuously poking and stabbing the pure wool roving which causes the fibers to interlock and felt.
Students will form and felt a pumpkin shape. We will felt in the grooves all around. Stems and leaves will be felted separately and then felted onto the pumpkin. His face (eyes, nose and mouth) will be added last. Everything is done using the needle (no glue). I will work each step of making the pumpkin with the class.