rainbow felted easter eggs

  • Posted by erin

Using our rainbow wool roving, the kids and I made wet felted eggs, perfect to hold treasures for their Easter Baskets in less than two short weeks.

To make these we wrapped little plastic eggs with wool. I would suggest taping these at the seam so they don’t pop open, like two of ours did. starting to wrap

I’m not an expert on felting, but we’ve learned lots of little tricks along the way. One thing that is a must if you are new to it is to make sure you pull your felt apart as I have in the picture below before wrapping it around your egg.
rainbow roving

wrapping the egg

Wrap a good amount of roving tightly around your egg. wrapped and slightly needled Camille and I needled them just a little bit to make them easier to handle when we tossed them in the water.

We follow Martha Stewart’s post on wet felting. This is the kids favorite part, and mine too. Lots of suds and water getting everywhere, so much fun!hot soapy & cold water

two sweet kiddos felting

After we finished wet felting, we tossed ours in dryer. You don’t have to do this. Depending on how tightly you wrapped yours, or how soft you want your egg, its really up to you. Ours were in the dryer for about five minutes.
wet felted complete

They turned out great, and I’m looking forward to adding these to the little one’s baskets.
A couple other fun egg inspirations:
Paper Mache Easter Eggs
Coloring Eggs Naturally
Surprise Yarn Eggs

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