Make your own pom pom lamb lamb

You'll need:

• a ball of wool
• some of those stick-on chair leg/floor protectors 
• (from a discount Tiger shop etc.)
• cardboard
• scissors
• patience (a lot of winding is involved ;o)

Draw around something round the size of
the body you want.

And cut it out.

Now put that on the cardboard, draw around it and cut
it out so you have two identical circles.

Then using pointy scissors, poke a hole in the
middle and cut a circle out of the middle.

Put it on top of the other circle, draw around the
middle and cut it out too.

Now you have two cardboard doughnuts.
Ours could have been more symmetrical but who's looking.

Now wind some of your ball of wool into about
three smaller balls of wool. Make them
small enough to fit through the
hole in the middle of the circles. 

Now put the two cardboard doughnuts together,
hold the end of the first small ball of wool and
start winding it through the hole and out
and round and into the hole again.
And again, and again times lots and lots.

After three small balls of wool and a lot of
winding, it will look like this.

This next bit is slightly tricky. Mum or dad will
need to help. Poke the end of the scissors
into the edge of the wool, down in between
the two doughnuts and carefully
snip, snip, snip - BUT FIRST...

It turned out to be easier when I poked the rest
of the original ball of wool through the hole in
the doughnut to hold it all in place while I snipped.

Nearly done snipping all the way round.

Take out the original ball of wool and
carefully separate the two doughnuts a
little. Take a length of wool (half a metre)
and tie it right around in between the
cardboard doughnuts to hold all the wool
in place.

Knot it as tightly as possible,

Now trim off any bits that poke out.

The small round stick-on chair leg/floor
protectors made great eyes. 

And Jake cut out a head from the larger
sheet of stick-on protector felt. If you can't find
these, you can just cut a head out of black,
grey or white cardboard or felt and stick it on.  

Cut out two heads.

Stick on the eyes and fix the 'hair' between
the two heads.

Now tie two lengths of wool in, under and
out of the piece of wool holding it all together. 

Knot it tightly. These are the legs.

And stick pairs of medium stick-on
protectors on the end of each 'leg'.

A bundle of fun we had to hang up high so
Dr Watson didn't get hold of him.

HAPPY EASTER!