For this Project you'll need:
light blue felt
white felt
green felt
orange felt
red felt
gray felt
dark brown felt
light brown felt
scissors
thread
sewing machine (optional)
a button
This was one of the simplest pages to make because I didn't need to cut out any patterns from paper or make intricate details, I was able to freehand cut everything. This pic shows everything cut out and laid out.
After I cut everything out, I used my sewing machine to sew first the clouds, then the light brown, leaving a few spaces for carrots to go (just backstitch on both sides of the opening), then the dark brown felt, sewing the sides, but leaving a large opening in the middle for carrots, then the green felt, leaving the whole top open as a pocket. Then I sewed the red wheelbarrow and then the three gray strips of felt were the final, you'll see I decided to use a zig zag stitch on these.
Then I hand-sewed the button on as the "wheel" of the wheelbarrow. The last step was to hand sew the carrots together. I cut out two pieces of orange felt for each carrot, so I sewed around the edge of these, making sure the green leafy part was in between at the top. As you see below, I tried different stitch lengths and techniques - I think that adds to the handmade charm!
I love thinking through all the things a child can learn from this page. What carrots look like, what a wheelbarrow looks like, where carrots come from, how carrots are harvested, that carrots grow in the dirt, but the green top is above the dirt.
And I love the element of fun to pull the carrots out of the ground...
...and load them into the wheelbarrow!
