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How to Make a Wooly Yarn Wall Hanging for Kids

May 4, 2024

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Create a bright, colorful yarn wall hanging OR a wooly wall monster? The choice is yours with this amazing textile activity. Photo updates by Anna Harpe.

Updated June 2024

This is one of the most fun projects we’ve ever seen. And the end result looks amazing!

We call it the wooly yarn wall hanging. And if you add some googly eyes it becomes a wooly wall MONSTER!

This colorful project is a fun and easy and accommodates all ages and abilities. It works well as a collaborative project and most importantly, keeps hands busy for those chatty times!

Wooly Yarn Wall Hanging

MATERIALS

An arch shaped piece of cardboard (any size works, but keep in mind the bigger it is, the longer it will take to complete)
Double sided tape
Yarn in a range of colors
Tinsel for textural variety and sparkle
Scissors
Googly eyes for Woolly Wall Monster variation (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut yarn
Begin by cutting yarn into even lengths. Anywhere between 10cm and 20cm works well, but feel free to get experimental!

The quickest way is to wrap it around a scrap piece of cardboard several times and cut along the edges.
Begin attaching yarn to cardboard
Start attaching your first row of yarn by running a strip of tape across the bottom of your cardboard and attaching pieces of yarn.

This is an opportunity to talk about color choices. Which colors look good alongside each other? What is everyone’s favorite color?
Continue adding rows of yarn
Run a second row of tape above the previous one and continue as before, alternating colors, perhaps adding tinsel for texture here and there.
Keep going…
Continue row by row like this until you reach the top and have created a fluffy and fantastically MAGICAL work of ART!
Add googly eyes
At this point you can add googly eyes for a Monster, or not for a more serious piece of contemporary textile wall art!

If you try making this fun yarn project, be sure to tag us on Instagram @theartfulparent!

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Laura + Emily

We are Laura Mah (BA, Grad Dip Ed) and Emily Van Der Molen (BA, Grad Dip Ed). We are both artists, art teachers, Mums (and besties) with superpowers in making art education whizz bang wonderful. We met studying art at uni, making very similar artworks on opposite sides of the studio, then both went on to become art teachers. But it wasn’t until many years later that we reconnected over our mutual love of all things bright and sparkly, and realized we’ve been living parallel lives since the 70’s.

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