Activities with unspun sheep’s wool, also known as magic wool, offer a wide range of creative possibilities for both children and adults. In this book Dagmar Schmidt and Freya Jaffke combine their talents and experience, and show how to create beautiful pictures, as well as table-top scenes featuring figures and animals. They explain the process of carding and dyeing unspun wool to make ‘magic wool’. They focus on making pictures with wool, including scenes from several well-known fairy tales and festivals, before showing how to make simple dolls and animals, building up to an entire nativity scene. Detailed instructions, diagrams and colour photographs are provided throughout.

• ISBN: 9780863158292
• Authors: Jaffke, Freya; Schmidt, Dagmar
• Translator: Maclean, Donald
• Published: 2011 , Floris Books
• Descriptors: Europe, Germany, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction
• No. of pages: 80