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Animals, birds and fish were chosen from the book "Traditional Animal Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftspeople" by Madeleine Orban Szontagh.
The motifs were divided into three sections:
The animals were cut out
of felt, stitched and decorated. They were stuck on a large inner circle (on
the panel) which represented land. It was made out of bubble wrap stuck onto
some material. The large bubbles were slit open and stuffed with wool of different
shades of green.
The fish and amphibians have
also been made on felt. This time, they were decorated using Foil Magic. First,
a pattern of lines was traced out on the felt shapes. Glue was applied to the
lines and it was left to dry. Then the foil was rubbed onto each line. The girls
loved this excellent technique. The aqueous animals were put onto a circular
crown (surrounding the land) of bubbly wrapping plastic which had been sprayed
with a pale blue acrylic paint.
Birds and butterflies were
made by sticking petals on the shapes of these animals cut in Bondaweb. (Instructions
for this technique are on the banner page.)
The creatures of the air were stuck on a brown paper background (the rest of
the panel) which had been painted, waxed and polished.
The panel itself was made stronger with some fabric backing (onto which everything was firmly attached). It was then hung from a pole.
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