Collaborative Dry Felt Project for Middle School Students

This mammoth collaborative class project was the second installment of the original Starry Night Felt Project. (You can find this lesson and project over here) — This mammoth collaborative class project was the second instalment of the original Starry Night Felt Project pictured below. I loved the final outcome SO much I wanted to try another Van Gogh inspired collaborative dry-felt project.

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I was so happy with how the final artwork turned out I thought we could try it again with our next semester of Year 8 Textile students. AND how great would it be to have two beautiful felting pieces framed and on display side by side 🙂 Still using the theme of Van Gogh (can’t get enough of him!), this time we changed the artwork to be based on A Wheat Field with Cypress, oil on canvas, 1889.

In the same way as the previous project our class studied:

Vincent Van Gogh
Where does wool come from?
Dry Felting Technique
How to work collaboratively in a design team

Each student had one standard piece of felt (a little larger than A4), and the whole artwork is made up of 25 individual pieces. It was a great opportunity for students to learn how to communicate effectively and collaboratively and also plan and manage their project to finish on time.

Project Resources I created for this project can be downloaded here: