Background

For my oldest son's third birthday I decided to make a tent to fix under his wooden climbing frame. 


It started off as a basic material tent which would tie onto the wooden supports.  Then, because he was mad on bugs I thought it would be a nice idea to decorate it with bugs.  I drew templates from images in books and on the internet and used them to cut shapes from felt.  These shapes needed decorating with embroidery, and a friend suggested it would be fun if they were hiding behind leaves, then a nice lady in the local sewing shop suggested a window..... and the rest is history. 



The tent in situ

One of the side panals

Bumblebee


Black beetle

Butterfly

Caterpillar

Milipede

Dragonfly

Earwig

Grasshopper

Ladybird

Slug

Snail

Spider

Stag beetle

Woodlouse

Worm
Following this I made a couple of other items using commercial felt (shown in Gallery 1).  Then I decided to experiment making my own felt and some of these items can be seen in Gallery 2.