King Equals Meets the Math Gnomes

It was time to introduce King Equals to the math gnomes, but he's supposed to be dressed all in royal purple and I didn't have any purple felt and didn't feel like waiting for a piece of mail-ordered felt to arrive. The solution was to make it myself. I used the last of the blue acid dye powder from the tie dyed t-shirt we made two weeks ago and mixed it with packages of unsweetened cherry Kool-aid. I don't think I could reproduce this process again it I tried, but it did work.



I dyed some wool roving and then used the instructions from The Art of Feltmaking, by Anne Einset Vickrey, for making flat felt in a plastic bag.












Here are more useful links for math gnome stories:

http://waldorfjourney.typepad.com/a_journey_through_waldorf/2008/07/the-four-proces.html


http://www.oakmeadow.com/curriculum/overviews/1_Web_Overview.pdf