A BIG PROJECT

For the last several weeks, about 1 month, Papa Porcupine and I have been busy cutting out over 600 pieces for the new Porcupine Mission Felt board.
This is the large Betty Lukens Through the Bible. They are Brilliantly colored and a excellent felt teaching visual.

We cut, cut and then cut some more. It actually was kind of habit forming and fun. Kind of like knitting or crocheting in ones spare time.
We finished up this huge project this week and even though it is quite an accomplishment, it is almost a let down since I kind of miss the cutting.

We know we could have ask and received help with the cutting but it was cold, snowy and a very good winter/spring activity for us.

You can see how thick and good quality the felt is. We needed to use very sharp good quality scissors also. These are probably the best scissors I have ever owned.

Here are both our scissors! Can you tell the difference?

You got it, The lower pair are left hand and belong to my husband. He actually cut out more then I did. He also purchased wood and made the folding board. It is a 32" x 48" board. We covered it with main water & sky background by duck taping it around the folding board. The other backgrounds or overlays will stick nicely to that. It really is fun and we pray this will help the Bible Lessons come to life for the children. It will take a lot of practice and preparation!

We also had a good size pile of scraps. Nice very thick white felt.

I'm saving some of the largest, longest pieces in hope they will come in handy for some craft for the Porcupine mission. I would be happy to hear any ideas you might have!

These 600 figures all fit nicely organized in two large box's, every cut out has a number on it and fits on the outline with the same number. You can see where the small Jesus figure is not on the top layer.

Each sheet has a label on with the numbers and description to make it easy when picking figures for the Bible lesson to be taught.

Now this is all the figures my husband has put together to teach a certain

lesson for the next time he has the Children's service. Can anyone figure out what will be taught with this felt board?
I will look forward to reading your comments!