How to turn your knitted oblong into a ball

This activity is very rewarding to make and play with once finished! 

You will need:

  • Size 3-4 mm knitting needles. 
  • One colour or two or more eg rainbow colours of wool or cotton 12–20 stitches 
  • A balloon and red lentils to fill it 
  • Sewing needles to bring it altogether into a ball from an oblong . 

The finished ball can be used in numerous ways: throwing, rolling, fidgeting! etc but also for juggling if three are made. In addition if a thread is attached they hang and turn like a mobile or can be used as a game for swinging around. They make fun Christmas tree decorations. Some people even use them as eccentric earrings!


Video 1 reminds you how to cast on stitches, how to knit and how to attach a new colour.

Video 1 reminds you how to cast on stitches ,how to knit and how to attach a new colour 

Video 2 does casting off and filling the balloon and sewing and pulling it into a ball ! 
It’s not as difficult as it might appear !

Video 2 does casting off and filling the balloon and sewing and pulling it into a ball ! 
It’s not as difficult as it might appear !
How to make a ball

Abracadabra book 2 for violin practice and tune recognition

Turkey in the straw
Wrangle raffle gypsie
In dulcimer jubilee
Down the green fields
Simple gifts
The wreck round
Tum balaika
Schubert’s theme and variations 

The Mexican hat dance 
Green sleeves
The jolly miller
Schubert Rosamunde 
Trumpet hornpipe

The animals went in two by two
Jim Bolton’s fancy ,Irish

Nara nagila ,Israeli
Sailors walk

Morris dance 
Amazing grace 
Cossack song 
La Cucracha

Londonderry Air,Irish
The lonely goatherd
Walk from Swan lake
 by Tchaikovsky
Where is love ? 

Lightwordlearning.com

Welcome to lightwordlearning.com  

Memorising words –
ideas and strategies

Go to https://lightwordlearning.com/

If you are interested in memorising passages from the bible as well as poems and other text then go to our sister site https://lightwordlearning.com/

You probably appreciate the importance of memorising but just knowing that doesn’t make it easy! It remains very challenging and an outer priority for most of us with busy lives and endless alternative activities.

Memory is like a muscle. It requires regular exercise but also a training strategy.

For many years I was frustrated at my inability to make verses or poems stick. So I began looking into memory techniques particularly hanging verses on journeying pegs.

Now, I find capturing words and fixing them in imaginative and fun ways a rewarding daily exercise. You create a mental library or film studio that you can access at any time.

So to help anyone out there who wants some ideas, tools, encouragement …..this site will provide regular updates with memory goals as well as strategies and resources to make learning words possible. The more you practice the quicker you will get.

The site will grow in posts and resources over the year. You can look at ‘live’ blog updates with passages and ideas but also go to the ‘monthly schedule’ with a programme you can jump on board.

I will often be uploading hand written material sometimes in simple note form. My priority is not to spend hours designing documents but to share regular ideas and suggestions that I am currently working at .

We are all different in the way we learn things. Perhaps this site will help spark your own imagination and strategies. In the long term this will give you greater success.

On the site bible book study files are uploaded too if that interests you. Just for fun my series on Draw the World is also available here.

Flying Ribbon Crafts

Circles / bracelets from rolled paper and plaiting.

Cut circles from paper towelling/ toilet tube of cane if you can get it .

Making circles

Attach crepe paper or ribbons . 

Make a flying ball from a material circle filled with lentils and two ribbons attached to hold and whizz further and higher

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Ball project

Dance and enjoy, put on music.