Sew Your Own Nursery Rhyme: Wheels on the Bus

The wheels on the bus go round and round – all day long!

Bring this beloved nursery rhyme to life in tactile, easy-to-sew felt: perfect for play time and story time!

Jump aboard this fabulous playtime bus, and join a collection of busy little bears on an exciting day out around town. Discover how to make the bus (complete with windscreen wipers to swish and a horn to beep, not to mention wheels that really do go round and round), the bears, a stretch of road to make as long or short as you like, and even a bus stop for picking up and dropping off passengers – all from gorgeously tactile felt. The bus is perfect for playing with and storing the characters and makes the ideal accompaniment to rhyme time and story time!

Based on the popular stop-motion animation by Little Woolly Vision, the bus and its host of happy passengers will provide hours of interactive, hands-on play. Simply follow the step-by-step instructions and use the templates to create your own irresistible collection of bears, all ready to ride the moving bus.

The book features:

• easy-to-follow patterns for the bus, the driver and all the passengers and accessories
• basic stitches, simple sewing techniques and very few materials
• full-size or easily scalable templates for all the makes including the moving bus

This is the second book in the Sew Your Own Nursery Rhyme series; for more rhyme time fun down on the farm discover Sew Your Own Nursery Rhyme: Old MacDonald (9781800922907).

Visit www.littlewoollyvision.com or @LittleWoollyVision on YouTube to watch (and sing along with!) the original animation. Or visit nudinits.com to discover the author's best-selling cheeky knits for grown-ups!Introduction; Materials and Tools ; Stitches; Bus; Bears; Pandas; Baby Bears; Bears’ Accessories; Bus Driver’s Hat; Bags and Scarves; Street Accessories; Bus Stop Sign; Bushes; Road Sections; PatternsSarah Simi is a knitter extraordinaire and the creator, director and producer of Nudinits, the world’s first all-knitted animation. Sarah makes lots of the puppets and sets for the animations of Little Woolly Vision - the children’s division of Woolly Vision, a multi-award winning, stop-motion animation company specializing in making animation with wool, fabric and felt. The aim is to put a new spin on nursery rhymes and to move away from the computer generated animation so often associated with children’s songs online. Every nursery rhyme on their channel is animated using traditional stop-motion techniques and each puppet and set hand sewn with felt.

Sarah lives in Kent, UK