Check out this adorable children’s craft kit for making little yarn-animals using the technique of spool knitting. It’s designed to be fun, approachable, and a great introduction to crafting with yarn.

What’s Included

According to product listings:

Instruction book / guide with step-by-step directions.

Wooden spool-knitting tool (sometimes called a knitting “loom” or “knitting dolly”) with a yarn pick.

5 skeins of craft yarn (fluffy yarn to make the animals).

3 felt squares — for adding details / features to the animals.

4 EVA foam squares — also for structure / decoration

12 googly eyes in assorted sizes — to give personality to the animals. 

12 pipe cleaners in assorted colours — useful for limbs, tails, other shapes. 

4 assorted Styrofoam shapes — these can be used as “cores” or forms to build around. 

10 mini pom-poms (assorted) — for decoration / extra fluff. 

White glue — to secure decorations. 

10 acrylic beads — for extra decorative touches. 

How It Works / What You Do

You use the spool-knitting tool to create tubes of knitted yarn.Then, with the felt, foam shapes, pipe cleaners, pom-poms, and googly eyes, you decorate those knitted tubes to turn them into cute little animals. 

The guidebook provides patterns or ideas for multiple different animals — one version of the kit says you can make 19 different animal designs. 

Because of the materials and tools, it's a reusable kit: once you’ve made some animals, you can spool knit new tubes and make more creations.