Rebecca also sent a photo of the Math Gnomes which she felted for her daughter:

They’re so cute (if I do say so myself and I do LOL) and very easy to make. I took a pipe cleaner and bent it into a frame, then needle-felted plain sheep’s wool onto it. Then I took fleece in the corresponding colors and felted that on with the needle. Finally, I took a bit of yarn that was darker than the fleece and felted the gnome’s sign onto its hat or belly. They turned out really nicely, and it gave us something concrete to use when we were doing our stories. I used some of the Enki stories, some of the stories out of Dorothy Harrer’s Math for the Elementary Grades, and then just made up stories using our now familiar characters–those were especially popular in the car. You don’t know joy until you hear your daughter saying, ‘Mommy, can you turn off the radio and tell me a Max Multiply story please?”