Attempting to live life at a snail's pace

I've been wishing to make some of these wool felt snails ever since I picked up a copy of Felt Craft, by Freya Jaffke a few years ago.  Our excursion the other day was just the necessary motivation. The boys picked out the colors for two of them, R on the left, E in the middle, and I picked the colors for the one on the right and in the top picture.

The snail pictures the boys drew have been gifted away already.