Hi Everyone, We made a beautiful vest out of the fur cloth which was lying in our house for past 3 years. My daughter did the entire vest by herself except cutting. She had hand sewn the entire project. Materials needed: 1. 1/2 to 1 yard of fur cloth (All fabric shops have that) 2. …
Hi Everyone,My eight year old is learning to embroider. Her first project was embroidered bookmark which she did with two basic stitches. Here we are with another project embroidered coaster with only one basic stitch – tent stitch. Materials needed: 1. Plastic Canvas (affiliation link) 2. Tapestry thread 3. Needle Method: 1. Thread your needle. …
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Hi Everyone, When my daughter was showing interest to learn hand sewing, this was the first activity we did. This simple activity taught her making stitches and knots. Materials needed : 1. Hair rubber band 2. Felt 3. Needle 4. Thread 5. Button 6. Scissors 7. Copier paper Method : Step 1 : My daughter …
Hi Everyone, My eight year old asks me to teach her crochet whenever she sees me doing. Last month when we tried, she was not able to do any stitches. But suddenly within a month’s time, she caught hold of chain and single crochet. We made this simple flower using those basic stitches – …
I am happy to be part of ABC’s of nature series, hosted by School Time Snippets! For 26 days, 26 bloggers share a letter of the alphabet and a nature themed idea. This post is about letter “T”.Nature is rich in texture. It has both tactile and visual texture. Please join me and my toddler, …
Hi Everyone,I am happy to share free Summer printables. It is suitable for kids 4-6 years. Thanks to openclipart.org for the graphics. The printables has 1. Matching or memory game 2. Which one is different? 3. What comes next? 4. Skip counting by 5 5. Learn the value of numbers 6. Circle the lowercase letter …
Hi Everyone,My eight year old is showing a lot of interest towards embroidery, sewing and crochet. We are making use of the summer vacation to learn the basics of them. She is a visual learner. Videos teach her better than books. We watched the videos of running stitch, back stitch and lazy daisy. We found …
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Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of the book. All opinions are 100% my own!Designing and building a book bridge comes from the brand new book “101 Kids Activities That Are the Bestest, Funnest Ever!” by Holly Homer and Rachel Miller of Kids Activities Blog! The book is packed with inspiring ideas and colorful pictures. …
We have used vegetable mesh bag for painting and to develop problem solving skills. This time we used for fine motor skill, hand eye coordination and tripod grasp. Materials needed: 1. Vegetable mesh bag 2. Two bowls 3. Beans 4. Tape Cover one of the bowls with the mesh bag. Tape it on the sides of …
As soon as my toddler got comfortable with sorting, I introduced her to matching. She loves matching activities and everyday she asks for one. According to her it is called memory game. Still I am figuring out how she got that name. 1. Animal matching This is the first matching activity we did. I took …