Our Latest Project

Today we finally put together the situpons that we bought materials for a few weeks ago. We are planning on doing quite a bit of outdoor nature study for school this year,and, remembering the situpons we made in girls scouts, I thought we should have something to sit upon while we draw in our nature notebooks. We took some vinyl tablecloths from Big Lots, newspapers, string, my new leather punch (very spiffy toy!) and twist ties (handy "needles"!) and created beautiful new seats for ourselves. I am very proud of the girls - they stitched up theirs all by themselves! Katy got frustrated a lot at first because it wan't coming out perfect with every stitch. She kept asking for help, and for a while I showed her why it was knotting and helped her undo it. After a while, though, I told her that she had the tools she needed amd that she needed to try to figure it out for herself. She got really frustrated, so I advised taking a break, to which she responded that she wanted to get it done. So, after a brief internal struggle, she applied herself, figured out how to fix some knots herself (very proudly!) and sewed up the entire thing (very proudly!)! I am so proud of her - this is the thing we are struggling with in her handwriting somewhat (perfectionism versus cold hard reality), and so it was a great advance thast she stuck with it and completed the task! Darsie did great, too. She stopped for a while, tired of it and wanting to play. When Katy wouldn't come play with her because she wanted to finish hers, Darsie came back to the table on her own and picked it up and finished hers! She did great sewing, especially considering that she has never really done it at all before!
Now we are ready to venture out next week with out nature journals and pencils in hand!