Learning to Sew With Cardboard Boxes
Here is a great idea sent in by a super cool mom that while re-using boxes and saving the earth is also teaching her daughter the important skill of sewing and fine motor skills.
First of all, I use flattened cardboard boxes to make templates for sewing projects. I cut around with a roller cutter.
Second, I let my daughter decorate them — she especially likes using chalk.
Third, I took inexpensive extra yarn, put a little tape at the end. I cut the cardboard into shapes of clothes (dress, sock, t-shirt, etc). I used a hole punch around the edges and taught her various stitches — up/down, round-the-back. Teaches dexterity and following a pattern. They are sort of the same idea as the “lacing shapes” that stores sell, but why buy when you can make whatever shape your kid wants so easily at home! There must be an easy way to fashion them so kiddos can sew shapes together most simply in a square or cube?
Thanks Marisa for sharing your idea!
