A needle pulling thread
Recently Jules and I attended an OSHCsa event hosted by BeYou which was about wellbeing. You probably read about it on our Community Noticeblog! What I didn’t mention in that story is that the event also included a Make My Bear workshop.
We thought that making our own plush toys might be an interesting activity to do with children at OSHC and since then Jules has been sourcing materials such as felt to craft them. Last Tuesday, we discovered an amazing coincidence- there were two children in attendance who have both recently made their own plush friends!
This is Rock.
Rock was hand sewn by nine year old CB and is made from a kit purchased from a well known department store.
How cool!
Meet Ted.
Ted was cut from fabric, sewn and brought into existence by the hand of nine year old FB.
How creative!
We’re going to source a couple of kits for CB and FB to inspire others with at OSHC. CB assures us that there are other Australian animals in the kit including a yellow-crested cockatoo! We’re also interested in collecting materials to create our own designs. And why stop there? We could learn to make puppets, muppets, and Season’s Greetings stockings and gift wrapping sheets!
Now you might be wondering what you can do to help and how this relates to our sustainability practices. Did you know that we have a sustainability action plan? I’ll save that for another time, but for now, we would be grateful to you if you had scrap pieces of material to donate to our cause that you might throw away otherwise!
We’re not asking you to go out and buy materials for us, we’ll plan do that when we need to. We’re keen to work with children to reduce waste and explore ways of re-purposing things. We’ll use larger pieces of fabric to create our designs and smaller pieces to stuff our plush wonders with!
Is anyone out there proficient with a sewing machine? We have one and we need lessons! We also need to complete a risk-benefit analysis to use the machine with children. In the meantime, if you have any scrap fabric to get rid of, please touch base with us at OSHC!
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A needle pulling thread..
Educators Jules and Zoe have been working with children to learn how to thread a needle.
Well done to CB, AW, and HA!