Teach Your Child To Sew
With the number of fabric stores closing, and even online fabric sites cutting back, it is beginning to appear that sewing and even crafting may be becoming a lost art!
The downside of not teaching our children and grandchildren how to sew, how to craft, how to paint, etc is that we are failing to help open their minds to creativity, which would become a part of them for the rest of their life. Little sewing cards for example can teach older toddlers how to master the art of getting the thread into the holes of the card, helping with dexterity, learning a little patience, then the joy of seeing the finished project.
I remember as a child, probably 7 or 8 years old I made a little doll for my sister for Christmas. My mother had given me some scraps of fabric, which I simply cut out in the shape of a doll - legs, arms, head - the entire doll, then stuffed it with more scraps of fabric (we didn't have any of the nice polyester stuffing in our house). I used crayons to make the face. As I remember now, it was a little lumpy, and probably wouldn't have passed the "this is beautiful" comments we like to hear about our projects nowdays, but it was something special that I made by myself, just for her.
Helping to boost your child's creativity while they are very young will help them think "out of the box" throughout their lives, including helping to solve problems in schoolwork, then on to giving them the ability to think through problems / situations in later life as they start college, begin careers, families, etc.
I read in an article a few years ago - and now I WISH I'd have kept the article -- where teaching children to sew, to paint, to craft, to make little blocks from spare pieces of wood, and the like, helped to expand their brains creative function, reasoning function and problem solving function by 30-40-50% over those children who did nothing except watch TV or play with the little hand held game devices.
For an older child, pre-teen or a teen, learning how to sew would benefit them AND their future families for the rest of their lives. Is there somebody in your family that you could teach how to sew? Just an hour or so a week or a little time a couple days a week could help somebody more than you'd ever know.
The downside of not teaching our children and grandchildren how to sew, how to craft, how to paint, etc is that we are failing to help open their minds to creativity, which would become a part of them for the rest of their life. Little sewing cards for example can teach older toddlers how to master the art of getting the thread into the holes of the card, helping with dexterity, learning a little patience, then the joy of seeing the finished project.
I remember as a child, probably 7 or 8 years old I made a little doll for my sister for Christmas. My mother had given me some scraps of fabric, which I simply cut out in the shape of a doll - legs, arms, head - the entire doll, then stuffed it with more scraps of fabric (we didn't have any of the nice polyester stuffing in our house). I used crayons to make the face. As I remember now, it was a little lumpy, and probably wouldn't have passed the "this is beautiful" comments we like to hear about our projects nowdays, but it was something special that I made by myself, just for her.
Helping to boost your child's creativity while they are very young will help them think "out of the box" throughout their lives, including helping to solve problems in schoolwork, then on to giving them the ability to think through problems / situations in later life as they start college, begin careers, families, etc.
I read in an article a few years ago - and now I WISH I'd have kept the article -- where teaching children to sew, to paint, to craft, to make little blocks from spare pieces of wood, and the like, helped to expand their brains creative function, reasoning function and problem solving function by 30-40-50% over those children who did nothing except watch TV or play with the little hand held game devices.
For an older child, pre-teen or a teen, learning how to sew would benefit them AND their future families for the rest of their lives. Is there somebody in your family that you could teach how to sew? Just an hour or so a week or a little time a couple days a week could help somebody more than you'd ever know.
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