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Old 08-24-2010, 10:37 AM
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Butterflyblue
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Two things I have done with my daughter, who is 4:

I bought some plastic canvas and let her practice sewing with yarn and a blunt needle.

Also, I cut cookie cutter type shapes out of felt and made dots around the edges to show where to sew. Put two shapes together, sew together, leaving a gap, and stuff. She did really good at that, actually.

I've found she has a short attention span, and after it is exhausted, she's going to do things deliberately wrong just to get my attention, so when she starts making mistakes I just put the sewing away.

I haven't let my daughter use the machine at all yet. I know she's not ready to give it the sustained attention it would require.
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