I totally that anyone under 10 is probably not ready to sew. I tried with my 7 year GD and she was not ready. I thought she could do a 9 patch by hand. I even marked the seam lines and she still wasn't ready. She did enjoy sewing buttons on scraps of fabric and helping sew a large print stuffed animal. She enjoyed stuffing it. I used to teach 7th graders to sew and believe me it involved lots of sewing without thread on lined paper just to figure out how to follow a line and guide a sewing machine. The 8 th grader after practice could probably handle a pillowcase. We used to do a simple stuffed animal in 7th grade.