My grandson who is 4 is fascinated with all machines. We made a small quilt 4 5"blocks by 5 5" blocks. He operated the foot peddle while I put the squares through. We sandwiched the quilt and using the walking foot we put big X's for the quilting; again my grandson doing the peddle work. He also got to choose special stiches on my machine and stich those. Soon I think we will try letting him do the sewing.