My DGD Miss M spent the night. She has been desperately trying to make Barbie clothes. At one point I bought a few clothes but she kept trying to sew some... I tried to help - but Barbie is so intricate... Miss M has vision problems and her coordination isn't up to much. SO I picked up 3 naked Barbies from the thrift store to see if I could figure out the clothes... Well I got to thinking about lycra tubes and something that would just slide on Barbie and be easy to make. I google searched and found Barbie clothes made out of socks. So we went back to the thrift store and rounded up some socks. Stained socks were our favorite practice pieces. With a little snipping and a little sewing we figured out this would work. All of a sudden Miss M quit - packed it all up and wants to wait until her two sisters are here and we can
all have the fun. It isn't the clothes it is the
MAKING them she wants - she doesn't CARE if they are durable or not. OK. I thought we should get some nicer socks so we went to the dollar store but didn't find much selection or the type of socks we wanted for a dollar.
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So we started a crazy quilt out of the pile of scraps I gave her to make Barbie some clothes. She was in hog heaven. She loves design work and fabric she can see well enough to do crazy. But now I understand why they call them crazy quilts... Then when she made 3 squares she was ready to change gears of course. We decided she could make a few squares when ever she was at my house.
We google searched about making a doll house. OH MY - three hours later we went to bed... I remember making my own doll house out of a card board box - I was busy for HOURS - made a big mess, too...
So my question.... What was your favorite MAKING it yourself project with a kid OR when you were a kid??? Any pictures? How about some ideas to share with other people? What about things to DO with boys?