Birkat Chaverim
This week we continued working on the patterns for shorts and sewing. This week some of the girls brought Build a Bear clothing they already had to get ideas and compare. Interestingly enough, one of the patterns we were working on, turned out to be quite similar to the Build a Bear one. It was good that she brought the clothing, because we almost forg ...
I forgot to mention that although baby and kids socks generally are too small for Build a Bears, they do make great appliques. The girls were quite creative in what they wanted to use in their designs. The second week, some of the girls finished up their projects from the week before. One girl decided to bring in felt to make a dress and headdress (no p ...
I showed the girls the Barbie clothing (see post on birth of chug for picture) and Build a Bear outfit (currently unphotographed.) Barbies have a really large selection of clothing choices- baby socks make great shirts, children's socks have great colors and patterns and are easy skirts or pants. With a little sewing men and women's socks become so ...
I hadn't run a doll clothing workshop ever, and its been a while since i've run craft classes for children. I came up with a list of what I thought we might do and figured we'd play it by ear: Sock and stocking shirts, pants- I bought some ready made felt and fabric applique items to decorate elasticized shirts foam hats and flip flops felt shoes ...
The naked Barbies was point A. Then my niece N was sick. My daughter and I went over to visit and do some projects with her for her Build a Bear. She's pretty creative and the result of that was a really cute outfit out of a black sock and a sock flower embellishment. Hence build a bear gets an outfit. In our neighbourhood, Build a Bears are pretty p ...
This chug or workshop/after school activity evolved from a gift to my daughter of naked Barbies and because my niece was sick. Or clothing for barbie turned into a mini class. My daughter received a bunch of hand-me-down toys (we love hand me downs- reuse, recycle!) including three Barbies, with only one outfit. While I don't particularly mind when so ...