Birkat Chaverim
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 ...