Customer Review:
Over the summer many of us want to give the kids - not to mention ourselves! - a break from academics, but it's always nice to have some activities on hand to keep them busy on a road trip or a rainy afternoon. This Sewing & Quilting Activity Book from Bunkhouse Sewing is just the trick!
The book is filled with a variety of different pencil and paper activities, each with a sewing theme. Introduce your 6-12 year olds to sewing vocabulary by doing some of the word puzzles, or make math fun by doing a worksheet in which quilt blocks are coloured in according to the sum of the numbers inside them. There are a number of exercises that make use of spatial abilities & observation skills that will be important as your child learns to sew: doing mazes, reading grids, enlarging a pattern, sketching in the second half of a symmetrical object. There are also a few pages that allow kids to be creative, designing quilts or colouring in clothing, or sketching out the first sewing project they want to make.
This is a delightful book, and the activities are a lot of fun. Both my 10-year-old and my 6-year-old were asking for more after we tried our first few sheets! I expect it will be a wonderful lead-in to the other sewing instruction books that we are set to begin in the near future.
Kyla Marie Matton (CurrClick.com)