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From: PaulineG
Date: 04-20-2007, 04:29 AM (1 of 7)
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My 11 yo son has a project to complete for school. Together with a friend he has to spend $20 on materials and make a number of items for sale. Most of the project is related to the advertising, costing etc. of the item so they are using it as a way to sneakily teach them different things. At the end of the project they need to hold a market and sell the items to the school community and decide what to do with their proceeds - probably a charity of some description. I'm just looking for ideas on really easy things to make for a craft impaired pair of 11 yos. We've talked about making "no sew" polar fleece scarves and tissue packet holders but he thinks that the marketing of these to other children (particularly the tissue holders) might be a problem. It would be better if little or no use of the sewing machine was required as the intention is to make the items primarily at school but they are allowed to work at home if necessary. TIA for any ideas. Pauline
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User: PaulineG
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From: Sancin
Date: 04-20-2007, 04:46 AM (2 of 7)
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Can they use glue rather than the sewing machine? What about little sacks to hold Ipods. I just bought a bright one today to protect the one I keep losing. Something that is labeler for 'whatever' belongings. Make a label and attacher (tie) and take pigma pens to individualize at the sale. Another idea may be little notebooks (paper tied together for address and phone numbers of friends (unless, of course, everyone in the school has cell phones with all the bells and whistles and lists)
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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User: Sancin
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From: lendube
Date: 04-20-2007, 11:56 AM (3 of 7)
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Hey Pauline, Try posting this under "Crafts" or "Sewing for Kids". I bet you'll get more of the younger moms. (No offense Nancy, those were good ideas.  )Lennie |
User: lendube
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From: Pudge99
Date: 04-20-2007, 12:38 PM (4 of 7)
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Ah, now, if he is a true business man he needs to make crafts that the shoppers (girls) will love. If you were in the States I would suggest decorating the cheap flip flops that can be found at Hobby Lobby. There are loads of crafts to be found at this site (http://makingfriends.com/). I do a lot of them with my kids over the summer.
Gina
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From: Sancin
Date: 04-20-2007, 08:26 PM (5 of 7)
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No offence taken, Lennie. I was trying to think of things that young people use today and all I could think of was the Ipod. I am dumbfounded at the number of children out there with cell phones and the cost of subscriptions. I had to stop a young man in an airport once to ask him how to turn on my cell phone!! He knew. I wonder if children, or even their parents buy hand made things these days. I am constantly surprised at what is available for children either by demand or businesses doing just what Pauline's children are being asked to do. At the college where I used to teach the business students had to do a big project every year and faculty were the trial run - office door to office door. Some were very creative (like business cards made from the dead pine beetle wood) and some just so so (like entertainment tickets - a frequent one). Pauline, let us know the final decision and outcome. Many of us have grandchildren who may be in the same boat. Bah Humbug 
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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User: Sancin
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From: esrun3
Date: 04-21-2007, 01:49 PM (6 of 7)
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How about making some candy bar covers or decorating notebooks? Just takes paper and some imagination. For the candy bars you would just measure around a candy bar of your choice, cut your paper to that size, be sure to overlap the ends bit, decorate, wrap the paper around and glue or tape it shut. They could also decorate the fronts of notebooks by gluing or taping a piece of scrapbook paper or construction paper to the front and decorating with whatever works-stickers, paints, crayons, colored pencils, etc. Hope your son and his friend enjoy doing this project! Lyn
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User: esrun3
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From: PaulineG
Date: 04-30-2007, 08:13 AM (7 of 7)
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Well we decided to go with the no sew fleece scarves and within 5 minutes I knew it was a mistake. First they couldn't mark the fleece with the chalk well enough (probably should have seen that coming) so I had to make a pattern to help them cut straight lines. Then even with a pattern they couldn't cut straight (unjagged) lines with scissors. So we moved on to a rotary cutter and mat (all the while I'm biting my nails) and having to line up the mat several times to go under the length of the scarf. In fact the boys couldn't even cut the fringe without jagged bits - I didn't realise it was that hard! I kept having to hold myself back from doing it for them. So the project that was meant to be done at school and to be really simple for a great result turned into the highly supervised at home only (because of the cutter) difficult project that will probably only have a mediocre result. I think in the end I'll learn more from the experience than the boys will. How to bite my tongue and accept less than perfect results. It will be good for me. Pauline
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User: PaulineG
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