This was one of those fun, spontaneous projects that became the creative focus for the day. Vivienne wanted to sew, and started to patch some fabric together. She planned to make a scarf and wanted to stuff it with wool to make it fluffy. I helped her to sew the pieced fabric into a tube. Then she decided that it should be a snake, so she added button eyes and a fabric tongue. Well, as soon as she had finished, Jasper and Mia wanted snakes, too. So they busily collected their fabric scraps and I sewed pieces together, they picked out buttons, and before you know it a whole snake family was created.
The kids had snake races down our stairs, they made snake leashes, they even made aluminum foil medals for the race winners. Hours were spent playing and cuddling their creatures, and it was so awesome to watch them enjoy being kids! It reminded me of the many opportunities for unstructured play that I had as a child, and how grateful I am to give that to my own children.
three cheers for first place in the snake race! 
9 comments:
Hi,
I saw you on the home-asheville loop when I was going through old emails. I think you are well on your way to having a great homeschool year. Your blog is lovely. I hope you have a great year.
Blessings,
Dawn
I love those spontaneous creative moments! Love the snakes... and you fabric scraps!
so cute! I bet your children just love these.
Cute snakes! I love all the fun fabrics.
these are wonderful! hmm. you've given me some inspiration for some of the scraps lying around here.
what a great idea, I love your snakes !!
Yes, yes, yes....to unstructured play!! And I'm with you about being grateful...I'm completely in love with those adorable snakes btw :-)
these are so cute and a great art project for kids :)
oh what a gorgeous use for scraps! looking forward to seeing your homeschooling journey unfold :)
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