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my father's cousin who i met yesterday is a home ec teacher. she asked me to come up with ideas for simple sewing projects for grade 8s and 9s that would appeal to boys as well as girls. she said they make boxers and hoodies, but she needs some smaller projects. i suggested a tool belt with a couple pockets and a belt loop made of fabric, and she seemed to like that, and wants more suggestions by sunday. so i am asking you...

any ideas? if you were in the class, what would you want to make? or, what have you made that would be fairly easy for these kids to work on?

socks

we made stuffed animals in home ec in grade 7 .. worst class ever

i made one very pathetic looking dog

beenies

We made hand puppets in grade four Ummmm, gloves or mittens maybe, touques, can you sew that stuff or is that knitting only? :S, table clothes, runners for tables (long sheet of decorative cloth that runs across the table), napkins

In my 8th grade home ec class I made a bookbag, a stuffed bear (it's cute!), and some pajama pants.

We made teddy bears. I think what we did was we had the option to make the teddy bears or these big football-shaped pillows. That way the boys and girls can each make something they want.

ooooh. i like some of those ideas. the problems would be patterns. in terms of teddy bears, was it a one-piece cut out pattern, or were the arms, head, torso, legs, separate?

*makes list of suggestions to show relative*

thanks guys, keep the suggestions coming

The teddy bears we made were three pieces... one piece for the back, one for the front, then one for the nose.

nikki i made the same thing but in kindergarten, as well as a christmas staking

They made you sew in kindergarden? Did they happen to take the teddy bears and sell them to department stores at really low prices, by any chance?

no no they didn't, we got to keep them

That's messed up. They gave little baby kids real scissors and NEEDLES!?

my aunt made a laundry bag out of some old baggy pants. she gave it to my mom and my mom made a better base for it.

Touques and Hacky Sacks.

nikki4982 wrote:They made you sew in kindergarden? Did they happen to take the teddy bears and sell them to department stores at really low prices, by any chance?

nikki4982 wrote:That's messed up. They gave little baby kids real scissors and NEEDLES!?

Thats nothing, in my kindergarden class, we had access to real nails, hammers and saws

yeah that's pretty normal. i've seen daycares that have those.

Whoa, they never even let us near that stuff till 7th grade. Even then that was questionable.

The teddy bears we made were pertty complicated. Come to think of it, my mom did it for me

What kind of schools did you go too?