My tradition of making Christmas ornaments in my children's English classes have continued and this year I had my children sewing sequins and beads. I had found some pre-cut felt Christmas ornaments earlier this season and so I pulled out my overflowing beads box and bought some sequins. Now this shouldn't be hard should it?
Actually... the kids found the mechanics of holding a needle, hanging on to their thread, keeping track of the front and back of their ornament quite a challenge. Monday I was trying to help five 3rd and 4th girls at one time.
"Sensei! My thread came off!
"Sensei! There's a knot in this!"
"Sensei! I messed this all up!"
I had pulled out the needle threader (thank goodness for that invention! The kids had a great time threading their needles with it.) and while I untangled threads and snipped flub-ups, S-L-O-W-L-Y the kids sewed beads onto their ornaments.
But... what with a bit of singing by candlelight, and the reading of the Christmas story (in Japanese... there are more important things than English) there wasn't a whole lot of time for sewing.
"Sensei! Can I take home beads to sew at home?"
Great idea! I have more beads and sequins than I'll ever need so everyone took some home. I'm afraid I was too busy repairing sewing mistakes to take any pictures of that class. Sorry.
And last night my two 6th grade boys tried their hands at beading... Hmmm. Not a great amount of difference between the 3rd and 4th grade girls and the 6th grade boys. They went home with beads too.
Oh, and while I've got these boys here, I thought I'd show the bag that K-kun made in school. The 6th graders have home economics at school and all the kids make a bag. K-kun said that this was a kit that he ordered through the school. Cool looking fabric isn't it! Samurai motif and household crests!
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