This is Ohaeawai's Fill a Stocking - Advent Calendar for 2020. Team Maunga and Iti children came up with a list of things that we wanted to do for others in the lead-up to Christmas.
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
T-Shirt Bag making with Anouk
Today Anouk visited again and we were able to make some really cool bags out of old T-shirts. This is teaching us to look for different ways to use things we have outgrown or no longer need. Now we have some really cool Tog-bags.
To make our T-shirt bags we first had to cut off the sleaves. This was really tricky and we had to learn how to cut not with the tip of our scissors but with the middle of the scissors.
Next, we cut off the neck hem so we were left with a cut edge (a raw edge).
After that, we cut tassels at the bottom of the t-shirt.
Finally, we tied knots to connect the sides. This part was VERY tricky and many of us needed to practice tie-ing knots to start with. Some of us opted to have the bottom of our bags sewn up on Anouks' machine.
We love having Anouk (our local environmental Educator) come and visit it.
(Thanks Photographer Hawaiki-Roa for the cool pictures).
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