Sewing

My oldest has been bugging me for some time to teach him how to sew and of course if you teach one to sew another will want to learn too.  So, I finally caved and thought of a fall way to begin sewing lessons.  I remember when I was in about 4th grade "sewing" a scarecrow so why shouldn't they.  I bought some burlap and make some template, cut out the shapes and thus the sewing began.

First they sewed the patches on

Then the pieces together

And...there you have the finished scarecrow.  This one seems to have grown a substantial amount of facial hair.  :)

 Sure hope my son's teeth don't turn colors like this poor guy's.

Of course once we started they wanted to do more and more, but I 'm only crazy enough to do one project at a time.  The younger ones got to paste small version of these to cardstock to make their own scarecrows.