As it turns out, my kids love sewing! I only stumbled across it by chance when I got in a delivery of kids sewing needles and they both jumped at the chance to have a go.
The first activity I did with them was actually paper sewing. It's so easy to set up and a great starter for kids just learning. Simply get some sheets of paper and using a felt tip marker make dots or small circles on the sheet where you want the children to poke the needle through, I used a mix of straight lines, zig zags and random dots on the page. I used wool for our first attempts as I found h..