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Making Pom Poms

Written on May 1st, 2011 by Hear Mum Roar in Craft, Fine motor, Handmade, May 2011, Projects, Saving money, School aged

Yes, this is a pom-pom made from the french knitting kit I mentioned the other day. I’m not overly thrilled with it, because of the technique used to wind the wool on:

Having made pom poms in the past the old fashioned way (winding yarn around cardboard circles with a hole in the centre), Missy 10 and I both thought this would be much easier. It was, but we didn’t like the effect as much as how it turns out doing it the old fashioned way. There was a lot of trimming needed afterward to make it look circular, and we didn’t like how the tied-up centre turned out, either. It didn’t seem as secure. Violet Le Beaux recently made heart shaped pom poms by wrapping the yarn around something rectangular with great results, so it could be a personal preference thing. I’m determined to make some of her cute heart pom poms very soon though, I think they’d look awesome on the end of some beanie ties!

This is a great activity if you have a child who’d like to dabble in wool/yarn craft, but isnt yet confident/interested in learning to knit or crochet. It still provides yet another opportunity to work the fine motor muscles and to problem-solve. It can be pretty tricky cutting those loops of wool, so a child will have to dig deeper than using just average scissor skills! They won’t be able to cut all that yarn in one hit, and will have to learn other ways to do it, such as snipping just a little wool at a time.

Making pom poms with children also encourages them to concentrate on this task for a longer period than many other activities this generation likes to do. I think it’s good to involve children in activities which don’t necessarily provide instant gratification in a matter of minutes. As with most wool crafts, school aged children are given a chance to lengthen their attention span and to learn about patience.

When Missy 10 made her pom poms, she quickly learned that although it’s a simple project, these make great gifts. She made a toy for Sookie the cat, and we both gave some pom poms to Missy 3 to play with. She was over the moon to be able to carry them around and cuddle them. Missy 10 did attempt to decorate one pom-pom into a toy character, but unfortunately, Sookie tore it apart within seconds of its completion. In time, we’ll make more pom-poms, and show a bunch of cool things kids can make either for themselves or others.

In future, I’m thinking we’ll buy one of those plastic versions of the cardboard circles, as a compromise. It’s tedious cutting out cardboard every single time, after all.

This is the perfect weather in Australia to be snuggling up, making pom-poms. I have fond memories of making them as a child, and making funny toys out of them. What did you do with pom-poms when you were a child?

Other reading:

French knitting

Knitting project for children – finger puppets

Teaching kids to knit

Crochet for children and finger knitting

Flower looms

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School Holiday Craft – French Knitting

Written on April 29th, 2011 by Hear Mum Roar in April 2011, Craft, Fine motor, Handmade, Saving money, School aged

School holidays ended this week (sob!). Missy 10 kept herself busy these holidays with plenty of craft, which she loves. A few weeks prior to the holidays, I was in Big W and found this cute kit for roughly six bucks, so I made a point of grabbing it in advance (it was in the knitting section).

These are also sometimes called a ‘knitting nancy’. We thought this one looked really cute. It also came with a bonus pom-pom maker, which I’ll write another post on shortly.

This is a simple, cheap and fun activity for school aged children. It’s more of a structured activity than a creative one, but let’s face it, school-aged kids are ready and able to learn crafting techniques at this age, and enjoying mastering them. Once mastery is gained, creativity can come into play if the child chooses. They could use the cords created for decoration, for example on knitted toys (the post I’ve linked to wasn’t decorated with french knitting, I instead used i-cords, which looks very similar to french knitting and could be used in the same way), as ties on beanies or other clothing.

Kids are attracted to this craft for the fun, but they get so much more out of it than they realise (or need to know):

- This activity is highly cognitive, as they try to remember the steps in the sequence of french knitting. Kids are challenged to use trial and error, experimentation and problem solving, just to get the little loops over the spikes! Are they pulling the yarn too tightly? Is it too loose? Your child will be encouraged to reflect on the consequences of every attempt they make to get this to work, and tweak the way they try it on each next attempt.

- Eye-hand co-ordination is challenged quite a bit, as they really need to look at what they’re doing to make their own hands match what their eyes can see!

- Because this is very fine, close work compared to preschooler craft, it helps children to become more skilled at using their hands, strengthening them at the same time.

- It’s a beautiful way for parents or grandparents to spend with the kids in their life. I don’t think this generation values this sort of interaction as much as previous generations.

So many families are obsessed with filling each day up with play dates, extracurricular activities and so on. Whatever happened to spending time with the adults in a child’s life, learning new things with them? I love that when I craft with my daughter, it’s a perfect opportunity for her and I to slow down, de-stress and reconnect. I’m all too aware that soon she’ll be a teen. I’m all too aware that she spends so much time at school, and less time with her dad and I as a result.

I think once our kids start school, it’s so easy to let that time together slide and for parents to become disconnected from their children. We need, as a society, to re-claim that bond with our children. What better way to do that than by teaching them new things? And please, if you’re reading this, and you and/or your child aren’t crafty, don’t think that’s that’s the only way to spend time and connect with your school-aged child. I’ll be talking about lots of ways we can keep that bond alive with our older kids very soon.

Did you french knit as a kid? Did you have a wooden cotton spool with four nails bunged into the top, or did you have a store bought ‘knitting nancy’?

Other reading:

Knitting project for children – finger puppets

Teaching kids to knit – school holiday fun

Crochet for children

Flower looms

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Coloured Window Art

Written on February 1st, 2011 by Hear Mum Roar in Art, Cognitive, Craft, Experiences, February 2011, Fine motor, Preschool aged, Toddler

I love doing coloured window art with young kids. It’s easy, yet something out of the ordinary for them. I find it holds their interest for ages. As you can see, all I’ve done is cut up some collage-type materials for the children; today it was fabric scraps. Other times, I’ve given the children flattened cup cake cases, confetti from the hole punch, chopped wool scraps, chopped streamers, basically whatever I’ve had lying around. It’s also important to make sure nothing would be a choking hazard for your kids. I’m lucky in that my kids are past the stage of putting craft/art items in their mouths, but if you know yours will (it’s the under 3′s we need to be careful with, generally), simply use bigger, safer pieces and supervise.

Then, I provide the kids with a sheet of clear contact with the adhesive side facing upward. I turn each corner underneath to stick it to the table. Now all the kids need to is to stick their collage pieces on to their hearts’ content. Once they finished each masterpiece, I stuck it to the window for them.

…Until the kids decided to do it for themselves.

I love that this is an open-ended activity that doesn’t add any pressure to look like anything in particular. However, if you keep the backing sheet from the contact you’ve cut for your child, you can stick the finished piece back onto the backing paper. This lets a child take their art work home, or give it to their grandparents as a very special gift. Once it’s in its new home, it can still be proudly displayed on a window.

This is a great time of year to be doing this activity too, because I find after doing back to school shopping, I have loads of contact to spare.

Other reading:

The useful box

Kids’ craft: lacing

Ten ‘clean’ craft ideas your kids will love

Kids craft ideas for non-crafty mums

Art for children who hate mess

Our art gallery

Canvas painting for kids

Playdough, homemade

Flower play

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Knitting Project For Children – Finger Puppets

Written on January 16th, 2011 by Hear Mum Roar in Cognitive, Craft, Experiences, Fine motor, Good times, Handmade, January 2011, Projects, Saving money, School aged

Remember yesterday, when I mentioned Missy 10 was knitting something special to her? Well, here’s the end result! (Well, part of it, actually. She still wants to glue a felt shell and tail onto the back) In case you can’t make out what this is, it’s a finger puppet of a Pokemon character named Squirtle. Yes, she’s obsessed with Pokemon…

She knitted this up in 8 ply acrylic yarn, on 4mm knitting needles. She started off with ten stitches, and just worked a rectangle until it was the length to fit her finger. She ran a needle through the stitches on the needle, then gathered them. She learned that this is how fingers on gloves are often finished off. I showed her how to fold the rectangle in half and sew the seam. Next time, it’ll be her turn to attempt it. Then, to customise her character, she made up some felt shapes, drew some detail onto them then glued them onto the puppet with craft glue. It was very simple, but she thrived on the creative process; deciding what she wanted the puppet to become, designing the features, and fiddling around putting them on.

I also gave her a fabric marker pen to work with before she cut the felt shapes out. This lets her erase what she felt were mistakes, with a wet cloth. I also taught her not to use hot water to do this, as this can set the ink into a stain. The great thing about fabric markers is that the ink on the fabric eventually becomes invisible anyway. It lets the work turn out a lot less grubby-looking than drawing on the fabric with a lead pencil.

I also looked through my own knitting stash, and have put together small stash to start her out with. Some balls of acrylic yarns, a knitting needle measuring gadget (great if you have a pair of needles where the size has worn off, but the needles themselves still work well), tape measure and some knitting needles. All of these things I already had, and either wasn’t planning on using or I already had duplicates of certain items. She was psyched!

We’ve decided to make our knitting together a one hour a day (minimum!) date. It’s nice to knit with someone who shares your interest, and both of us can’t stop chatting excitedly about all our ideas, and about knitting in general. We talk about what high school would be like, events in the past and her feelings on them, her friends, pretty much whatever she wants! Also, as my stress as a carer has really heated up lately, my carer support counselor has been driving home to me the urgent need for me to ensure I give myself self-care, or as it’s more widely known, me time.

I know me time should probably not be spent with my offspring, but if it makes me happy and relaxed, then honestly, why not? I’m very blessed to have the sort of child that even when I need down time, I choose to spend it with her.

She’s interested in making a scarf, next. She’s also looking forward to playing with her new puppet once the glues dries, and decorating her room with it. It’s also something fun we can make for Missy 2 and Mr 4. They love imaginative play, so these will be excellent homemade toys to nurture that.

Can you think of other handmade toys your school-child or you can make?

Other reading:
Teaching kids to knit: school holiday fun

Science experiments for school aged kids

Crochet for children

Book review: Zombie felties

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Teach Your Child Knitting

Written on January 16th, 2011 by Hear Mum Roar in Cognitive, Craft, Fine motor, Good times, Handmade, January 2011, Projects, School aged

In Australia, we’re in the last weeks of the Summer holidays. It’s been fun, but now everyone’s getting a bit tetchy. Few of us have unlimited funds to do ridiculously exciting outings everyday, but it’s becoming clear before the kids get on each others’ (and our!) nerves, that they need something to do.

This is I why I think it’s great to teach school-aged kids how to knit. Missy 10 already knew the basics of it, but because she’s usually so busy with school, doesn’t get enough time to practice. What better time to have a go, than during school holidays? Our kids have hours and hours of time on their hands, and whilst it’s a great time to play and relax, sometimes kids don’t know what to do with so much spare time.

Knitting is also really cheap to get started with. Sure, you can spend a lot of money on beautiful wools down the track, but for beginners, cheap is best anyway. And to be honest, for the amount of time spent concentrating and being quiet (oh yes, I went there!) I’d say it’s a damn solid investment.

Even for my own knitting, I like to be relatively frugal. I use knitting needles that have either been handed down to me, and if I don’t have a certain size, nine times out of ten I can source them at the op shop or ebay for a dollar or two. I prefer old knitting needles anyway; to me they feel like there is magic in them. I can picture the ladies before me working on their projects, and feel as though I’m extending the continuum. Any money I save here allows me to buy high quality wools and yarns. I believe once you’re an established knitter, you deserve only the best materials.

I also have been able to to source many patterns for free on the internet, or for a couple of dollars. Ravelry and Knitty are my two favourite resources for knitting. There are also some great, easy knitting patterns for kids online. When I was nine, I became obsessed with knitting! I started out by reading beginners’ knitting books, and doing the projects in there. Basically, once your child can knit, there’s no reason for them not to start out on any beginner pattern that catches their eye. I also used to enjoy designing and knitting clothes for my toys.

Another great thing kids can do once they’ve mastered the basics of knitting is to attempt sampler squares of different patterns, such as stockinette stitch, moss stitch and ribbing. If your child enjoys the mastery of a computer game, there’s a fair chance they’ll get a kick out of a challenge like this too!

Ok, so knitting is cheap and enjoyable for kids. What are some of the direct benefits for the child?

- Knitting builds fine motor strength

- It challenges their eye-hand co-ordination

- It gives them great spatial awareness

- It is a great cognitive (intellect) building activity

- It encourages children to think in mathematical terms. Don’t believe me? Try knitting a pattern from a graph, or attempting a sampler pattern!

- Knitting is a great way for children to explore a new material. They learn about how fabrics can be made, the way they interlock together. They learn about how different sized needles, and different wool/yarn thicknesses affect the work they’re doing. They learn by working with the yarn and feeling it for long periods, the different properties of different fibres. For example, working with mohair is an entirely different experience to working with pure wool. Cotton doesn’t stretch very much, acrylic yarns don’t stay nice for very long, and so on.

- Knitting gives children a challenge and a purpose.

- Knitting gives children with a taste for fashion an outlet to channel it towards.

- It encourages children to have patience, and to work towards a goal.

- It keeps them quiet for hours!

So, how does one start out teaching their child to knit? I like to grab some 8 ply acrylic yarn (I usually can’t stand this stuff, but it’s perfect for learning on), and the needles in the size that complements the yarn (check the label for suggestions). I make sure I do it when I have a lot of time. Knitting with a child is a bonding experience, and not something to be rushed. It should be pleasurable.

It’s best at the first learning attempt for the grown-up to cast on the stitches and work one or two rows. This enables the work some more elasticity, which in turn makes the learning process less awkward. My Gram taught me to knit, by teaching me to recite as I worked, ‘in, round, under, off’ throughout the process of knitting one stitch. When you’re teaching a child to knit, a lot of this is repetition based, and takes a lot of practise. I’ve found it helped if I worked on a garter stitch sampler at the same time, (when my daughter was just starting out) so my daughter can look over my shoulder and see the ‘flow’ of the process.

As your child becomes more used to working with the needles and yarn, they’ll develop a comfortable habit in how they hold both. They will get their own little flow going! Knitting is a great confidence builder, too. What I love about it, is that a child can follow a pattern to learn the skill, or to make a certain, wanted project, or they can create something entirely original, if that is their wish. It can be as structured or open-ended as they choose! My motto with knitting is, build the skills first, then you can create anything later.

My daughter is really keen to learn more about knitting now, so we’ll be building up a cheap but nice stash for her. She’s really excited about this! You’ll be able to find out in a few days, what exactly it is she’s knitting!

If you don’t or can’t knit, why not consider asking a relative or friend who can, to teach your child? Do you or any of your children knit? Why not start with your child these holidays?

Other reading:

Knitting project for children – finger puppets

Crochet for children

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Messy play – spaghetti paint.

Written on October 15th, 2010 by Hear Mum Roar in Cognitive, Fine motor, Good times, Language, Messy play, October 2010, Preschool aged, Saving money, Toddler

Time for some messy play again! This time, I have mixed cooked spaghetti with fingerpaint for some squishy, slimey, squoozy fun.

(If you’d like a printout of the fingerpaint recipe, you can download it along with recipes for cooked and uncooked playdough.)

Spaghetti paint is great because it doesn’t cost much and uses ingredients most people usually have in their pantry. It is an excellent activity for sensory exploration. Children can enjoy the smell, the slimy feeling, talk about if it is warm or cold and how wet it is.

It encourages much social and language interaction between children and adults alike. Children can experiment with the paint by either handling it on its own or smearing it around on a piece of paper.

Don’t worry if the paper gets holes in it, always remember that children care about and need the process, not the product.

You can see in the photo above how a child could find out what the paint looks like if they lift the spaghetti off the paper – beautiful swirls!

Mr 4 isn’t a huge fan of messy play, but he liked watching this activity, which is a big improvement. Missy 2, however was willing to have a try. If only Missy 10 were home to really get up to her armpits in this mess. In fact, I think I’ll have to let her when she gets home from school.

(Note: if you are considering using this in a preschool or a daycare setting, please be sensitive to the fact that food play is offensive to some cultures. When in doubt, check first.)

What messy things have your children been up to lately?

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Crochet for children

Written on August 6th, 2010 by Hear Mum Roar in August 2010, Cognitive, Craft, Fine motor, Good times, School aged

Now, I was planning to teach Missy 9 how to finger knit and crochet soon. I found out today that her relief teacher at school has already been teaching them to finger knit today! The whole class is obsessed and my daughter tells me she is addicted. Can you see how hard she is concentrating?

Missy 9 was keen to show my lovely readers how she finger knits:

We start with a loop on our finger, much like the sort of loop you’d make to start knitting on needles with.

Wind the wool over your finger, away from you.

Pull the original loop over the wool you have wound over your finger, and off. Kids love watching the chain grow, and grow, and grow! My daughter wants to make hers grow as long as her school basketball court!

If you’ve ever wanted to teach your child to crochet, finger knitting is an excellent starting point. It’s not quite so fiddly, and because our fingers are bigger than a crochet hook, it’s easier to see what’s meant to happen.

I gave Missy 9 a crochet hook and some wool from my studio, and encouraged her to try to make the same finger knitting chain on the crochet hook.

This was a bit more tricky! But not at all impossible. The only difference really, was that I had to teach her to wrap the wool on towards herself, as opposed to away from herself. It was also tricky for her to use the hook to pull the wool through the loop, but it’s fine when they’re learning to just pull it over with their finger, the same as they do when they finger knit.

I can’t think of a nicer way to spend a cold Friday afternoon than snuggling up with my daughter, dabbling in wool. Do your kids love wool too?

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We love Hama beads

Written on June 25th, 2010 by Hear Mum Roar in Cognitive, Constructive, Craft, Fine motor, June 2010, School aged

Hama board

You can see in the photo above, a very well-loved Hama bead bulletin board. My daughter made this a few years ago as a present for her Grandpa. He’s kindly taken all his messages off to send me a photo so I can show you. I purchased the board ready-made, then we glued the Hama bead designs in place.

The first time my partner went into hospital for his paint poisoning, she made him this cute little fridge magnet to cheer him up.
Cat magnet

Have you ever used/tried these wonderful, melty beads? If you haven’t, I’ll give you a brief run down. If you’d like a tutorial, let me know and I’ll do one in the near future (they’re still packed away for now). Basically, you buy these great little beads from craft/toy stores. You need a plastic template that has little stumps sticking out. The beads are placed on top of the stumps, so the stump is sitting inside the hole of the bead. Your childs’ fine motor skills and eye hand coordination are challenged as they carefully put on the Hama beads. Designs can be made out of these, with either pre made shaped templates, or children can place the beads in their own creative patterns.

Once they’re happy with their design, an adult needs to place a sheet of greaseproof paper over the top of the beads and iron it until the beads have melted enough to stick together. It’s then left to cool down and harden. Then you’re left with something like you see in the photos above! If you have some craft glue or a hot glue gun, then you can stick the designs to a cork board, a magnet, or whatever you wish. At my daughter’s old school, many kids used to hang them on their bags as a keyring.

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Our new playroom

Written on June 17th, 2010 by Hear Mum Roar in June 2010, Projects

It’s been about five months since we’ve moved into our new place. Our old new place, that is. The front of the house is at least one hundred years old!

We have been itching to start up a playroom for the kids, but it’s had to wait until now. What with my fiance’s health setbacks, and major flooding of our playroom in the early months, we had to take care of those issues first. The cause of the flooding has been fixed, so it’s safe to put the childrens’ toys in there without worry of them getting water damage. The carpet is still stained from the flooding, but we intend to get that tiled one day. Ah, patience!

In the meantime, the poor old play area became somewhat of a dumping ground for crap. You know what it’s like; you have an unused room in a house, and things get piled up there, until you deal with it ‘someday’.

‘Someday’ came two days ago.

We have the oh-so-classy use the old lounge as a gate trick going on, nice…

A place for some of the toys and books of this house. This is an old bookcase I inherited from my grandmother, soon I’ll be thrifting it to look more inviting. The kids’ rooms and the lounge room are looking a lot less cluttered as a result! The window above is the kitchen window, meaning whoever is in there can still see the kids as they play.

Because my son is still overexcited about having new animals in the house, we can separate him from the pets when it all gets a bit out of hand. They can still enjoy each others’ hijinks, as you can see!

They can look closely at the rain, and hear it pounding the roof as they play inside, snug and warm.

Because I’m phasing BPA-laden tupperware out of the kitchen, the kids have inherited this platter to sort Grandma’s old buttons into different sections. Mr Three decided to sort sections into colours. He told me he was ‘solving the mystery’.

I also moved his favourite alphabet puzzle into the playroom. It’ll be easier to keep the pieces together in here, away from his bedroom. Speaking of which, five pieces were missing.

Mr Three was quite anxious to get them back. Considering his love for solving problems, I gave him another ‘mystery’ to solve.

I made a list of the pieces that were missing. He took the list around the house and found a piece. Then he wanted help, so we went around the house together, trying to solve the mystery. I helped him to tip big boxes of toys out, and each time we found a piece, I asked him if that letter was on his list. ‘Yes!’ he said, three times. We are still missing two more pieces, so we’re keeping the list so we can go around and do this a few more times. He loved it, and can’t wait to find the last pieces.

Soon, I’m going to start painting! This is the first house we’ve ever owned, and I can’t believe we’ve not painted anything yet. I think we need to lose the ‘renter’ mentality we’ve become accustomed to, and let ourselves enjoy being home owners even more.

I’m excited too, because if this weather clears, on Monday, we’re getting a load of fruit trees planted! Pictures to come…

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Setting up my studio

Written on April 18th, 2010 by Hear Mum Roar in Uncategorized

It’s a project I’ve been putting off and it has a looong way to go before it’s how I want it. But today, I decided to venture into my studio, an old butcher’s shop (it’s one hundred year old or less. The house is over one hundred years old. I’ll have to check the plaque out the front again) to make some presents for my little girl’s upcoming birthday.

Well! What started out as an innocent, ‘I’ll just move a few things around so I can get to work…’ turned into a journey into the past. It also rekindled my creative urges. Let me explain.

I love to knit, sew, crochet, embroider, in short, create beautiful things out of textiles. So did my grandmother. So did my fiance’s mother. Both these ladies have been very inspirational in my life, for many different reasons other than their crafting abilities. And now that neither of them are with us anymore, I have been given the honour of accepting thier sewing desks and everything inside them. My fiance’s mum also left me with boxes of other craft resources.

I had already looked through most of my grandmother’s sewing items. She died when I was sixteen, but I received her sewing cabinet about two years ago, and so have already had time to look at most of it. My fiance’s mother died last year, and I was handed down her crafting items at the end of the year, right before we moved. It didn’t feel right to open it until we moved. Even when we did move, I have saved it for a time when I could put some decent time aside to pore over it all.

It turns out, today was that day. First, I moved both sewing desks near each other to create a corner. I told my fiance that I was arranging it so the ladies could talk to each other. Then, I opened the drawers in both cabinets, and sorted through knitting needles, crochet hooks, stitch holders and markers, and stored them so I could get to them more easily.

As I organised my needle and crochet hook collection, I opened up my own needle case. I laughed to find some little wooden skewers I’d broken up and filed into points with a nail file when I was nine years old. I desperately wanted to learn how to knit cables, but didn’t have the right needles. I was the sort of child who didn’t like to be deterred, so I learnt how to cable, and I guess I never threw these makeshift cable needles away even after I had ‘real’ cable needles!

I remembered them both as I worked. My grandmother teaching me to knit and crochet. Un-teaching all the crap sewing advice I was given at Textiles and Design at high school. (Thanks, Gram!) Coming across my fiance’s mother’s Red Nose Day badge, and remembering seeing her wearing a similar one when I ran into her and his sister down the street, years before he and I ever became a couple. The badge reminds me of her cheerful, bubbly personality.

My fiance’s mother’s old sewing patterns.

As I re-connected with two important family members who’ve passed, I felt a little more at home in this house that has so much work that needs to be done on it. Once again, I felt the excitement I felt before we moved here, about all the things I can do, that my family can do. The first three months of living here, and catching every germ going as a new person does in a new town, and wanting more time to settle in, all fell away.

My grandmother’s writing desk. She grew the most beautiful flowers in her garden, and would sell them at the local florist. She saved the money from these sales to buy this writing desk and her sewing desk, both of which were her pride and joy. I’m going to thrift this piece into something special as soon as I can.

With these two ladies by my side, today I felt as though this house is my home. This studio is my studio. The overwhelmed feeling is gone, replaced by that sense of excitement, adventure and possibility once again. My creative juices began flowing immediately. I thought of several ideas for my daughter’s birthday present, and began winding wool skeins into balls on the old chair my father reconditioned. He has made lots of beautiful furniture for our home, but this is the first one he’s ever given us that wasn’t fully made by him from scratch!

So to two great, amazing women, thank you for what you’ve given us while you were alive. I hope you know what it means to us. Thank you even more for what your memories have given me now. I promise to pass the skills on down the family tree, as you both have. The adventure has begun.

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