I had been thinking recently about starting some threading games and crafts and, as I know my Nan has cupboards full of crafyt things that she never uses, I had asked her to bring somethings down for us to use. But, being busy and not-so-young anymore, so forgot so I put threading on the back burner until this week when Ellie wanted to play with some wool and seemed quite interested in threading it through various things.
In leiu of lovely beads and buttons to thread on, I cut up some straws for her and gave her a skooby string, as she was struggling to keep the end of the wool fraying when she was threading.
Soon, she was creating bracelets, necklaces and headbands. Kahlei had a cup of cut up straws and a string, too but she was much more interested in pouring the straws in and out of containers while wearing some of Ellie's creations.
Ellie has proudly placed her straw jewellery in the dress up box and will, at different times, pop up to the bench and do some more threading. The next time I get out of the house I intend to get her some different sized beads in all kinds of shapes and colours to make things with, but for now she's happy to use white straws.
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