This week the crafts are being completed with prolific craze! Everyone in the household has been as busy as elves. My most recent project (just finished this morning) is millet filled bean bags for two little boys. In the Waldorf classroom the bean bag has many, many uses that bring the intellect alive with the body: verbal math, spelling, balance, learning left from right, color identification, working with midline, body geography...the fun and functional ways for using bean bag play as a learning tool are endless. And quite a simple project. (I also made a smaller version - 3 1/2 inch squares - for the babies in Chicago, but alas they are long gone in the mail so no photos available.)
I purchased fabric remnants, traced a cutting line onto them with a 5 inch piece of cardboard, cut, sewed around twice, leaving a hole for filling with millet (I prefer millet because it has a more fluid nature), pressed with a warm iron, filled, then closed them up with a hand sewn blanket stitch.
Voila!
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