Here's my first attempt. Ian cut out most of the patterns and I did the sewing. He also had to decipher some of the instructions for me because I must be sewing dyslexic or something. We need to make a few adjustments but I think it turned out cute for the first try. And, IT DIDN'T LEAK! That was after a nap, too. Yay!
Ian sacrificed several of his t-shirts for the project. How do you like the camouflage? You can't really tell much from this picture except that it looks small next to those scissors. It has an inner and outer layer of t-shirt material, a soaker made from microfiber material, and an inside layer of plastic(aka-cheap shower curtain). This is called an All-In-One because you don't have to use plastic pants over the diaper. I couldn't find the right size velcro for the tabs so I had to make this size work. I'll post pictures of some of the others when we finish and maybe have Miss Lauren model one for us, too.I've been trying to come up with ways to make schooling more fun and not so monotonous. We usually stick to the text books and work books but the kids(and mom) get bored with it after a while. My mom gave the kids our old Scrabble game from when we were kids and I thought . . . 'Hmmm . . . this can be several subjects all in one!' So we played Scrabble today.
We worked on letter recongition for Matt. He's learning letters and sounds.
We worked on reading and spelling. Todd did pretty well with this. Even Zack could sound out some of the words.
And last, but not least, we worked on math. This was right up Todd's alley because he hates working in his math workbook. This was more fun and much less painful. :o)
2 comments:
Sounds fun to me. I asked for a Scrabble game for Christmas and we played it during the break.
Cute ideas with the Scrabble game. D is trying to learn our phone number and I tried using the leap frog fridge magnets we have to make it more fun but we only have one of each number and numbers that are repeated in our phone number he didn't like my E as a 3.
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