{"id":5855,"date":"2018-12-10T20:43:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2021-01-30T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T04:24:06","slug":"global-kids-sewing-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/2018\/12\/global-kids-sewing-party.html","title":{"rendered":"First Ever Global Kids Sewing Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so excited to announce that this February, Sew a Softie partners with the <a href=\"https:\/\/cmany.org\/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAurjgBRCqARIsAD09sg_60YUsb5z4pr0ZpURlwmNCWEPSrjX-EFAazEYcw_y6QnXdLJsAyMYaAjgyEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Children&#8217;s Museum of the Arts, New York City<\/a> as part of their <a href=\"https:\/\/cmany.org\/civickids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CIVICKIDS<\/a> campaign to host a Global Kids Sewing Party. Sew a Softie invites everyone, any where in the world with kids, grandkids, nieces or nephews, a school class, a sewing group or club to join in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/2018\/12\/global-kids-sewing-party.html\/img_8845-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5857\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5857 \" title=\"Global Kids Sewing Party\" src=\"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_8845-1.jpg\" alt=\"text saying Join the Sew a Softie Global Kids Sewing Party\" width=\"681\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_8845-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_8845-1-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>The campaign\u2019s theme for February is kindness and caring.<\/h4>\n<p>The children participating will be joining in to sew a softie to give to someone in their community. The recipient may be a friend, a family member, an elderly neighbour, a local hospital, a nursing home, library, shelter or anyone whom they wish to reach out to.<\/p>\n<h4>Communities around the world are realising the importance of empowering even young children to take civic responsibility.<\/h4>\n<p>The aim of the party is to promote children\u2019s civic engagement by having them sew a softie and gift it to someone in their community.\u00a0By showing children that they can both have fun and make a difference in someone\u2019s life the Sew a Softie Global Kid\u2019s Sewing Party hopes to help children see for themselves that they don\u2019t need to wait till they are adults to contribute meaningfully to their community.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/CupkuaCiHTvNU4DH3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up form here<\/a> and you can schedule your party anytime in February.<\/p>\n<p>Please tag photos with #sewasoftie #CMACIVICKIDS as all photos will be featured in the Museum&#8217;s online exhibition and on the Sew a Softie Instagram page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so excited to announce that this February, Sew a Softie partners with the Children&#8217;s Museum of the Arts, New York City as part of their CIVICKIDS campaign to host a Global Kids Sewing Party. Sew a Softie invites everyone, any where in the world with kids, grandkids, nieces or nephews, a school class, a &#8230; <a title=\"First Ever Global Kids Sewing Party\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/2018\/12\/global-kids-sewing-party.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Ever Global Kids Sewing Party\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}