{"id":7345,"date":"2024-04-24T11:47:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T01:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/?p=7345"},"modified":"2024-04-25T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T08:10:00","slug":"kids-share-love-sewing-soft-toys-for-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/2024\/04\/kids-share-love-sewing-soft-toys-for-others.html","title":{"rendered":"Kids Share Love: Sewing Soft Toys For Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s April again and the 2024 Global Kids Sewing Party<\/em><\/a> is drawing to its close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m always amazed when I stop to think that the one-off event I created back in 2019, when I partnered with The Children’s Museum of the Arts in NYC<\/em>, has become such a successful annual event!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year almost 6,500 kids from 21 countries registered to sew a softie and share it with someone else. How good is that!!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only are kids learning to sew they are seeing how much joy they can bring to someone else by giving them something they’ve created and made all by themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re looking for a kindness activity for your kids or students then join the 2025 Global Kids Sewing Party.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Sewing softies at Timber Ridge Elementary with teacher Tammy Schmitz<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Some of the soft toys sewn for others:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Amongst the many schools that joined this year were art teacher, Melissa Prescott’s students at Telstar Middle School in the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her students organised a sewing afternoon and workshop:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Three 7th graders helped to run the workshop. They taught their fellow students how to thread a needle<\/a> with a threader, how to do a backstitch to secure your thread and how to do a running stitch<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Refreshments were served and the students raised donations for the schools sports booster program. There’s no denying that these kids did an incredible job! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camp Tekoa<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Meanwhile, over at Camp Tekoa, run by Eleanor Trollinger, kids were happily sewing felt Easter eggs<\/a> that were filled with candy and given to unhoused folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in Sydney, Australia<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Downunder, kids in Sydney, Australia, were also busily sewing up hordes of colourful softie creations. Phillip Macken at Montessori East in Bondi writes, “The students in my Stage 2 primary class each made two softies that were then gifted to sixty preschool children from our school. Each softie even had a red felt heart placed inside their bodies to share the love the children put into making them.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In California<\/h2>\n\n\n
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In California, Maya Genis and her students joined the Global Kids Sewing Party<\/em> by sewing softies to gift to younger siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love this message Maya wrote “I am so thankful to you and your site\/books<\/a> for not only helping teach me how to sew stuffies\/softies, but also to share these gifts with others! Last summer I made some of the zenkis from your book that I now use with my TK and Kinder artists to greet them in class (Left: Dot, Right: Belly)!”<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n

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Awww!!! I’d love to be greeted by these these little guys!!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Disclosure<\/strong>: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I never get tired of seeing more softies, and of course zenkis, filling our world with love and happiness and quirkiness and plain old fun! And I never get tired of reading the messages I receive every week telling me how excited somebody’s kids or students were to learn how to sew. And lastly, I never ever<\/em> get tired of comments like that of Mariana Ruiz Romero in Bolivia who wrote a thank-you note to me saying, “I used to fear<\/strong> fiber crafts and now I love<\/strong> them!”<\/em> That’s exactly what Sew a Softie<\/em> and the zenkis and the Global Kids Sewing Party<\/em> are all about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to everyone who joined in this year! Especially to all the wonderful young softie creators who made the 2024 Global Kids Sewing Party<\/em> an unforgettable event! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enrol now for 2025!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep well and happy sewing, Trixi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s April again and the 2024 Global Kids Sewing Party is drawing to its close. I’m always amazed when I stop to think that the one-off event I created back in 2019, when I partnered with The Children’s Museum of the Arts in NYC, has become such a successful annual event! This year almost 6,500 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"closed","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":[270],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-global-kids-sewing-party","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\/7345","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}