Aug 12
2016
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Maisie really enjoys watching how-to videos. Cooking, make-up and craft videos all rank high with her. So when she was sitting on my lap as I browsed the Creativebug catalogue the other day I wasn’t surprised when she starting asking to watch a video. I thought it was pretty neat that it was one I had just spotted and was thinking would be a great project to make for her - a flower crown. Maisie sat very happily with me at my desk while we watched the whole 25 minute video. As soon as it was done she turned around and asked “Can we make one now?”
Yes, my dear, we absolutely can.
I printed off the template and had Maisie choose colours for the bits of felt and the embroidery floss to sew them on. I made her crown a little smaller than the one in the video. We added a button and she selected some beads. When Rob got home Maisie told him all about how I was making her a flower crown. As soon as it was finished she put it on and it stayed on all evening.
It can be so discouraging to spend time and energy on making something that I think is really lovely, only to have Maisie reject it, that I find my preferred method of making almost anything for her right now is this sort of collaborative approach. It doesn’t guarantee that she will like or use the result but it does make her aware of what goes into creating things. Of course it also means that she knows I can make a wide variety of things and thus feels that I can probably make anything she wants and could I please make her a pair of butterfly wings like Hannah has?
We’ll see. I’ll have to look up a different video for that.
Oh, and find the sewing room floor again...