Sewing School ®: 21 Sewing Projects Kids Will Love to Make

I bought this for my twelve year old child. I like that the sewing book is made sturdy. The patterns are included. The instructions are easy to understand and follow. We are working on making the doll skirt. I'm glad I bought this book for our classroom.

My granddaughter has been asking me to teach her to sew. This book has fantastic age appropriate, easy to follow patterns for kids. Her first project was a pin cushion. She was so proud that she made it herself! And it is so useful. She has already started her next project. Can't wait to see what the future holds for this little (7years old) sewer.

I bought this book for my 11 year old, she had recently received her first sewing machine and I wanted a super basic instructional book for a beginner. This book was a perfect fit for her, it provided a variety of different projects that combined both hand stitched and sewing machine projects which she loved. The projects are easy to follow with lots of great photos to help you throughout. The sewing projects themselves are adorable, skill level appropriate and the author does a wonderful job of choosing projects that a beginner would actually want to do.

A really good book that kids can use or parents or teachers can use to help children learn to sew. There's not much use teaching only how to use a sewing machine as many sewing tasks including mending, hemming, and sewing on buttons will require some skill at hand sewing and this book teaches those skills. Very clear instructions that build skills in a logical order and allow children to learn how to sew and also make things at the same time. Two drawbacks in the book for me are 1) the use of synthetic felt which only sets up children to create cheap looking items and 2) sewing is taught as something to play at rather than as a real-life useful skill. While I'm all for having fun while creating, there are real skills to be learned and the attitude of just having fun contributes to the problems children have thinking they have to be entertained by everything that comes their way or it has no value. Luckily, I am hoping this attitude is offset by the lovely comments actual children have included that show their pride in learning and in making something new. Also the projects are rather infantile. I could sew better after one lesson from my grandmother. Children can sew much nicer projects with the skills they learn here than are presented. Even so the lessons and presentation order and advice to help children is really excellent. The photos are lovely and instructions very easy to follow. Very nice book if you are an older child who wants to learn to sew or a parent, teacher, counselor, auntie, or otherwise would like to introduce children to sewing.

I bought this for my 7 year old granddaughter. This is a tremendous first time sewing book. I will be teaching her long distance so I needed something thorough and easily understood. The pictures are very good as well as the text. I like the fact that all the work shown was done by kids. What a great way to demonstrate to kids their work is just fine. The book is broken down very well from what tools to use, how to take care of them, how to use them, as well as the projects. I especially liked the section on how to correct mistakes, great idea! We already used that section & it kept her from being discouraged since she now knows mistakes can be fixed. I used the book to teach her the running & whipstitch, thread her needle & tie a knot before I had to leave but I'm sure the book will help her reinforce everything. She was so excited when she opened a box of scrap fabric from my sewing room that I'm sure she will make lots of projects. This book is so good I am ordering another one for me so I can teach her from a distance. I also bought the sewing machine book & was very pleased with it also.

My family loves this book! I have kids ages 7, 5, 3, and 1. The 7 and 5 year old can do most of the projects all on their own with very little assistance from me. I help the 3 year old and completely do the projects so the 1 year old has something too. My 7yo is a boy and the 5 and 3yos are girlsThe instructions are well written, the patterns easy, the pictures are super helpful and the kiddos love it.

I sew a lot and my 5-year-old son wanted to give it a try. He had a lot of big ideas about what he wanted to sew, but he was a little scared of the sewing machine.This book is wonderful! My son quickly learned how to thread a needle and knot his thread. He flipped through the book and jumped right in on the wallet. With that successfully finished, he was hooked. He will tell everyone that he doesn't have to buy what someone else made, he can make things himself in whatever colors he wants! Since that wallet, he has patched two pairs of his own pants (and loves wearing them!), mended a seam in his dad's pajamas, made a pillow, crafted two coasters, and sewed an adorable little mouse (named Car). Rarely does a day go by when he doesn't take out his sewing kit.What I like about this book is how open ended the projects are. Kids are free to put seventeen legs on their stuffed animal if they want. Techniques are explained with photographs clear enough for nonreaders to follow along. Basic patterns are included, but there is always the air of "when you do it yourself, you get to do it the way you want."

Unfortunately local library did not available to review first. Was going to use for an elementary after school group, but projects weren't what I was looking for. Considered returning, but kept and may donate to library.