My kids love making things almost as much as I do.
My teenage daughter makes chain mail jewelry. She does beautiful work, and has sold quite a bit of work locally. She’s planning to create an Etsy shop (note to self: use this to teach her business skills, marketing and accounting), and just gave her first private lesson to a paying customer.
My pre-teen son has been learning to knit for a few months, but loses interest quickly. However, he was fooling around with finger knitting a few weeks ago, and I remembered I have a ball of very, very thick baby blue yarn that would be perfect for finger knitting. So he’s been finger knitting up a storm, and last night, finished what may be the longest finger knitted snake on record. It’s over 15 feet long, closer to 20. (note to self: measure it!)
We’ve also all been learning to spin, and I have a couple of woodworking projects for which I need helpers. Fun!
