crayon bags

I love the internet. I really do. It has provided me with so many great ideas to use with the kids I teach. Without it I wouldn't have one of my go to basic sewing projects for kids just learning to sew. I had found a very small blurb on a random blog I happened across about five years ago. It talked about drawing on fabric with regular, boring old crayons.

This is one of the first times I tried it with kids. Sorry for the odd lighting. These were taken before I paid attention to such things.

After the girls drew on the fabric, I heat set the wax using a low heat setting on my iron. Place a piece of paper over the fabric to avoid getting wax all over your iron. There was a perfect print of the picture left on the paper which the girls wanted to keep.

Once the drawings were finished the girls learned to operate a sewing machine by sewing simple straight seams to assemble the body of the bag and its handle.