i had a bag of clothes to get rid of/sell maybe? anyways, i love the sweater on the top left but i shrunk it in the dryer. boo. so i came up with a fun, creative way to recycle them!
i had the preteen girls make mittens with the clothing! we did it last night. i had them cut out the pattern, sew them together and voila!
my mitten from my old sweater...
sweater mittens!i have been leading the preteen girls cell group at the church sunday nights for the past few weeks. i enjoy it. the girls are fun, chatty, catty, silly, temperamental, hormonal, emotional and entertaining....i leave exhausted. ha.
the mitten project may come across as a silly thing to do with them. there must be more spiritual things that i can bring to the table...but i have my motives....i wanted the girls to bond as a group, no cliques, no bullying, no excluding. i wanted to get their fingers busy on a task...in order to free up their mouths...so i could ask some innocent (not so much) questions, and have them open up who they really are....
i was blown away by the chatter and what they shared with me...now i need god to show me where to go from here....
there are some real characters ladies in my preteen group!
so..l.if you peeked in and questioned the spiritual level of my mitten making task...you would have seem girls, being girls, chatting, laughing and having funbut in reality
i got to see the real them
never judgey a booky by the cover....ha!
2 comments:
What a cool idea! Your creativity never ceases to amaze me:)I don't recognize any of those girls, except Donny's daughter... the church has really changed in the last few years, eh?
wow! That looks like fun! what a creative fun thing to do with the girls. `You`re great!
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