How-To: Toy Cardboard Sewing Machine

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How-To: Toy Cardboard Sewing Machine

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Have a little helper in your sewing room? Make crafting time even more fun with this fantastic tutorial for making an awesome toy cardboard sewing machine from Cassie at Little Red Window!

O has always been really interested in my sewing machine. The minute I turn the light on itโ€™s mesmerizing to him. I mean, when you think about it, it totally makes sense, a sewing machine is totally made of things little boys loveโ€“lots of buttons, moving parts, sharp things… Of course we have lots of talks about how he canโ€™t touch it because it’s sharp and dangerous, but a couple weeks ago when I had it out, for the first time he asked me when he could use it. I don’t think heโ€™s quite ready to do it even with complete supervision, but hopefully we can try soon. (Although I think I said he could do it when he turns 5 because I didn’t want him to think when I said, “maybe when you’re older” that I meant tomorrow and then have him ask me five million times…)

Anyway, of course the next thought was that he needed his own sewing machine!

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A cardboard sewing machine is a great option for curious kids that are a bit too young for moving parts and real needles, and it looks so good that even I want to play with it. (Really, is there anything a cardboard box and a little imagination can’t do?!)

Make one today! Click here to see how it’s done.

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Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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