Button Sewing

08/10/15

This week we started doing things towards the Brownie Skills badge. We have decided that if we do something every now and again for a few weeks then the girls will be able to earn the badge without making them sit down and do it in one evening (which we tried once, to many complaints)!

This week, we did button sewing and knot tying. Most of the girls started off sewing on buttons. We gave them each a square of felt, a choice of buttons, a piece of thread, and a needle. We then had an adult sat on each table to assist the girls - my job mostly consisted of re-threading needles and tying knots in the end of the thread! A couple of the girls had no idea how to start but. once I had shown them with mine, they went off by themselves and were fine. Lots of them, once they had done one button, asked if they could do more which we were quite surprised by. One girl even came up to me at the next meeting and proudly showed me the badge that she had sewn onto her sash by herself, really neatly I must add!

We decided to leave the knots to a future week because they were enjoying themselves too much.