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Submitted and Written by Rachael G
Kids today would just hate this. Were we so easily amused??? I remember them being wooden and plastic and often had a big plastic needle and yarn. They were often in shapes like a cat, an apple, etc. Are these even still made?
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I remember these! I’m pretty sure they’re still in my mom’s basement somewhere.
yeah we made our own and then stuffed them with tissues and made pillows. heheheh
I always thought these were so lame and non-creative.
Yep, they still make them. My kids have them and play with them from time to time. They are more entertaining for the preschool crowd than older kids. And when they are not sewing the cards, they do creative things with the cards and strings… we find strings wrapped around all sorts of things or to hook up the Fisher Price horse to the Playmobil cart. Who says lacing (or sewing) cards aren’t creative!
I still use them with my kindergarteners – we usually make them out of card board in fancy shapes (dinsosaurs, fish, apples) and when they finish they can take them home. Lucky parents. They’re really good for fine motor skills, and you can do all different types of lacing with them. It surprises me that kids still like them, because really, they’re not that interesting!
I think I might still have these! My sister and I would thread up to four of the strings through, and when they got stuck, made my mother get them out. Mine are sitting in the attic someplace.
My son has a set of these in construction equipment shapes. Sometimes we “sew” on them, sometimes he loops the laces through just a couple holes, then drags them around the house yelling, “I’m flying a kite!!!” The strings are also cat toys (until he gets mad at the cat for playing with his string…3y/os are rather fickle.)
Either way, it’s fun
we have wooden animal ones with colored shoe lace strings for my daughter. got them from… WalMart i think a couple years ago. she’s 4 now and still plays with them. takes them for walks and has “parties” and such. AND the strings get used as cat toys but she only gets upset when the cats start going for her feet because she starts stepping on the string.
SQUEE! – these are the best. I loved them, my kids loved them, and now my granddaughter loves the ones we found at the Goodwill store.
Yeah . . . come to think of it they do look boring as hell . . . I think I liked them because it was SEWING. I saw my mother sewing all the time but I wasn’t allowed to touch the sewing kit. So sewing was an exciting and forbidden activity.
Damn. I wish sewing was still that exciting. I have socks that need fixing.
buy new socks.
You don’t have to buy something new that’s fixable.
Darn!
The more stitches, the less riches… Buy new. (Adolus Huxley FTW!)
One of my friends had dot-to-dot style lacing cards, where proper stitching became part of the picture. Plastic canvas is the next step up for older kids, and can actually be made INTO things.
Ooh, we still have some of those!
They always reminded me of crude Frankenstein sutures.
These are awesome and can be found in any Montessori classroom as beginning sewing for 2-3 years olds, who move on to real needles around 4-6 yrs old.
back when i used them we used real needles and the big huge ones too. i dropped my needle and stood up in it while looking for it. it took pliers and 2 doctors to get it out of my foot. oh those were the days. when we were aloud to have sharp objects at school.
You mean “allowed”? >_<
I had a plastic one shaped like a horse…I think I still have it somewhere…my sister works in Childcare, and I believe she makes kids do these sorts of things, its good for the fine motor-skills!
Anyone remember making (or buying) fruit leather, hole punching it and then sewing it up with the long strings of licorice? Edible purses, belts…
omg… i remember this! when i was in kindergarten (i think?), we made ones shaped like gingerbread men for christmas. we filled them with stuffing (well.. balled up paper lol) and drew on faces. they were so cute =]
OMG!!! we had like 5 of these, they were sheep from VBS and they were magnets.
man i loved them.
I must be a bit young, or I’ve seriously missed out. I don’t remember this…
I’m only 15 and I remember these things. I used to have a Shamu one. I think I still do somewhere…
I remember these! I would still be entertained playing with these haha.
Yes they do still make these! I bought some for my daughter a couple years back and I just saw them again a couple weeks ago in a craft store.
I saw them in the dollar store a few weeks ago and I think, like Mandy, I also saw them in a craft store.
I sewed them the wrong way, like zig-zag style, and I usually just wanted to see how tight I could puuuulll the string. I had a kitty shaped one…and a plastic needle.
I used to do these at preschool! I also had a couple of ones at home but they were made of wood and they had a wooden needle and cord of thread attached and you could reuse it over an over again, it kept me amused for a good hour…
OMG, I had the plastic ines too, but then my mom would also hanf make them from foam pieces and use a hole-punch. I even made my own! xD So easily (and cheaply) amused. These days you have to spend a couple hundred dollars on a video system… >>
Ugh. I was born in 1984 and remember these quite well. I always thought they were the most boring and pointless things ever.