Showing posts with label homeschool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homeschool. Show all posts

Friday, September 1, 2017

Basic Box Cushion Cover - For Chairs, Bean Bags, and Floor Pillows

Box cushions are easy to make and very versatile.  They can be used to recover chair and sofa cushions or made on their own can make great floor cushions, bean bags cushions, and pet beds.

One of the best things about designing projects for Fairfield World is that they send me free product that I can use to do projects like this to benefit individual classrooms at my kids school.  They sent me bean bag filler, poly-fil, and pillow inserts and compensated me to complete this project.  Dritz also sent me their brilliant Cut-to-Size Upholstery zippers.  All opinions, ideas, enthusiasm, and gratitude are 100% my own.

Depending on the level of support you need, you can fill box cushions covers with support cushion foam, bean bag filler, or poly-fil fiber fill.

And while these cushions found their home in a first grade classroom, these cushions also make for relaxing seating at home as well.

(Bean bag filler inside.)

Get the full tutorial, needed materials, and instructions to make your own Basic Box Cushion Covers on the Fairfield Site here.

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Dueling Authors - Get Your Kids Writing

I used Grammarly to grammar check this post because my English-teacher-mom gets a little embarrassed at the number of typos that show up in my posts...a dangerous side effect of writing blog posts late at night.

I know we're all looking for fun ways to keep our kids busy and learning this summer.  Last year Katie's reading teacher let us know that even though she was at the top of her class in her reading skills, her writing was not at a comparable level.  It was okay, but not what you'd expect from such an advanced reader.

We're continuing to work on her writing skills, and we've found it's a lot easier to get her to practice when she thinks it's fun and not really practice.