august 2024
The children in the school-age program have been working incredibly hard on some knitting and crochet projects. Our educator Brittany shared with the children that she runs her own crochet business, that opened up an interest from the children on how to crochet hats, mitts, blankets and stuffies!
Many of the children have been using the knitting circles to make hats. The boys in our program have been incredibly dedicated and committed to completing their knitting projects. I.R. started his project with a knitting loom and some purple yarn. He started by wrapping the yarn around each individual post and then flipping the loops over, one by one. He asked how many rows it takes to make a hat. Brittany let him know that he had to do 20 rows and then he had to flip part of it up and then another 20 rows. Every so often he would count and figure out how many more he had to go. Once he reached the end he was super excited and learned how to complete the hat. He tried it on and decided he wanted to make a pom pom for the top that matched. Again he grabbed some yarn and some help and he figured it out! Once the other children saw his completed hat, they were inspired to create their own! S.S created his hat in the same manner but experimented with using different colours! V.S started his hat and decided he wanted to make a white one so that he can make different colour pom poms to change them because he said that “white matches with every colour”.
Abby Skok, Educator
Rylee Gemmell, Educator
Brittany Woolley, Educator
