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Posted: July 15 2007 at 10:00pm | IP Logged Quote SuzanneG
I got a great selection of some crazy fabrics while at my dad's a few weeks ago....to make a "fabric tray."

Did anyone do anything extra to them to make them more attractive or more fun/easier to handle? Or do they simply stand on their own?

Here is Erin's post.


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Posted: July 16 2007 at 1:50am | IP Logged Quote Kristee
Hi Everyone,
Is the fabric box the same thing as the fabric basket? I went to the fabric store and bought a few remnants of linen, denim, silk ___, cotton, and had 1/8 yard cut for wool. Then I cut them up into 3" x4" (too small?)pieces to put in a box or a mystery bag.

I noticed Haistock did say square pieces in Teaching Montessori in the Home, the Pre-School Years, but she didn't specify size. I later came across something stating to make them 10" x10". But maybe there are two different activities. Is it important that the pieces be square? and large?

I haven't attached mine to anything. Where does the fabric get attached, to the top of the fabric only? I imagine the fabric could be attached to anything beautiful such as paper, cardboard, presentation board, mat board, wood, balsa, plastic/acrylic. I admire Erin's resourcefullness in finding fabric and how it turned out on Index Cards so it will be easy to store in a file box. Thanks for the ideas and pictures.
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Posted: July 16 2007 at 7:17am | IP Logged Quote Mackfam
Hey Suzanne! I managed to justify replacing my pinking shears with new ones with a Michael's coupon so I could cut them out with pretty pinked edges. I'm still working on my basket.

Kristee, I'm not making mine but about 4"x4". I think a slightly smaller size still gets the "texture of it all" across, while allowing smaller hands to handle it well. I put mine in a basket. I'm not attaching mine to anything at all, just cutting - make that pinking - and putting in the basket. I am cutting matching squares, and I had thought for an extension of cutting squares from say silk of different colors for matching the fabrics, or linen of different colors, etc.

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Posted: July 16 2007 at 5:40pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
A neat extension on the fabric box/basket might be to add a glass rod, a balloon, a bit of fur (real or fake)and a plastic cup, and bits of torn paper (empty your hole punch),and tiny bits of aluminum foil, and experiment with what happens when they are rubbed with each fabric, held to their hair, etc. This works very well especially if you have both wool and silk fabric samples.
Static electricity is so cool!

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Posted: July 16 2007 at 6:14pm | IP Logged Quote Meredith
Aahh, Theresa, the scientist in you prevails, what a fantastic extension for this!! I can just see all my little boys running around the house rubbing things on their head and watching it stand on end this will be perfect!! Bravo!

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Posted: Aug 07 2007 at 11:58pm | IP Logged Quote SuzanneG
Can you believe no one in my neighborhood has a pair of pinking shears? What's wrong with these people?

Thanks for the static electricity, Theresa.....that will be sure to be a hit!

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