Material Description:
Stage 1
Square cards made of thick cardboard with a variety of lines indicated (horizontal, vertical, diagonal) with holes drilled along the lines at approximately 1/2 inch apart and a blunt needle with doubled thick thread or wool is permanently fastened to one end of the line, when stored the needle is wrapped around the card.
Stage 2
Square cards made of thick cardboard with outlines of a variety of simple 2-D shapes (square, circle, triangle, ellipse) with holes drilled along the lines at approximately 1/2 inch apart and a blunt needle with doubled thick thread or wool is permanently fastened to one end of the line.
Stage 3
Square cards made of thick cardboard with outlines of a variety of simple 2-D shapes (square, circle, triangle, ellipse) with holes drilled along the lines at approximately 1/2 inch apart. Stored with a box containing a pre-threaded blunt needles. Ensure that there is the same number of needles as cards.
Stage 4
Square cards made of thick cardboard with outlines of a variety of simple 2-D shapes (square, circle, triangle, ellipse) with holes marks indicted, but left undrilled along the lines at approximately 1/2 inch apart. Stored with a box containing a pre-threaded blunt needles and a large nail and small hammer. Include some plain cards so that the children can make their own simple designs too.
Presentation:
- Bring a card with lines
- Unravel the needle
- Hold the needle in the right hand and the card in the left
- Show the child how to insert the needle the through the hole adjacent to where it is attached
- As the needle emerges on the other-side, show it to the child
- Put the needle the whole way through and your left index over the wool and carefully turn the card with your left hand
- With your right hand place the needle on the card and with right thumb and index finger tease out the thread
- Hold the card with your left hand
- Put the needle through the second hole holding as before
- Turn the card carefully and bring the needle and thread out with the right hand
- Continue in the same way until the end of the line, turning over the card in a deliberate manner
Points of Interest:
- Inserting the needle
- Turning the card
- Pull the thread through bit by bit
Purpose:
- Co-ordination of Movement
- Independence
- Concentration
- Social Adaptation
Age at Presentation:
Two and a half years to three
Footnote:
- After Stage 1 has been given the child can work with Stage 2 cards at her own pace
- After the child has mastered Stage 2 cards, show ow to use running stitch backwards to complete the gaps
- When Stage 1 and 2 are both mastered, she may use Stag 3 cards independently, carefully replacing the needle and thread in the box.
- For Stage 4 show her how to gently push the holes herself and use the blank cards to design her own patterns
How to punch a hole to create a design
Material Description:
A box containing of the plain sewing cards and a box containing a large nail, small hammer, a pad and a paper with a design drawn on which is the same size as the sewing card
Presentation:
- Place the pad on the chowki, then the plain sewing card and finally the piece of paper with the design on top of each other.
- Where the design begins place the large nail and hammer
- Measure two finger widths along the outline and place the nail in there and hit it with the hammer
- Continue for the length of the design
- Put the tools back into the box
- Ask the child to fetch a needle and thread, to thread the needle, knot it and sew along the holes just made
Points of Interest:
- The distance between the holes
- Using the hammer firmly but without excess
Purpose:
- Co-ordination of Movement
- Independence
- Concentration
- Social Adaptation
Age at Presentation:
Four years
Footnote:
Present this when the child has mastered the other cards, before she makes her own design she should use on of the preliminary Stage 4 cards with holes marked but unpunched