Sewing Boards

I'm getting tired of lugging a diaper bag full of toys and things to keep the kids entertained during church. I decided to think of things that I could bring to encourage them to stay seated and that would keep them busy and quiet, and something that would be fairly light to carry around. One of my ideas was to make my own sewing boards. I went to Walfart and bought foam boards, some pretty ribbon and dug up some pipe cleaners that I had in the closet. I cut the pip cleaner to 4 inches and folded in half. Then I tied the ribbon to it and twisted it so the ribbon won't slide off. Then I drew a picture on the foam board, colored it and drilled the holes and tied the ribbon to the corner of the board. voila! This is something that I will keep in the church bag and let them use only during church. (I have two other foam boards with a giant triangle and one with a large circle so they can sew different designs on them)

This picture took me all morning to draw. I had a hard time bringing myself to drill holes in it. :(

My other activities for the kids is they each have a small dry erase board and washable dry erase markers. I also got them each their own little pad of paper and "special" twisty crayons. I hope with these new fun things, that they will look forward to sitting still and being quiet just so they can do these new activities.