Little Apprentice
Our wonderful builders have been here this week, fixing up some dodgy areas on our home. We do a lot of renovating ourselves, but we know that some jobs are completely beyond us! Little Miss 3 was fascinated with the builders’ tool belts so we had a go at making one ourselves.
I’m sure if you google it you can find patterns for sewing proper child sized toolbelts, but toddlers aren’t great with waiting to see their ideas come to fruition, and besides – the process is always more important than the final product. So to make our toolbelt we first rummaged through the recycling looking for small boxes. Once we found a couple I trimmed them down to size. We found some calico in the scrap material box and checked to see if it would be long enough to go around my daughter’s waist. Then I carefully stapled the boxes onto the fabric and tied it on!
She found her own items to put into her toolbelt: a few of her brother’s play tools, a small measuring tape, some allen keys, a spare door handle… then set off to do some hard yakka with the builders. But when she got outside, my usually confident child went all shy! LOL
Gorgeous Cath! Good to see you are a twinings traditional afternoon tea girl like me
xx
What a great idea for a tool belt!
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Too cute
fantastic!!! You are so clever.
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So cute Cath – I’ve got to say that my little man loves anything to do with tools and will run to his ‘tool box’ as soon as he sees Dad fixing something and picks out ‘just the right thing’ to go and offer his ‘help’. He even connected a long screw to one of his Bob the Builder toys to so that it could drill some post holes like Daddy’s machine does! Very cute.
This is such a cute idea Cath. I can imagine lots of fun will come from this.
BTW – I made the caterpillar sandwich idea for Miss H’s birthday. It was so easy and matched the red theme well. Thanks for pointing me in the direction of the funky lunch site.
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