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How to sew a kitchen apron for children? Step by step instructions

Jak uszyć fartuszek kuchenny dla dzieci? Instrukcja krok po kroku

Adrian Koźlik |

Currently, reconciling professional development with raising children is a challenge for many parents. The increasingly fast pace of life limits the time spent together with children. Therefore, it is worth introducing them to household chores and not closing the kitchen to them.

Cooking together can be an opportunity for your child to have fun and awaken their passion for preparing food.

What are the benefits of cooking with children?

However, before we get to the instructions on how to sew a kitchen apron, let's learn about the advantages of cooking with your child:

    • Children learn about different flavors and try new products. This time spent together can be an opportunity to try dishes they wouldn't normally try. These types of activities can also be a great way to deal with picky eating. The child sees how dishes are prepared and thus easily reaches for culinary novelties.
    • Regardless of age, cooking together can foster creativity. Currently, you can find many products on the market for decorating cakes or cookies, thanks to which your toddler can show his imagination. Let's allow children to experiment in cooking and replace proven ingredients with new ones. We can learn a lot from them too!
    • By cooking together from an early age, children also become familiar with the kitchen and then often use these skills in adulthood. So it can be good training for adulthood.
    • Nowadays, much attention is paid to a child's sensory skills. They then support the development of speech, writing and reading among children. Learning to cook, which takes into account different textures and shapes of products, is a great training for this type of skills.
    • We should also not forget about the time we devote to the child. Preparing meals every day can be fun for us and for our children.

Kitchen apron - let's prepare our little chef for work.

fartuszek kuchenny When allowing our child to experiment in the kitchen, we must be aware that not everything will go according to plan and there will be a mess in the kitchen, and our child may spill flour or dough on himself.

For this purpose, it is worth purchasing the protection provided by an apron for your child. Children will also be happy to play little chefs if it involves dressing up.

What materials are suitable for sewing an apron for a child?

    • We will need thick cotton, which we can buy in a store or order online - the more colorful and interesting the material, the more willingly the child will use it,
    • If we want to minimize production costs, we can use a child's old dress or scraps of fabric,
    • another way is to use an old pillowcase or sheet,
    • Cotton cloths may also be helpful.

Instructions for sewing a children's apron.

Sewing an apron doesn't really require much skill. Most mothers have a sewing machine, but even sewing it with a needle and thread should not be a problem.

Here are the sewing tips:

  • 1. Involve your child in creating their own apron . For example, you can choose the material from which you will sew it.
  • 2. Look for a ready-made pattern on the Internet or draw one.
  • 3. Transfer the finished drawing to cardboard. You can even use baking paper or paper for wrapping parcels.
  • 4.Then place the pattern on the folded fabric and cut out the appropriate shape.
  • 5. Form two strips of fabric that will be used to fasten the apron .
  • 6.You can also enrich the apron with a front pocket or a ruffle.
  • 7.The last stage will be sewing. Start by attaching the neck straps and sew them to the top edge of the fabric. Then fold the remaining edges of the fabric and pin them together, and then sew. Enrich the prepared material with a fastening at the back with a belt. The apron is ready!
  • As you can see, sewing a kitchen apron is not difficult, and it can be a great gift for our little chef.

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