Talk to your child about the Cross...one stitch at a time!

Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.  Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road...tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads."  Deuteronomy 6:5-8

Make a moment this spring, this Easter season, for some sweet one-on-one time with your child. Turn off the TV.  Turn off your phone. Find a quiet corner and share your faith, impress your heart for Jesus on your child as you do this simple craft together.  Just like your grandparents or those before you did with their children. (It's amazing the conversations that can happen over threading a needle -again and again!)

 All you'll need is some buttons, a needle and thread and scraps of ribbon, felt, fabric--and even shelf liner works great!  Using embroidery floss or yarn for younger ages makes button fastening quicker with less stitching needed.
                                                

Make an Easter band with symbols - a cross, flowers, butterfly, etc-- to wear around a wrist or even as a headband. Symbols can be traced from a template or drawing. Keeping things simple is good. You'll be surprised at how much your little guy can enjoy a needle and thread too... so don't think this is for girls only.  Here's where the process is even more important than the product... but the product is pretty sweet too.

(Depending on your child, such sewing things may be "new" to them. Threading the needle. Finding a button they like (ones with four holes like a cross - or just two). Knotting the thread and sewing a button on all are good life skills to learn and to learn from you! You may just find there's someone right in your midst to take over the "to-be-mended" pile you've been collecting.)