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Sew a Scrappy Patchwork Black Cat Pillow

October 24, 2024 by Anne Weaver

If you love scrappy sewing projects, I’ve got a great Halloween sewing project to share with you today.  This scrappy black cat throw pillow over at Therm O Web makes use of your black and orange fabric scraps to make an adorable Halloween throw pillow.

As a pet owner of 4 black cats, I’m partial to any sewing project that features a black cat.  What I love about this pillow, beside it being a black cat, is that the patchwork design doesn’t require any complicated cutting or piecing.  The majority of the design is made with simple squares, with a few half square triangles thrown in to help create the cat shape. 

If you don’t have the scraps in your remnant stash already, you can easily get enough squares from a handful of fat quarters.  I’m always up for a reason to buy a few more fabrics for my stash, lol.  Blenders and single color prints will work best for this project.

The other thing I love about this project is that, while it was obviously designed for Halloween, you can make this a pillow for all year just by switching out the colors.  Of course iIn our home filled with black cats, we don’t limit ourselves to Halloween for the black cat décor.  It’s black cats all year at our house! 

But if you own cats other than black cats, you can easily make the cat on this pillow look like the cats living in your own home just by changing up the colors you use for the kitty shape.  A white kitty, gray kitty, orange kitty, or even use multiple colors to make a tuxedo or calico cat.

The project is designed by Deb Zeleski for Therm O Web.  Go to the Them O Web blog for the project tutorial and free pattern.

[photo credit: Therm O Web]

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Learning about the Moon for Kids

The moon is always a fun topic for kids because it’s around all the time but always changing and there are lots of educational and crafting activities available to learn about the moon. 

I’ve shared a few in the past, including this phases of the moon flip book and a project about coding the phases of the moon. 

Check out some cool pictures of our moon, other moons, and what it might be like to live and work on the moon with these images from NASA. And you can learn about the moon landing from National Geographic Kids.

Learn about the phases of the moon and do these dot-to-dot worksheets for the different phases from Kids Activities Blog. I also love this homemade moon phases puzzle form What We Do All Day.

I Can Teach My Child has a fun experiment illustrating why there are craters on the moon, made with “moon dough” (flour and baby oil). Or you can make a clay moon and give it craters with this activity from Gift of Curiosity. 

There are lots of fun ways to make moon rocks, including this dough and glitter version from Kids Activities Blog and fizzing moon rocks from Little Bins for Little Hands. 

Speaking of fizzy science, Montessori from the Heart has a fun moon craft project that’s made with baking soda, vinegar and glitter. So you can talk about the acid/base reaction and learn about the moon at the same time you make a cool piece of art. 

Or make this fun aluminum foil moon from Mom Brite.

Cinta and Co. has a cute phases of the moon art project and information you can download about the phases of the moon. 

And of course you’ll probably want to make the classic Oreo moon phases craft/snack, which you can find at Teach Mama if you don’t know it already.

Add in some books about the moon (The Moon Book is a great one), a sensory bin with moon sand and astronaut characters, maybe a little walking with big steps like you’d take on the moon (and a discussion of why they walk like that) and your moon day will be complete!

 

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