hotpad/potholder pictures

Thank you -- that's what I was thinking I needed to do. Now I think I can set up a task with picture instructions myself for my autistic students. You are the best!

Hey, I'm always trying to come up with ideas for my daughter's sp ed kids to make. As you know there is never enough money to do the things they need to do to practice life skills. They have made these to sell at Christmas - I did the binding for them. The other two projects they have done and made lots of money (plus practiced important skills) were Cookies in a Jar (my daughter has made the lessons plans and will be glad to send them to you if you like). They have done them for 4 years and now have people calling to place orders!! She believes it is the most important learning project they do all year. (they purchase, measure, make tags, directions and pretty toppers, assemble, sell, keep records she goes on about it for hours) and they made $900 last Christmas - after paying for all the stuff to make them with. The other sewing project involves a large rectangle potholder bought from the Dollar Store. They sew about 10 ziplock bags (also from the $ Store) in the middle...cut the bags to size, fold the potholder and sew a button on the outside. I LOVE mine. I keep all my little sewing stuff in it - it is soooo handy. Want pictures of that too? I know I made no sense describing it.

Those are really cute!!! Excellent way to use up scraps....... and these would be good to have "at the ready" for last minute "Oops.... I forgot about" gifts. Thanks for sharing!

Patti in Seattle

I agree that marketing is a really important part of the education plan for developmentally challenged students so, yes, please on the lesson plans and for the gadget bag too.

We have done a nine bean soup mix that we put in zip-lock bags and then inside a pretty machine stitched bag tied with raffia -- that is a big hit at the school; wacky chocolate cake in a jar is a good seller also. One year we made Thanksgiving bread baskets that looked like turkeys -- huge hit. I think it may be time to do those again. And those loom looper potholders were big sellers also. We took bulletin board paper (from those big rolls in the library) -- all different colors -- and used wonder under to iron on fabric motifs then folded the paper into gift bags. We have never made a profit as large as your daughter's but then we have had only 5 kids able to do assembly.

Thanks. Liz