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Friday, November 17, 2017

Hauraki's Gala Preparation

Hello, This year Waikowhai is hosting a gala on November 25th. We are fundraising for the junior playground as well as not using plastic bags as often. Each class had to make different items for the gala. There are Tote Bags, Recycled Paper, Soap and other exciting items. This was awesome because it taught me how to sew and how to make a tote bag. This could be really helpful in the future. If you wanna learn for yourself these are the steps of making a tote bag. First you wanna grab 2 pieces of fabric a bit bigger than how big you want the bag to be. Then flip them inside out for later when we flip them around again. Pin every side except for the top which you want to be exposed so you can put things in your bag. Start sewing at the top right corner and go down, across and up the other side. After that you fold the top down. You should pin it then iron it. Put one side of the bag under the sewing machine and sew all the way around until you come to the spot you started at. Fold it down again and iron that. Sew that all the way around and then you can add straps to your bag. Sew a square where the end of the handle would be. Well Done! You have made your bag! If you want to look at some of the photos we took:


Our first ones weren't as good as our 2nd and 3rd bags. We barely knew what we were doing and needed a lot of help at that stage. It hasn't changed my thinking a lot on plastic bags because I already knew that plastic bags did a lot of damage and harm to the environment. But I did not know that, that many animals eat plastic. This is very sustainable because we have used old paper to make brand new paper and made tote bags to stop using plastic bags.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Ben it's Bruno and Morgan. We really like the photos you took and how much writing you did. It was a really quality blogpost. It made us think about the Gala Day and how fun it's going to be. Our question to you is how much will these be because we would love to buy one. Thanks Ben it was a privalige to read

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