A colonial wallet.
Make a colonial wallet out of leather.
North Carolina Third Grade Goal 2.01.
North Carolina Fourth Grade Goal 3.01, 7.01, 7.02, 7.03.
Virginia Standard USI.5b.
There a many stitches used to sew things together. The running stitch just goes in and out, back and forth. The whip stitch goes through and around, through and around. There are many others.
Leather is usually the skin of a cow. Tanning the leather preserves it and makes it soft. Most leather is tanned by soaking it with some chemical.
Just like now, colonial men carried a wallet to store their money and important papers. The wallet stayed closed using a strap.
How does it feel to have made your own wallet with your own hands? What do you store in your wallet? How long do you think that you will have it? Do you think that you could teach someone else how to make one?
