Kids are tough on their clothes…Fortunately, they're creative too!Mending With Kids shows you how to make kids' torn and stained clothes wearable again using a variety of simple sewing and decorating techniques that foster kids' participation. It includes helpful tips and techniques for patching, collage (with felt and fabrics), iron-ons, stenciling, darning, embroidery, hand-painting, and much more—including templates for making your own patches and stencils!Best of all, most of these techniques are easy enough for kids to join in and put their personal stamp on their clothes—which they absolutely love doing! And with your supervision, they'll pick up practical skills along the way. In this book, you'll find practical ideas and advice on clothes-savers like:Using added bands of fabric to cover, patch and lengthen jeans and trousers (kids outgrow them so fast!)Combining patching with embroidery to make a repair into a design elementEmbroidering around holes to make them look like