to think that this is an unsuitable school project?

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I've NC for this because of the identifiable details.

DS usually gets a craft project every half term, to be done at home. The usual approach is that they do some drawings in class at the start of the half term, and then are asked to make it at home.

This time, they've been asked to make a shoe.

Now, there's nothing inherently wrong with this. I'm not currently undergoing shoe aversion therapy, and I didn't have a traumatic childhood experience involving a moccasin.

But... DS is only 5 years old (Y1)!

I could understand if he was in a high school design & technology class, where as part of a term project he was asked to make one. But in primary school?

It's not like they gave out pre-drawn templates for the children to colour in & cut out / stick. The parents are just left to work out how to make a shoe.

I we made one yesterday and I'm he's quite pleased with it, but it was such an involved process, and he was so bored by the end. I can't see that I could have made it much easier or quicker, unless he'd done a flip flop like the genius who got in first with that idea

It's parents evening today, so WIBU to mention to the teacher about the suitability of the project for the age group?

I remember those Blockaboots on the tv Mrs Cakes!

I think we would have made a horse shoe. Cut out shape. Draw nails onto shape. Job done.

When ds was 4 he had to make a gingerbread house 'like in Hansel and Gretel' - I gave him a big shoe box and orange paint And some sweets to glue on. Turned up on the day and 3/4 parents had made actual massive gingerbread houses with perfect piping And hansel and gretel figures. I was unreasonably pissed off.

Ha ha yes. Or a cat shoe. Get chunk of play doh. Get cat to stick paw in it. Voila! A cat shoe!

I made shoes at home when I was 5. It is actually really easy.

You need two oval pieces of fabric, one for the bottom, and one for the top. the top one has a hole positioned like an egg yolk. You sow the two pieces together, and you slip your foot in through the egg yolk hole.

I made this totally without parental input, and I wore them out on the snow. I used a very thick fabric, (like you use for salopettes or those Barbour style jackets which half the population is wearing) for them.

YANBU. My two DSs hate craft stuff even more than me and DH! I just don't bother anymore. Particularly when I realised that these holiday craft projects are being used to decorate the halls (because ofsted love pretty halls & corridors ) and it never counts towards their academic levels! Decorate your own bleeding corridors and leave the school holidays for families