Bag - I could (should) have made the calico bag but was in hobby craft the other day (if only I could get a job there...) and the are selling them for £1. I cut out a circle of blue felt and sewed the continents onto it and then hand appliquéd it to the front. I drew the continents freehand so no marks for accuracy!
Felt Map - this thing took months! I had an idea of a felt map/jigsaw thing and had started to make the sea but had no real idea of how I was going to make animals or the like. Did a quick search on Pinterest (my favourite waste of time!) and boom! there are various ones out there but I picked 'imagine our life' - - because the mum who runs the site obviously had the same idea as me and so I used her animal templates. Cost? it's difficult to value this because whilst there is the cost of the felt and velcro (but I had used scraps from my making stash), there is the time it took which was at least 2 months, probably longer, and there are still a couple of extra animals I could make
Books - "The World Atlas sticker book" cost £4.99 from our local bookshop and I bought "The World Came To My Place Today" by Jo Readman from Amazon after it was recommended to me
Ocean Map - was a royalty-free image from google images library
Blow-up Globe - cost £1 from a local toy shop
Country Cards - these came free with something and I have had them for ages; I expect Usborne or Orchard Toys would make something similar
Total Cost: around £30, not counting the cost of my time to make it...
Next bag? I am working on a "Very Hungary Caterpillar" one for the younger children I child-mind but need some ideas for other ones
Links: http://www.imagineourlife.com - most of Stephanie's patterns are free but even the ones for sale are inexpensive (no more than £3) and there are a couple of other ideas of hers that I would like to have a go at. Shame I didn't find her before I made the doll house!
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