Tote-bag challenge

Its the long summer holiday. The kids take part in the reading challenge held by our local library. However, for some reason, no one wants to carry the books nor look after them... Sometimes they even go missing...

In an attempt to keep them busy, I set them a challenge :make your own tote-bag to keep your library books together. Since this involves an ancient singer sewing machine, all were immediately up for this task. 

Given that they are aged 7, 6 and 3 it might be more a personal challenge for me... 

To be continued.