Handicrafts Made Simple: Hand Sewing

About this curriculum

With Handicrafts Made Simple it’s easy to add handicrafts to your school schedule. The step-by-step demonstrations and accompanying booklet walk you and your children through interesting and useful projects in hand sewing. (Grades 1–12) Teach your children useful life skills with short and simple handicraft lessons! Charlotte Mason intentionally included handicrafts in her school schedule. She believed that “another elemental relationship, which every child should be taught and encouraged to set up, is that of power over material. Every child makes sand castles, mud-pies, paper boats, and he or she should go on to work in clay, wood, brass, iron, leather, dress-stuffs, food-stuffs, furnishing-stuffs. He should be able to make with his hands and should take delight in making” (Vol. 3, p. 80). Now it’s easy to add handicraft lessons to your curriculum with Handicrafts Made Simple . This video presents lessons in hand sewing and includes Step-by-step instructions with close-up details that will give you and your children confidence as you learn. Fun projects that your children will actually use.…