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Handicraft
Here you will find our articles related to Handicraft and posts about actual handcrafts we have pursued in relation to a Charlotte Mason (CM) Homeschool.
FAQ
What Does Handicraft Mean?
For our purposes, we are talking about arts or crafts made by hand or by simple hand tools that are useful, practical, and beautiful.
What are considered handicrafts?
- Traditional handcrafts include needlework, modeling, brushwork, leathercraft, and more.
- Modern applications can include kitchen crafting, plant work, paper crafting, woodworking, and more.
What is the meaning of doing handicraft?
- In the CM homeschooling circles, handicraft refers to teaching children to make useful things by hand. There’s an element of beauty and order to how the child should learn and do, and so, handicraft is the application of the self towards creating something of beauty or value.
- The process of learning is valuable.
Articles
Cookie Mix in a Jar Handicraft Lessons
What’s Inside: Cookie mix in a jar means layering dry ingredients of a baked goods recipe into a mason jar, then putting a pretty ribbon… Read More »Cookie Mix in a Jar Handicraft Lessons
How to Grow Microgreens
What’s Inside What are Microgreens? Why Grow Microgreens? The process of how to grow microgreens Steps to learn about growing microgreens A “side trip” to… Read More »How to Grow Microgreens
Learning Woodworking
What’s inside: Do you teach woodworking skills in your homeschool? Or is it a “lost art” for your kids? See how we approached learning woodworking… Read More »Learning Woodworking
What is handicraft?
What’s inside: What exactly is handicraft? And how does it help teach my kids to be self-learners? In Charlotte Mason homeschooling circles, handicraft refers to… Read More »What is handicraft?
Dehydrating Madness
What’s inside: Teach kids how to dehydrate food in handicraft time. See how my co-operative Charlotte Mason (CM) homeschooling group got together to learn this… Read More »Dehydrating Madness
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