Work

“Small children finish anything set for them to do alone very quickly as a rule, and I find it a great help if they can have some easy handicraft to be picked up in spare moments” (Parents’ Review, “Notes and Queries”, Vol. 44, p. 480).

Handicrafts & Life Skills - (Simply Charlotte Mason):
*Many of these I have added myself*

HANDICRAFTS

• Beading
• Calligraphy
• Carving
• Ceramics
• Chalk drawing
• Charcoal sketching
• Clay sculpturing
• Crocheting
• Cross-stitching
• Embroidery
• Finger painting
• Flower arranging
• Gardening
• Iron sculpturing
• Kiting
• Knitting
• Latch-hooking
• Leather tooling
• Loom weaving
• Macrame
• Oil painting
• Pencil sketching
• Photography
• Picture framing
• Pottery
• Quilting
• Robotics
• Rubber stamping
• Scrapbooking
• Scroll sawing
• Sewing: Learn to Sew - (Alison Reid)
• Spinning fibers
• Spool-knitting
• Videography
• Watercolor painting
• Weaving
• Weaving pot holders
• Whittling
• Woodworking: Easy Carpentry Projects for Children - (Jerome E. Leavitt)

LIFE SKILLS

• Auto mechanics
• Baking
• Canning
• Canoeing
• Changing a car tire
• Changing a lightbulb
• Checking the car’s oil
• Cleaning: mirrors, sinks, toilets, tubs and showers
• Clearing the table
• Cooking
• CPR
• Driving a car
• Drying: clothes, dishes
• Dusting
• Electrical wiring
• Emptying trash
• First Aid
• Folding: clothes, towels, sheets
• Kayaking
• Mopping
• Mowing the lawn
• Organizing: closets, cupboards, sheds, garages, attics
• Painting a room
• Plumbing
• Raking leaves
• Setting the table
• Sweeping the floor
• Swimming
• Vacuuming
• Vegetable gardening
• Wallpapering
• Washing: clothes, dishes, windows, car
• Welding

BUSINESS SKILLS

• Computer skills
• Typing
• Tracking personal finances