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Introduction to Charlotte Mason
Charlotte Mason on Handwork
- The end-product should be useful. The children should not “be employed in making futilities such as pea and stick work, paper mats, and the like.”
- Teach the children “slowly and carefully what they are to do.”
- Emphasize the habit of best effort. “Slipshod work should not be allowed.”
- Carefully select handicrafts and life skills to challenge but not frustrate. “The children’s work should be kept well within their compass.”
Types of Handwork
As classified by Charlotte Mason, handwork can be a broad and wide category. Here are some handwork ideas :
- Beading
- Calligraphy
- Carving
- Ceramics
- Chalk drawing
- Charcoal sketching
- Clay
- Cooking
- Crocheting
- Cross-stitching
- Embroidery
- Finger painting
- Flower arranging
- Gardening
- Knitting
- Latch-hooking
- Leather tooling
- Loom weaving
- Macrame
- Mending
- Oil painting
- Paper Sloyd
- Pencil sketching
- Photography
- Pottery
- Quilting
- Robotics
- Rubber stamping
- Scrapbooking
- Sewing
- Spinning fibers
- Videography
- Watercolor painting
- Weaving
- Whittling
- Woodworking
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More Information
For more information on Charlotte Mason and her method, check out some of these websites:
https://simplycharlottemason.com/
https://www.cminst.org/about/about-charlotte-mason
https://ahumbleplace.com/