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Explore Your Creativity: Learn a Life Skill or Handicraft Project

Embark on a journey to learn a new life skill or handicraft over the next few months! Choose from various options like knitting, pottery, or bread-making, and practice your craft. Throughout the term, we will update each other on our progress, culminating in a final presentation of your work. This project not only allows you to explore your hobbies but can also save money and pave the way for self-sufficiency. Let's make something meaningful together while enhancing our skills!

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Explore Your Creativity: Learn a Life Skill or Handicraft Project

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  1. Life Skills Project Objective: You will choose one life skill or handicraft to learn and practice over the next few months. We will update each other on our progress through out the term and present a final product.

  2. Why? • Hobby • Save money • Sell & profit • Can rely on yourself – self sufficiency

  3. Examples of life skills & handicrafts • Cross-stitch • Crochet • Embroidery • Felting • Knitting • Lace-making • Leather craft • Macrame • Millinery (hat making) • Needlepoint • Patchwork • Quilting • Rug making • Sewing • Cobblery (shoe making) • Spinning (textiles) • Weaving • Bead work • Bone carving • Carpentry/woodwork

  4. Examples of life skills & handicrafts • Doll making • Glass blowing • Jewelry design • Mosaics • Pottery • Puppet making • Stained glass • Toy making • Instrument making • Wood carving • Basket weaving • Knot tying & lashing • Silkscreening

  5. Examples of life skills & handicrafts • Canning/preserving (pickles, jams, meat & fish) • Tea making • Bread making • Pie making • Cake making

  6. How to choose • What interests you? #1

  7. How to choose • What interests you? #1 • What materials do I need? How easily and quickly can I get them?

  8. How to choose • What interests you? #1 • What materials do I need? How easily and quickly can I get them? • Can I afford the materials?

  9. How to choose • What interests you? #1 • What materials do I need? How easily and quickly can I get them? • Can I afford the materials? • Is it practical for me?

  10. How to choose • What interests you? #1 • What materials do I need? How easily and quickly can I get them? • Can I afford the materials? • Is it practical for me? • Have I considered my timeframe?

  11. Next steps • By Friday, February 14th: choose life skill & tell me where you plan to get your materials • By Friday, February 21st: you need to show me purchased materials or proof that they have been ordered

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