Learn to Cook & Sew with a Home Economics Course - Set

If you never really learned to cook, don’t really know how to sew but want to learn, or just want your daughter to know the basics, this is the course for you. From learning basic recipes like Chocolate Chip cookies to sewing a skirt to suggestions on home organization and cleaning, this is a one-year course for beginning homemakers that will provide you with a basic knowledge of how to run a home. Though it mostly focuses on teaching cooking and sewing, it also has units on cleaning, organizing, child growth and development, and decorating.

How Does This Work?

This course in home economics consists of ten separate workbooks, each on a different subject.

1. Introduction to the Kitchen
2. Nutrition and Food preparation
3. Food Shopping and Kitchen Organization
4. Meal Planning, Preparation, and Presentation
5. Getting Ready to Sew
6. Sewing For the Home
7. Sewing for yourself
8. Godly Home keeping
9. Child Growth and Development
10. Growing Into Godly Womanhood

Each unit is divided into two or three sections, with a test at the end of each section. The units have clear instructions for each activity and helpful illustrations. There are basically five different subjects covered: Cooking (recipes, kitchen equipment, basic cooking know-how), sewing (how to work a sewing machine, patterns, suggestions on what to sew for), basic Home keeping (decorating, cleaning organizing), child care (children’s basic growth patterns, how to care for children, etc.). The last unit is more of a devotional than anything else, with brief lessons on friendship, one’s relationship with God, and courtship.

Our Honest Opinion:

For some people, ‘keeping home’ means making sure one’s home is a pleasant place, a place you can be hospitable in, a place that one’s family loves to be in. For these people, activities you need to do to make this happen are simple ones like cooking, cleaning, managing one’s finances, and other basic skills. For other people, activities necessary to keeping a good home involve the above and more strenuous activities, like being a sewing expert, growing your own food, making your own candles, raising animals, and other similar activities. This course, we feel, was created by those who hold the latter view of home keeping. Therefore, for those people who hold this view also, this will be the perfect beginner’s course in home keeping. For others, they may appreciate the suggestions and instructions, but may not find all of the units necessary. But weather you consider this a ‘home economics course’ or just some helpful lessons on learning to sew and cook like you’ve always wanted, the clear instructions and organized lessons makes it a course that teaches its subjects well and thoroughly.