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09 May

Come and join us for our brushwork lesson #24! This homeschool handicraft project is from the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson, and is called A Lesson on Corn and Mice. It features several corn stalks and introduces a quick and simple method to paint mice. It's a fun lesson to do, even if you're not too fond of mice. In the lesson, the "corn" looks suspiciously like wheat, which bothered me more than it should. As for the mice, it was fun to see how a simple brush stroke could be the foundation of a little rodent. Our...

06:00 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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02 May

Go find a clean shoe, because today's homeschool handicraft is a clay model of a sabot - and I'm guessing you don't have a sabot laying around the house. This project is model #36 from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin and it's part of our clay modelling series. What is a Sabot? The word sabot comes from the French term for a wooden shoe, typically carved from a single block of wood, and historically worn by peasants and workers. Nowadays a sabot would probably be made from leather, rubber, or some other synthetic material instead of wood, and...

06:00 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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25 Apr

We are excited for our brushwork lesson #23! This homeschool handicraft project is from the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson, and is called Design of Mountain Ash. It features five prominent branches, with designs of feathery, compound leaves and bright orange-red berries, each a hallmark of the mountain ash tree. If you've been following along with us in our Brushwork Series, you're going to find this lovely design to be easy and incredibly rewarding. Our Grid Paper With most of our brushwork lessons, we have adapted the grid paper design in the book to our own grid paper. For...

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18 Apr

Our homeschool handicraft project for today is brushwork lesson #22 from the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson. This lesson is called a Lesson on Mountain Ash, featuring feathery, compound leaves and bright orange-red berries. By now in our brushwork series, we are really moving beyond the nitty-gritty, practice part. Painting actual flowers, leaves, branches, and other parts of nature, makes this handicraft even more enjoyable and meaningful. Our Grid Paper With most of our brushwork lessons, we have adapted the grid paper design in the book to our own grid paper. For this lesson, I decided to...

06:00 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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11 Apr

It’s time for another homeschool handicraft! Today we going to be making a clay model of a trinket tray, which is model #35 from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin. The trinket tray does not require a model, so this week we get a break from our usual crazy search for random objects! Materials Needed The book, A Manual of Clay Modelling by Hermione Unwin (or free online HERE) Modeling Clay (the book suggests red terra cotta clay) Clay modeling tools (this kit includes many tools, along with a sponge and wire to cut the clay) An modelling board with an armature – hopefully you’ve made this...

06:00 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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04 Apr

Today's homeschool handicraft project is Lesson #21 in our brushwork series from the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson. Brushwork Lesson #21 is a Design of Ivy, and is a really beautiful way to practice that the brush forms and ivy that we learned in Lesson #20. Once you start painting ivy with its' creeping vines and 5-star leaves, you won't be able to stop! Redrawing the Design on Our Grid Paper Your grid paper is probably going to be different than that in the book. I say this because I looked everywhere for grid paper that was similar to the...

06:00 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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