Want an easy sewing project that help your students and school feel good too? Nancy's Notions, a popular sewing tools & pattern store have come up with this charitable project for African children--a Pillow case re-purposed into a little girl's dress.
Karen Conklin has been a Family and Consumer Science teacher for 19 years and she is currently teaching middle school in central Connecticut. I had the distinct privileged of interviewing her while she was attending the Twist Craft Fair--a craft show she says is "inspiring, a place to get ideas, and keep up on...
Another great way to teach students how to bake in mass quantity, maintain quality control, and market food attractively is to sell boxes of several kinds of Christmas cookies. My students made boxes of 3 dozen Christmas cookies including peanut butter kisses, chocolate crinkle, Russian Tea Cakes, gingerbread, sugar, raspberry thumb prints and coconut...
