Home economics
for children teaches them necessary skills.
The care and running of a household are skills that can be taught at an early age. Home economics, the knowledge of organize a household space, conserve resources, sew, plan nutritious meals and keep safe are all vital to children who will someday be adults with homes of their own.
Emergencies
Ask the children to write down their telephone number and address on a handout about 911 that you provide. Explain the use to the children of 911 in summoning help in an emergency.
House Planning
Give each child half of an 8-inch by 11-inch piece of graph paper and explain that they need to create a house plan on one side of the sheet the necessary rooms for a house such as bedrooms, a kitchen and bathrooms. Ask the children to label each room. This teaches children create organized spaces.
House Pests
Discuss house pests like cockroaches and prevent pests. Have the children come up with various ways that they can help keep their homes clean.
Meal Planning
Ask the children to plan a nutritious meal working from a food pyramid worksheet.
Sewing
You will need pieces of white cloth, red thread for contrast and needles. The first stitch a child should learn is a straight stitch, which is a basic back and forth through the cloth.
Water Conservation
Teaching children to conserve water is important. Talk about how using water drains reservoirs and how wasting water jeopardizes agriculture, wildlife and human habitation by depleting water sources. Next ask the children to take several sheets of paper, according to how many faucets they have at home, and write the word "ON" on the sheets. Have the students and their families make a check mark every time they turn on the taps to show how much water the families use during the week.
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