Having a large family has taught me many things:
1. I want my daughters to grow up to be skilled homemakers. Â I want them to learn things that took me years to learn as a new wife. Â Don’t you always want better for you children?
2. We must be frugal with all of the money that the Lord has given us to use. Â How can I rightly justify spending hundreds of dollars on school books when I know that I can recreate that same hundreds of dollar curriculum with a little bit of time and work.
When it comes time to figuring out what curriculum I want to use for my children, sometimes it can be tough.  Depending upon my season in life, there are times when I have had absolutely zero time to research and just bought whatever looked like a good complete curriculum. That year cost us much in money for schooling, but it was all I could do at the time.
Then there was the year that my husband was laid off and there wasn’t even a talk about “using any money for schooling” I did not want to burden my husband with the added pressure of schooling curriculum expense. Â That was the year I realized how much “free” teaching there was online. Â I took days and weeks of researching and planned out whole curriculum’s for each of my children. Â That by far was their favorite year of schooling.
With all that said…I am excited to be able to offer our home economics curriculum to you for FREE!
The reason I chose this curriculum to do is because you cannot find “whole” curriculum for training your daughters without spending money. BTW Â I am all for buying and blessing someone else’s hard work for sure, but I do know that there are a multitude of people out there in the same boat as we are and would appreciate a FREE curriculum.
You can click here for the Kitchen Course or here for Household and Personal Management Course.
What is the youngest age you have done this course with your girls? I am excited to try it. Thank you.
My daughter is 15 this year. But you could do it with a younger daughter I would say 14 is a good age to start.
I guess I am getting ahead of myself then! Mine is going to be 10 this January. She is pretty mature for her age though. We will see. 🙂 Thanks again!
I have a very responsible 8 year old, and she could do all of it with my help. It could be a course for the both of you to do together.
I could certainly use the help as well! Going to start in the new year! What fun! Thanks Amy. 🙂
I love this!!! I’m definitely going to pass this page on to my FB page… Our three youngest daughters are 12, 9 and 8 and I know this will be perfect for them (they all already have some decent homemaking skills, but it will be nice to bring it all together and make sure I didn’t miss anything.)
Great Elisabeth, whoever it will be a blessing to that is what I am praying for. Thank you. Amy
Thank you so much for sharing this. I will pass it on to others.
Blessings,
Angie McFarren
http://hopehomeschoolconsulting.com/blog/
Thank you and yes please share:)
Thank you so much for sharing! It must have been a lot of work for you to put this together and it is so amazing that you are offering it for free. I am visiting from over at Hope In Every Season. Have a blessed weekend!
Thank you for visiting and I am glad you enjoyed it, I hope it can be of some use to you or someone that you know.
What a wonderful blessing this course is to your daughter! I’ve taken a peek and pinned it for future use. I am thinking of using it with my 13 year old next school year. Thank you for putting this together.
Wonderful, yes add it to next years curriculum. Thank you
I am wondering how to get started. Let me expand that thought. My kids age 14 and 12 are in all pre-AP classes in public school. We are having a really hard time with the school and are thinking of home schooling. I am starting from scratch and I saw you said you did a ton of research. How do I research? What do I look for? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Candice, I am sorry to hear you are having a difficult time with your schools. What I mean by “ton of research” is that I would take time, to look around the internet. There are so many “free” resources available to you. But it does take some time to look for them. I am hoping to keep putting out there the different resources that we do for “free” online. Have you looked into any online homeschooling programs, even through your school district?? Another suggestion is that if I was looking for a Biology course for my children, I would be typing in Free biology course,classes, lessons, online courses, etc. If I couldn’t find what I wanted I would look at the scope and sequence of the different subjects. I would then piece together what it is I would need my child to know. yes it takes some time, but you might be able to find someone else who has paved the way before. Check out allinonehomeschool.com We do much of our schooling through that blog:)
Just LOVE this! I plan to take the course first. God knows I could use this. My oldest is 11, but I have three daughters (& two sons) and would like them to be much more prepared than I was for full-time homemaking. Thank you so much! You’ve been an answer to prayers.
You are so very welcome, Let me know if you enjoy it, or if I can improve upon it.
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i am teaching as a missionary in Nicaragua and plan to adapt and use this for a domestic arts class i will be teaching this year
GOD GAVE ME A VISION TO CREATE A COMMUMITY OUT REACH TO YOUNG MOTHERS. WORKING ON THE MISSION STATEMENT . I AM GREAT FULL TO HAVE FOUND YOUR WEB SITE . THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH !!!!!PEACE AND LOVE
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your welcome, be blessed. Amy
Thank you Amy, for your inspiring work. I am a grandmother who taught my daughter and 2 sons at home. So what am I doing here now? For years I have taught girls about my passion, sewing. A local group of homeschoolers asked me to teach a complete HomeEc course. I declined, feeling ill-equipped. Your lesson plans have given me new inspiration. I plan to spend time working through it on my own and teach it next year.(Or possibly parts of it starting in January after my usual sewing lessons enhanced by your plans). My greatest blessing is seeing how my daughter has embraced the Proverbs 31 woman way beyond my example. Proof that God can use the least of us to bring about His purposes.
I think this is great.
thank you
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Hi Amy, I only found your site 5 days ago I live in Australia and you have become my guardian Angel! ! – and I’m taking all the information you have provided me and starting a new organized chaotic life for my husband and 4 kids. Everthing from your organizing room by room (clipboards) to homeschooling my kids with extra subjects (home ec) which I dont think the school does very well. I am slightly obsessed with all that you do and I find myself reading your site trying to find ways of your wisdom and looking for the right path. I’m going to use your home ec class for my 9yo son – I want him to be a hands on husband/ father – my generation of boys is to worship his wife as she does him – building stronger families. Im having trouble making daily schedule for kids – what do you do and what do you think is appropriate time on technology for all ages of children. Thank uou for donating your time and effort, you are a godsend to all Amy! Your No 1. Fan, Mandy.
Mandy, your sweet:) I am happy you have found me and I look forward to sharing more. In managing a large family series, I broke down how we schedule each child. We are not super strict, they just know that they are expected to do certain things at certain times and then they are free. Technology….hmmmm it varies My ideal is to let them have an hour of video games/tv and then an hour of something else. We are actually working to detox some in the home from video games now lol. I like to say that if all goes well and we have a good work at it, then after dinner they are free to do what they want and that includes video games or watching videos. That could be 2 hours if we aren’t doing something else. I would love to say throw them away all together:) but I have to say my son, who did not respondto regular schooling taught himself to read while playing video games when he was little:) I say notice how they are acting—moody, snippy, fighting more, then detox from media things……let them “earn” them back they are not a right just a privilege. Less is best. Be blessed Amy
Thank you so much for sharing the fruits of your labors! I will be using this with my son. I would ask that you consider modifying the text on this page to reflect the importance of both girls AND boys learning these life skills. I don’t want the my son rushing into marriage because he doesn’t know how to cook or clean and needs someone to look after him after he is old enough to be “on his own”. That should never even be a consideration. Either way, thanks, again.
John, thank you for your comments, I actually was considering doing that as I write my next ebooks. I may even do a course geared towards boys–to learn some home skills as well as some other real life skills. Hmmmm I may start sooner than later. Thanks and be blessed. Amy
Thank u for presenting such a useful course
your welcome, be blessed. Amy
Thank you for sharing such a wonderful resource! I was searching for a home-ec course that would be appropriate for my boys and found myself on your site. I am planning to modify it a bit to use with my boys, but agree that a boys’ course would be welcomed by many of us. I am looking forward to learning right along with them. Thank you!
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in philippines I graduated with HOME ECONOMICS MAJOR…and all am looking for is to enhance my skills…I am looking where I can have my actual practice…I will be glad you will consider me as one of your apprentice…my purpose is I can teach and share my skills too to my students and proud with pride in sharing them…
This is wonderful! I am happy to be able to share all that I have on here for you to use. Be blessed
Thank you! I am teaching Home Ec at our homeschool co-op this fall. This will be a big help!
Excellent, glad to be of help to you:)
Just purchased this today! So excited to start using it with my daughter on Monday! I dont see a link to download though.. Will there be an email with a link?
Hi Amy: Homemaking classes in school are a lost art. I am happy. To find your classes on line. Thank you!😊
yes they are JoAnn:) I am happy to be able to put them together—your welcome
Hi Amy!
Thank you, thank you, and thank you again! I have friends and associates who are teachers and I was promised that I would be given the curriculum for Home Economics but I never received. (that was years ago) I feel that we’re all so blessed that you came along.
LaNell, I am happy that you are able to use this curriculum for your students. I am happy to share if I can. Have a wonderful day!
Please send me free books for home economics.
The course is online and it is free to do. Just click on the link.
Okay, so I am a 36 year old SAHM and because I want to live more Biblically (not just studying what women in the Bible did, but actually doing it), I decided to start hunting the internet for free Home Economics courses. I have a brand new sewing machine, which I am secretly afraid of, and I want to put it to good use. My husband bought it for me and I really want to use it!
I have 2 classes that I won on Craftsy to help me learn to make bags and other storage containers with sewing and also one to help me learn to make quilts. I have a son who is 18 months old and, while I probably won’t go as in depth with this courses as I would if we had a daughter, I will teach him certain things that can be useful for a guy.
Because of my age, we may have one more baby and I am hoping for a girl! Truthfully, God blessed us with Mason and we never have another baby. That is perfectly fine but I would like it if he had a brother or sister to play with.
Anyway, I will be using this just for me right now. I am so glad I found it! You said that you design your own curriculum for your children, are you under a cover school or what? How does that work? As soon as Mason is school age, I will be homeschooling him so I am curious about what would be right for us.
I love hearing your story. It is very inspiring to help us to learn to achieve new goals. No I am not under a cover school. I have just been homeschooling for a long time. With my four older ones we bought much curriculum and spent WAY too much money over the years. I realized that most things were repetitive and we just skipped a lot of it because they would better understand it as they got older. When it comes time to look into buying curriculum my mind thinks….I can just take some time and sit down and write my own, following a scope and sequence for their grade levels or I can just dish out the money. Thus I started writing it. It is very basic. But covers all of the things necessary to learn for each grade level. I would recommend working on more things that your child struggles with. But the core is there. If you look up what your kindergartner needs to know you will find that in my printable s, it covers all of that. It is meant to save you some money. I have nothing wrong with buying curriculum—-I sell a home economics course:) But for those who can’t afford it or who realize like I do that there is a whole world of FREE out there —you just need to start using it—then its great!!!I’d rather save my money on more hands on things like science kits, field trips, etc. Learning the basics—they did it back in the olden days on a small tablet with a piece of chalk. It works. Its easy. and its meant to help. Hope that helps you think on things. Have a wonderful day!!!
Hi, I just saw the note at the top that says that this won’t be available next month?! ACK! I love this curriculum, and I just yesterday printed out so many of your handouts/quizzes–will I be able to use them in September when I start school? How different will the replacement curriculum be? Where will I find it? Please relieve my panic!
No panics!!! The one you printed off will be available. That is for the old one that did not have printables or quizzes. I have already deleted the course. What you see is what will stay:) Hope that helps. Amy
It is a good thing to do .. and im interested ..thanks very much for helping us
your welcome:)
Thank you very much for helping us
Is this an evidence based ciriculum?
I apologize, I am a little confused as to what you mean exactly by it being “evidence based.” Please explain further?
Hello Amy thanks for being kind and generous .Iam called Juliana I was teaching high school boys food and nutrition but now I want to start my own home based homeeconomics centre in Kampala Uganda .i was requesting to use your course here of course what is applicable to us and also to be my mentor as I prepare for my retiring from government service .we are in developing country and the young ones need to be helped hope to hear fro m you soon
Juliana, that is such a blessing to me that you will be using this curriculum ! Definitely use whatever you would like. No strings attached. Just a blessing! Amy
I just wanted to say thank you! As soon as I saw this website, I was full of joy. I’m 19 years old and my mom or dad weren’t really there for me much of the time so thank you for putting this website up. I needed the help. In the kitchen and in keeping clean and organized. Especially in the hygiene department and I was never really comfortable talking to my parents about pms…so again…thank you soon much!!!
Your very welcome:)
I have a daughter and a son who I would like to teach home economics to this school year. I came across your website and am very intrigued! I see you have four books. Of the four books, including your online course, what would you recommend for my kids, ages 13 and 15?
I’m fine with the online courses for both of them, but if I wanted to purchase book for my daughter, which one would be best? I have the one for young men in my Amazon cart right now.
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Hello, I am glad you will be teaching home economics to your children:) Any of the courses are great. I would recommend the kitchen course first, it will be a good starter to “home ec” skills. The household and personal finance will deal with more things like money management and how to get a job as well as how to take care of a home. The bigger book combines the two and contains character devotions. Hope that helps your decisions.
I love the concept, it’s very cool that you put all these together. Thank you for your efforts, don’t forget to spell check and keep up the great work.
Thank you for all you’re hard work and time. What a blessing! May God pour out abundant blessings for your family.
Sherry, He has:) I am very thankful that the Lord allows me to do what I do—all the glory and praise goes to Him! Enjoy:)
I am interested in using your book for a small home ec class at our church school. I am curious – are there quizzes and tests included somewhere with your material?
They are not in the books. I wrote the online course after I had written the books. You can easily download them and use them with it..
Hi. I’m curious. Why is there no mention of males in this course. I have a 16 year old son who wants to learn to cook. And the “household and personal management” course sounds to me like a great idea for everyone who plans on being an adult. Don’t we wants husbands and sons who can be self sufficient, organized and capable in the home? My eldest son didn’t marry till he was 30 and I know that running a busy home often involves a partnership in which my spouse is cooking a meal running a vacuum or putting in a load of laundry. Especially when I was sick or out of town.
I agree 150%, I originally wrote that book with the intentions to help train my daughters up. Now that my son is of age, I did one in a book form for him that one day I would like to create a course like I did for the girls. Look under the Life Skills Course for Young Men. It isn’t as class led but it does include a lot of the things from the other courses. It is on my “to do” list one day:) Thank you for your comments and letting me know that there is still a need for that:)
Woahhh! I just checked out your free courses really quick. That is a LOT of awesome information! I’m thoroughly impressed! And I feel so blessed to have found you and your courses! Thank you so much for sharing this for free!! You truly are a blessing. 🙂 I can’t wait to teach my daughter homemaking skills! (she’s now just a baby, so the time’ll come soon enough)
Also, as a side note, I’ll probably learn a thing or two 😉 I didn’t grow up being taught most of this, so I’m excited to get started now! For me! 🙂 Thanks again!!!!!
I am so glad that you have found me and I hope things are useful for you here:) I will add more as time permits:)
I am an adult male with autism who now teaches and tutors my fellow autists and frankly I think this page and course should definitely be male inclusive. I’ve had 20 years of social integration training and it amazes me how little I know even now about maintaining my home and taking care of myself. My guardian is 72 and has cancer – what will I do when he dies??? My neurotypical brother knows even less about this than I do. PLEASE don’t be so gender rigid, us guys need help, too.
I agree wholeheartedly. I do offer a guys course on here but maybe in the future I will rewrite it to pertain to both sexes. It was originally written to help my daughters with household skills, I never knew it was going to turn into what it is now:) Thank you for all of the information and comments. I appreciate them.
From Michigan, thank you! Your curriculum was used as part of Home-Ec class with our homeschool coop. Because the tutor had a semester on sewing, they were unable to finish both the kitchen skills and the household skills. We are picking up where they left off at home. Our youngest is “building” her own cookbook based on skills learned. She has had so much fun trying out recipes from your suggestions, family recipes and the internet. The household skills have been helpful in the “organization” end of cleaning as well. Thanks again for taking the time to write all of this information down and to share it for free.
That blesses me that you were able to use the curriculum to help teach and train up a group of young people:) So inspiring! Glad you enjoyed and thank you for sharing your comment, it motivates me!
Hi,
Your course sounds great.
What is the oldest age adult that you think could benefit from a course like home economics?
My girlfriend is from Latvia (northwestern Europe and ex-Soviet State) she is an adult woman who is very smart but was trained and schooled as a doctor in her country.
She is living here in USA, has US resident green card and works in medical field at a hospital part time three days a week.
She is very smart but she has very little talent in home economics or skills on how a couple are to share home responsibility’s or knowledge of the importance of live frugally and save for retirement, ie. 401k, IRA and Roth. Her father died when she was 3 years old and mostly was raised and spoiled by her grandparents, treated like a princess, as I try to treat her.
Princess skill alone are not necessarily the best skill for a couple to make it in a successful and happy future marriage.
I would like to help her assimilate into American culture and think a course in home economics would be good for her and or both of us.
Do you think a course like yours would be good for her and can you recommend other courses related that would help her and I as a couple?
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Mark
PS, I am retired US military and getting ready to retire from airline career flying cargo jets around the planet and have several college degrees. I plan on flight instructing on the part time for fun.
We are 10 years different, she’s younger in age but I actually look 20 years younger than I am.
Should we get married I would hate to have her kill the “goose” that is going to lay the golden eggs (my retirement 401k, IRA, and Roth) she seems to believe we should spend it all away now and I believe we should live off the interest it produced plus my other retirement instruments.
I hope education in home economics and other courses can help her see the light.
Looking forward to hearing from you. Blessings.
Wow thank you for that story about your life:) THe course can be used by any age person. It will teach them the basic skills. She can also watch some youtube videos…on my channel “amy maryon” that might help her with some basic skills. Good luck to you!
Really, 14? I have a 10 year old and I want to start her. Any thoughts?
I have found that my younger ones get it but as they get older…it just sticks better:) you can gladly try it and see how she does. that is what I would suggest:)
I thank you so much for this! this is really a true blessing! Thank you a million times
I need to learn how to cook for myself and how to take better care of myself I never was taught I’m a 30 something year old autistic guy and just was not talk plain and simple okay.
YOu will enjoy the course:)
i am a thirtheen year old and i want to know if i can join
absolutely! it is free..just begin:)
Thank you. God bless you.
welcome:)
I am a hard working person and I love cooking
Can mature adults who want to improve their lives take this course, or should we search for an adult home economics course
absolutely