Homeschooling Curriculum and Crafts. Are they compatible?

Kids, art, crafts and projects are quite common and often go hand and hand with a Homeschooling Curriculum.

Art and crafts, however are not one and the same. Art is always good for kids, while crafts can be detrimental, especially in a homeschooling curriculum environment.

Think of the reasons you chose to home school your children. I'm sure there were many of them. But one may stick out in your mind. You did not like the education offered in the present day public school system. One of the reasons you may not like public school education is because of the lack of initiative and independence children are given in their learning. The learning is all traditional. They learn by rote. They memorize and they don't think much.

You wanted your children to have a rich homeschooling curriculum, an education that teaches them to think, solve problems, and to really love learning.

Now here's where crafts comes in. I'm not talking about crafts for adults, the kind that adults get totally immersed in and sell at crafts fairs. I'm talking about crafts for children. Crafts activities that have the children following a model or a preplanned script of what they can make.

Doesn't this sound like the kind of education you left behind. Activities that don't let them think, but just copy blindly the directions that were set out for them to follow, like mindless robots.

Now don't get me wrong, I think crafts activities like these are detrimental to all kids, not just in the homeschooling curriculum environment. But you are trying to get your kids away from that mindset so why immerse them in activities that are counterproductive to what you are trying to get them to learn. Isn't it time you gave them art activities that foster the kind of learning you want for them? Art that should make them think and solve problems.

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