Handicraft for Girls / A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care

A Tentative Course IN Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Card-Board Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care —— Designed for Use in Schools and Homes —— Prepared by Idabelle McGlauflin Supervisor of the Girls' Handwork in the Denver Public Schools
Published by THE MANUAL ARTS PRESS PEORIA, ILLINOIS

Copyright Idabelle McGlauflin 1910

The exercises in this five-year course are based upon an estimated time of one hour per week in the first two years, and one and one-half hours in the last three, the school year consisting of thirty-eight weeks.
All materials, with the exception of that used for the full-sized garments and some of the Christmas gifts, are supposed to be furnished by the Board of Education. In many instances the pupils are allowed the privilege of supplying themselves with a better grade of material if they wish. In every case a substitute is given for the full-sized garment if the home cannot furnish the material. All supplies can be purchased by the class collectively or individually, if the Board of Education so desires.
Every exercise in handicraft should embody an educational principle, making sure the training of the judgment, the eye, or the memory, and tending to develop skill, patience, accuracy, perseverance, dexterity or artistic appreciation.


SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS.