Family and consumer sciences—often called home economics—teach essential life skills like cooking, budgeting, sewing, nutrition, and personal finance. We’ve gathered free lesson plans, activities, and projects to help you make these practical skills an engaging part of your homeschool!
NOTE: Nutrition is under health/pe
Mixed FCS/Home Economics
NASCO FCS Lesson Plans – K-12 lesson plans separated by age groups
Family and Consumer Sciences – blog with activities, lessons and such for child development, clothing, food/nutrition, interior design and life skills
FCS Educators – e-learning resources
G-W Learning – These are resources to go along with their textbooks but there are some sample pages from the textbooks and stuff. If you like piecing things together yourself you might find something you can use
Illinois Extension Videos – educational videos on TONS of subjects such as healthcare, gardening, family life, finances, safety and tons more. Not even all FCS related
University of Arizona – 10 days of Home Economics lessons
Twins and Teaching – free FCS lessons
We Teach FACS – resources for career/college, time/finances management, human reproduction, stress management, pregnancy/parenting, child development, literacy and a few other things
Cooking/Gardening
Illinois Extension – information and resources for learning about food preservation
Food Hero – activity sheets, colouring sheets, recipes and food education, also in Spanish
Home Baking Association – tons of resources to help learn home baking
Beef in Schools – scroll down to find different resources about beef
Reality Works – food safety downloads
Personal Finance
see Social Sciences for Economics
Banzai – online games and activities that you can assign to your class that you build about personal finances, digital citizenship and college/careers. Elementary to Highschool. When signing up there is an option when it can’t find your school to enter your own school and you just enter a school name (make one up if you don’t use one) and then you can make an account. I tested it. It looks great! There are even free PDF workbooks you can download.
Jumpstart Clearing House – financial literacy resources such as workbooks and lessons for teachers and families. They aren’t all free but you can sort by price (low to high) to see all the free ones first.
Family at Home Financial Fun Pack – downloadable materials for K-12
Teen Girl Learning Series – self paced lessons
Business/Entrepreneurship
Bizkids – emmy award winning TV series about money and business for kids and teens. Book and courses aren’t free but the TV series and games (scroll down) are.
Sewing
Made to Sew – YouTube Channel with sewing videos
Sew a Softie – sewing with kids resources
Sew Simple Home – teaching children and teens to sew
The Art of Home – 25 free sewing projects for kids
Crazy Little Projects – free online sewing classes but tons of ads
Child Care/Parenting
none yet
Interior Design
Kids Think Design – resources for designers of all kinds
Interior Design Activities for Kids – DIY activities and you collect badges
Fashion
Kids Think Design – resources for designers of all kinds
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