Family Haircuts & How to Give Them, 1950s style! (PDF ebook) - What a fun find! In the midst of a humongous 522 page 1950s era barber college textbook (which mainly focused on how to pass a state barber exam), we ran across THIS wonderful chapter detailing men’s haircut styles, with detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to give the perfect haircut! So, we excerpted the whole section and put it in this stand-alone ebook on hair cutting technique, 1950s style! If you like the men in your family to look clean-cut and snappy, check it out! A great guide for frugal moms who want to cut their family’s hair!

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Seed Babies by Margaret Warner Morley (PDF ebook) - Have your children ever asked you how plants grow from tiny seeds? Or how a bird hatches from an egg? If so, you’ll love today’s resource. This is another classic “living book” by the author of “Little Wanderers”, which we featured a few weeks ago. This is a wonderful, fanciful read-aloud science book written in 1896. Two little children, Jack and Ko, discover some beans they threw to the ground have begun to sprout. And not only that, but they TALK to the children too, telling them the function of seeds and how they grow and develop into maturity. We meet different kinds of beans, peas, peanuts, nuts, and even venture into the animal kingdom and learn about coccoons, fish eggs, tadpoles, and bird eggs. Great fun and very informative!

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Hey! We have our winners!

Just to give you a little background info: We used the random integer generator at random.org to select two comments on this post to decide our winners. These two commenters win a full year’s membership in our huge Premium Membership Site!

And the Winners are…

Theresa (talindamood@———-.com) address hidden for winners’ privacy

Her comment:
“I really liked the Stitchery For Girls this summer.
“As for what I would like to see this fall coming up, maybe more hands on projects, nature oriented materials and something with foreign language. I’ve been here a short time, so maybe you have already done this. Thanks for your great site.”

and

Vicky (vicky—-@sbcglobal.net) address hidden for winners’ privacy

Who wrote:
“Our favorite resource since i have known about your site (early summer) was the Stitchery for Girls book. i have had my 9 yr.old granddaughter here during the days during summer and she had been wanting to learn to sew for a long time (and i am not qualified to teach that skill LOL), so we learned together. Thank you , thank you, thank you! - Vicky”

Congratulations Theresa and Vicky, we’ll be contacting you via email to set up your Full Year Memberships!

Thanks everyone who has posted here during our End Of Summer “Bash”… we are just overwhelmed with your kind words and support!

Stay tuned friends… Even though the “Bash” has drawn to an end for now, we’ve got some wonderful stuff coming up for you in the days and weeks to come!

- Jim E

“For the Love of Laundry” (PDF ebook) - Our End of Summer BASH freebie is this extremely helpful, full-length color homemaking lesson from The Homemaker’s Mentor (normally $4.95 on their site). Does doing the laundry sometimes seem overwhelming to you? Fear not: In this guide you’ll learn to take control of your laundry chores, learn how to properly iron your man’s dress shirt, find plans to build a backyard country clothesline, a homemade recipe for pre-soak that gets out even tough baby stains, and lots more!

The Homemaker’s Mentor is jointly owned by Mrs. Martha Greene and Mrs. Rebekah Wilson, both homemakers, wives, mothers and also well-known authors in their areas of expertise. The Homemaker’s Mentor has been designed to provide a friendly hand reaching out to help you on your journey to becoming the best homemaker you can be, and brings you helpful lessons to inspire, expand and enjoy your homemaking skills. You’ll find deep enjoyment in being a homemaker by learning from older, like-minded women who have traveled the way before you and can look back and help you overcome life’s struggles as a busy homemaker.

Click here to visit The Homemaker’s Mentor website.

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The Secret to Homeschooling Freedom (PDF ebook) - This report provided by Homeschool Enrichment Magazine shows how you can experience true freedom and joy in your homeschool by using one simple technique - the Self-Teaching Method! Contains practical pointers, plus a bonus Q&A section with a homeschool student who loves this fascinating approach! Just enter your email address in the form below to download your copy!

Click here to visit Homeschool Enrichment Magazine’s homepage

Click here to go to the download page for today’s freebie!

Our regularly scheduled resource (you subscribers know what I’m referring to) has been delayed because the publisher had a major problem with their download system. It has been bumped back a week or so. Sorry for the delay, but that sort of thing happens from time to time. In the meantime, we hope you’ll enjoy today’s great freebie! - Jim E

When Mother Lets Us Cut Out Pictures, by Ida E. Boyd (PDF ebook) - Well, I have a feeling it may be politically incorrect in this day and age to suggest that children get out the scissors and start cutting away, so forgive us today if scissor-work (with pointed scissors, yet!) is off limits in your family. Nevertheless, this wonderful gem from way back in 1918 deserves to be re-discovered, and some folks are really going to have fun with it. Written and “illustrated” (with cut out pictures, naturally) by Ida Boyd, a teacher of art at the Brooklyn School for Teachers, this crafty little guide offers all sorts of great advice for teaching your kids to use scissors and provides a multitude of fun and educational cut-out projects. Projects include cut-outs such as flowers, dishes, people, houses, fences, toys, whirli-gigs, Christmas scenes, and all sorts of everyday items that kids can pretend play with after cutting them out. What a great way to kindle the imagination, develop artistic and motor skills, and just have fun.

Here’s an excerpt that gives you the feel for how warm and gentle the tone of this text is:

“Let me whisper something to you…. When we are having a happy time ourselves, let us remember not to make any work for anyone else. Let us make mother glad because we never leave a scrap of paper on the floor. Little fingers, bright eyes, and loving children will be quick to help everybody, every time and everywhere. Shall we have that for our secret?”

I don’t know why, but I just love that.

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The Pirate City, by R. M. Ballantyne (PDF ebook) - Today’s freebie resource is this classic “living book”, provided by The Tutor (formerly Home Educator’s Tutor). Here’s their description of this fascinating classic:

“Captain Jack Sparrow has re-kindled interest in the world of pirates and the high seas but long before Sparrow’s adventures there were just as exciting stories about real pirates. During the early 1800s the Barbary pirates were one such group of real pirates. Their approach to piracy was very sophisticated and protected by the Monarchy of Morocco. As a result exotic locales such as Tunis , Tripoli and Algiers truly became pirate cities, bases of operations for these 19th century terrorists.

“The Pirate City is set at the time when the Barbary pirates were sailing freely around the Mediterranean Sea plundering ships from any nation that had not paid tribute to the monarchy. The story centers around a merchant and his sons and their harrowing adventures of being captured while on a trading voyage, being taken to Algiers, sold as slaves and return to freedom. It is told from a decidedly Christian worldview and portrays men of faith holding to their values in the most adverse circumstances.

“The author, R.M. Ballantyne went undercover in Algiers to research this book dressing and living as an Arab and its historical accuracy is beyond dispute. He also accurately captured major political and religious themes of those earlier days most are still with us making this book not only a good adventure read but geo-politically relevant to this very day.”

The Tutor is an educational supplement to help you implement a liberal (broad) education. The Tutor will provide you with the tools to expose your children to classical music, great artists, great literature, poetry, nature study, copywork, Shakespeare, orations, opera, Hymns and folksongs and more.For more information on The Tutor, click here

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Little Strummers: A Guitar Course for Children Ages 6 - 10 (PDF ebook) - Today’s resource is this excellent beginner’s guide for young guitarist, by homeschool mom & part-time guitar teacher, Tara Tarbet. Tara created this starter guide to use with her own young guitar students, and has generously allowed us to share it with you here. (If you like this, please post a comment to let Tara know her work is appreciated!)

I’ve been looking at guitar tutorials for some time, hoping to find something that is geared specifically for young children just starting out, and to tell you the truth, this is the best resource I’ve seen yet. Simple tips and teaching suggestions, followed by a songbook of 20+ simple and familiar children’s songs (with even more tips at the bottom of each song). No drawn out instruction that is over the heads of little ones — just get in there and start playing. Great fun!

Thank you Tara for sharing this with our readers!

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Today’s freebie resource are these four GREAT episodes of the classic radio program, “Adventures in Research”!

A Piece of Silk - the story of the very first parachute and the dream of flying

I Scream You Scream We All Scream - the amazing history of ice cream

Michael, Save Your Breath - great history of the discovery of glass

The Blizzard of 1888 - fascinating story of the Great Blizzard that paralyzed New York

Tune in these four great episodes of the classic radio program, Adventures in Research and discover some fascinating history and great stories that will make science and history come to life for your kids! Each of these is a hand picked, crowd-pleasing favorite previously featured on our Homeschool Radio Shows site, and runs approximately 13 minutes.

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