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Necessaries of Life

By Headmistress | Published: January 29, 2019

  From a 1916 or so booklet on teaching drawing and printing arts to high school students.

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Apple Piety

By Headmistress | Published: June 4, 2018

Probably due to the hardships of his early life, Lord Kenyon was known for his frugality, or parsimony, among his acquaintances. When he died at the age of 70, there were some who said he had died of indigestion from the habit of eating leftover pie crusts for breakfast to save the expense of muffins. […]

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Play Figures to Make for Christmas: Boy, goats, wolf

By Headmistress | Published: December 14, 2016

You can print these on cardstock, color them, and cut them out, fold them, tape them to toilet paper tubes (cut down to about an inch tall) or blocks to use for 3D figures.  Make them as gifts. Have your kids make them as gifts for other children.  Stories you can tell: Boy Who Cried […]

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December Calendar

By Headmistress | Published: December 1, 2015

  I should clarify that I didn’t design this. I found it in two parts in an old magazine. I cleaned it up a bit, put the pages together, and adjusted the dates and stages of the moon so that they work for this year- at least, I hope I did the lunar calendar properly. […]

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Grandma’s Thanksgiving Dinner, 1912 cartoon

By Headmistress | Published: November 25, 2015
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