Looking for a fun and easy way to learn a new skill? Or maybe you’d like to add some enrichment classes to your homeschool schedule?
Craftsy offers an amazing variety of paid courses for just about any craft you can imagine, but they also have nearly four dozen mini-classes that are absolutely free!
Each comes with a series of step-by-step instruction videos, plus free printable patterns and/or supply lists all ready for you to download.
I’ve signed up for a bunch of these and have been very impressed with the quality — and it’s been a great way to let my children profit from the expertise of other instructors.
Here is a sampling of the free courses Craftsy currently offers:
- Create Stunning Birthday Cards
- The Wilton Method: Creative Cake Pops
- Bag-Making Basics: Reversible Tote & Zipper Pouch
- Professional Family Portraits
- Transform Your Garden Design
- Complete Knife Skills
- Piece, Patch, Quilt: Basic Quiltmaking Skills
- Micro Torch Basics
- Amazing Crochet Textures: Ribbing, Cables & Beads
- 2015 Craftsy Block of the Month
- Ins & Outs of Grafting: A Crafty Class on Knitting Together
- Machine Embroidered Classics
- Flawless Finishing
Best of all, there’s no limit — so sign up today for as many as interest you! And happy crafting!
Elsie Bouwman says
August 14, 2015 at 12:56 pmA question about the Figure Drawing course: Is there nudity? High School offered us art classes that did include figure drawing in grade 13, but not nudity. I was thankful for that. However, when it came time to go to University, and I had interest in art at that level. I did take the Art History, but not the Figure Drawing. As a Christian I didn’t want to draw nude people.
Jennifer Flanders says
August 14, 2015 at 3:01 pmOh, Elsie! I’m so glad you thought to ask that question. I’d only watched the introduction to that class. The featured project was a drawing of a shirtless man (as the mother of eight boys who run around the house shirtless most of the time, that didn’t even register as potentially offensive), but after you asked, I checked the other videos in that series and found that the instructor does show samples of some of her other portrait work which did, in fact, include some nudes. I know that many of my readers would not want to expose themselves or their children to that, so I took that class off the above list. (Of course, it’s still available on the Craftsy website, for those who might still be interested in taking the course).