My precious darling granddaughter is 6 & she is getting a mini sewing machine for christmas. Also another cookbook. Got her 1st one last year. Her mama now regrets that she didn't want to spend time with me learning these things. Her 2 brothers(DD) both know how to cook & can sew a button on & make emergency repairs if necessary. DGD is so eager to learn. We have lots of fun together. She's also a tomboy but that doesn't stop her. Her grammie was too. When my DD took a class in Jr. High, all she learned how to make was pigs in a blanket. If the school districts don't get on the stick & start making this class mandatory we are gonna have so many kids that all they can do is pop it in microwave & that's dinner.