In our district, we have classes called "________ and consumer science". Both boys and girls take it, cook and sew. One grade makes a pillow from a nine-patch pattern and a stuffed animal. I don't know what else. They also have a family section for which they have to carry an egg around for at least a week. They have requirements about what they have to do for the "baby". They all seem to enjoy the various parts of the class and are proud of their products when they sew. Although it is a class offered in the school where I work, I am so busy, I really do not know details about it. I will have to find out more about it.