2. A bulletin board on which it is necessary to use a variety of materials adds to the appearance of the room when these materials are well arranged and frequently changed 8 3. Pupils in a Nebraska high school try out different flowers and arrangements 9 4. In a Nebraska high school a screen was used in an unattractive corner as a background for an appreciation center 24 5. The simplest school furnishings can be combined attractively. A low bookcase, a bowl of bittersweet, and a passe partout picture as here used are available in most schools 26 6. A few pieces of unrelated illustrative material may be grouped successfully in bulletin-board space 28 7. Sprouted sweetpotato produced this attractive centerpiece for the home table 29 8. Glass-paneled doors open from the dining room directly into a main first-floor corridor in the high school at Stromsburg, Nebr. 30 9. The dresser as found in the dormitory room 43 10. The same dresser after the class in related art had remodeled and painted it 43 CHARTS 1. Suggestions for use of this bulletin by teachers 5 2. Analysis of the value of notebooks in art courses 44 3. Types and sources of illustrative materials 76 Publications of the Federal Board for Vocational Education relating to home-economics education 89 FOREWORD Since the organization of the vocational program in 1917 the teaching of art in its relation to the home has been recognized as an essential part of the home-economics program. Great difficulties have been experienced in securing adequate instruction in this field. Many schools, especially in the rural communities, employ no art teachers. In such schools the only art instruction is that given by the regular home-economics teacher, and is commonly reduced to a minimum of applicable content. The teaching of art has dealt too exclusively with the creation of artistic things, and it is not easy to change the emphasis over into the field of appreciation and discriminating selection. Clothing, home planning and furnishing, care of the sick, serving of foods, care of children, and family relationships, all have an "art" side. The successful discharge of household responsibilities is conditioned largely upon a perception of this truth.