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Take the story off the page

A book is a good beginning. These guides, questions, and printables help the conversation keep going after the last page.

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The Faithful Hands Family Guide

12 Skills and Stories Worth Passing Down

One printable PDF for the whole series. Conversation starters, a family interview page, and a place for children to record something a parent or grandparent taught them.

What's inside

  • What Builders Grow family discussion guide, page by page
  • The Story Behind the Fence: a kid-friendly history of barbed wire and the American West
  • Faith and stewardship questions with Scripture pairings
  • "Who Taught You?" family interview printable

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A Guide for Every Book

Each Faithful Hands story has its own companion guide. Book One is ready now, and the others arrive alongside their books.

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What Builders Grow Guide

Book One companion

The Book One companion, included inside the Family Guide. Questions for the dinner table or bedtime about trying again, asking for help, and doing work that outlasts us.

  • Page-by-page discussion questions
  • The Story Behind the Fence
  • Faith and stewardship questions
  • Hands-on family activities for a ranch or a city block

Included in the Family Guide above

Coming with the book

Sticks with Promise Guide

Book Two companion

Arrives with Book Two: planting guides, tree-care charts, and patience projects for families growing something they will not harvest this year.

  • Page-by-page discussion questions
  • The story behind the orchard
  • Planting and tree-care printables
  • Patience projects for the long seasons

Coming with the book

The Bridge We Built Guide

Book Three companion

Arrives with Book Three: questions about asking for help, working shoulder to shoulder, and the safety found in an abundance of counselors.

  • Page-by-page discussion questions
  • The story behind the bridge
  • Counsel and teamwork conversation pages
  • A family project meant for more than one pair of hands

Hands-On Family Activities

  • Mend something together: a fence, a hinge, a hem, a bike tire
  • Glove day: give a child real tools sized for real hands
  • Walk your property line (or your block) and name what needs tending
  • Plant one thing you will not harvest this year
  • Teach one skill in ten minutes, then let them do it badly the first time

"Who Taught You?" Family Interview

A printable page where a child interviews a parent or grandparent about a skill they were taught: who showed them, how old they were, and what they got wrong first. Keep the finished pages; they become the family record no one else will write. It is the final section of the Family Guide.

Homeschool Connections

History

Westward expansion, homesteading, the invention of barbed wire, and how land was divided.

Agriculture

Cattle care, pasture rotation, fencing materials, and the seasons of ranch work.

Character

Perseverance, humility, honest mistakes, and finishing what you start.

Scripture

Parables of work and harvest, the faithful steward, and honoring elders.