The Best Gift For the Life Long Learners

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Do you know someone who is always learning a new skill? Do you know a friend who is in a creative rut? I know just the gift for both of the life long learners in your life. Skillshare has 22,000 classes to keep the fast paced learner satisfied and enough variety to get your friend’s creative spark back.

I write for the learners. Friends and parents, who read, teach, create and search for answers to make themselves better, first, then their kids. Most of them have always been seekers, some may have been forced by the blessed circumstance of homeschooling, to jump into learning. Others always have a book or a class in the works. Either way, learning has this power to become a way of life. Skillshare makes it easy to grow skills and talents you might not have know you had. This is the real gift you are giving.

Leaning is Something I will Be Doing Forever

This holiday season I wanted to share gifts that you could give the homeschool parent and family in your life. I am a giver of gifts that are fun, useful and long lasting, but above all, gifts that say, “I see you.” That means the world to me. Give the learner a gift this season that shows you support their vision.

Give The Gift of Learning from Hundreds of Skilled Teachers

For the last few years I have been actively using SkillShare. I love to learn new skills for myself. In the past that meant reading hundreds of books every year to fine tune a talent or the gain a whole new skillset. The way the world learns has changed, and Skillshare is one of the ways that technology is making it easier to access your own teachers. A huge number of homeschool parents are entrepreneurs, creatives and life-long-learners like me. We want the classes, Skillshare give us access.

You can Check Out the Huge Catalog of Free Classes for Yourself

What is Skillshare?

Skillshare is a learning platform the brings the best creatives together and gives them the opportunity to share their skills and earn an income. No drive to the art center or jr. college classes needed. Learn from home or while you are out, whenever it works best for you. What can you learn? Artists in every medium from watercolor to gouache. Handcraft lessons from creatives who can teach you how to make a beautiful project from start to end. You can learn a whole new skill; knit, crochet, creative stamping, or shadow boxes. You can renew an old love, photography, calligraphy, still life, to Photoshop.

Skillshare takes you beyond cute crafting

Skillshare teachers are some of my favorite working artists like Lisa Condon, Dylan Mierzwinski and Sara Boccaccini Meadows. You get to learn from industry leaders. Create in the kitchen too. Top private chefs teach recipes from all over the world. I learned some tips to improve my fried chicken and I have a class bookmarked to learn how to make traditional pho.

My Current Class List is All Over the Place…Diversify your passions

Not crafty?

Hone your technical skills

I love the digital content creators, writers, photographers, and the like create quality content for Skillshare. I’ve learned Hand-Lettering, improved my Instagram, written a book proposal and learned how to use Adobe Fresca with Skillshare. Tutorials and step-by-step courses in all ability levels and lengths mean that there is a class for every skill you are looking to acquire or improve right now.

You can learn from any screen, wherever you are. I take classes on my phone when I wait for the kids sport practices. My kids choose electives from the category list. Photography, Doodling, watercolor, to WordPress. Want to know how to handle the difference between vector and raster images; with Skillshare you can go as deep as you want to.

Get Current on Your Digital Skills or go for the Old School Classics

Skillshare is the perfect gift for every learner you know, but can be a game changer for a homeschooling family. Consider to price; for $8 your child or your best friend could uncover a skill they never they knew they had. Maybe they will be a Skillshare teacher in the future.

How Does Giving Skillshare Work?

First, you select the amount of time you would like to give as a gift. The longer the subscription the more savings. Giving a subscription is the best way to save on Skillshare. You simply send the gift card by email. It is safe and secure. You choose the delivery date and the best part is that it does not expire.

You can give a three month subscription for $36 (20% discount), six months for $60 (save 33%) or you can give a year and pay less that I paid for my subscription. Normally, when sign up, you may choose to pay $15 a month for Skillshare Premium and have access to 22,000 unlimited classes, or you can pay $99 for the whole year and bring the monthly price down to $8.25. The price to give Skillshare is $96 or just $8 a month.

Give the Gift of Creativity with Skillshare Now

Skillshare is helping people get creative by connecting them with great teachers. What I love more, is that Skillshare is giving talented artists a place to maximize their impact on the world and get paid while they do it. I know my subscription helps pay an artist or maker. Give the learner in your life a gift that makes an impact and lasts all year long with Skillshare.

You can sign on for the free trial now and you can have a personal recommendation list ready by the time your friend signs up with their gift subscription.