This short-form, how-to series aims to teach you valuable skills in your spare time. Each 10-minute visual episode provides a quick overview of a topic and gives insight on how to complete a specific task at hand.
Learn in a Weekend
Things we could do this weekend: laundry, gardening, dusting ... OR learn a powerful, useful, and helpful skill to make our lives better or more fun.
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Great Concept and Mix of Short Videos!
I watched building a camp fire and planting a tree videos and picked up a few pointers to improve those processes.
Date published: 2021-07-11
Overview
01: Learn a Card Trick in a Weekend
Being able to astonish your friends and family with card tricks is easier than you think. Join award-winning “mathemagician” Art Benjamin to master a surprisingly easy, yet wow-worthy, card trick that involves simple counting and spelling.
4 min
02: Learn to Build a Campfire in a Weekend
Building an outdoor fire to provide light, heat, and a cooking source is not as easy as putting a match to a pile of wood. Elizabeth Andre shows you step by step the best way to lay, maintain, and properly terminate a campfire.
9 min
03: Learn to Play a Van Halen Riff in a Weekend
Playing the guitar is a fun and relaxing way to enjoy yourself, but nothing beats being able to master a song by one of the masters. Spend some time with Colin McAllister and discover you can emulate Eddie Van Halen’s two-handed tapping technique.
6 min
04: Learn to Grill BBQ Chicken in a Weekend
Chicken is probably the most common food item you'll find in people's homes because it's accessible, affordable, and relatively easy to cook. Taught by expert chef Bill Briwa of The Culinary Institute of America before his passing, learn how to break down a chicken; get insights into flavoring methods, including dry rubs and sauces; and get tips on how to perfectly bar-b-que chicken, all in one quick and easy session.
11 min
05: Learn to Saber a Champagne Bottle in a Weekend
Is there anything more impressive than sabering off the top to a champagne bottle? However, there are certain things you need to know in order to do it right, and there are many ways it can be done wrong. This fast and fun lesson shows you how to open champagne with a flair and how to avoid the pitfalls of this dramatic action.
5 min
06: Learn to Sleep Better in a Weekend
Partly due to smartphones, laptops, and other devices, we generally are getting less “good” sleep than ever. Join Molly Birkholm to get eight easy, yet impactful, tips to help you achieve quality restorative sleep more often.
10 min
07: Learn to Plant a Tree in a Weekend
Not only are trees lovely additions to your landscape, but they also can keep your home cooler in warm seasons, and they benefit the environment. Although planting a tree may seem like a daunting task, it is easier than you think. Melinda Myers provides you with tips and tricks to use for your new tree to root and thrive.
12 min
08: Learn to Cut an Onion in a Weekend
It seems like a fairly easy skill, but much like an onion, properly cutting an onion has many layers. Learn how to correctly peel an onion, how to hold your knife, which direction to cut, and different cuts for different types of cooking. You’ll see how accurately cutting an onion is nothing to cry over.
7 min
09: Learn to Tie Three Knots in a Weekend
Mastering the art of knot tying has dozens of practical uses. With this accessible lesson, you’ll learn how to tie three useful and utilitarian types of knots: a clove hitch, a bowline, and a trucker’s hitch. You’ll also get examples of uses for each type of knot and ways to customize them to suit your specific needs.
12 min
