The purpose of this study is to analyze the actual conditions of homemaking education at the elementary schools and especially to clarify some problems about the education for boys. A questionaire was used with home-room teachers, a class of boys and girls, a class of parents in 6th year at each of four schools which were sampled randomly from eight cities and eight districts in Aomori prefecture. The main results are as follows : 1. Boys have more interest in homemaking education and teachers, especially males, have more desire to enforce homemaking with better quality. 2. It is necessary to make more sincere contacts with children's parents, and completely renew parents' understanding toward homemaking education through children's learnings. 3. The guidance for children's learnings should be carried on in priority and generally, more education of creative and laborious works should be emphasized.
