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Art Journaling for Everyone

With art journaling there is no pressure to have a finished, polished piece of art. Anyone keeping an art journal can decide not to share it with others, therefore creating a stress free space where mistakes can be made and even embraced. Art journals are about exploring yourself through personal expression and trying out new…

Free Lesson Plans: The Missing Mitten Mystery

Title: The Missing Mitten Mystery Author: Steven Kellogg Illustrator: Steven Kellogg Ages: 3 & up Description (from Amazon): Annie and her dog, Oscar, have had a busy day playing in the snow. Somehow Annie’s red mitten has disappeared in all the fun. They look high and low. . . . It’s not on the sledding…

Back to School Homeschool Style

Good morning fellow homeschooling families!  Are you enjoying all of those “Back to School” commercials?  The wonderful thing about homeschooling is that we don’t have to worry about those school lists.  So nice and a definite money saver.  It’s nice to be able to go pick up what you need just for your homeschool.  I do…

DIY Personal Rubber Stamps for LetterBoxing

Summer Scouts, Week Three: LetterBoxing and rubber stamping go hand in hand, and I had never done a DIY of either until now.  Letterboxing was a concept that I had heard small whisperings of for a while but for some reason had never explored further.  I think perhaps I was intimidated by geocaching, and so assumed…

Math Never Tasted So Good

Math Never Tasted So Good By Cheryl Bastian Our children love math! It hides in their sandwiches, seasons their spaghetti, and sweetens their apple pie. From the time our children peek over the table edge or push a chair up to the kitchen counter, they investigate, predict, collect data, and discover. The result: they understand….

Homeschool Crafts: How To Create a Binder for Scouts

A Guest Post If you remember from our first week of Scouting, I had the kids making seed bombs for a naturalist/restoration badge.  I brought them to Belle Isle Park, in Detroit, where there is an entire island in need of attention.  If you locals have never visited, I hope you do soon as there is…

Your Child Can Be Good at Math

Your Child Can Be Good at Math By Deborah Reed There’s a mystique about math that applies to no other subject. It’s as if humans were divided into two types: (1) those who are good in math and (2) those who aren’t. No one says: “I’m just not a history person” or “English is beyond me.” Yet…

Easy Valentine’s Cards

I don’t know about you, but we always encounter the same problem regarding cards for the Red Holiday.  While you would think a homeschooled child would have fewer cards to hand out, as they are not in a class of 25ish other kids, they in fact have many more people to possibly make cards for! …

How to Make a Game Spinner

How to Make a Game Spinner

How to Make A Game Spinner | Making a game spinner is easy. Just a few supplies and 3 simple steps.