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12 “All Boy” Gifts Your Son Will Love

by Cindy 2 Comments

Your rough and tumble son will love to see one of these all boy gifts this year!

Do you have a rough and tumble son? Me, too. Two of them, in fact. It's always been hard on this momma to watch them "do what boys do" without cringing. While I certainly would rather keep them perfectly safe, my husband has convinced me that boys really do need to "be boys" so they can grow up to be men. With that in mind, I've watched with an anxious heart on many occasions. Whittling with sharp knives. BB guns aimed at doves. Slingshots aimed at squirrels. Overnight fishing trips. Fort building with real tools. Frog gigging. Deer hunting. Chopping wood. Backpacking trips. Shooting skeet. Riding horses bare back. Climbing trees. Starting fires. While some moms may wonder why these ... Read More

Last Updated: November 1, 2017 Filed Under: Bible & Character, Creative Homeschooling, Elementary, High School, Holidays, Middle School Tagged With: boys, boyschooling, gift ideas, responsibility

100 Educational Games for Homeschooling

by Cindy 36 Comments

Homeschooling is funschooling when you open the game closet!

During my workshops about creative homeschooling and living math, I often talk about incorporating games into the school schedule. If your family has an established game night, you probably already know how educational many board and card games really are.  Math, language, history, science, logic and so much more can be practiced without your kiddos ever catching on that real learning is taking place! Games for Homeschooling We take games seriously in our homeschool and use them at least a few times a week!  To get fidgety minds focused, we might play a brain training game like Blink.  To review US geography, we might play 10 Days in the USA.  Or, to quiz recollection of animal groups, we ... Read More

Last Updated: November 3, 2018 Filed Under: Bible & Character, Brain Training, Creative Homeschooling, Elementary, High School, History & Geography, Language Arts, Living Math, Middle School, Science & Nature Tagged With: birthday gifts, Christmas gifts, games for all subjects, games for learning, gift ideas, gifts for families, gifts for kids, logic, multi-age learning

NaturExplorers Science Curriculum

NaturExplorers guides are perfect for the 1st-8th grade homeschool, co-op or classroom. This highly adaptable curriculum series uses nature study as the starting point for science lessons that reach into every other subject and meet all learning styles.

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