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An Easy Christmas Science Experiment for Kids – Grow Snow on a Tree!

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Looking for Christmas science experiments you can do with your preschoolers, kindergartners, or elementary school kids? Then you'll love this easy Christmas science experiment and the fun Christmas snow results! Christmas time is so great, but so busy. As a homeschool family, we are far more on the go than normal, and regular study session ...

KiwiCo Atlas Crate Review: A Cool Way to Learn Geography in Your Homeschool

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Read my Atlas Crate review and discover how we're using this KiwiCo Atlas Crate to learn geography in our homeschool! It helps kids learn culture and world citizenship. I always enjoyed learning geography as a kid and was pretty close to competing in our elementary school's Geography Bee (or whatever it was called). As an adult, I'm not ...

Best Educational Board Games and Card Games for Kids 3-18

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If you are interested in educational board games for kids, this is the list for you! Find the best educational board games for preschoolers, kindergarten, and older elementary students in this post. Who doesn't love board games? I grew up playing board games with my siblings all the time, and my husband and I love a good game night. When ...

Homeschool Kids Review Kiwi Crate’s Disk Launcher Box

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KiwiCo recently sent me a Kiwi Crate to review, as it's the perfect box from their collection for my kids and their ages (8, 8, 5, and 3). Kiwi Crate Designed for ages 5-8, Kiwi Crate is a monthly educational subscription box that features Science, Art & More in each box. Every month they deliver the tools for creative learning and ...

11 Monthly Arts & Crafts Boxes Guaranteed to Help Kids Creativity

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If you're looking to foster a love of creativity, imagination, arts, and crafts, this list of arts and crafts subscription boxes for kids is perfect for you! From preschool to high school, these craft box subscriptions for kids and art subscription boxes for kids are sure to delight! I love summer! I don’t know about y’all, but I am really ...

12 of the Best Monthly Science Kits for Kids {According to a Homeschooler}

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Interested in cultivating a love of science in your kids? One or more of these monthly science kits are sure to spark his or her interest in STEM! I am a sucker for good educational subscription boxes for kids. I've tried out several of them with my preschool and early grade school aged children. We are homeschoolers, so fun things, crafty, ...

How My Homeschooled Twins Learned How to Read

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This post is sponsored by Bookroo. All opinions on teaching twins how to learn how to read are definitely my own. I never once thought teaching children how to learn how to read would be an easy feat, especially because I knew I'd be their teacher.I do not have a teaching certificate nor did I major in English in college. Sure, I enjoy writing ...

Green Kid Crafts: The Crafty Way to Get Your Kids Into Science

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Green Kid Crafts may be my favorite educational subscription box for kids to date. Green Kid Crafts is a highly rated monthly subscription service full of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) activities and experiments. As a homeschooling mom who doesn't really like science, I was so thrilled with the Green Kid Crafts box ...

The Course that is Removing “Disaster” from Your Disaster Prep

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I have to admit I thought it was pretty cool to be walking on a sidewalk I walked on thousands of times in my youth, because this time it was flooded. This time I walked this same sidewalk in mid-calf deep water. My parents however didn't think the major Wisconsin flooding in the summer of 2008 was so cool. Their basement flooded with thigh-high ...

8 Best Educational Subscription Boxes According to a Homeschooler

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Looking for an educational subscription box for kids? The following are among the best and most popular options out there today! One of the greatest things my dad did was send me postcards in the mail. My dad was an over-the-road truck driver. He was gone the majority of the week, and occasionally for multiple weeks at a time. Receiving a ...

7 Key Ways to Encourage a Toddler to Talk

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The lives of new parents are extremely eventful and exciting to say the least. You spend every day awaiting new surprises, milestones and amusing little moments involving your little one. When my husband and I had our little boy a few years ago, he’d constantly walk around with a Handy-cam in hand. We wanted to have a solid memory of every ...

How Kids Can Unload the Dishwasher Without Breaking Anything

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I am all for cleaning with awake kids, instilling the value of work, and having my children do chores. One of my five year old twins' chores is to unload the dishwasher first thing in the morning. Unfortunately, by having my young children unload the dishes by themselves, they have, on several occasions, broken cups, bowls, and plates. We've since ...