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Needle Felted Sheep Kit
Bear Creek Designs has this amazingly beautiful felting kit for sale that includes step by step photo instructions for the beginner. Exquisite!
Homeschool Freebies – January 10, 2011
- Snowflake Journal Page
- Make an intricate snowflake
- Crystallized Snowflakes - Can substitute Epson Salts for the Borax – here.
- Button Snowflakes – why not decorate your classroom with these hanging from the ceiling or a collection of all sorts of snowflakes hanging in front of your window?
- Snowflake Snack recipe
- So Many Synonym Snowflakes Worksheet
- Snow Fun Match-up
- Count By Tens Snowflake Worksheet
- Snowy Owl Study
- The Mitten Unit Study
Wild Birdseed Cookies
I found this recipe over at theteacherscorner.net and thought these would be fun to make with my girls. We love birds and always have lots of birdseed out for them to enjoy.
Wild Birdseed Cookies
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup of sugar
2/3 cup vegetable shortening
2 eggs
3/4 cup birdseed (use small seeds)
3 egg whites
cookie cutters
yarn to hang cookies
Sift all the dry ingredients together and cut in the lard with a blunt knife. Add the eggs. Add the birdseed and kneed until smooth. Allow the dough to chill overnight. Roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thickness and cut into shapes with cookie cutters. Insert a paper clip into the top of the shape to act as a hanger. Brush the cookie with beaten egg whites and press birdseed into the top of the cookie. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 325 degrees F for 10-15 minutes or until the cookies are hard. String yarn through the paper clip to make a hanger and hang outside.
Family Keepsake Plate
Only a few more days until Christmas! I can hardly believe it myself. We’ve had a crazy month – two weeks of traveling in Florida followed by a week of the flu. So, I’m trying to get in the mood!
This plate is just too cute to pass up. Looks easy and cheap to make! What’s not to love? And the penguins are just too sweet!
Check out the instructions over at Craft Jr and have some Christmas fun! Oh, and while you’re at it, you could make several to give to grandparents, aunts and uncles…
The Children’s Table
One of my favorite traditions for Thanksgiving is the Children’s Table. It’s a table decorated just for the youngest members of the family – say 10 years old and under. In our house, Thanksgiving Dinner takes place around three or four o’clock in the afternoon. Needless to say, if the kids are not occupied with activities, waiting for dinner to be ready can be a challenge!
At the children’s table, I like to provide activities, decorations, and more just for the kids! Here are some ideas you might like to use:
- Cover the table with brown paper (such as paper grocery bags cut up or packing paper) and provide crayons for the kids to decorate their “tablecloth.”
- Have the children make the center piece, place cards, and napkin rings. Then, they can help set their table and make it pretty!
- Provide Thanksgiving coloring sheets and crayons or markers.
- Offer easy to assemble crafts such as Pilgrims hats and Bonnets or Native American Headdresses.
- Have the children decorate place mats that you print. Cut them out and glue to orange or brown construction paper. Then decorate the table with them.
- Make fun turkeys for kids to take home after dinner is over.
- Don’t forget to provide some fun desserts for the kids, too!
Make this Thanksgiving a day the kids won’t forget!
Coffee Filter Trees for Fall
One of things I love the most about Autumn is the colors! This craft embodies the colors of fall perfectly and looks incredibly easy! In the tutorial Nadja used liquid watercolors, but think you could get the same effect with regular water colors on a damp coffee filter, or by using colored markers and spraying lightly with water to bleed the colors.
This Autumn Tree would be lovely decorating your buffet for Thanksgiving! You could even use it as a “Thankful Tree” on Thanksgiving. Just cut out paper leaves or even squares of autumn colored paper and provide pend and clothes pins. Have family and friends write what they are thankful for on the paper and then pin them to the tree. Be sure to check out the tutorial for this beautiful project over at Path O’ Dirt Farm.
Spool Pumpkin Craft
This is a sweet and simple idea. I think you could use these little pumpkins at each place setting on your thanksgiving table – maybe take home favors or even use them as place cards. You could do these with your children as part of your homeschool, too!
These little pumpkins are frugal, too! Check out the tutorial over at I Can Teach My Child.
Design Your Own Recipe Card and Tin
This Christmas, why not give a gift that will keep on giving… for generations? Print your favorite recipes on pretty recipe cards that you design yourself, add the collection to a fun tin, and share with your family and friends! The best past is, once the cards are created, you can print as many as you need! Check out the tute on My Computer is my Canvas!
After making the recipe cards, you can put them in a pretty tin you altered yourself.
Leaf Pictures
One of my favorite things about homeschooling is that we can focus as much as we want on nature study. I cam across these beautiful pieces of art made entirely from items found in nature. The perfect ending to a nature walk! My girls are going to love this idea! Check out the amazing images on Atelier Pour Enfants. The post is written in French, but you’ll get the idea.
Homeschool Freebies – June 15, 2010
Photo Credit: The Ramblings of a Crazy Woman
- Free Worksheets
- Ocean Worksheets from Learning Page
- The Island-below-the-Star Unit Study
- How to Raise Tadpoles
- Frog Lapbook
- Another Frog Lapbook
- God’s Amazing Sea Creatures Unit Study
- Nature Study at the Beach
- Handprint Crabs Craft (scroll down)
- National Geographic Sea Animals Coloring Book
Book Recommendations:
- The Island-below-the-Star by James Rumford
- Frogs by Nic Bishop
- The Frogs and Toads of North America
- Frogs Toads and Turtles by Diane Burns
- Days with Frogs and Toad by Arnold Lobel
