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I am a Christian, mom, wife, homeschooler, YouTuber, author, and quilter.

Educational iPad Apps: Reading

Educational iPad Apps: Reading
iPad Apps / Reading  iPad Apps / Readers / Reviews

It’s been awhile since I’ve put up an educational iPad apps post, so today I wanted to share some more of our favorites! Specifically in department of reading. I’ve found that my kids love to read on the iPad, and I’ve even found some fun interactive books for the Teeny…

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Mini-Resurrection Garden: Easter Craft

Mini-Resurrection Garden: Easter Craft
Art / Easter / Holidays  Crafts / Easter

Hi everyone! With Easter right around the corner, I thought it would be a perfect time to get our mini resurrection gardens started. It’s always fun when you can add in hands on activities to your homeschool studies.   Creating a simple mini resurrection garden takes only about 20-30 minutes…

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Benjamin Franklin Unit Study

Benjamin Franklin Unit Study
Homeschool / Inventors / Lapbook / Scientists / Unit Studies  Benjamin Franklin / Scientists&Inventors / Unit Studies

Hi everyone, I’ve been working hard behind the scenes over here to create a new set of unit studies! This series is all about famous Scientists & Inventors! As usual each study includes fun hands-on activities to go along with the unit to help students remember what they’ve learned, and…

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Homemade Glossy Lip Balm Recipe

Homemade Glossy Lip Balm Recipe
DIY / Homeschool / Recipes  DIY / Homemade / Lipbalm

Happy Friday everyone! I’m excited to share a fun activity we did this past week. As you can see from the picture above and the title of this post, we made our own homemade lip balm! Not only was it fun, but it was much easier than I thought it…

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Oil Pastels & Water Color Art Project for Kids

Oil Pastels & Water Color Art Project for Kids
Art / Homeschool / Painting  painting

Hi all, I have a fun and easy oil pastel and water color art project for kids to share with you today. One of you sweet readers sent me a link to Artventure.com which is an art website with some fun video tutorial art lessons. We tried one of the…

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How To Make a Lapbook Video Tutorial

How To Make a Lapbook Video Tutorial
Homeschool / Lapbooks / Video  DIY / How To / Lapbooks / Tutorials / Video

Hi everyone! I get a lot of questions on how to create lapbooks, and how we use them in our homeschool. I thought it would be easier to show you all in a “How To Make a Lapbook” video tutorial for you! First I wanted to talk a little bit…

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I Can’t Homeschool Because…

I Can’t Homeschool Because…
Homeschool / Mom Stuff  Homeschooling 101

Hi everyone! Today, I’m participating in the iHomeschool Network “I Can’t Homeschool Because…” series. Each of the bloggers are posting on common misconceptions and doubts we all face when thinking of taking the leap into homeschooling.   As indicated by the above title, my topic is “I Can’t Homeschool Because…

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Alexander Graham Bell Unit Study

Alexander Graham Bell Unit Study
Homeschool / Inventors / Lapbook / Scientists / Unit Studies  Alexander Graham Bell / Scientists&Inventors / Unit Studies

Hi everyone, I’ve been working hard behind the scenes over here to create a new set of unit studies! This series is all about famous Scientists & Inventors! As usual each study includes fun hands-on activities to go along with the unit to help students remember what they’ve learned, and…

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Zuppa Toscana Recipe

Zuppa Toscana Recipe
Recipes  Main Dishes / soup

Hi everyone! Did I mention that I’m Italian? And I married a German? Well, since our wedding my father-in-law has hassled me about always serving Italian dishes whenever they come over. And so tonight I was feeling a little crazy and decided to make up my very own recipe for…

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Masking Tape Water Color Art for Kids

Masking Tape Water Color Art for Kids
Art / Homeschool  painting

I have a super easy and fun art activity for kids to share today! But before we start, I know you are all curious about our art boards, so I just wanted to address them in a post. They’re simply 2×3 chalk boards turned over, on the backside is like…

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