Check out this great hands-on freebie resource from the United States Geological Survey! Here you can download and make your own printable 3-D paper globes of the Earth, Mars, Venus, moons, and more.
CLICK HERE to go to the site!
Our Wonderful World
DIYHomeschooler.com offers this excellent nature study book and curriculum free to homeschoolers. Here’s what they say about it:
Our Wonderful World by Emery Lewis Howe is a rich nature study book available for free download covering backyard neighbors, feathered friends, garden life, four-footed comrades, and the earth and its neighbors.
Written for young children, this treasure includes experiments, related Scripture verses, and activities such as drawing, narrating, and writing.
By covering one chapter each week, there are 32 weeks worth of lessons (not including this introduction). We’ve added suggestions, helps for Mom, and resource recommendations that can round out the studies for older students.
By adding a weekly lab, and more related, comprehensive readings (such as a biology text), you may find you have enough material to qualify as a biology credit for an older student.
For the youngest children, simply reading the book may be enough. You know your children best, but don’t overwhelm them. Have fun!
CLICK HERE to go to the website!
Finish the Drawing Starter Pack
Our daughter Jess has published three volumes of her very popular “Finish the Drawing” book series on Amazon. Today we’re featuring this delightful sampler of reproducible pages she has put together from those volumes to get your kids’ creativity flowing and have loads of fun in the process.
Just print out the pages you want to draw on, grab a pencil, pen, crayons or markers and go to it. What could be simpler? No more “I don’t know what to draw” blues!
Whether you use these for art lessons, or just for fun, these are a great way to stimulate the imagination and get your kids off the screens for a few hours. Check it out and see how fun these creative drawing prompts can be.
(Jess would love to see your finished creations and share them on social media. You can Instagram tag her: @rollingdonutpress and use the hashtag #FinishTheDrawingBook – or email her at: RollingDonutPress@gmail.com )
Here’s the link to download this PDF ebook:
FINISH THE DRAWING STARTER PACK
(If you are on a PC, right-click the link and “save link” to your computer. If using a Mac, press the “control” key and click the link, then save to your Mac!)
Kids in the Kitchen
A while back, we asked our readers to share with us their very best advice for getting the kids interested and involved in cooking in the kitchen
– without creating a disaster in the process.
This little ebook is a compilation of the best responses we received: It’s full of practical, “real life” suggestions, tips and stories that will help you teach your children food prep skills, prevent potential disasters, and instill great fun and enjoyment into their “kitchen work”. Whatever age YOUR young ones are, you will definitely glean some great ideas and insights from this collection.
To download this PDF ebook, CLICK HERE!
Important note:
We are sending out great “home based” freebies exclusively to folks on our email list every weekday: puzzles, brain teasers, “hands on” activities, classic audio stories, and much more. They are all meant to give you some quality educational fun time while at home.
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Frugal Family Fun at Home
Need some fun activity ideas for your family? In this popular little ebook, our readers share dozens and dozens of tried-and-true “real life” ideas for fun, frugal activities for the family at home. Pry your kids off the screens and make some fun memories together!
Click here to download this PDF ebook:
Important note:
We are sending out great “home based” freebies exclusively to folks on our email list every weekday this month: puzzles, brain teasers, “hands on” activities, classic audio stories, and much more. They are all meant to give you some quality educational fun time while at home.
You need to get on our list and join us! It doesn’t cost a thing… just SIGN UP BELOW!
A Homeschool That Handles the Hard Times
A Homeschool that Handles the Hard Times: A Guide for Christian Homeschoolers (PDF ebook)by Tammy Cardwell
Do you want to know now that you will be able to continue homeschooling even when times get tough? If so, read A Homeschool that Handles the Hard Times: A Guide for Christian Homeschoolers and start building the right foundation today! In just forty pages (Everyone has time to read forty pages!) Tammy Cardwell shares truths she has learned through over 17 years of helping homeschoolers, as well as homeschooling two boys of her own through graduation.
To download this PDF resource, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” to your PC. Mac users, press the “control” key, click the link and save to your mac.
Music Theory Worksheets
Kristin at MyFunPianoStudio.com has put together a collection of 50 music theory worksheets and printables that are especially designed for home learning. Here’s what she told us about them: “I am a piano teacher and I’ve created a large collection of free printable music worksheets and activity ideas. I have spent a great deal of time on these materials and would love for them to be found and used. All are free for parents and teachers.”
These are very well-thought out learning activity worksheets that cover topics such as: identifying and reading notes, rhythm, major scales, circles of fifths, bass clef & treble clef, and much more. It’s a great resource for young students being introduced to music.
Click here to go to her site!
Nature Study Made Easy
NATURE STUDY MADE EASY (PDF ebook)
A lovely, vintage literature-based collection of plant and nature study lessons and activities prepared for 10-12 yr olds, but easily adaptable for younger or older students. Includes Lessons on: how plants grow, seeds, roots, herbs, trees, moss, flowering plants, ferns, mushrooms and more… with lovely poems and readings interspersed throughout. Very much a Charlotte Mason style text!
To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE then “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key then click the link and save to your mac.
Stories of Great Musicians
Today we have this well done book by Olive Brown Horne and Kathrine Lois Scobey, featuring biographies of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Schubert & Wagner. Written for grades 4-5, this would also make a good read-aloud and an excellent introduction to these musicians’ lives and work. Lots of illustrations too!
To read this book online in HTML format, click here.
To download this book in Kindle format, RIGHT CLICK HERE then “save” to your computer.
To download this book in EPUB format, RIGHT CLICK HERE then “save” to your computer.
(No PDF version currently available.)
Larry’s TOON Institute
If your kids are interested in animation and learing how to animate their own cartoons, here’s a great collection of beginner lessons for them from professional animator Larry Lauria.
The Toon Institute’s free animation course offers a baker’s dozen lesson on the basics of animation, including the basics of animating a bouncing ball, squashing and stretching animated objects, character and face construction, timing, how to “thumbnail” a scene, and much more. These are a lot of fun, and explain the fundamentals of animation very well.
CLICK HERE to go to the site!