Homeschool Fiction

For Father’s Day presents, we had a lot of fun making decorated t-shirts.  Click here for a bunch of really cool examples (with directions).
Since those turned out so nice, I decided to have a try at putting my Wright on Time books turtle logo onto some shirts.  I printed out the design as large as [...]

Trying to come up with Father’s Day crafts for my Girl Scout troop this year was quite a challenge!  We’ve been making crafty things together for nearly eight years and it seems like we’ve made everything there is to be made.  Then, I thought, it’s been a LOOOONG time since we’ve decorated t-shirts…  To do [...]

This tiled black & white photograph project is a perfect gift for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, or just any time you want to give a truly unique (yet inexpensive) present to someone you love.
Total time to make one: about 90 minutes, longer if it is your first one (less if you are doing a bunch [...]

For a recent Girl Scout meeting, one of the older girls planned a super cool activity for the younger girls:  They each got to make their own board game!  Coming up with the rules, name of the game, and goal for the game was really fun for my daughter. Click here for “How to: Make [...]

Come up with an idea: What are your interests?  Love flowers, animals, movies, baseball?  Choose whatever your fancy is and that can be the theme for your board game.  Combine ideas if it would make for a fun game.
Make the board: This can be the really fun part.  The board itself can be made of [...]

When I describe a typical day with my children to a stranger I’m often greeted with, “Wow, you are so creative.”
I’m then asked where I get my creativity and how I come up with such fun things to do with my kids.
I’ve thought a lot about this and I realize that I believe everyone is [...]

Only 4 days until Super Star Trek Sunday on February 1st.  In preparation for the costume contest, I’ve been assembling costume parts for my family and myself.  After much debate, I’ve decided to dress up as one of my favorite Star Trek characters: Guinan.
Since I was drawn to the purple/eggplant outfits of Guinan’s, I’ll be [...]

While Arizona does get snow (quite a lot in the mountains — especially in the north part of the state), here in the lower altitudes of southern Arizona snow is a rare thing.  To liven up our living space and to make the place feel more wintery, we’ve made snowflakes out of coffee filters.  They [...]

My kids love making letters and numbers with their bodies.  To use their number photographs in an extra fun way, we decided to make collage clocks using 12″ blank clock faces from ClockParts.com.  The parts are great and the directions are fantastic — full of lots of neat ideas!
Here is how we made ours:

We picked [...]

After taking photographs of my daughters as the letters of the alphabet, they wanted to try making numbers, too.  We recently got around to doing this and here are the awesome results (they were taken in Rancho Sahuarita in December 2008).  We’ve made something really exciting with these numbers that I’ll be posting about very [...]