Homeschool Fiction

Click here for more “20 Questions Answers from Unschoolers” around the world.
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DoLifeRight: Tell me a bit about yourself and your family (name, children’s ages, where you live, etc.).
Sandra: I’m Sandra Dodd and I live with my husband, Keith, who’s an engineer at Honeywell, and with two of our three children. Kirby (22) lives [...]

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 [...]

I think I’ve read just about every organization, Feng Shui, and “simplify your life (and stuff)” book out there.  While I agree with much of it, I’ve yet to read how to do any of this while kids actually LIVE and LEARN in the home every day.  So, I’ve created my own simple “How to” [...]

Click here to read “Prickly Pear Fruit Harvesting PART ONE”.
Click here to read “Prickly Pear Fruit Harvesting PART TWO”.
Now that you’ve picked the fruit from the prickly pear, it is time to prepare it. We prefer a “no touch” method, which doesn’t involve any knives or accidental touching. Click here for a great [...]

See “How to: Make Nifty Book Boxes for Our Triwizard Tournament Task 3” for the first part of this topic.
We made two puzzles for Task 3 of our Tri-Wizard Tournament: a crossword puzzle and a cypher. The cypher gave directions to the Champions of what they were supposed to do in Task 3. [...]

For the past 2.5 years I, with the help of a really great team, have been working on our software company, ZenActOS, Inc. We’ve been seriously pursuing our first round of funding (as the experts correctly told us to say) for over a year. While we are still raising our first round of [...]

I’ve been asked how it is that I’ve come to be so confident. Interesting question!
This post could have been titled “How to Love Yourself”, as confidence and love go hand-in-hand.
A while ago my youngest daughter asked me, “Who do you love most in this world?”
I replied, “It’s a three way tie between you, your [...]

I’ve been enjoying making pillows since I was twelve and received my first sewing machine. I’ve recently shared my love of pillow making with my Girl Scout troops. We made simple 4 square checkered pillows. My 7.5 year old daughter loved it so much, she made one completely by herself the next [...]

Here are the photographs first, then the directions. These photographs are a year old and don’t show the full extent of our dyeing, but they’ll give you an idea of what the possibilities are.

I first got the great idea of dyeing fabric with Sharpie markers from one of my favorite kid’s science catalogs, Steve [...]