Homeschool Fiction

For the Solstice this year, I’ve decided to make Lunar Calendars with my older Girl Scouts.  I went back and forth several times on how to do this and decided to do the following: Cut out one of each of the moon cycles from Science Netlinks. [Hint: number the moons and draw up arrows on [...]

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We recently hosted a tie-dyeing party for our local Unschooling group.  Since we’ve tie-dyed a lot over the years, my older daughter wanted to do something a bit different.  We decided to “double dye” a few items. First we dyed the items as usual using Procion dye and directions from the Dharma Trading Company (both [...]

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My 12 year old daughter has come up with some of the most interesting Halloween costumes over the years. Since she has been old enough to decide her own costumes, she’s been: a black cat (twice), Laa-Laa (from Teletubbies), Madeline, a spotted bat, a computer (with working parts), a Borg, and a scarecrow. But this [...]

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My kids are big fans of scientific crafts. Part of a successful homeschooling household is to keep a lot of ingredients on hand so that experiments can happen whenever the kids want them to. Our ingredients for experiments arsenal has hundreds of things right now, but the core consists of: baking soda vinegar pipettes test [...]

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I made up the following directions, based on experimentation. For my older Girl Scout troop of 10-13 year olds, each girl took 3-4 hours to make her purse. None were very experienced at sewing, so consider this a “beginners” how-to (I just made two purses with flaps in about 3 hours time – writing this [...]

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