Archive for March, 2009

Blog Moving Day

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

In case you haven’t noticed, or didn’t know, I have moved this blog and my other homeschool blog to their new home. Thanks to Renae and Andrea for all their help. Honestly I could never have done any of this without them!
If you have bookmarked this URL, please update it to
http://www.thecreativehomeschool.com
See ya at [...]

The value of collections

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Kids of all ages love to collect things. You never know what will spark a collection but when the inspiration strikes, it can quickly turn into an obsession. Before you are tempted to stop yet another collection, you may want to consider some things.
A collection is important, at least for the moment. Kids have a [...]

Fun with old magazines and catalogs

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

If you have a giant stack of catalogs and magazines that you don’t want to store but feel guilty about tossing, try these ideas to get more mileage from your paper before you recycle it.

Make silly faces. Cut out facial features out of different ads and the put them together in funny ways.
Make paper beads. [...]

How much fun can you fit on one page?

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Books are great tools for homeschoolers. It seems there is no end to the creative possibilities. But sometimes the choices can seem a bit overwhelming, or the process is complicated and you stress about creating content that will be worthy of the container. How about trying a book that is made from one page, a [...]

5 uses for school glue

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I don’t know about you, but when it’s back to school time I can’t resist stocking up on white glue. It was only 5 cents a bottle, after all. But now I have about 20 bottles of it. So what do I do with all this white gluey goodness? (I mean besides letting the kiddos [...]