Making Candy DNA

Looking for a quick and fun project to go with a unit or lesson on DNA? Create a DNA model with your students with candy! This activity works well with a student who is is around age 7 and up. You can make the model with either candy (as shown below) or clay if using candy is not your style. […]

USA Geography Games for Kids

Looking for some great geography games for kids? This year in our homeschool, we are studying US geography as a full-year study on Fridays! We are lucky enough to have out main study built into our Blossom and Root curriculum (this is in Level 5 if you were wondering). In addition to using their curriculum, we also checked out an […]

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Human Cell Models

Looking for a quick mini lesson and parts of a cell project? Check out this quick lesson and activity you can do with any student who is around age 8 and up. You can make the model with either candy (as shown below) or clay if using candy is not your style. This mini lesson contains three parts: watching a […]

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Brazilian Cheese Balls

Join us in preparing cheese balls – a delicious Brazilian recipe for kids. A fun addition to homeschooling is learning about countries all around the world by choosing tasty recipes to make with the kids! My kids love to be in the kitchen, and we really enjoy making recipes (especially desserts) as a family. Even if you don’t homeschool, you […]

Sugar Pretzels – Sweden

Join us in cooking a delicious Swedish recipe for kids – sugar dipped pretzels! A fun addition to homeschooling is learning about countries all around the world by choosing interesting recipes to make with the whole family! My kids love to be in the kitchen, and we really enjoy making desserts as a family. Even if you don’t homeschool, you […]

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Winter Science

Join us for two fun elementary winter science experiments for ages 4-12. Although we live in Florida and don’t get to truly experience winter and snow, that doesn’t mean we can’t pretend! This year we created baking soda snowmen and then, in true Florida taste – we melted them! The girls also created peppermint slime – slime has really been […]

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Rocket Science

Living on the Space Coast of Florida, you get pretty familiar with rockets. The Kennedy Space Center resides just 45 minutes from our home, and often we forget how lucky we are to be able to watch these amazing real-life science projects take flight. And right from our driveway! On the brink of the launch of Artemis this year, we […]

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“Not” Back to School Fun

With parents posting all their back to school pictures all over social media and students getting excited about purchasing school supplies and starting the new year with classmates, as homeschoolers we always celebrate back to school as well, but in our own way. Why not have some fun with your kids on the 1st day of “not” back to school?! Many […]

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