Christmas Activities
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Christmas Board Games
Board games are one of the nicest ways to spend family time over the festive period.
CLICK HERE to find the best educational board games recommended by homeschoolers.
Christmas Present Ideas
Christmas shopping is sadly going to be a totally different experience and many of us will be stuck trying to pick from a bewildering array of small online images with reviews that aren't always ones you can trust.
So I asked 2,000 homeschooling families to help out with their top choices that are both fun and educational.
CLICK HERE for great Christmas present ideas.
Support Homemade Crafts This Christmas
If you would like to support a fellow homeschooler by getting some handmade Christmas gifts, my husband Rob is a retired Architect and bird watercolour artist so his paintings would make an unusual present. Ours is a family affair, so that's my homeschool daughter's Raven painting from her special friend she talks to in clicks and purrs. I make decoupage gifts from strawsilk rice paper tealight candle holders to tissue box holders, guaranteed to make an ordinary tissue box look special.
Do have a look in our Brush with Nature gifts Etsy shop.
Inspirational Presents: Homeschool Journals And Memory Books
Homeschooling is a wonderful journey and these beautiful Journals and Memory books will help you record the most precious time you ever spend with your child.
"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Handprint Memory Book
Butterfly
Memory Book
Fall Leaves Memory Book
End of Year Memories
Best Christmas Activity Ideas: Baking Cookies
Check out this lovely recipe from Bianka and family.
"I've got a quick and easy recipe which is super easy for kids to make and the cookies can be decorated with absolutely anything from candy to sprinkles to choc chips and so on."
~ Bianka, Courageous Homeschooling Facebook support group
You can get Christiaan and Makayla's best Christmas cookie recipe here.
Christmas Tree Ornaments
Simone shared this wonderful and simple idea for making tree ornaments from jam jar lids.
"We have been making jam jar lid ornaments for the Christmas tree. So pretty and inexpensive to make. x"
~ Simone, Courageous Homeschooling Facebook Group
You can get the full how-to instructions here.
"Looks wonderful..great idea..have to try it."
~ Bianka, Courageous Homeschooling Facebook Group
Christmas Gift Book For Homeschooling Moms
Looking for a special gift to give to a homeschooling friend?
This book of happiness quotes is a wonderful gift book to sit on your bedside table to dip into whenever you need a boost of courage and confidence - and want to feel great!
Find out more here.
"It really is just the most gorgeous book to own. Perfect as a gift to another home educator or to have for yourself. It's a total must have."
Make Santa Jars
Bianka found this lovely Santa Jar activity and to show you how much fun her children had doing it here are the ones they made:
- Enchanted Learning has some nice free crafts. You can make a Santa hat, a real crystal snowflake, and a paper plate snowman.
Read A Christmas Story
"We read a different Christmas story every night starting on the 1st. I haven't got around to wrapping them up this year but that's what we usually do so that we don't know which one is which."
~ Samie, Courageous Homeschooling Facebook group
- Our Christmas activities for kids page has lots of ideas to try, including our favorite: making your own Christmas crackers. You'll see ideas for homeschool snowflakes, mini pinecone Christmas trees and how to make tree ornaments using our salt dough recipe.
You could start by using our free writing worksheets to get your child to write about their best Christmas present - a great way to sneak in some homeschool English!
And Alyssa from my Courageous Homeschooling Facebook group has this idea:
"Try a Scavenger Christmas light hunt! I make up a sheet with pictures of things for the kids to look for while I drive them to different streets in our community."
~ Alyssa
Christmas Planning!
Get ideas for fun activities you'll do with the children to cover all subjects starting in the New Year.
When you are unschooling or following an eclectic approach to homeschooling, it's easy to worry you're not covering all the topics your child needs. This handy book helps out with inexpensive and unique homeschooling ideas so you can teach every subject from Math to Science.
Free Christmas Printables
Bianka spotted these lovely free templates you can download to make these little paper toy holders.
Really pretty - thanks for sharing Bianka.
Party Games
Christmas is definitely the time for a party and I thought you might like these Xmas party game suggestions.
From Santa Says to Freeze and a Blind Snowman Dance, there's plenty to enjoy.
E-mail Santa
How about getting your kids to e-mail Santa and get a reply from the North Pole?
And Santa might well enjoy having some fun in the snow when you have a go at making our snow globe in Christmas crafts.
Science Fun
You could have some fun with the kids over the holidays making our homeschool lava lamp and dropping in some Christmas trees!
The Kindness Elves
Monica came up with this suggestion for the Christmas newsletter so I thought I would let her explain more:
"I don't know if you know of this tradition or similar one, we don't have it here, but it is really thoughtful. This is an alternative to Elf on a shelf. The elves do kind things for people, you can make your own elves, you don't have to buy them. ....
We have donated clothes and toys, helped a person in need, donated books, cooked food and gifted it, etc. It is up to the children if/what/when they would like to do. I really love the Kindness Elves"
~ Monica, Courageous Homeschooling Facebook Group
Angie suggests something similar:
"I found a printable random acts of kindness challenge online and printed it up. We are doing the challenge as a family unit. Each family member will check off whichever ones they complete."
~ Angie, Courageous Homeschooling Facebook Group
You can get your free Kindness Challenge here. Thanks Angie.
Christmas Math
If you want to slip math into Christmas without anyone noticing, board and card games are the way to do it!
I asked 6,000 members of my Courageous Homeschooling Facebook group to pick out their favorite games for teaching math here.
Special Gifts For Christmas
It can be hard to find exactly the right present which is both fun and educational.
You can find the very best homeschool gifts for Christmas in this list.
Best Present For A Fellow Homeschooler
Know someone who is struggling with homeschooling and needs some encouragement and support? Or someone who is thinking of taking the leap but needs a bit of reassurance that everything will work out fine?
Our Courageous Homeschooling Handbooks have the answers.
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