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Preschool At Home MAGIC

Now You Can Easily Preschool
Your Child At Home…With little to NO PLANNING and PREP and without SPENDING a fortune.

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Make your payment today, and you don’t even have to decide if you’re in for good! Take the full 15 days to explore the materials and experience the vibe of and THEN… make a decision using the information YOU HAVE, rather than the information you don’t.


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All the goodness is here.

Once you see how much your kids LOVE these activities you’re going to want to come back for more and more and more.

You’ll want to hop on the Planning PLAYtime email list to get freebies and first dibs on what’s new. (The place to drop your email is right at the top of her page!


Go ahead and grab a copy of my book, Homeschooling from the Inside Out!

It’s completely FREE. Just click over and fill in your first name and primary email below and we will send you a digital copy immediately!!

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Filed Under: k-2nd, Preschool Homeschool, sticky

Make Toys from Sticks, Stones, and Natural Materials

Just because you’re stuck at home due to injury, illness, or global pandemic, doesn’t mean you can’t create a magical playtime for you and your kids.

While we all live in different climates and have different types of raw materials near our back doors, we can use what we find to make some fun natural toys.

  • Browse for a few ideas.
  • Go outside and gather your materials with your kids
  • Let them lead

I bet you’ll make something cool, but I’m also guessing you’re gonna make something else: MEMORIES!

toys from nature
Learn more from The Best Ideas for Kids
toys from nature
Nature Sun Catchers! Learn more from Hands on As We Grow
toys from nature
Learn more from Adventure in a box
toys from nature
Make a fairy Garden! Learn more from Family Handy Man
toys from nature
Make a tie tac toe board! Learn more from Chicken Scratch NY
toys from nature
Paint Name, or word, rocks! Learn more from Mama Papa Bubba
toys from nature
Make story stones! Learn more from Happy Hooligans

Related: Turn classic puppet show stories into story stones

toys from nature
Sea Glass Chime! Learn more from All Snug as a Bug
toys from nature
Nature Sensory Bottles! Learn More from Rhythms of Play

Make a SIMPLE draw string bag with your kids to store these NATURAL WONDERS!


Learning at Home: Everything you need in one place

Don’t stress about Screen Time

Filed Under: 3rd-5th grade, 6th-8th grade, blog, k-2nd, sticky, Teach at home Goodies

How to Homeschool: Quick Start Videos to Rescue


“Help! We just decided to homeschool our kids and I’m freaking out!”

I’ve received various translations of the same message from so many family members, neighbors, friends, and readers that I’m, putting all the answers on one page. –>THIS ONE.


Homeschooling is like eating and elephant, you’ll have to do it one bite at a time.

Pages: Page 1 Page 2

Filed Under: blog, k-2nd, K-8th Grade, sticky Tagged With: how to homeschool

Yes, Your Child’s Mind is POWERFUL and Creative !

Do you try to make handwriting sound a whole lot more fun than we both know it is to your kids? Yeah, my kids saw through that plan too.

Kind of like the time I tried to hide carrots into a cake, but neglected to make the bits small enough to get by my little veggie detector.

I know, you worry that your child’s only prospect for future employment is in the medical field. Surely, you are staring at at a doctor’s handwriting page. Right?

…

Read More »

Filed Under: blog, k-2nd, K-8th Grade, sticky

DIY Doll Game and Activity

DIY Doll Game
your kids will Love this game/activity!!

This beautiful activity comes from author Gail Masinda, with Maestro Heights.

The idea is simple. 

Learn to care for baby while living your normal life.

Perfect for training siblings for life with baby!

There are two sets of activities: 

  • small manageable tasks
  • what baby needs.

How to play

  • Place each in their own jar/basket.
  • Begin the day with a smt. Complete the task
  • Then reach in and see what baby needs. 
  • Set the timer and kids practice setting baby’s needs above their own. PLUS, you get a little bit of time too!

Back slips are included so you can customize chore/tasks and activities for baby.

Kids can use dolls or stuffed animals for “Baby”. I purposely used the word BABY and did not include his/her pronouns. HAVE Fun!

Download your free copy here


Visit Gail’s beautiful Music Room

Filed Under: blog, k-2nd, Ready to go Resources, sticky

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A professional Nerf Buller Dodging Homeschool Mom of five sons!
My passion is to help homeschooling moms educate their kids from the inside out.
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