FIRST HANDS ON HOMESCHOOL CARNIVAL OF THE NEW YEAR!

 I'm so excited to host the first 

Hands on Homeschool Blog Carnival of 2011!

Step right up! You're in for several inspiring treats today! 

Your first stop is BABY STEPS for some good old fashioned bubble blowing experiments sure to get you in a game playing mood! 

" I've needed to remind Monkey that blowing bubbles in the milk isn't good manners recently (amazing, right!), so I was pretty sure he'd like this activity. It didn't disappoint." 

Now you're ready for creating and organizing for a new session

 with Shirley at Home  all the way from South Africa. 

Shirley says," Part of planning for me is decorating a new planner for each school year. In the past I have used a hard-cover A4 book, but this year I wanted something a little different. Something that could accommodate all my planning sheets as well as the numerous craft, cooking and ideas sheets that I fine throughout the year in various magazines etc..." 

 From Blissfully Domestic 

How to Make a Winter Sensory Box!  

A sensory box is a container that you can put different items into for stimulating your child’s senses. Its similar to a sensory table, (like you may have seen in your child’s school or day care center). A sensory box can be any size that is convenient for your home, a shoe box works really well. Follow these simple instructions to make a winter themed sensory box for your child!

Carnivals always make me hungry. Time for a cookie!

Let's pop in on Cherylin at Talking to Myself blog ( creator of the Hands on

Homeschooling Carnival) and see whats cookin'!

 "Dear Daughter is deep into her Christmas cookie baking for the baking business she's been operating since she was 9 or 10 years old. "

 Oh, what the heck! We'll play too! 

Check out what the Diorama Diva  made from discarded shoe boxes and other random items saved for when the inspiration to create hits home. 

Marcia of Child in Harmony  shares the joys of  having a birds eye view of her Bird Haven.  

" Our Bird Haven is an inspiration. We learn so much and have fun in the process."

The Five of Us Blog  shares How to Make a Suet Log Feeder

 Last, but not least...


Sarah, from Real Life Blog shares her tried and true easy ways to add Music to your Home Schooling Curriculum even if you're not a musician!

Thanks so much to all the creative hands on home schoolers who entered this carnival and a BIG THANKS to those of you who came along for the ride!  

To submit YOUR hands on homeschooling article for future carnivals  or to host one one on your blog visit this link! 

Happy Creative Homeschooling~

Deb

WOODLAND BENCH

From Faerie Houses and forts to furniture made with " nature's offerings" ( and a few choice pieces of scrap wood from behind the shed) our 12 year old  daughter created her first piece of WOODLAND ~ FURNITURE!

I'm still shaking my head at how she did it... I know, with a hammer and nails of course! And a great amount of IMAGINATION and INGENUITY!

She fashioned the arched detail with branches and twigs. 

And the legs from left over stumps she found in the cut wood pile.

It's the perfect place to sit a spell on a warm fall day , watch the " girls" scratch and listen to them tell a story or two...

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of WONDER he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, REDISCOVERING with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.’

— Rachel Carson

How do your children AMAZE you?

This post has been entered in the next Hands on Homeschool Blog Carnival hosted by Jimmies Collage on October 11th 2010!