One of my favorite things about homeschooling is being able to immerse ourselves into each season.
Each time the calendar page flips we read old & new favorite books, explore the history behind the holidays, make yummy seasonal treats, practice grammar with holiday Mad Libs, and do some Funschool lessons.
(If you need seasonal homeschool ideas, I have tons of them saved on Pinterest.)
For this year’s iHomeschool Network Back to Homeschool Basket Giveaway, I have put together a Homeschooling Through the Seasons Gift Basket.
It is filled with resources to help you plan some memorable moments for your family.
Treasuring God in Our Traditions helps you incorporate Christ-centered traditions into your everyday life. It is one of my favorite books, and has really had an impact on our celebrations.
I love my Orange Circle Studio Do It All Planner. It is the perfect size to cart around wherever you go. There are pages for holidays and special events, and lots of stickers for any occasion to add to your planner pages.
These pretty Psalms in Color cards are perfect to display around the house or give away to others.
Cleaning Around the Seasons eBook will help you deep clean your house and get it holiday ready.
Plan a Fabulous Party {without losing your mind} eBook gives you a framework for planning some fun events for your family.
A Deliberate Mother’s Guide to Holidays, Vacations and Quality Family Time eBook is filled with ideas to help you make special occasions and family time more meaningful.
The 12 Days of Christmas Adventure eBook is a family project to share a little Christmas cheer.
(Note: The basket is just display and does not come with your prize. 🙂)
Giveaway ends August 13th and is open to US residents only.
PLEASE NOTE: I will be away from the computer for a couple of days and may not be able to moderate comments (which means you won’t see your comment below right away.) I promise it is there! Just make sure to submit your giveaway form and it will keep track of everything.
Check out all of the other Back to Homeschool Basket Giveaways!
Like Free Homeschool Resources?
Find more on Facebook and Pinterest
My favorite holiday tradition is the reading of the Christmas story before we let our kids open presents.
This gift looks awesome. Thanks for offering it.
We have always given new board games for Christmas, but this past year we mixed it up by having every family member pick some of their favorites from our collection. I wrapped up all the old and new board games, but them under the tree, and we unwrapped and played one every day during Advent. It was great family time and something we will definitely continue going forward!
What a fabulous giveaway. Ive enjoyed looking through your site too!
We love to celebrate the seasons! One of my favorite traditions is to light a candle on each day of December, the next day light two, then three, and by the time Christmas Eve rolls around we have 24 candles lighting the room and sing Christmas carols!
We get together with family just about every holiday, but I think the kids enjoy dressing up and trick or treating with their cousins most of all.
My favorite holiday tradition is gathering ALL the family together for a special day of giving and love.
I love Christmas morning breakfast and watching the classics!
We love Advent readings. We use several books with both devotional readings and stories. We especially love the Arnold Ytreeide books.
I love Christmas time..the sights, the smells…caroling together, all the secret giftt exchanges…etc
We make a birthday cake for Jesus at Christmas.
This looks like a fantastic basket!!! Thank you for the opportunity!! I love the look of those coloring through the Psalms and that planner.
Such wonderful giveaways!
We try to make a paper chain big enough to go around every room in the house. We have a five bedroom house so it is quite a project.
One of our favorite Christmas traditions is decorating the tree while Christmas music plays. And then we enjoy hot chocolate with marshmallows!!
One holiday tradition we have is attending a special concert at our church before Christmas. We enjoy the sounds of the season!
Our favorite holiday tradition is our Christmas Countdown. I hide the card around the house and the kids have to find it to know what we’ll do that day.
Our favorite holiday is Christmas. Doing advent candles and Jesse tree. We have advent calendar that counts down the days to Christmas Going to Christmas mass and reading nativity to the kids. On Christmas day being with family and making a cake for Jesus and singing happy Birthday.
Jesse Tree!
We always get new pajamas Christmas eve and put them on to cuddle together and watch a Christmas movie with cocoa and snacks.
make sugar cookies at Christmas time
My favorite holiday tradition is our Advent calendar.
My families favorite Holiday would have to be Christmas because it brings everyone together. Life takes us to different places but we always make sure to spend Christmas as a family.
We take our time opening giftson Christmas morning before the grandparents come over so the kids can show off their new gifts. Then, we all enjoy brunch and each other’s company as we recount our blessings for the year.
I love making hand made ornaments for the tree. We do this every year & it’s fun to look over the ones from previous years!
We love decorating the tree together
Each year my cousins and siblings pick a theme for gifts. Each family buys a gift for each family since we’ve gotten too big to give each person a gift! Some themes have been books (like a family read-aloud) or board games. The most fun, though, was the “As Seen on TV” year!
I love going around the table at Thanksgiving saying all the things we’re thankful for.
I like baking christmas cookies
I love doing a big Easter count down and making a resurrection garden.
We enjoy going to Dollywood to watch the Christmas productions.
This looks fantastic. My kids are young and are just starting to get really excited about holidays and traditions!
My favorite holiday tradition is our Family Ornament exchange with our extended family and friends. Everyone brings an ornament and picks a number then 1 by 1 we pick a present or we can “steal” someone elses.. Such laughter, great food and time spent with my amazing family!
I love watching the Rose parade with my kids on new years day.
We bake homemade strombolis, filled with various ingredients. Usually we have at least 20 and folks always comment on FB how delicious they look!
We love spending a whole day, sometimes the whole weekend, decorating the house. We’re able to take it easy & reminisce on where ornaments & decor came from or who made it.
We make a cinnamon roll Christmas tree and my kids love it.
My favorite Holiday traditions are getting to see family and friends, and the crazy moments of crafts with littles for Advent. And I just have to say, I’ve had that planner before and I LOVED it! My local store didn’t carry it this year. 🙁 Thank you for the chance to win!
Reading the Christmas story.
My favorite holiday tradition is matching jammies with all the cousins!
Lighting the advent candles each night!
Feeding the reindeer on Christmas Eve, decorating the tree while listening to Christmas music, baking cookies…so many!
We do an advent activity calendar that helps us spend time together during the busiest time of the year.
Growing up, my parents, my grandmother, and my aunts each gave me a special ornament at Christmas time. It usually had something to do with a hobby I enjoyed that year, something I participated in, my favorite book/TV show, etc. My parents also bought me an ornament every time we traveled too so I would have them from all the places I visited growing up. When I got married, I had enough of those “special” ornaments to fill a 6 ft. tree. We didn’t have to buy a single ornament! We have continued that tradition with our own children now too. They always count down the days until Christmas Eve when they get to open their special ornaments from us and their grandparents and aunt.
Our new tradition that we are loving is that we don’t exchange gifts at home on Christmas day. Our kids have SO MANY relatives that it was just getting overwhelming, so we instead gave ourselves permission to buy them a few things here and there throughout the year (something our budget never allowed before, since we needed to save the extra money for Christmas), take a picture of them with it, and then look back at the pictures on Christmas day to see all the fun we had surprising each other through the year.
My favorite traditions are Christmas Eve game night and Christmas morning breakfast.
being with family, relaxing and baking special foods
We count down to Christmas with scriptures and activities.
Baking Christmas cookies with the kids!
I love Christmas, the decorations, the music , the story of Jesus and his love for us, everything about Christmas is beautiful.
One of our favorite holiday traditions is baking goodies and packing them up in little brown baggies and taking to the neighbors before Christmas.
Baking Christmas cookies and decorating the house
My favorite tradition is the candlelight Christmas Eve service with our local church family. It is beautiful and moving.
My favorite holiday tradition is picking ornaments. It’s something I did as a child with my own parents, I am now passing it down to my own kids. Every year we each get a new ornament to add to the tree. We try to puck something that shows our interests or accomplishments for that year.
We choose a different advent observation each year.
Our favorite family tradition is making a lot of cookies and other goodies and sharing them with neighbors, and the elderly in the area. The kids love making things and bringing them and sharing, and its a great opportunity for them to learn that Christmas isn’t all about getting, but giving.
We do an annual wrap-a-thon where all the women get together to wrap gifts.
We attend our church Christmas Eve service and then open one gift that night.
Love the candlelight vigil on Christmas Eve and also love sunrise service on the Gulf at Easter.
Our favorite holiday tradition is putting up our tree the first weekend in December. Dad and kids put it up while I take pictures.
I’m so into the coloring books so much! Me and my kids usually spend time together coloring the books happily!