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Review: How To Succeed As An Educational Printables Business

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Homeschoolers are typically one-income families. More and more moms are looking for a way to bring in some extra money, and the educational printables business is booming! Having made a few printables myself, I can say that creating them is the easy part. Most of it can be learned through trial & error and a few Google searches. Selling them however? That is easier said than done.

I have the privilege of reviewing How To Succeed As An Educational Printables Business, an ebook written by Jill of Enchanted Homeschooling Mom.

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How To Succeed As An Educational Printables Business is a workbook that walks you through the process of what it takes to sell your printables. It is not as simple as creating your pages and finding a market for them. How are you going to deliver your product? Do you need to register your business? What steps are going to protect your copyright? Jill answers all of these questions and more in these chapters:

  • So, You Want To Start An Educational Printables Business…
  • How Will I Start My Business…
  • What Is Your Target Audience…
  • Creating Your Educational Printables…
  • How Will I Get My Items To My Buyers…
  • Price Point – Not Just How Much I Want To Charge…
  • Advertising My Business…
  • Why I Have to Keep Good Records…
  • Tax implications…
  • Are You Having Fun Yet…

Jill has created a successful printables business with her Enchanted Homeschooling Mom Member’s Only Website. She has a heart for helping others get started, and plenty of experience to share. Let her help you avoid some of the obstacles along the way by creating a start-to-finish plan.

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You can purchase How To Succeed As An Educational Printables Business for $15 and get started on your new business today!

{I received a free ebook for the purpose of sharing my honest review. No other compensation was given.}

September Weekly Assignment Sheets

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My kids love it when I write their weekly assignments on these cute sheets! I fill in all the work for the week and they are in charge of making sure everything is checked off by Friday.

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Poppins Book Nook #6: Fractured Fairy Tales

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{This post contains affiliate links to some of our favorite fractured fairy tales.}

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I am so excited to be jumping in as a Poppins Book Nook Co-Host! Poppins Book Nook is a free monthly virtual book club that takes place on the last Monday of each month. Several bloggers will be sharing books and activities to go along with that month’s theme. You are invited to join and share right along with us!

As soon as I saw that the theme for August was Fairy Tales, I knew I wanted to do a fractured fairy tale activity. Fractured fairy tales are the flip side of the story, told from a different point of view.

It just so happens that one of our favorite books falls into this wacky category:

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We had a laughter-filled storytime and then the kids set to work creating their own fractured fairy tales. They first chose a classic story and then had to decide whether to flip it or rewrite it with new characters. I supplied them with a couple of fairy tale collections for inspiration and a Fairy Tale Story Map that I created.

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We ended up with some incredibly funny stories:

The Bear Gets Back At Goldilocks – Papa Bear clumsily wrecks Goldilocks’ stuff while she is out having tea with Mama Bear and Baby Bear.

Fairy Tales: What Really Happened – The Tortoise and the Hare – The tortoise is the jerk in this story and has secretly set traps for the hare along the race course.

The Real Story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Baby Bear’s job is to lure kids into the house so his family can eat them. Goldilocks escapes and the three bears make up the original story when the police start investigating.

The Three Stupid Pigs – The three little pigs all have brick houses to keep the wolf out, but they are so dumb that they each open the door and let him in when he knocks.

The four year old just drew pictures of fairies on her page. 🙂

We rounded out the day by watching Hoodwinked.

You can watch Fractured Fairy Tales for free on Hulu. I remember seeing these as a kid.

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More Fractured Fairy Tales We Like:

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How Do I Teach Nature Study? Day 5: Nature Fun Friday

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Since we often have to go out and find our nature, I have a set time each week for nature study. It is part of our Theme of the Day schedule and we call it Nature Fun Friday.

We go on a nature walk or scavenger hunt if the weather is nice. On the days we stay home, the kids will usually do a nature page and a craft.

I try to tailor the activities to a current interest. For example, my kids were fascinated with cicadas and loved to collect the empty skins off the trees. In other parts of the country it was time for the 17-year Cicada, so we looked up news reports and watched a couple of videos. They added a cicada coloring page to their nature notebooks, and we finished out the morning by making singing cicadas.

We keep a basket of nature guides sitting out to encourage curiosity. Many a time a child has run in the door and grabbed a book to find out the name of the bug or lizard they just caught. A few of our nature guides are from PaperBackSwap, but I have purchased most of them at library book sales.

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How Do I Teach Nature Study? Day 4: Make It Easy

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In our early years of homeschooling, I got caught up in trying to make everything an educational experience. Our attempts at nature study usually ended in one of two ways:

1- I squashed the fun out of our explorations by trying to turn everything into a project.
OR
2- We never got around to nature study because my plans were too elaborate to carry out.

All of you tired and stretched-too-thin homeschool Mommas, relax and slow down. You know what your kids are going to remember about nature study? Two things –> God’s creation is amazingly beautiful, and YOU spent time with THEM admiring it.

Don’t worry about whether Charlotte Mason would approve of your activities, or whether your nature journals are worthy of being displayed on the coffee table. Just pick somewhere to start and have fun!!

I am a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants gal. I thrive on having a weekly routine in place, but please oh please don’t make me decide now what we might want to explore three months from now. Or even next week! Nature study is one area where we can pick and choose according to what we are interested in at the moment.

Having our nature notebook printables ready to go is the key to making our Nature Fun Fridays run smoothly. I can create lists of activities, and pages of printables, but those are useless if they just stay on my computer. I keep a binder filled with pages that we might want to use during the current school year. It is super quick and easy to flip through and find something to do each week.

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My Nature Notebooking Binder is divided into five sections:
{I am linking to a few examples of what I have in each section.}

Do you have a nature table to show us, or maybe a Nature Study Pinterest board? Get those links ready because tomorrow we will have a Nature Fun Friday linky!

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