Creative Learning in the Homeschool

Cardboard boxes and laundry baskets are lined up in a row.

“All Aboard!” my 4-year-old son shouts, as he gestures for me to climb into the laundry basket.

“Where are we going?” I ask him.

“To market to market to buy a fat pig!”

I spontaneously reply, “Then home again. Home again. Jiggity jig.”

My children learned to sing, to recite, to dance and to create.

Empty coffee cans became drums, and wooden spoons were drumsticks. We counted backwards until imaginary spaceships took off.

We built dinner out of mud and served it on paper plates. I supplied materials, and my children created.

We did some of that “noses in the books” and “pencils on the papers”, but I believe that the most imaginative, creative and productive work was done just about anywhere, at just about any time.

So, “All aboard”, I say. You’ll be going for the ride of your life!

You’ll have your own funny stories to remember.

by Meg (homeschooling mom of 9)

MS, Exceptional Student Education (Univ. of W. Florida) emphasis on Applied Behavior Analysis

MA, psychology (Grand Canyon University)

Bachelor of Arts (Northwest Nazarene University)

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