Food is a love language in our house. So, in our some-type-of-hybrid-of-traditional-and-unschool-y-homeschool, we decided to use food as a lesson! More specifically, we decided to make homemade ravioli. If you don’t want to make ravioli with your kiddos, no worries! There are lots of ways to use food in your homeschool. I’ll tell you what we did, and I’ll share more delicious food-related family activities too.

Pasta La Vista, Baby! We’re Making Homemade Ravioli!

We used a yummy Homemade Pasta recipe from Gimme Some Oven to make our pasta dough. But, as with all food-related things in this house of big boys, we doubled the recipe–which means we brushed up on fractions for the 5th grader and continued teaching them to the 2nd grader, spoke about *how gluten is created and what it does, and made dinner in the process!

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Homeschooling gives us the freedom to pursue our children’s interests and talents. This means we get to do just plain fun hands-on creative projects like soap making and candle making, sewing, quilting, cross-stitch, and more. You’d be surprised how much you can learn by making handicrafts like these!

Teaching and learning handicrafts were commonly practiced by many homeschool families in the past, but it has become less common in recent years. I hope this article inspires you to keep the tradition alive in your own homeschool family or to create a new tradition if it’s something you’ve never done!

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I know I’m in good company, so I know anything I have to say for the great day that is Pi Day is going to be a refresher for you, but let’s refresh just for funsies!

Pi Day is appropriately celebrated on the fourteenth of March since the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter is 3.14.

The abbreviated 3.14 is denoted by a Greek symbol and is able to be written out as anything from 3.14 to 3.14159265358979323846, or to as many as 50 trillion decimal places with no rhyme or reason to its digits!

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Written by Susan Williams of Education Possible.

What could be better than a warm, gooey chocolate chip cookie? How about a cookie your kids can actually make for themselves!

Cooking is an important life skill all kids should learn. Sometimes we have to look for creative ideas to get our children into the kitchen. However, the minute I mention hot, delicious chocolate chip cookies the kids can’t get into the kitchen fast enough!

We discovered this “cookie in a cup” idea a few weeks ago and our house has been filled with the amazing smell of warm cookies ever since.

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Written by Tara Mitchell of Homeschool Preschool.

Fall is my favorite time of year and candy corn is one of my favorite fall treats. And, mixing a handful of candy corn and a handful of dry roasted peanuts takes my favorite snack to a whole new level. Yum!

Try this simple and tasty fall-themed candy corn Jell-O treat with your kids. It’s the perfect snack for fall school days or family movie nights.

Candy Corn Jell-O Treats
Step 1

First, gather the supplies you’ll need.

Supplies

• 1 box of lemon Jell-O (or another flavor that’s yellow)
• 1 box of orange Jell-O (or another flavor that’s orange)
• Whipped cream (We prefer the spray kind.)
• Candy corn to top your treats
• Containers for your Jell-O cups.

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