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Pinecone Snowman Ornament 🌲 This snowman orna

Pinecone Snowman Ornament 🌲

This snowman ornament is made from a pinecone, acorn top, twigs and a wooden bead. 🌱

Lots more @magichomeschoolbus

This morning the kids wanted to make decorations for our tree (that we haven’t yet cut down) but I had nothing planned and next to no energy to come up with an idea.

But- they reminded me that we could make an ornament out of “anything mom!” Their resourcefulness and persistence is both a blessing and curse some days 😅

So we grabbed what we had and started building our snowmen. ☃️

Apparently we will be making more this weekend too because “MOM! we are going to save all of our money and never have to buy decorations again because we are going to make them all.” 🙈🙈🥰

We are going to have a very unique tree this year.

Hi 👋 I’m Kristen. 💗 There are some new fac

Hi 👋 I’m Kristen. 💗 There are some new faces around here so I wanted to (re)introduce myself.

•An adventurer at heart currently giving homesteading a go on some land here in Ontario Canada
• I’ve got 4 kids (7,5,3,1) who keep us extremely busy. I seriously don’t know where they get so much energy.
• Im a former teacher and said that I would never homeschool when I had kids of my own. Yet here we are. I’ve been homeschooling since day 1. I guess I should never had said never.
• 2 years ago we sold everything that we owned (including our house) and took off with a one way ticket to travel internationally with 3 young kids (and newly pregnant which I didn’t know at the time). Those adventures are shared on our family page @theyesfamily
• We are currently converting a retired school bus into an RV/classroom on wheels so we can take a trip across Canada. 🚌 It’s taking WAY longer than we originally expected, but I’m excited for the time when we take her on the road.
• I originally started this account to document the travels with our very own magic ‘home’school bus, but since that’s not happening just yet it’s turned into something a little different 🥰 And I’m thankful to be able to connect with you all!!
• I share a lot of hands on activities here with a strong focus on STEAM (science, tech, engineering, arts and math). It’s usually nature based and a little messy ☺️
• Whether your kids are homeschooling, public schooling, virtual schooling or something in between, I hope this can be a safe space to inspire open ended activities to do with your kids.
• I would love to learn a bit about you. What brings you to this little corner of the internet 😘 What are you hoping to see more of here!?

It’s so nice to “meet” you. I’m so thankful for each one of you 💗

COTTON BALL CLOUDS ☁️ These cotton ball clou

COTTON BALL CLOUDS ☁️

These cotton ball clouds are such a fun hands on way to learn about clouds!!

Today we spent some time reading all about the different clouds and how their shape and size is actually telling us important information about the weather we can expect next!

My kids soak up information when they are engaged and their hands are busy at work. So it’s the perfect way for us to introduce next topics. Once we were done, we headed outside to play and observe the clouds ourselves.

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COTTON BALL CLOUDS

• cotton balls
• glue
• paint (watercolours are great)
• books/resource cards
(all of the details and resources listed and provided in this weeks free weekly STEM email. Subscribe in my bio 😚)

Simply shape the cotton balls to create different clouds! It was messy, fun and we learned so much! Check out today’s stories for more.

Book recommendation: Clouds by Anne Rockwell

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🎄Button Size Sort 🎄 This simple invitation

🎄Button Size Sort 🎄

This simple invitation to play had my littles busy for a long time this morning while I did some reading with the older 2.

I drew a simple tree on cardboard and traced buttons of different sizes to act as decorations/lights.

I then used a marker to colour the tree, but left the space for the buttons blank.

No directions were needed. As soon as I set out the board and buttons my daughter (3) knew exactly what she wanted to do! And when she had filled the tree she simply wiped the decorations off and tried again.

If you don’t have buttons you could use pom poms or even circles (or shapes) cut from card stock! I’m going to be making another version tonight for Sawyer (18 months) where he can match colors. 🧡🌲

☔️ MAKE A RAIN CLOUD! ☔️ This week in #e

☔️ MAKE A RAIN CLOUD! ☔️

This week in #exploringnaturewithchildren we are focusing on the weather, and this rain cloud experiment was a favourite from our summer studies! It’s really simple, hands on and a little messy (which my kids like ☺️).

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What you need:
• cup/glass/jar
• water
• shaving cream
• food colouring (gel based works best, but not required)
• dropper /pipette

Directions
1. Fill the cup with water, leaving space for your shaving cream cloud.
2. Spray your shaving cream on top of the water.
3. In a separate small bowl, mix together a little bit of water with a whole lot of food colouring. The more colouring the better the rain will be.
4. Using a dropper, drop the coloured water onto the cloud a handful of drops at a time.
5. Continue until the shaving cream can no longer hold the new water. Depending on how much shaving cream you used, this could be a while. So be prepared to drop more than a few drops at a time! Watch as your cloud “rains”.

Spring is the rainiest season here in the Northern Hemisphere because warmer air can hold more moisture than colder air, and the air gets warmer during the spring. Warmer, moist air is less dense than the colder, dryer air of the upper atmosphere. As the warm air rises and cools, it can no longer hold on to the moisture and water droplets come down as rain.

This little experiment is to show that when the droplets that form the cloud get large and heavy enough they begin to fall. The anticipation for the rain was fun! As was the shaving cream 🙃

🌲 Twig Tree Ornaments 🌲{great for kids!} by

🌲 Twig Tree Ornaments 🌲{great for kids!} by @magichomeschoolbus

We had a wicked wind storm last night and when we went out for a walk this morning there were fallen branches and twigs everywhere.

We collected a bunch to make these fun tree ornaments inspired by @stowandtellu

Materials
• cardboard (we cut ours into 1” x 6” strips)
• fallen twigs
• yarn/ribbon
• extra decorations are optional
• glue (we used white craft glue so the littles could do their own, but you could hot glue it for extra strength)

The older kids (7,5) broke their sticks into pieces while I helped Parker (3) a bit with hers. They all then lined them up smallest to largest to make their tree and broke new pieces if they felt it necessary. Hello Math 👋

These trees pictured here are Quinn’s (7) and I’ll show them all together in today’s stories 🥰

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