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Whether you live by the beach or in the snow, winter can get long. Those cloudy skies and being confined indoors can make us all a little buggy before spring rolls around. Why not create "A Day in the Tropics" at your house? It's a fun way to perk things up and dispel "cabin fever"!
Start the day by draping colorful beach towels over the backs of the dining chairs and setting the table with a bright yellow tablecloth (you can get plastic ones at the dollar store, or use a bedsheet!). Twist a streamer and lay it down the center of the table. Use tropical fruits (pineapple, coconut) and tropical fronds cutb from green construction paper to decorate the table. Little lizards and frogs make it even more fun! If you have some mood setting nature music, turn it on. The idea is to create a festive spirit to make the sun shine right inside your home!
For breakfast, serve our "Tropical Ambrosia" (kid's cooking instructions). Having the children make breakfast might make the sunshine even brighter at your house!
Wear a mumu or a Hawaiian shirt and your flip flops and sunglasses. Think "bright colors"! Let the kids dress the same. There is something so fun for kids about dressing up—especially when it is impractical weather wise. (You can always put on something warmer if you have to run errands.)
Take a few moments of school time to keep that tropical mood. Try our Tropical Quiz to see how many tropical animals and fruits your kids (and you!) can name.
Keep the sun shining by planning your garden! Why not try a Square Foot Garden this year? Mine was a huge success last year! See my garden and read my how-to steps here. Get all the details in The New Square Foot Gardening book—wonderful photo illustrations, easy directions, and over-abundant harvest results!
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ALL NEW Square Foot Gardening 15% offGardening can be fun and satisfying, or it can be back-breaking work . . . depending on how you go about it! Enjoy the ease and big harvests of Square Foot Gardening. The original book was a bestseller selling 5 million copies! Now, the author has written a simplified, easy and rewarding handbook for enjoying a rich harvest! Color pictures throughout and very simple instructions. We used this method in our home garden last year and had the most productive garden we've ever had! See pictures and description. Learn all about how to grow tons of carrots the easy way!
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view | Kids Gloves Little hard-workers need to protect their hands, just like adults. These quality gloves are made from suede and canvas, and fit children's hands.
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  | Easy Classics for Children 80% Off!I love it when I find such a "true-to-the-original" as these children's adaptation of the classics. These quality hardback volumes will be well-loved! For ages 9 to 12 years.
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view | Perpetual Garden—100% Non-Hybrid Long Term Storage Seeds Can contains:
Sweet Corn, Golden Bantam, 5 oz
Peas, Lincoln, 5 oz
Radish Champion, 10 gr
Onion, Utah Yellow Sweet Spanish, 10 gr
Beet, Detroit Dark Red, 10 gr
Tomato, Rutgers PS, 5 gr
Spinach, Bloomsdale Longstanding, 10 gr
Cabbage, Golden Acre, 10 gr
Swiss Chard, Lucullus, 10 gr
Lettuce, Romaine Paris Island Cos, 5 gr
Carrot, Scarlet Nantes, 10 gr
Pepper, Yolo Wonder, 5 gr
Winter Squash, Waltham Butternut, 10 gr
Cucumber, Straight Eight, 10 gr
Pole Bean, Kentucky Wonder Brown, 5 oz
Squash Zucchini, Black Beauty, 10 gr
Most of our grocery store food today is hybridized, making the seeds non-usable. The Perpetual Garden contains enough seeds to plant more than 3/4 acre. These varieties are easy to grow, non-hybrid, open-pollinated vegetables that have been especially selected. Your unopened seeds should store at least four years (usually much, much longer depending on storage temperature). These seeds have been carefully dried to their optimum moisture content to increase their storage life and are hermetically sealed in triple-foil packages which can be re-sealed. They are then doubly protected in a sealed #10 can. Includes instructions for planting, harvesting, and collecting seeds for a perpetual garden.
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view | The Secret Garden, with Necklace 50% OffDelight in this classic tale of facing whatever life deals you, and awakening to the joy of it! Mary is an orphan, and her cousin Collin is an invalid—both quite unhappy until they discover the key to the secret garden and the soothing, healing influence of nature. Wonderful characters and a suspenseful story in an easy and abridged version, making it available to the young reader! Comes with a pretty necklace, a little daisy basket on a chain. Paperback, 96 pages for ages 4 to 9 years.
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view | Mini Butterfly Bungalow 20% OffWant your children to have the experience of seeing a butterfly emerge from a cocoon? The Mini Butterfly Bungalow brings the sky indoors for three live Painted Lady butterflies in this little pop-up habitat. Ages 4-12 years.
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view | Butterfly Garden 12% OffI've tried many a time to try to get a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly in a glass jar. Hasn't happened yet! But seeing the miracle of metamorphosis is an experience no child should miss. This award winning butterfly raising kit guarantees you can raise 5 Painted Lady butterflies while learning about the thrill of change and growth. It takes 3 weeks for the larvae to develop. After observing your butterflies, you can experience the joy of releasing them into your backyard. Includes colorful pop-up habitat suitable for hanging or free-standing on a counter. Simply send in the postcard (no charge) and you will be sent 5 butterfly larvae, special food, feeding kit, and complete instructions. A wonderful opportunity for ages 4 and up. Satisfaction guaranteed 100%.
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view | Live Butterfly Pavilion 17% OffLet those butterflies soar! There is lots of room in this 2 foot high Butterfly Pavilion. Hang it from a string or set it on a table-top. The see-through mesh and zippered entry allow easy access for care and feeding. Includes habitat, mail-in coupon for 6-10 Painted Lady butterfly larvae with special food and complete instructions. A wonderful science experience!
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view | The Live Butterfly Activity Book 20% OffMake the most of your live-butterfly experience! Full of activities, resources, and ideas that can be used with all three butterfly kits. Ages 4 to 12 years.
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view | Backyard Birding For Kids 70% OffDo you like watching birds play outside? Do you listen for birds singing in the morning? You must be a bird-watcher! This 63 page, full-color field guide and bird activity book makes looking for birds exciting. Birds are grouped in simple categories: City,Woodland, Country, Wetland, Seashore, and Desert Birds. Includes easy-to-make birdbath and bird feeders, bird websites to look up, parts of a bird, bird songs and more!
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view | Making Candles 50% OffCandlemaking is something that often resurfaces in my kids' hobby desires. This is the best simple guidebook I've found for beginners. Make more than 20 beautiful candle projects such as a cupcake candle with whipped "icing", dipped candles, floating candles, and more. Photos, diagrams and step-by-step easy instructions for ages 5-14 years. Paperback, 40 pages.
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view | Music To Empower Learning & Performance 60% OffMusic has a profound impact on body, mind and soul. Thirty years of pioneering research by a renowned Bulgarian psychiatrist, Dr. Barzakov, has proven that certain classical music will improve memory and comprehension, facilitate problem solving, speed up healing and aid in stress reduction! Then, University of California researchers at the Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory reported in 1993 that students raised their IQ's while listening to a Mozart piano sonata. You can benefit too! Baroque music is specifically noted for learning terminology, facts, figures, formulas, spelling words, vocabulary. It promotes relaxation, healing and restful sleep at bedtime Music to Empower has both Mozart and calming Baroque. Mozart's compositions stimulate mental performance of math, analysis, organizing, planning, systematizing, exam preparation, lab or computer work. (Wish I had some playing right now!). 65 minutes of enjoyment for all ages, includes written instructions and is sequenced for maximum benefit. Cassette.
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view | Paper Tricks 25% offDiscover the magic of paper folding in this beautifully illustrated book. Make lots of amazing projects, from a jumping frog to a loop made from one sheet of paper that you can actually walk through! Each project is easy to follow, with great instructions. Quality spiral hardbound book lays open flat for ease. Lots of clever fun!
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view | Color Changing Squish Ball 20% OffWhat's got a "hedgehog" feeling exterior and changes colors when you squeeze it? This unusual feeling squishy water ball! A great toy for kids, teens and adults.
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view | Sea Anenome Squish 33% OffSoft, flowing, neon, velvety, springy. . . what a sensation! This 5" inside-out ball feels like a sea anemone looks! Each stretchy tentacle can be pulled out to several feet long. I can't seem to set this one down long enough to write its description. A keeper!
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view | 4D Horse Puzzle: Running Horse 50% OffHorse lovers will love putting together this clever horse statuette which is really a solid plastic 3D puzzle. 5" high. Fascinating!
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view | When You Were a Baby 55% OffCapture those first 12 months of life in this darling board book which has a peek-a-boo opening in each page for your baby's face to peek through and become the face on each page of the story. Just glue a photo in the circle inside the back cover to personalize each page of this fun record of baby's first year of life. Use a permanent marker to record major milestones, creating a very special picture book that your child will treasure.
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view | What Baby Needs 50% OffIt's a very special time when your family is waiting for a new little one to join them. This comforting book will help children get ready for that new baby and understand how they can help too. Side notes give parents some discussion ideas for talking about the simpler text of the picture book. Lighthearted, full-color cartoon illustrations show a happy family interacting with the new baby: mom nursing, both mom and dad wearing a baby sling, baby sleeping near the parent's bed, and more. Sweet reassurance with no sibling rivalry—rather the positive focus is on their new role as big brother or sister, what the older child can do that the baby can't, and how to make friends with the baby. By Dr. William Sears, popular pediatrician. I heartily recommend this loving book. Hardcover, 32 pages for ages 3 through 10 years.
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view | World Of The Wild West 50% OffDiscover what life was like for the pioneers who braved the journey across the wilderness, and the Native Americans who were confronted by the newcomers. You can also meet the cowboys who lived their hard, lonely lives driving cattle across vast distances, and the outlaws who chose to live by their guns rather than by more honest means. Paperback, 64 pages, ages 8 to 12 years.
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view | Gifts and Cards for Every Occasion 72% OffCelebrate all the special days of the year with this how-to book. Patterns and directions are given to create simple gifts and cards for your family and friends. Includes pop-up cards, kitchen utensil caddy, bookmarks, Christmas ornaments, holiday napkin rings, photo frame, windsock, and more for ages 4 to 8 years. Paperback, black line drawings, 44 pages.
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view | Incredible Adventures 40% OffYour imagination is the limit with this fun sticker storybook! Each spread features a unique adventure scene, such as a day in the Old West, or Up in Space. 300 reusable foil and glow-in-the-dark stickers of people, animals, planets, and more are just waiting to be "stuck" into a hair-raising adventure! Paperback, 24 pages, ages 7-11.
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view | Scratch Magic Stickers 33% OffScratch! Reveal! Dazzle! Just draw your masterpiece with the wooden stylus and watch spectacular colors appear as the coated surface is etched off. The more you scratch, the more brilliant color is exposed.
Super Sticker Pack contains 48 cool scratch magic stickers to draw on, 1 stencil with more than 30 shapes, and a wooden drawing stylus. Ages 5 and up.
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view | Weave a Tote Bag Weave a sassy, strappy tote bag! Using the same techniques that basket-making employs, this practical tote bag is an exciting project to create! Have fun making it, learn something, and then feel proud to use this finished tote bag! Kit includes 48 precut straps in 6 colors, EZ weaving form, and easy instructions. 10" x 11" bag. For ages 8 and up.
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view | Best Book of Martial Arts 77% OffKarate, kung fu, judo, jujitsu, to name a few, belong to the world of martial arts! Learn how each came to be, where they are practiced and what they are all about in this color picture book for kids 6 to 12 years. Full page scenes show martial arts in action and step-by-step pictures take you through basic moves. A good introduction to some extraordinary skills. Hardcover, 32 pages
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view | Best of Mad Libs 29% OffWant to play a fast game the whole group can join without leaving their easy chairs? We love Mad Libs because it is instant to learn and everyone ends up laughing. Simply think up random words and write them down in their appropriate blank. Now, have someone read the story, filling in everyone's crazy words, for some great laughs! You'll be learning and reinforcing parts of speech without thinking, too! (Note: There is a black mark on the bottom binding of the book. You cannot see it on the pages.)
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view | Cameras 86% OffThe camera—one of the most exciting inventions in history! Learn exactly what's inside a camera, how it works and how to use it. Find out for yourself with 12 practical projects and experiments that help you discover how photography really works. More than 250 color photos, drawings and diagrams explain all about cameras and photography, for ages 8 to 12 years. A great unit study just waiting to be discovered! Excellent for homeschool or co-op school as a text/hands-on course. Paperback, 64 pages.
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Homeschool Handbook
Your Guide to Setting Up a Homeschool, Selecting Resources, and Joyfully Educating Your Children
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Diane Hopkins has been reviewing and testing homeschool products for over 20 years and you can benefit from her experience. In this comprehensive guidebook, each grade of school is detailed with the best-on-the-market in curriculum for your homeschool and notes added on how to use these resources! Set up your school schedule, learn how to get your kids to take charge of getting their schoolwork done, and how to make your homeschool fun and meaningful. Reproducible forms are included.
Large, spiral-bound book introduces you to the 7 Hopkins children, and shows you how she taught and raised them homeschooling: the mistakes she made along with the successes. Full of family photos, personal stories, and wisdom—this volume will give you the help you need to get enthused, get organized and get going! More details and sample pages, click here!
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*WonderMill
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*The Patriot's Handbook
A fabulous collection of source documents read on CD. Wonderful!
*A More Perfect Union DVD
My favorite movie on the founding of our nation—inspiring!
*Learning the Bill of Rights in Minutes
Knowing our rights is vital to our freedom. Even kids can learn them quick!
*American History Stories You Never Read in School . . . But Should Have!
Fascinating, true, little-known stories from America's founding.
Hi!
I am Diane Hopkins, mother of 7 children (ages 14 to 34) whom I have had the privilege of homeschooling over the past 23 years. I'm a mom, just like you, and have those fabulous days and those not-so-good days like we all do. My hope in writing is to share experiences, and hopefully we can encourage one another in this wonderful, intense adventure of childraising--that is really what homeschooling is, after all.
Hoping to help, if I can!
Love, Diane
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