Are you looking for fun ways to spend the holidays with your kids?
These educational activities, free printables, and fun resources are the perfect ways to enjoy the holiday with your family, and in your homeschool.
In this section, you will find easy ways to make your holiday a big hit with kids for:
Roald Dahl Day Activities
Talk Like a Pirate Day Fun!
Bonfire Night Activities
Remembrance Day Fun
Halloween Fun
Thanksgiving Fun
Elf on the Shelf Activities
Christmas Fun
New Years Eve Activities
Valentines Day Ideas
St Patrick’s Day Activities
Easter Activities
and much much more!
We homeschool all year round, however, when it comes to fun holidays, we put away the core curriculum and do fun educational holiday activities instead. This post will be constantly added to as we create new content. But if there is a holiday we haven’t covered that you want us to do please leave me…
Imagine the scene, the boys wake up early on Christmas morning all excited, they rummage through their stocking, and the disappointment hits! It is the first present they will open and although the smallest and generally the cheapest (certainly in our house) they still need to be AWESOME. Carry on reading for the best stocking…
Christmas will be here before we know it, so I wanted to put together a bucket list for Christmas that you can do together as a family. This is our first Christmas that Freddie knows Santa isn’t real (he was devastated, but we did manage to keep it going until he was 11, so I…
Remember Remember the 5th of November. I have put together 13 fun bonfire night activities you can enjoy with the kids this November. Yes, we all know we have bonfire night on November 5th, and the fireworks are amazing. But can you actually remember why we celebrate it? (Edit to add – this is a…
Are you wanting to commemorate Remembrance Day (Veterans Day) in your homeschool this year? If so keep reading for Remembrance Day activities you can do for free with kids of all ages. Remembrance Day is November 11th and Remembrance Sunday this year is November 13th (the closest Sunday to the 11th). Learning about our history…
We have always sent Christmas thank you cards, but this year I wanted to make it even more personal. Therefore I have created these free printable Christmas thank you cards that you can make with your children. These are part of a matching set with the Christmas coloring cards. If we have been able to…
Are you looking for homemade Christmas cards for you and the kids to decorate? Then you are in the right place. You can download these 11 different Christmas coloring cards today and start creating. There is nothing more special than receiving a handmade Christmas card. In fact, when we receive them we put them around…
As we are always looking at fun activities to do during the holidays I thought I would create some free printable Thanksgiving coloring pages. I have put together 8 different Thanksgiving coloring sheets, with one of them being a turkey color by number. These will keep the kids (and big kids!) quiet for hours. We…
Gratitude is quite simply being thankful for something or someone. It is normally thought about more at Thanksgiving, however, these gratitude journal prompts have been designed to be used throughout the year. Apart from encouraging the kids to write more, these gratitude journal prompts will improve their mood. Kids, and adults for that matter, often…
Are you ready for some Thanksgiving fun? If so you are in the right place! I have collated all of our most popular Thanksgiving posts below. The Thanksgiving activities are broken down into the following sections: Educational Thanksgiving activities Thanksgiving arts and crafts Thanksgiving party There are lots of activities for both younger and older…
Are you ready for some heart filled fun? Check out all of the Valentine’s Day posts on Homeschool of One! Scroll on down to see what I have! As always I will be adding more free printables and holiday fun activities in the coming weeks and months. If you homeschool as we do, or your kids go to school, you can…
We love going to escape rooms as a family, we are all very competitive so we really give it our all to escape! We have only not got out of one so far! This gave me the inspiration to have a Halloween-themed escape room party last year. We didn’t have an escape room but we…
Thanksgiving will be here before we know it, so I wanted to create a huge list of Thanksgiving homeschool activities. These activities can of course also be used by school kids who are on holiday that week. We love having homeschool fun and hope you do too. All of these activities and lesson plans are…
We don’t normally do read alouds in our homeschool, mainly because Freddie has always enjoyed reading. However, I have recently discovered that we should be reading to our children until AT LEAST the age of 13! Oops! Hey, I never said I was perfect! As we are fairly new to America, I thought finding the…
Despite my lack of interest in Halloween, my son LOVES it, and apart from Christmas, it is his favorite holiday. So this year I thought I would try and embrace it too, and try and get together as many homeschool Halloween activities as I could find. This is one of my favorite things about homeschool,…