The Ultimate Gift Guide for the Eclectic Homeschool

Moms, Dads, Children, Eclectic Homeschool Families: here is the ultimate gift guide for you! We have picked an awesome list for you to draw inspiration from and have a wonderfully fun AND educational holiday. After all, as homeschooling parents, we are always looking for ways to be resourceful. So let's be smart and since we have gifting opportunities coming up this holiday season, why not stock up on some wonderful items for our homeschools?!

I highly recommend that you read the reviews and the item descriptions in the links I have provided so you can decide which gift ideas fit your family best.

Homeschooling a Toddler: What 3 Learning Sessions Look Like

Have you ever attempted to homeschool a toddler? If you have, you have probably realized how they are extremely tactile, how they love to explore new and exciting things and how they have a short attention span. To maximize this precious one-on-one time with them, it is important to focus on one thing and one thing only: flexibility.

With toddlers, as with infants and newborns, it doesn't matter how prepared you are or how much you have planned for this time. It will happen in their time and in their way. As stressful as that may sound, in the end, it is best to follow the child because that is how she learns best.

Here, I present to you three easy review lessons to keep things short, fun and moving along. This is not to tell you what to teach or how to teach it, but rather how it works for our family in hopes that this will inspire you to get ideas and come up with your own fun and easy activities that your toddler will simply love and enjoy revisiting when you invite her again to join in. 

These lessons are geared for toddlers that are 2-3 years old, but you can start some of these activities sooner and make them more complex as they get older and/or master the skills. 
The amount of time each session takes varies. I follow her and keep an eye on her attention span for that day. I usually have more material than what we use, just to be ready. Usually, our lessons are about 30 minutes long, but sometimes as little as 15 minutes, so we break up our lesson into two parts and come back later for the other half.