Easy Homeschooling With Ready Made Workbooks

Homeschooling is happening all over the world whether we like it or not. We have seen an increase in worksheets requests and printables. But did you know that not everyone has the luxury of a printer. The cost of printing everything out on paper is causing lots of financial strain on families.

One thing everyone seems to have forgotten is that before all this homeschooling or at-home learning there were already workbooks that could be purchased for schooling.

These workbooks already existed and the actual need for printable packages may not be required, so you don’t need to stress if you don’t have a printer!

Kidsbooks.com has heaps of different workbooks for different ages and free shipping over $35.00. They also sell traditional reading books for kids and readers too. So it’s very easy to fill you cart.

The other thing I love about these homeschooling workbooks is that it doesn’t involve a screen. My kids have so many zoom lessons and tasks that it’s nice to see them using a pen to paper again. If you get your child to use a pencil, you can rub out their work and use it for a sibling later on too.

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When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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