A boring school curriculum is often why your child doesn’t want to attend classes. Homeschooling tends to be the most effective and smartest way to teach children of almost every age and make it fun for them.
Whether you are dealing with a toddler or a teenager, homeschooling is still the best way to take care of their education. So, let’s quickly read about how you can make homeschooling fun for your kids with some easiest tips.
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1. Don’t Replicate the Boring School Schedule of the Syllabus
Remember, homeschooling has always been a concept that is outside the box. So what is the point if it matches with regular public schools? Hence, it’s time to make it fun and interesting. Go for puzzles or word search printables, but please don’t follow the regular school routine.
Simply imitating the regular public school routines or syllabus is one of the main reasons your homeschool idea may not be working out at the moment (if you have already started on the homeschooling journey).
You may include homeschool fun-Friday ideas or homeschool field trips to give it a mix and make it more exciting. Never miss out on innovative ideas for homeschooling.
2. Give Your Child Access to the Selection
Be honest and answer this question – when was the last time you let your child select what to study? We – parents or teachers always force our children to choose what they will study. Encourage your child to pick a creative subject like art and craft if they are not ready to study geography or anything too academic. This is one of the best homeschooling activities to pique your child’s interest in learning.
3. Find Your Child’s Interest
Will you ever feel passionate about anything you don’t have any interest in? The same goes for your kids too. Making homeschooling enjoyable requires discovering your child’s interests.
4. Increase Involvement Through Engagement (Screen Time)
Giving a tab or laptop to your toddler does not make you a bad parent. Helping your child get more engagement in studies makes homeschooling fun.
Add up screen timing to increase involvement. Critical subjects like science, geography, and history can be made easy and exciting with the help of youtube and digital media.
Following such ways will never make complex subjects boring. Diagrams and videos truly make homeschooling captivating as they remove the monotony of regular study. In fact, it’s a great way to remember things. Visual representation is always better and good for memorizing too!
5. Outdoor Physical Activity
Making homeschooling a fun fact requires adding up activities that are just not in between the walls. At least keep a day for outdoor door visits and make your child’s homeschooling a bit more lively. A field trip will definitely remove monotony, and physical activities will increase involvement.
- Museum visits: museum visits are a great way of creating interest in your child for things like history, geography, science, and many other subjects.
- Beach days: homeschooling is not about just studying but also physical activities. Go and build a sand castle with your child. Let the water ruin it and let them do it again.
- The documentary shows: keep a documentary day in the routine of homeschool fun activities. Educational animation and documentary programs definitely level up your kids’ general knowledge.
- Garden visits: kids are fond of knowing the unknown. In fact, as a parent, you should instill in them a wonder of discovering new things. Let them find the known or introduce them to a new flower in the garden. Explain the photosynthesis process practically.
6. Regular Experiments
Make science much more interesting by carrying out experiments. Not only just science involving experiments in different subjects may discover an underlying interest in a particular topic.
7. Gaming and Teaching
Almost every kid loves to play. When you engage them to study by integrating games into it, your child becomes much more comfortable and eager with the homeschooling environment. This is another possibility of discovering the underlying interest of your child. You can include fun games to learn how to count, puzzles to learn how to spell, introduce your child to new card games, and so on.
8. Help to Hold Their Focus
While homeschooling your child, one of your prime duties would be holding your child’s attention. After all, we all want our kids to learn right.
Keeping your child constant in the process of learning is not possible. Your child needs attention, care, and motivation to keep themselves focused and productive. Here is how you can do that.
- Motivate your kid
Motivation is something that everyone needs. But when it comes to your child’s education, creating and maintaining that motivation is the hardest part.
- Positioning Rewards
Rewards are a good way of creating motivation for your child. You can place regular reward sessions on completing each task. The reward sessions don’t need to be expensive or a cumbersome process. It could be a chocolate, a glitter pen, fancy stationery, or a basket of gift hampers.
- Fun Work With Studies
To remove monotony in the study, always include fun work. As stated earlier, after every 3 minutes of study, go for garden work or dig into screen time.
9. Read Story Books / Art and Crafting
Apart from all the mentioned points, read story books with your children. Let them read it aloud for you. You can involve him or her with new ideas. You can help her create new stories. Besides adding crafting to regular learning, draw with your kid. Make regular activities fun through art and craft:
Final Thoughts
A personalized form of teaching is the best way to teach your children so that they can develop into well-rounded individuals who pursue learning and discovering new things for their own sake. With the tips you just learned, you can make homeschooling fun for your children and give them a proper education aligned with their interests and strengths!
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