Homeschooling doesn’t have to be expensive. The next 30 days will be proof! This challenge is designed to help you stay consistent, creative, and cost-efficient in your homeschooling endeavors. Show up each day with purpose, passion and enjoy the frugal homeschooling journey.
What is 30 Days of Frugal Homeschooling Challenge?
A purposeful way to stay on track in the last month of school to end better than the start. Finish with tenacity and fulfillment after winter. The final countdown until a summer of fun and flexibility. End the year with your budget in check. A fun homeschool challenge and commit to frugal friendly learning. Nature walks, documentaries, library hauls’ and repurposed materials or DIY art projects are part of the 30 day challenge.
Exploring new ways to homeschool cheaply will not only make your wallet happy, but your homeschoolers are going to look forward to class each day. Restore the fun in your homeschool day with low cost homeschooling and some imagination.
Frugal Family Working Components in the Challenge
This activity is better suited at the end of the homeschool year. A perfect time to implement the final sprint toward summer. Homeschool moms are ready to be done, homeschoolers’ are ready for nice weather to play outside, and finally it encourages resourcefulness and creativity. Make the most of low cost resources. Possibly throw curriculum to the side for a fresh start next August, and encourage hands-on learning experiences.
By keeping things light and doable, it will enhance the final days of attendance so that homeschoolers can love to learn. After all we are training for life, not facts.
Frugal Homeschooling Challenge Ideas
Here are a few frugal homeschool challenge activities to try:
Go to the library to borrow some free homeschool resources, new books or hold a scavenger hunt on a themed book.
Enjoy a nature study day at the park that includes binoculars, notebooks and birdwatching. Later look up all the birds you sketched in the notebook.
Make some cookies, homemade snacks or dinner to include fractions, conversions and budgeting.
Find a free and off the beaten path museum to tour for the day.
Make a DIY project from cardboard scraps.
Look up some documentaries on YouTube that correlate with the studies you worked on in books this year.
Have an online game day with cool math games or TypeDojo for typing lessons.
Visit the library during a story or activity time.
Enjoy a nature colors hunt in the backyard.
Hold a texture scavenger hunt at the park by finding different items with different textures.
Search for different bugs like animal tracks, an ant trail or a spider web.
Another unique scavenger hunt is the alphabet. Find objects that are for letter A, B, C, and so on until each homeschooler gets to Z.
Want to work on fractions? Get in the kitchen. Double a chocolate chip cookie recipe for this frugal homeschooling tip.
Older homeschoolers can go shopping for their groceries and be given a budget for ingredients. So many math and life skills learned on this activity.
Next, explore shapes and angles with by slicing pies, pizza’s, sandwiches and cut cucumbers for symmetry. But, here is the catch. Let them find the Geometry shapes in the food.
Go grocery shopping to work on price comparison. Use a plain notebook and make columns for what you need.
Finally, make a math memory recipe notebook. Let them write out recipes and include the math behind them-conversions, serving sizes and budgeting. Making this is a great keepsake and practical math lesson.
Tracking Ideas for 30 Days Challenge
Make a simple tracker with check boxes and buy some stickers. Each day you complete something useful a sticker to mark it off. This is a perfect way to end the school year. Likewise, a bullet journal is a handy way if you have teenagers. Using a bullet journal can also count for ART.
If you want a free printable here is a link to my free chart.
Try the Challenge
Whenever you are ready get started! If you are a minimalist homeschooler or wanting something different, or just a way to save on homeschool this challenge is for you. Motivation and inspiration without books and expenses. Use the hashtag #FrugalHomeschool30 to share your progress and connect with other frugal homeschool moms.
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Keep going! It’s a win and a blessing just to be continually trying to improve yourself. Much respect.