February Homeschool Ideas Your Kids and You Will Love

February Homeschool Ideas Your Kids and You Will Love

🎉 February Homeschool Ideas Your Kids and You Will Love 🎉

February can be tough with the cold weather and mid-homeschool-year blues, but it doesn’t have to be. In today’s episode, Amy is sharing some simple and fun ways to make February exciting for your homeschool – without breaking the bank!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to keep your homeschool fun and relaxed by sticking to the basics
• 4 ways to incorporate fun into February using themes, fun days, holidays, and just because ideas
• Simple, hands-on activities like crafts, STEM projects, games, and unit studies that will make February a blast
• Tips for creating homeschool fun with your kids’ interests

Be sure to check out the full list of fun days, holidays, and project ideas in the show notes, where I also link to blog posts with additional resources and free printables.

Have any February homeschool ideas of your own? Share them with me by emailing at rockyourhomeschool@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re planning for the month!

Don’t forget – if you enjoyed today’s episode, share it with a friend or two! Your support means so much. And I can’t wait to see what February fun you create with your kids!

Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the Positively Homeschooling Podcast!

Featured Resources:

• Episode 7: How to Make Homeschool Fun
• Episode 8: January Homeschool Ideas
• Fun Day Calendar for Kids
• Create & Celebrate Valentine’s Day Activity Kit

✨ Until next time, stay positive and make homeschooling fun!

Let’s Make February Fun in Your Homeschool!

Hello and welcome to this episode of the Positively Homeschool Podcast! Want to easily make February fun in your homeschool? Well, I’m glad you’re here! I’ve got some fun February homeschool ideas and activities that your kids and you will love.

Homeschool fun is where it’s at – especially for February! I don’t know about you, but I’ve found February to be a struggle with homeschooling. It’s usually still cold and icy here. And although we’ve got a good chunk of our homeschool year done, we still have a while to go!

Let’s look at all the different ways that you can have a blast in February – without breaking the bank.

In case you missed it, I shared my thoughts on homeschool fun in episode 7. And I shared some super cool January homeschool fun ideas in episode 8. I’ll leave links in the show notes for both of those episodes.

I’ve found the most successful way to enjoy fun homeschool activities with your kids is to:

1. Keep it simple
2. Be flexible – be willing to pivot and be open to discussion
3. Weave fun activities throughout our homeschool day and week 

When I’m on my homeschool fun game and doing those 3 things, my boys and I are able to relax and enjoy ourselves so much better. It takes practice but it’s so worth it! If you struggle with any of those things, let me know! Email me at rockyourhomeschool@gmail.com and I’ll be happy to chat about things to try.

4 Ways to Make February Fun

As with all of our monthly homeschool fun activities, I stick with the basics. No need to overcomplicate! When I’m planning and preparing, I look for:

• Themes
• Fun days
• Holidays
• Just because

1. Themes:

February has a bunch of awesome monthly themes to celebrate. We’re still in winter (at least in the northern hemisphere!) so winter seasonal themes work. I shared these ideas for January but you can still totally continue to have fun with:

• Snow
• Snowflakes
• Snowmen
• Arctic
• Penguins

I often include themes with ice in February, too. Where we live, we usually have a lot of it (and slush) so the boys like to talk and learn about it.

Also, you can choose themes based on February Monthly Observations, like:

• Black History Month
• Embroidery Month
• Heart Month
• Hot Breakfast Month
• Children’s Dental Health Month
• Cherry Month
• Bird Feeding Month
• Bake for Family Fun Month
• Grapefruit Month
• Library Lover’s Month
• Snack Food Month

2. Fun Days:  February has some fantastic fun days! These nationally-recognized days can be silly or serious. Make sure to get my free printable Fun Day Calendar for Kids that you can use. 

I’ve got links in the show notes to blog posts with ideas and resources for many of these fun days. And I’ll brainstorm ideas for some of them now:

• Feed the Birds Day – make a bird feeder with your kids, read about birds local to your area, set a timer and watch birds from your window – record the types you see and make a chart
• World Read Aloud Day – pick a family favorite book and read it aloud
• Periodic Table Day – talk about the periodic table and why we use it, randomly pick an element and learn about it
• Kite Flying Day – make a kite craft
• pizza Day – make pizza for lunch or dinner, turn a paper plate into a pizza craft
• Inventor’s Day – make your own Inventor’s Box, pick a famous inventor to learn about
• Abraham Lincoln’s Day – learn about the 16th U.S. president, make a log cabin craft or paper plate mask
• Gum Drop Day – use gumdrops and toothpicks to build fun structures
• Tell a Fairy Tale Day – share your favorite fairy tale and talk about the characters
• Pokemon Day – use our free printable Pokemon activities (like crafts, perler bead templates, color by number pages, coloring bookmarks)
• Tooth Fairy Day – enjoy some tooth fairy coloring pages

3. Holidays:  Celebrate February holidays in your homeschool! 

• Groundhog Day – try our free printable color by number pages, word search, and I have 2 super cute crafts you’ll love. We actually aren’t too far from Punxsutawney, PA (well, it’s a few hours) so get a kick out of Punxsutawney Phil!
• Valentine’s Day – such a great day to celebrate love and kindness. I’ve got a bunch of crafts (like heart-shaped toilet paper roll binoculars – so fun!) freebies over on the blog – activity sheets, color by number pages, cards, and more). Oh, and try our Valentine’s Day Unit Study! I’ve got a brand NEW Create & Celebrate Valentine’s Day Activity Kit, too. I’m SO excited about this resource. It has project cards (and resources) for crafts, STEM, challenges, and games to make it easy to celebrate the holiday, even if you’re busy.
• President’s Day – perfect time to learn and talk about U.S. presidents – get my free President’s Day coloring pages and mega-pack of coloring fun for all the presidents.

4. Just Because

Customize your February homeschool fun! Talk with your kids about their current interests. Brainstorm how you can weave those interests into homeschool fun. 

For example, my youngest has gotten into perler bead crafts again. Do your kids do that? My boys get super into an activity or hobby and then go cold for a bit. And then Boom! It’s back! So, he’s working through our perler bead templates and making his own. It’s a wonderful activity for him to keep his hands busy during our homeschool morning time.

I like to jump in there with him and make perler bead crafts with him. So simple and so fun!

Another Cool Way to Enjoy February Themes

Back in our episode about January homeschool fun, I shared an amazing way to enjoy monthly themes – unit studies. Let’s look at some ideas that you can think about doing for February fun in your homeschool:

February Crafts

• Groundhog toilet paper roll craft (it’s so cute!)
• Groundhog puppet
• Log cabin craft
• Abraham Lincoln paper plate mask (with hat and beard)
• Felt Heart Buddies (fantastic for learning buddies)
• Thumbprint heart claypots
• Heart-shaped toilet paper roll binoculars
• Popsicle stick love bugs

Coloring

• Groundhog Day color by number
• Valentine’s Day color by number
• Valentine’s Day coloring bookmarks
• President’s Day coloring pages
• Tooth Fairy coloring pages
• Pokemon coloring pages

Projects

• Hands-on activities, like homemade playdough with our Emotions Playdough Mats (learn about feelings)

Baking & Cooking

• Make hot breakfast
• What types of cherry recipes can you find and make?
• Do you like grapefruit? What can you make with it?
• Try a healthy snack food recipe.

Art

• Enjoy homeschool art projects with February themes
• Also, learn about artists born in February, like:
  • Norman Rockwell (February 3, 1894)
  • Franz Marc (Feb. 8, 1884)
  • Ansel Adams (Feb. 20, 1902)
  • Winslow Homer (Feb. 24, 1836)
  • Pierre Auguste Renoir (Feb. 25, 1841)

Music

• Listen to music with February themes 
• What composers or famous musicians were born in February? You could study:
  • George Frideric Handel (Feb. 23, 1685)
  • Felix Mendelssohn (Feb. 3, 1809)

History

• What historical events happened in February? Research both local and state events, as well as national and world events, like:
  • February 1, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, officially abolishing slavery
  • Feb. 28, 1953: James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA
  • February 20, 1962:  Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth

Science

• Learn about bird science (My younger boys used The Book of Birds set from Memoria Press this past fall.)
• Find out more about groundhogs.
• Discover why dental health is important.

Reading

• Books with February themes
• Study authors born in February, like:
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder (Feb. 7, 1867)
  • Charles Dickens (Feb. 7, 1812)
  • Judy Blume (Feb. 12, 1938)
  • Mo Willems (Feb. 11, 1968)

Okay, friend – it’s time to recap this episode for fun homeschool February themes! 

• I shared reminders of simple ways to enjoy homeschool fun activities
• Then, I talked about 4 ways that I like to loosely plan February homeschool ideas with Themes, Fun Days, Holidays, and Just Because.
• I shared another way to work with your kids to homeschool fun happen – interest-led picks.
• Then, I talked about ideas for using a unit study approach to homeschool February themes for different subjects and skills.

I’d love to hear from you! What ideas do YOU have for February homeschool fun? Please share by emailing me at rockyourhomeschool@gmail.com  And do you have any questions about these February themes? Let me know!

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