Amazon Prime Day Deals for Homeschool

Amazon Prime Day is here and it’s time to get our favorite homeschool resources. In my opinion, less is more when it comes to homeschool supplies. I don’t have the space to store a million different resources, so I prefer quality pieces that have more than one use.

Everyone homeschools differently and has different preferences. THAT’S OKAY! Whether your a Montessori-loving mama who only buys neutral/wooden toys or you’re the bright and colorful type, there’s something for you here.

Not only am I going to show you some of my must-have prime day deals for homeschool, I’m going to tell you different ways I would use them. Let’s get into it.

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Prime Day Deals for Homeschool

How I’d Use This:

-Matching Scavenger Hunt: Hide the clocks around the room and the child find the correlating time.

-Memory Game: Use the clock/time cards to play memory

-Telling Time Sensory Bin: Add the clock/time cards, clock, number dice, etc. to a sensory bin of rice and let the child play freely (great for early exposure or for differentiating amongst age groups)

-Creating a Daily Schedule: sit down together to create a schedule for the day showing the time each activity will take place

How I’d Use This:

-Counting/Number Correspondence: Have the child tell the number and count that number of frogs. What I love about the scale is they can do this on their own and the scale will balance when they are correct. It’s a great independent activity for kids who know their numbers 1-10.

-Adding/Subtraction: Teach addition and subtraction using the number blocks and counters.

-Greater Than/Less Than: Use the cards to play a greater than/less than two player game. Each person gets a number card. Put the corresponding number of counters on the scale. Who has more/less.

-Number Sensory Bin: Add the numbers and counters to a sensory bin. Set scale outside of bin but close in proximity. Let your child play freely. (great for littles to give exposure to numbers)

How I’d Use This:

-Life Cycles: To teach the lifecycle of a butterfly

-Butterfly Garden: Research the type of plants butterflies like and build a butterfly garden. When the butterflies are ready to be released, take them to your butterfly garden and observe.

-Nature Journal: Have your child draw/write what they observe each step of the way in a nature journal. This will teach observation and documentation skills.

Symmetry: Look at the butterflies wings before you release them and notice how they are the same on both sides. Have your child paint what they see on half a butterfly. Fold paper in half to create the same pattern on the other side.

Caterpillar to Butterfly Craft: Use a wooden clothespin to make a caterpillar. Let your child be creative and choose the supplies they want to use. Get a coffee filter and let your child color it with markers. Spray it down with water and watch the colors bleed together. When it’s dry, put it inside your clothespin and watch your caterpillar turn into a butterfly.

How I’d Use This:

-Letter Tracing: This is obvious. This is great for working on fine motor skills, letter formation, and pencil grip.

-Identifying the Letters of Their Name: Write your child’s name on a piece of paper. Have them find the letters in their name and trace each letter.

-Identifying First/Last Letter: Say familiar words and have your child find the first or last letter of the word. This is great for working on letter sounds. “What does the word BALL start with?” “What does the word Bus end with?”

-Sight Words/Spelling Words: Have your child trace the letters of their sight words or spelling words.

How I’d Use This:

-Counting/Number Correspondence: Say or write a number and have your child count out that many cubes.

-Patterns: Have your child create patterns (AB, AAB, ABA, ABC etc.) and come up with their own patterns.

-Measurement: Use the cubes as a nonstandard unit of measurement. See how long, high, wide something is with the cubes. “how many cubes tall is your teddy bear?” (this is a great introduction to measurement for kids!)

-Building: Let your child be creative and build with the cubes

How I’d Use This:

-Creative Free Play: Let your create whatever they want (clay/playdoh is a great way to strength hand muscles in littles)

-Themed Creations: Make models based on what you’re studying. Examples: animals, plants, monuments, structures, vehicles, flags, etc.

-Arts with Mediums: Encourage child to make art mixing mediums

How I’d Use This:

-Days/Months: To teach days of the week and months of the year. I love to sing songs that help kids remember these. Jack Hartmann has great videos for preschoolers/kindergarteners that teach specific months.

-Seasons/Weather: Teach the four seasons and what weather to expect that month. This could be adapted for all ages. Something simple like whether it’s hot/cold or sunny/raining. Or for older kids, graph the temperatures each day and then find the average for the month.

-Holidays: Holidays are a great time to incorporate different cultures and history lessons into your homeschool organically. You could also make it fun and find all of the national days for the month, like National Donut Day or National Best Friend Day.

-Birthdays and Special Days: Recognize birthdays of family members and friends or count down to special days like vacations. You could add fun things like co-cops or planned activities/outings.

How I’d Use This:

-Independent Play: Set a timer for independent play. If your child struggles with independent play, this is a great way to promote it. Start small (5 minutes) and work your way up.

-Cooking Lessons: Let your child set the timer when you’re cooking or baking together.

-Countdown to Next Activity: Use a timer to countdown to the next activity. This is especially helpful if you are leaving for a fun outing and you’re tired of your child asking “is it time to go yet?”

-Timed Lessons: Sometimes you want your child to work for a certain length of time and want to give them a visual. Like reading for 20 minutes or play a math game for 10 minutes. Whatever it is, this timer gives them a visual for how much longer.

-Quiet Time: Every child needs rest or a quiet time throughout the day. This is a great thing to incorporate if you have little kids who still nap and big kids who don’t or if you work from home. Find a time that works for you and your family and set it for the whole family.

How I’d Use This:

-Independent Play: Let your child play freely with this. You never know what they could come up with.

-Colors/Shapes: Practice identifying colors and shapes. Trace the shapes with your finger or with a pencil. Sort the rings by color.

-Counting/Number Recognition: Use the numbers and rings for counting. You can also show how the numbers are bigger/smaller based on how high the ring tower is

-Sensory Bin Play: Add the wooden pieces to sensory bin and let them play. This is a great way to introduce numbers, shapes, or colors to littles.

How I’d Use This:

-Sensory Bin: Create a themed sensory bin around whatever subject we were studying (plants, animals, landforms, etc.)

-Textured Play: Choose different bases for sensory play (rice, sand, dirt, beans, stones, cereal, etc.)

-Water Table: Add the tools to a water table and let them play

How I’d Use This:

-Manipulatives: Organize and store manipulatives. These bins make it easy to see what you have and get then quickly.

-Sensory Bins: Use these bins to create themed sensory bins. I gave you ways I would use those other products to make sensory bins. For more ideas check out this blog all about sensory bins.

-Themed Units: Keep all of your themed resources and manipulatives in one place. Label them and store them for the following year.

-Toy Rotations: Store toys and put away for awhile. Bring them back out when your child is in need of a toy refresh.

-Curriculum/Activity Planning: Create a morning basket with themed items and set them out in a bin. You could also use these to plan for the week and pull out all of the supplies you will need.

-Book Bins: Organize books by themes, levels, or genres.

How I’d Use This:

-Sensory Bin: Dump all of the contents in the sandbox and let them play

-Construction Theme: Pull these out during your construction or vehicle theme. Teach about construction vehicles, construction jobs, how things work, how to build, etc.

-Free Play: Set out just the toys and see what they come up with

How I’d Use This:

-Free Play: Let your child be creative

-Themed Building: Have your child use the magnetic tiles to build something you are studying. Like a historical building/monument, animals, scenery, etc.

-Name Recognition: Use a sharpie and write the letters of your child’s name on each tile. Write their name on a strip of paper and have them put the letters in order.

-Sight Words: Write sight words on the tiles and call out a word.

-Letter/Number Match: Write letters or numbers on the tiles. You can have your child put them in ABC or 123 order. Write upper/lowercase letters on the tiles and have your child match them. Write numbers and dots on tiles and have your child match. Write letters/numbers on the tiles and corresponding wooden pieces to a sensory bin and let your child match the parts.

-Garage Door Play: Take your learning/play outside and create a masterpiece on your garage door. You can take those letters/numbers/sight words outside and give your child a paintbrush and cup of water to paint them on the garage door.

How I’d Use This:

-Free Painting: Let your child create whatever they want

-Nature Journals: Go on a nature walk and paint what you find in a nature journal

-Landscape Painting: Take a field trip to a park, river, beach, mountain, or whatever is close by and paint the landscape.

-Primary/Secondary Colors: Teach primary/secondary colors. Practice mixing colors to see what they make. See what happens if you add more paint or more water to the mixture.

How I’d Use This:

-Arts & Crafts: It goes without saying, this easel is great for all kinds of arts & crafts projects. The best thing you can do for your kids is give them various writing tools to practice with. Not only will they strengthen their hand muscles, they will work on their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and gross motor movements.

-Spelling Practice: Practice writing their name, vocabulary or spelling words, or ABC practice.

-Art Storage: Use the bin to store all of their art supplies so they have them in one place and access whenever they want.

How I’d Use This:

-Letter/Number Practice: Let your child practice writing letters and numbers in the sand. Let the use their finger or the stylus, depending on their age.

-Name Practice: Write your child’s name on a paper and let them practice writing it in the sand with their finger or stylus.

-Sight Words: Write sight words in the sand. You could also write sight words on a paper, put it on the bottom or the tray before you put sand it. Give your child a paint brush to push away the sand and read the sight words they find.

-Spelling Words: Instead of spelling tests on paper, let your child spell their words in the tray.

These are just a few of the many ways you could incorporate these supplies into your homeschool lifestyle. If you want some more ideas or homeschool resources, follow along on Instagram and subscribe to the blog. In August, I’ll be sharing more about our homeschool journey and give you more ideas you can do at home or on the road.

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