Activities

Welcome to Lupine Family Homeschoolers

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JUST WHAT DO WE DO AT LUPINES?

For the juniors what we have is a day full of seasonal crafts and projects, games, movement circle, music, and drama.

For the seniors we add more in depth projects, more work from language arts, history, science experiments, music, community service projects and of course pulling from the kids interest themselves, for example, movie making. The list of possibilities is endless. It is a place where the kids can work in a group setting on a regular basis , make friends and get some of their academic work done too!

The two groups weave together through the day, sharing free play, lunch, and a closing circle among other opportunities.

Don't miss Geography Club either! Once a quarter we choose a country to learn about together. We go on outings, dine with the flavor of our chosen country, and end our study with a day of music, costume, crafts, food and fun from our country. Geo day is a really fun day that we all look forward to.

And, just to give you an idea, here are a few activities (pulled from both age groups) that we have done with Lupines in the past.

*pine derby cars

*basketball

*movie making

*song writing & recording

*Pentathlon training and Event Day

* needle felting

*wet felting

* quilting

* mirrored cross stitch

* looms

* knitting projects

* paper-making

* dyed silks

* beeswax Norse God figures

* botany crafts (clay mushrooms, terrarium)

* diorama for local indian/geography

* leaf banners

* leaf crowns

* applesauce

* messy day

*seasonal celebrations

* plant, harvest, thresh, winnow and grind wheat into flour

* straw air castle

* leaf sand prints

* book making

* seasonal decoupage plates

* autumn muffins

* marionette puppets and present a puppet show

* clay work of all kinds

* sketching nature

* make our own knitting needles

* dyed yarn with plant material

* pressed leaves on ceramic jars

* glycerin leaves

* Halloween T-shirts

* build a scarecrow

* copper lanterns

* tin can lanterns

* paper maiche lanterns

* make paper lanterns (younger ones) out of watercolor paper)

* turnip lanterns

* edible haunted house

* tissue pumpkins

* bean rune divination

* sugar skulls

* crayon resist

* Halloween party

* apple dolls

* candle dipping and decorating

* beeswax dipped leaves

* wheat braiding

* seed and nut creatures

* corn husk dolls

* bark gnome houses

* medicine pouch

* dream catchers

* build tipi

* Indian corn necklaces

* wet on wet watercolor painting

Add to all this, a circle of seasonal celebrations such as Valentines Day, Spring Celebrations, May Day, Summer outings, Autumn hikes, Halloween parties and Winter Holiday Celebrations.