One advantage of homeschooling is the flexibility it offers in your school schedule. However, I always had a schedule to follow and did not always appreciate the flexibility that homeschooling offered, but rainy days always called to me to stop and just enjoy that we weren’t running from here to there.
Rainy days offered a reminder that school can take more forms than just lesson plans and workbook pages. Learning happens in just the simple act of enjoying different indoor activities as it rains outside.
Some of our favorite rainy-day activities included building an ear we could crawl through. This was a fun activity that we learned when we studied Attentiveness in our Konos unit study. How could you modify ideas and facts you are studying into an active and creative activity?
Another favorite was building bridges, buildings, or other structures with dry spaghetti and little marshmallows. There are some instructions here.
Read aloud the book Stone Soup, and then make stone soup for lunch or dinner. Kids love preparing this soup and stirring the pot. The recipe is in the back of the book, and the ingredients are likely already in your pantry.
Here are all kinds of ideas for helping your kids appreciate a slow, cozy day inside:
https://www.familyeducation.com/fun/indoor-activities/top-10-rainy-day-activities
https://teachingmama.org/ways-to-keep-kids-busy-on-rainy-days/
https://selfsufficientkids.com/indoor-activities-for-kids-rainy-day/
