Cooking Skills: FREE Online Resources to Make Pro Chefs in the Kitchen!

Make pro chefs in the kitchen with these FREE Cooking Resources!

Sharing time in the kitchen conjures up warm and fuzzy feelings brought on by making chocolate chip cookies together.  It’s a nice thought, but sometimes the kitchen ends up a mess and everyone gets frustrated!  If you’re not sure how to teach your children the skills that they need to be confident in the kitchen, then the free resources linked to below should be helpful!

Online Cooking Lessons

Kids Cooking Activities

Kids Cooking Activities has a ton of lesson plans for kids from toddler age up through 18 years old. The lesson plans cover everything from pouring to planning meals to preserving food!  When your children hone their skills they can even enter a recipe contest.

Kids are Great Cooks

Kids Are Great Cooks is a family-oriented website dedicated to teaching children how to cook through fun, engaging, and easy-to-follow video lessons. The site offers a variety of recipes and tutorials that are designed to build confidence and skills in the kitchen, making cooking a fun and educational activity for kids of all ages. With a focus on safety, creativity, and healthy eating, Kids Are Great Cooks provides a resource for parents who want to encourage their children’s culinary curiosity and foster a love for cooking. The site also includes tips for parents on how to get their kids involved in meal preparation and making it a rewarding experience for the whole family.

Video Jug Food Recipes

Video Jug has a ton of food recipe videos. You can sort the recipes by cooking method, by dish, by country, by theme or season, by ingredient, by preparation type, or by diet!

All Recipes on Youtube

All Recipes YouTube channel has several different recipes series on their YouTube channel including, “How To Videos”, “Behind The Recipe”, “Food Wishes”, “Mastered In 90 Seconds”, “Shortcut Cooking”, and many more!

And be sure to download the Free Basic Kitchen Measurements Conversation Chart Printable for your children to reference!

BONUS! Let your kids grow an herb garden, right on your counter-top! AeroGarden Herbie Kid’s Garden

Free Phonics Assessment for 1st through 3rd Grade

Check out this awesome free tool to assess your child's reading level!

Are you looking to teach reading to your student?  Would you like to get a baseline for where they are or just see what you need to work on with them?  This FREE Phonics assessment from This Reading Mama will help with that.  It is a printable assessment for 1st through third graders.  You will go through the assessment with your child, and it will show you areas in which extra help are needed.

Don’t forget to check out all the FreeHomeschool Reading resources on How To Homeschool for Free!

Free Homophones Practice Worksheet

Easily teach your kiddo the difference between to, too, and two with this FREE homophone worksheet!

It is so often difficult for children to grasp the difference between the words to, too, and two – especially to and too!  Those are so commonly misused today.  There is a great free Homophones practice worksheet from Education.com which is perfect for letting your student practice these word differences.  There are other worksheets in this series, but the to, two,  and too page is free to download here.

Don’t miss all the free homeschool language arts resources on How To Homeschool for Free!

Free Skip Counting Printables

Help your kids to learn skip counting fast with these free printables!

Skip counting is such a valuable concept to commit to memory.  If you can skip count your numbers you can easily and quickly master multiplication and other more difficult math concepts.  Learning them while the kiddos are young can be a huge benefit to their learning.  You can help them with this by putting them to a tune or having them practice them with these Free Skip Counting Printables from 3dinosaurs.  They include both blank and filled in charts for the numbers from 2 to 10.

Also, while you’re here don’t miss the other Free Homeschool Math resources on How To Homeschool For Free!

Free Science Resources for Meteorology, Earth Science, and Astronomy!

Help your kids learn more about astronomy, meteorology, and more with these free science resources!

Do you need to do research for a science paper or project?  Or maybe you just want to dig deeper about a certain topic. There are some really wonderful free science resources on the Heim Henge site!  It is run by science enthusiast Dan Helms, and he will even answer reader’s scientific questions!

Check out all the Free Astronomy Science resources on How To Homeschool for Free!

Manners & Etiquette FREE Learning Resources!

Want to teach your kids manners but not sure where to start? Check out these wonderful FREE resources to teach your kids proper manners and etiquette!
“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”
—Emily Post

More than ever parents are seeking creative and effective ways to instill manners in their children. Manners and etiquette may evoke images of stuffy attitudes and pinkies held high but it really boils down to respect for others and yourself. Give your child the advantage by standing out by presenting impeccable manners.

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Learning Manners

Emily Post and Everyday Manners

Emily Post was known for her timeless advice on etiquette.  The site covers all areas of etiquette and manners from weddings to entertaining guests. Don’t miss her interesting biography on the site!  The site does not contain lessons but the ideas can be implemented.

Manners Matter

Manners Matter has a free lesson download called “Manners be a Detective.” They call themselves “The Civility Experts!” and have plenty to say about it on multiple websites with activities for kids. They also have a free manners video and three free manners printables: Manners Search Word, Party Manners Bingo, and Manners Word Scramble.  You can find all the freebies on their site here.

Manners Matter with 4H

New Hampshire University 4H has a free lesson plan for manners on their club website. This “Manners Matter” is a set of instructions on etiquette for ages 5 to 8. The “participant learns table manners by practicing setting a table and by considering the best way to eat a variety of foods.”

Creation Science Academy

The “Manners Matter” page at Creation Science Academy talks about how people today often forget simple courtesies, which the author ties to moving away from Christian values. It highlights how good manners reflect a person’s character and are part of living a Christ-like life. The author encourages parents to teach and model respect, kindness, and self-control to their kids as these qualities are key to good manners. You can read read it here.

Free Kindle Books About Etiquette.

The Ladies’ Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners
By Eliza Leslie

Book of Etiquette Volume I & Volume II by
Lillian Eichler Watson

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Free Letter Tracing Workbook

Get Handwriting help for your kids with this FREE printable tracing workbook!

Does your student need some letter practice?  The best way to improve handwriting is just to practice.  You can easily let them practice their letters with this FREE Letters and Numbers Tracing Practice workbook from Primary Learning.  In this free resource you will find practice pages for each letter plus a tracing guide and more.

Tracing Workbook

Go here to download and print this workbook.  Also, don’t forget to check out all the Free Homeschool Printables on How To Homeschool for Free!

Free Printable Classroom Calendar!

Here's a GREAT basic planning calendar for your homeschool!

Are you looking for a cute calendar to use in your homeschool classroom?  You can get a really nice free Classroom calendar from Primary Learning.  This calendar starts in August 2016 and goes through July of 2017.  To download this calendar click here or on the image below.

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Don’t forget to check out all the Free Homeschool Printables on How To Homeschool for Free!

(Thanks, Alesia, for submitting this free resource!)

How Things are Made Educational Website!

Share awesome engineering and science research with your kids at this amazing site! There are so many different items they can learn about!

Do you have a curious and engineering minded student in your homeschool?  They will definitely want to head over to MadeHow.com and check out all the different resources and illustrations on How Things are made.  There is information on how so many things are made including Books, Candles, Cheese, Aluminum Foil, and SO much more.  Go here to access these resources or click on the graphic above.

Check out more FREE Homeschool Science resources on How To Homeschool For Free!

FREE Autumn Unit Study: Science, Literature, Geography, and more!

Explore the wonders of Fall with your children with this FREE Autumn Unit Study! Science, geography, literature, and more!
Autumn evokes thoughts of crisp breezes and leaves changing colors.  Let’s celebrate with resources you can use to create your own Autumn Unit Study!

Science (Photosynthesis)

Why Leaves Change Color is a great resource for around 3rd grade and up. It explains in Q & A format why and how leaves change colors.

Biology for Kids also has a page about photosynthesis, along with other activities about plants.

The US Parks has a page where you can find out which colors are dominant in your state and when you are most likely to see them in the fall.

The NeoK12 site also has a lot of videos, quizzes, and other fun information on photosynthesis.

Science (Equinox)

Learn about the rotation of the earth from EarthSky. This website has real-life pictures of how sunlight falls on the earth during the spring & autumn equinoxes and solstices. If you scroll down the page linked above, you will find videos taken from space & put on YouTube by NASA.

Geography and Science

Learner.org has Journey North. This program introduces the three sets of investigations that are featured in the Journey North program: Seasonal Migrations, Plants and the Seasons, and Sunlight and the Seasons. This is an interactive website where students observe nature’s patters and report it to the database. Right now, students are tracking monarch butterflies and hummingbirds in their winter migration. Students continue to check this site until spring, when they watch the migration change direction to the north.

Agriculture and Math

Find out what your local harvest foods are. Once you know, you can find recipes for your favorite foods!

SeasonalRecipes.com will also tell you what is in season as well as provide recipes for using those items. Fall is a great time for teaching real-life math in the store (budgeting, couponing, etc.) and through baking!!  My kids always get excited about the days that we do math in the kitchen.  One of our family’s favorite fall recipes is Gluten Free Pumpkin Muffins. It uses canned pumpkin, but if you wanted to use a store-bought pie pumpkin, (get the smaller ones, not the ones used for Jack-o-Lanterns) you could make it into a memorable teaching unit. Here is a guide for how to cook a fresh pumpkin.

There are several autumn-themed math activities over at MathWire too!

Literature

Here are a few books that are great for the autumn theme and typically available to check out for FREE at your local library!

Here are the links to the books on Amazon so that you can read the reviews for each one…

Top Secret – John Reynolds Gardiner

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin – Margaret McNamara

From Seed to Pumpkin – Wendy Pfeffer

Johnny Appleseed – Reeve Lindbergh

Happy Autumn!

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