100+ Screen Free Activities for Homeschoolers

Homeschooling can be so much fun! There are so many things to learn, and we’re not confined to our seats or to set schedules like our institutional counterparts. Children benefit from hands-on learning that is free from screens, and they deserve a fair number of screen-free activities in their education.

Fun activities for homeschoolers are everywhere. This weekend my husband and I took our teens on a day trip to an aquarium. It was so much fun! My boys stood in a plexiglass tube watching huge fish and sharks swim in circles above, below, and to the sides. They were amazed by the experience of being almost submerged with the fish. The fish, too, seemed to really enjoy checking the boys out.

The weekend before, we visited one of the tallest waterfalls in our state. It was a great hike, and the falls were beautiful. We got to discuss logjams and later we looked up the statistics for the falls and compared them to other waterfalls we’ve visited.

Books and curricula are important, but for many subjects, there’s really no substitute for hands-on, real-life experience. Your children will enjoy the memories they make, and you’ll be amazed at what they actually learn!

I’ve put together a giant list of screen-free activities for homeschoolers. You’ll find links to specific posts detailing a fun activity, and some referral links to Amazon when I think you’ll want to know about a particular product. Some of these activities are free, and some (like going to an aquarium) require either funds or planning.

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Screen Free Activities for Homeschoolers

1. Make a Bible craft!
2. Visit an aquarium.
3. Start a business. Check out this free printable guide.
4. Visit a factory and learn how things are made.
5. Play a history game.
6. Explore a tidepool. (Don’t touch the creatures!)
7. Work on an impressionism art project.
8. Create a family history together.
9. Visit a firehouse (sliding down the pole is optional).
10. Conduct some LEGO® Sink or Swim experiments.
11. Build a tabernacle model.
12. Study muscles in a real, hands-on way.
13. Do some food math.
14. Make crayons.
15. Create a LEGO® chain reaction.
16. Homeschool using the field trip method–do it regularly.
17. Study history in a completely hands-on way. (Check out this Texas unit.)
18. Build your own bakery.
19. Go creeking.
20. Spend time checking out slides on a microscope. (These are our favorite slide sets.)
21. Spend some time learning about horses.
22. Make a Lewis and Clark art project.
23. Go on a physical high adventure. Here we have companies that offer ropes courses or zip line courses.
24. Learn some Scripture music.
25. Read an historical book.
26. Play a card game. (We love Bonanza.)
27. Explore Christian history with hands-on activities.
28. Write to a pen pal.
29. Make a tin can robot.
30. Draw a picture.
31. Start a nature journal.
32. Build with LEGOs.
33. Make a potato clock.
34. Collect and press leaves.
35. Paint with watercolors.
36. Make a family prayer box.
37. Learn to play chess.
38. Write a poem.
39. Explore creation science in a fun way.
40. Put on a skit.
41. Make popsicle stick puppets with cardstock and markers. Act out a Bible story.
42. Read a Bible story.
43. Make a tessellating pattern.
44. Draw a picture of a favorite book character.
45. Memorize a Bible verse.
46. Learn how to make a simple meal.
47. Make a flower craft.
48. Collect stamps. Learn about their history.
49. Practice seeing with your ears (and do other bat activities).
50. Play with K’Nex. Build a historic building or vehicle.
51. Make a city out of blocks.
52. Put together a floor puzzle.
53. Visit a waterfall.
54. Do a challenging dot-to-dot.
55. Play a sight words game.
56. Color in a Dover coloring book.
57. Look through an atlas and draw a continent or country.
58. Visit a science museum.
59. Create edible slime.
60. Draw a map of a fantasy world from a book–like Narnia.
61. Learn how fold mountains are made.
62. Build a dam in a creek. Stay with a parent around water.
63. Do a STEAM challenge out of your challenge box.
64. Decorate a hat.
65. Make a microscope exploration box–and use it!
66. Create a geography passport with visitor stamps.
67. Make a scrapbook.
68. Hold a gingerbread house playdate.
69. Write a newspaper article.
70. Make an edible heart model.
71. Back and decorate cookies or cupcakes.
72. Make and paint a birdhouse.
73. Plant some seeds and care for them.
74. Go to the zoo.
75. Visit a children’s museum.
76. Look at a magazine.
77. Listen to an audio adventure.
78. Visit a mountain.
79. Do some Bible object lessons.
80. Write a story.
81. Play with PlayDoh.
82. Play dress-up.
83. Cook something in your play kitchen.
84. Take a family day-trip. You get to be in charge of the maps and navigation.
85. Play with a doll house.
86. Read a picture book!
87. Put on a puppet play.
88. Sword fight.
89. Play a Hop on Pop sight word game.
90. Do a geography puzzle.
91. Visit a dam and learn about how it works.
92. Play an on-the-go review game.
93. Visit a police station and sit in the jail cell and police car.
94. Make a candy spine.
95. Recreate an ancient Egyptian board game.
96. Visit a farm.
97. Draw a  life-size whale or dinosaur with sidewalk chalk. Look out for cars!
98. Build an igloo.
99. Experiment with different kids of melting ice.
100. Visit a creek–look for crawdads. Be sure to stay with a parent.
101. Do some Big Bible Science.
102. Go camping.
103. Dye cloth naturally using historical methods.

We live in a great big world. Encourage your kids to get out there and live a little!

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