If you’re looking for a creative way to help your child learn to tell time, the Time to Fly Game ① by Educational Insights® might be the perfect fit. Players compete to be the first to cross the finish line. How do you do that? By telling time, of course! The game comes with a plane clock with movable hands. At each turn, draw a card and set the clock hands to show the time on the card. Pull down the tail fin to check if you’re right. If you are, you can move to the next spot on the game board that matches the card’s color! This game’s self-checking property means kiddos can play and learn with you or on their own. For 2-4 players ages 4 and up. 

Practice addition and subtraction together with the Simple Math Bingo Game ② by eeboo. First, draw a colorful number tile illustrated with animals. If it solves a problem on your board, you can place a tile in the correct spot. Be the first player to fill the board to win! Recommended for grades K-3.

Educational Insights® Reel Big Catch Game ③ is adorable, hands-on, colorful, and educational—everything you need in a game geared for littles! The object of the game is to score the biggest catch of fish, measured by lining up your fish on the ruler. However, you can’t tell how long each fish is until you lift it up and it expands to its full length! Includes 9 telescoping fish, a folding ruler (measures up to 39”), a purple fishing rod, and instructions. For 2-3 players ages 3 and up.

The Make a Pie! Game ④ from eeboo is a sweet way to learn fractions! Each turn, spin to discover what fraction of the pie you can take. Fit the pieces together to create a whole pie, and whoever builds the most pies wins! But watch out—if an opponent lands on “Take a piece”, a piece of your pie may be pilfered! Pies are divided into halves, thirds, fourths, eighths, and sixteenths. Instructions include a chart of equivalent fractions for reference. For 2-3 players.

Explore multiplication, division, and more with the interactive Area Model Tray with Base Ten Blocks ⑤ from Hand2Mind®! Featuring movable x- and y-axes and built-in factor tracks, this hands-on tool helps children visualize mathematical concepts with base-ten blocks. The write-on/wipe-off surface provides a place where equations can be written out, and factor tracks can be filled with black units and rods to represent equations. Children will then work to solve the equations using the colorful Ones blocks, Tens rods, and Hundreds flats. This set includes 1 base ten area model tray, 4 hundreds flats, 20 tens rods, 100 ones units, a dry-erase marker, and an Activity Guide.

Want to work on creative writing, communication, and self-expression? Skillmatics’® Storybook Art Kit helps kids create their own stories by providing 2 hardbound storybooks, colorful stickers, writing prompts, vocabulary lists, markers, and pencils. This kit will especially be helpful for kids who need a creative boost and have trouble coming up with topics and descriptive words. Two theme kits are available: Unicorns and Princesses and All My Adventures ①. Recommended for learners ages 5-10.

Looking for an innovative way to bring poetry into your homeschool? The Magnetic Poetry Kits® allow poetry to emerge as kids rearrange words and word parts. Kits come in several different themes, including Bird Lover ②, The Forest, Happiness, Nature, Science Lover, Haiku, Zen, and Healing Words. What a great activity to promote language-building skills and foster creativity! There are over 200 magnets in each kit, but you can collect more kits to expand word options and themes.

Scrabble Slam ③ from Winning Moves® Games is the best-selling, fast-paced, easy-to-play card game version of Scrabble. Start with any 4-letter word on the table, like “CAKE”, and yell out “Ready, Set, Slam!” Quickly change the existing word, 1 letter card at a time, to create a new word. For example, “CAKE” turns into “BAKE” turns into “BIKE” and so on. The first player to play out all their cards wins! Bonus “Double” Scrabble Slam game rules are included. For 2-4 players.

Popped! ④ is a reading game from Clever Noodle starring Balloon Dog, offering hands-on reading practice at multiple difficulty levels. Correlating to the Science of Reading, this game builds reading fluency using 250 vocabulary words, emphasizing short vowels and consonant blends. On your turn, draw a card and sound out the word using a 3-step process. First, say each letter sound (/b-a-d/). Then blend the first consonant and vowel: /ba/. For step 3, read the full word: /bad/. When you read the word correctly, add the card to your personal pile. During your turn, you can take a chance and continue drawing cards. But be careful! A Popped! card will end your turn, and you’ll have to return all your cards to the draw deck. But a Balloon Dog card scores you 3 extra cards, and you can continue playing. When the deck runs out, the player with the largest card pile wins!

Word-A-Melon ⑤ from Bananagrams is a word search and word-building memory game that is easy to set up and play. The game comes with 4 large pieces that attach together to resemble a watermelon and 60 letter tiles that resemble seeds. To play, place letter tiles face down on the board. Start by rolling the dice to determine how many seeds you can flip over, then choose your seeds to flip. Next, call out the longest word you could make using those letters! Collect the letters you used to make your word, and continue with the next player’s turn. Once all players agree that no words can be made with the remaining tiles, the game ends, and the player with the most seeds/tiles wins. For 2-4 players, ages 6+.

Do you have a LEGO® lover in the family? Unite history and building with the LEGO® Epic History ⑥ book from Penguin Random House. Providing a basic overview of chronological history, this book is filled with facts and tidbits about random and iconic creations throughout the ages. Each two-page spread features a specific time period and includes several items from that era, along with facts about each item, tips on creating them, the geographical locations of the featured items, and more! The book also includes 53 LEGO® pieces that can be used to create a Greek temple, a rocket launch pad, a woolly mammoth, and a pagoda—all items mentioned in the historical sections of the book. The back of the book includes step-by-step instructions to complete these items. The front cover has a storage compartment to store the included LEGO® pieces.

Studying U.S. history? With big, colorful, thick pieces, this United States Map-Shaped Jigsaw Puzzle ⑦ from Maple Landmark® is perfect for introducing geography to your littles. The map has color-coded states with names for easy learning. Includes a drawstring bag for storing pieces and measures 8” tall and 15” long when complete. 15 pieces.

Also available for your U.S. history study is eeboo’s United States Bingo Game ⑧. Learn key information about each of the fifty states with this fun game. Each colorfully illustrated bingo card represents a different U.S. region, while the chips feature icons that symbolize important industries and wildlife associated with each state in that region. The first player to collect all their chips and shout “Bingo” wins! Additional information about the states is found on the back of each bingo card and is recommended for ages 5 and up. For 2-6 players. 

This Timeline of American History ⑨ by Master Book Publishers is not only beautiful, but an incredible value! Flip through it like a book or stretch it out (16 feet long!) to display on a wall. The 23 fold-up panels contain over 300 colorful photos, graphics, maps, and fascinating facts from the Genesis flood to the modern day. All information is organized into 4 color-coded timeline streams, laid out side by side to show how key events, people, and movements shaped American development. This wonderful resource can also be used alongside any study of American History or as a reference in any class or homeschool. 

This isn’t a new game, but it is a great Constitution resource for the whole family! The US Constitution Go Fish Game ⑩ from Classical Historian™ turns any American government study into a multi-sensory experience. The game includes 48 game cards, a booklet, and 6 different games each featuring a different learning skill. The booklet provides the teacher with multiple game ideas to teach the U.S. Constitution to kids in a one-on-one setting, in a family with kids of different ages, or in classrooms with as many as 40 students. Also included are explanations for all 48 Constitution Go Fish cards.

Teacher Created Resources’ flash cards, Go Fish: Life Cycles ①, includes 10 total life cycle card sets. The game plays just like Go Fish! except the goal is to collect and match cards to complete life cycles of plants and animals. Cards are hole-punched for easy storage and have one corner shaped differently for easy lining up. Each life cycle set consists of 5 cards, and the different sets include bird, butterfly, dolphin, frog, grasshopper, sunflower, oak tree, pumpkin, salmon, and snake.

You can enjoy winter anytime, anywhere with Miracle Snow in a Jar ② by Toys By Nature! Simply add water and watch it expand into snow—snow that lasts for weeks without melting! For cleanup, simply let it dry, sprinkle salt on it to melt it, or use it in a garden (it was originally used in agriculture to grow drought-tolerant crops). Kids will be enthralled by this mesmerizing kit—especially if you live in a climate with no snow! Includes 100 grams of instant “snow.”

Solar Bots—Cosmic Explorers ③ by Thames and Kosmos gives kids a chance to assemble and experiment with solar-powered robots! Included are 118 snap-together plastic pieces to build the robot, a small solar panel, and a 36-page instruction booklet. The instructions show, with arrow illustrations, how to assemble the robot, as well as 4 different bases that can alter the way the robot moves including orbiting, walking, trike, and bug platforms. There are enough parts to have all models built at once! The solar panel powers a forward-moving wheel on the bottom of the robot with gear notches that fit into each of the bases.

Play a classic memory game with beautiful artwork by John James Audubon. The Audubon Memory Game ④ from MasterPieces includes 36 pairs of illustrated birds to shuffle and place face down on a table. Then flip over 2 per round to attempt to find a match. Unmatched cards that are revealed are immediately turned back to the face-down position after the player’s turn. For one or more players. 72 cards total (2.2” x 3.5” each).

Take a break from your science text and go exploring in your own home! The 10-in-1 Treasure Excavation Kit ⑤ from Anker Play Products has all the tools kids need to dig up fossils and discover 10 treasures. Some of the treasures included are gemstones, fool’s gold, pearls, shark teeth, and more. You can even take your learning further by doing some extra research on the items you find.

79 Amazing Science Games to Blow Your Mind ⑥ by Baker & Taylor is the perfect book for exploring key concepts in biology, chemistry, and physics—all while having a blast! Some games use only pencil and paper. Others use household items and have you building, moving, or exploring. Whether doing them on your own, with a friend, in a group, or even while in the car, the variety of games, challenges, and experiments will be the highlight of your day. Recommended for grades 3-7.

ina Burmeier and her husband homeschooled their three kids using many Charlotte Mason and classical programs. Realizing all three kids were very different, taking an eclectic approach gave them a great opportunity to meet all their children’s needs. For years, they traveled together as a family to homeschool conventions representing Rainbow Resource Center. She has thoroughly enjoyed meeting and talking with many homeschoolers over the years. With all three kids now college graduates, she is a consultant in the office at Rainbow and continues to enjoy helping homeschoolers with curriculum questions. She is very passionate about researching curriculum and learning styles as she helps other homeschoolers find the best fit for their children.

mber Garcia studied Elementary Education and music at Bible college. There she met her husband and began the journey of ministry and family. Giving their four children a Christian education became the focus and they purposed making that happen by putting them in a Christian school where they were teaching some years and homeschooling other years. Now Amber is a homeschool consultant at Rainbow Resource Center helping other homeschoolers with curriculum questions. Amber loves finding the key to help each student learn in their own way.