Learning is hard work and school can become tedious. That's why I like to spice up the month of February with a fun activity every school day. Sometimes our fun extras are low-key and easy like Mismatched Sock Day. Other events take forethought and involvement like a Presidents' Day Dinner or Chinese New Year. You can see some pictures of the first half of our February Fun Month here and pictures of our Presidents' Day Dinner here.
And now for the final stretch of our month:
Shark Day..........................................................................................
Sharks infested our schoolroom floor! Touching the floor meant losing life or limb, a risk nobody dared to take. We set up chairs, cushions, and boxes for safety purposes. Our precautions kept us safe and they also gave this old girl far more exercise than she bargained for. By the end of the school day, I invented Shark Repellent to spray myself with if I needed to dodge into the room for something easy.
Do School In Your Pajamas Day.........................................................
(Go, homeschool!)
Hat Day that morphed into Robot Day..............................................
Both children chose not just a hat but an entire robot head. I laughed almost every time I walked into the school room and saw my robots dutifully working.
After school, we exchanged our robot hats ("Aww! They'd work, Mom! I'm sure they'd pass!") for our regular face masks and went to a thrift store to see if they had any deals on bunkbeds. We didn't find any bunk beds, but we found a lovely stack of books. One of them was titled Robots, a fitting end to Robot Day.
LEGO Day.........................................................................................
As an early birthday present for Tyler, my dad helped finance a LEGO set Tyler was saving money to buy, so it made sense to have LEGO Day while he was still assembling his newly acquired set. I gave them extra recess to devote to the building project and served lunch on LEGO themed paper plates.
Idea for next time: Give the children LEGO challenges to complete.
Opposite Day......................................................................................
We missed honoring National Opposite Day on its official day in late January because we were in the middle moving across town. So I added Opposite Day to our February Fun Days. It happened to land at a time when we had lots of snow and great sledding. We observed Opposite Day by playing first (sledding at a park during school hours) and working later (finishing school a little later than normal).
National Gumdrop Day.......................................................................
National Gumdrop Day fell on Presidents' Day this year. Because we had enough fun and activity happening on Presidents' Day, I separated the two. The children earned a gumdrop for diligence, neat writing, good scores, and about anything else they could convince me was reward-worthy. They were so enthusiastic about earning edible prizes that I thought I should try the same idea on National Eat Brussels Sprouts Day.
National Pancake Day.........................................................................
Pancakes for supper! It gave them something fun to look forward to all day.
Art Day...............................................................................................
We interrupted math class to draw Abe Lincoln, an idea I wished I thought of on Presidents' Day.
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We followed the instructions on Art Hub for Kids to draw
Abe. Art Hub is our go-to for step-by-step drawing tutorials. |
After recess, we used pasta and grains to color pictures.
Our final project was making cardboard cities. I hung them above my coffee bar in the kitchen and love my latest decor.
And just like that, February Fun Days are over. If you have ideas for us to use next year, let me know in the comments below.
