Secret Hippie's Homeschool: 2012

Welcome to Secret Hippie's Homeschool pages!

We have homeschooled our children on and off for 20 years and now we have the youngest 2 of the 5 are starting off on their own 'schooling' experience and we want to share the journey. We hope to show you our ways of providing a rich but thrifty education.

We are ECLECTIC homeschoolers. We have tried strict 'school at home' to 'unschooling' and found we were most comfortable somewhere in the middle! So expect to find bits of both. We hope that you find some ideas that might help you with your own homeschooling journeys.

It might be good to know that we are not staunchly 'schoolers' or 'homeschoolers" we see pros and cons to both, we understand life's circumstances are different for everyone and even the needs of a family change, sometimes even quite suddenly. For those that have children at school, you might find some fun low cost activities to do with your children :o)

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Painting plastic bottles: Paint recipe

My children have enjoyed watching Mister Maker and are keen to do some projects they have seen. To paint recycled bottles you need to mix 50% Paint and 50% PVA (glue makes the paint that sticks to the plastic bottles etc)

After school activities

Always looking for free activities to do, funny how the most obvious get forgotten in our house!
They had a ball.
Another free activity at the local markets. It was a healthy living expo.