March Homeschool Ideas To Make It Fun for All
WooHoo! I’m sharing exciting and simple ideas to make your homeschool days in March fun. Whether you’re celebrating fun days, exploring seasonal themes, or just looking for creative ways to get your kids excited about learning, this episode has something for everyone.
⭐ Highlights:
- Grab Your Free Fun Days Calendar: Be sure to get my free Fun Days Calendar, perfect for March! It’s black-and-white so your kids can color and customize it. Plus, it’s easy on your printer!
- 5 Simple Ways to make March fun in your homeschool:
- Themes: March is a great month for themes like flowers, rainbows, birds, and more. Don’t forget spring is just around the corner!
- Fun Days: Celebrate Dr. Seuss Day, Pi Day, Mario Day, and so many more with hands-on activities and free printables.
- Holidays: March holidays like Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day offer fantastic opportunities for themed crafts and activities.
- Interest-Led Fun: Focus on your kids’ current interests to keep them engaged and excited to learn.
- General Activities: From board games to sidewalk chalk, these simple ideas work year-round to make learning enjoyable!
⭐ March Fun Days & Ideas
⭐ March Themes to Explore
⭐ Crafts and Projects for March
⭐ Other Fun March Activities:
- Explore history and science
- Boost reading by learning about authors born in March
- Have some math fun with Pi Day
If you have any questions or more ideas for March homeschool fun, I’d love to hear from you! You can email me at rockyourhomeschool@gmail.com.
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Thanks for tuning in, and until next time, keep rocking your homeschool! 🌟
Prefer to read? I’ve put the transcript to this episode below! Let me know if you have any questions 😊
Let’s Make March Fun in Your Homeschool!
Hello hello! Welcome to this episode of the Positively Homeschool Podcast! Looking for ways to make March fun in your homeschool? Need some quick and easy ideas for getting your kids (and you) excited about learning? Well, I’m glad you’re here! I’ve got some fun March homeschool ideas and activities that your kids and you will love.
March is full of fantastic fun days, celebrations, and even the first day of spring. It’s an awesome time to break out some fun activities, projects, and themes to keep your homeschool motivated and moving.
Before I get to my March homeschool fun ideas, I wanted to make sure that you have your free copy of my Fun Days calendar. It features a fun day for each day of the month. Plus, it’s in black-and-white so your kids get to color + customize (and it’s easier on your printer!).
Oh, and you can hear more homeschool fun ideas in episodes 7, 8, and 12. I’ll link to those episodes!
5 Ways to Make March Fun
I’ve got 5 things or pillars that you can build off of when making homeschooling fun this March.
Most importantly, I say keep it simple, frugal, and stay flexible. It’s helpful to gather ideas, have a flexible plan, and weave fun into your homeschool day. When life happens, no biggie! You can pivot and move a fun activity to a different day or week.
Looking ahead to March, I’m planning and preparing based on:
- Themes
- Fun days
- Holidays
- Interest-led
- Activities for all of the above!
- Themes:
March has some super cool monthly themes to work with and celebrate. Plus, in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re eagerly awaiting spring! I’ll be chatting about spring homeschool ideas in the next episode, but a few themes to consider are:
Another theme that was super popular with my boys in March/Spring – MUD! We’re usually just starting to thaw here in Western Pennsylvania and have a lot of mud. (I’ve got a really cool mud kitchen scavenger hunt + ideas freebie for you).
Also, you can pick themes based on March Monthly Observations, like:
- Red Cross: learn about this organization, talk about volunteering, community helpers
- Athletic Training: learn about this profession, use for career exploration
- Social Work
- Women’s History
- Noodle
- Frozen Food
- Flour
- Craft: enjoy simple crafts, organize your craft supplies
- Celery
- Peanut
- Umbrella
- Nutrition: fantastic opportunity to learn more about health and wellness, start a food journal
You can also look at March Weekly Themes for more ideas and inspiration.
- Fun Days: There are SO many amazing March fun days! My boys and I love to celebrate these nationally-recognized days that can be silly or serious. Remember to get my free printable Fun Day Calendar for Kids that you can use to color and customize.
You can find links in the show notes to ideas and resources for many of these fun days. And I’ll brainstorm ideas for some of them now:
- Holidays: Celebrate March holidays in your homeschool!
- Interest-Led Homeschool Fun
This idea applies to any month of the year! It’s been such a big hit with my boys so I really hope you give it a try with your kids, too. Talk with your kids about what they’re interested in now. Brainstorm how you can weave those interests into homeschool fun.
Last month, my youngest was all into perler bead crafts. Now, my three younger boys (the ones that I’m actively homeschooling) are back into board games. We use some educational board games during homeschool time (like Trekking Through History). And a chess match often happens at some point during the week. I love seeing how much all of us get out of playing games together!
- Activities
I chatted about homeschool fun activities for the month of February. And I’m bringing them up again because they just work so well.
I look at homeschool fun activities as a general category. These ideas might not exactly fit into a Fun Day, holiday, or season. I’d consider most board games a general homeschool fun activity. And using something like window markers or sidewalk chalk to practice math facts or handwriting. These activities are simple and stress-free ways to boost learning and make it more enjoyable for all.
These activities might be subject-related or more generalized. Depending on the ages of your kids, you may find that puzzles and building blocks work. Or homemade musical instruments and silly songs. My boys have really had a lot of fun with our free printable 3D houses!
The key to these homeschool fun activities is to find ideas and resources that your kids and you like. I encourage you to make up a big list of activities to try!
Ideas for Unit Studies and Activities for March
Back in episode 12 (January homeschool fun), I shared an amazing way to enjoy monthly themes – unit studies.
Let’s look at some ideas that you can think about doing for March fun in your homeschool:
March Crafts
Coloring
Projects
- March 6 is Oreo Cookie Day. Use our free printable moon phases foldable activity as a guide for turning your cookies into shapes of the moon.
- For Cereal Day (March 7), use cereal pieces shaped like O’s to make bracelets or necklaces. See how high you can stack those cereal pieces.
- March 12 is Plant a Flower Day. You can start our free printable flower scavenger hunt and see how many flowers you can find this spring!
- Build a leprechaun trap for St. Patrick’s Day fun
- March 26 is Manatee Appreciation Day. Work on a project (diorama, paper, drawing, etc.) as you learn about manatees.
Art
- Enjoy homeschool art projects with March themes
- Also, learn about artists born in March, like:
- Michelangelo (March 6, 1475)
- Piet Mondrian (March 7, 1872)
- Francisco Goya (March 30, 1746
- Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853)
Music
- Listen to music with March themes
- Learn about composers or famous musicians born in March. You could study:
- Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685)
- Antonio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678)
- Frédéric Chopin (March 1, 1810)
History
- What historical events happened in March? Work with your kids and research both local and state events, as well as national and world events, like:
- The Peace Corps was founded March 1, 1961.
- The Boston Massacre happened on March 5, 1770.
- My boys and I use this 365 Days of History calendar as part of our homeschool morning time for fun facts. I’ll link to it in the show notes!
Science
- Citrus Day is March 1. Learn about the science behind citrus fruits.
- World Wildlife Day is March 3. Learn about zoology, wildlife biology, and more. Read books and watch videos about different types of wildlife.
- Panda Day is March 16. Learn all about pandas!
Reading
- Books with March themes
- Study authors born in March, like:
- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) – March 2
- Dav Pilkey – March 4
- Kenneth Grahame – March 8
- Lois Lowry – March 20
Whew! That does it for another episode of the Positively Homeschooling Podcast. I’d love to hear from you! What ideas do YOU have for March homeschool fun? Please share by emailing me at rockyourhomeschool@gmail.com And do you have any questions about these March themes? Let me know!
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