How To Easily Incorporate Seasonal Activities Into Your Homeschool!

One of the best things about homeschooling is the freedom to get creative and make learning come alive! Adding seasonal activities to your homeschool not only keeps things fresh and exciting but also helps your kids connect with the natural rhythm of the year.

I’ve even enjoyed taking it down to monthly themes! So whether you like to switch it up every month or just with every new season, here’s how I easily incorporate seasonal activities into our homeschool routine.

Morning Menus and Activity Bundles!

This is the number one way I easily get those seasonal extras into our day. Our mornings begin gathered at the kitchen table for breakfast, morning menus, and morning basket time. Here’s what that looks like generally:

Kids get up at 8:00, get dressed, and come downstairs.
They eat breakfast and work on their morning menus and/or morning bundles.
We do our family subjects together before splitting off for our unit study or independent subjects.

Because I love seasonal activities so much, I decided to create my own monthly themed activity bundles that also included pages for our morning menus….because I like things to go together like that. 🙂

Morning Menu:

Activities in the morning menus vary by month and by each child and the skills I want them to work on at that time. So it could be letter or number tracing for younger kids, name, address, phone number copywork, number/math work for older kids and always a calendar for the month. I also like to include the lyrics to one hymn and/or folk song for the month.

If you’re not familiar with a morning menu, it’s basically called that because a restaurant menu is used to hold a calendar and other worksheets that can be used daily with a dry erase marker. Pages can easily be switched out and it’s just a really handy little tool. Not a necessary one but one we like using. The same concept can be achieved with a “morning binder” instead by using page protectors. 🙂

(You can see in more detail how I use morning menus in this post. )

Activity Bundles:

The monthly bundles I created are where I really get a lot of that extra seasonal fun! Each month I may use it a little differently, depending on what we have going on, but generally I use it in a way that looks a little like this:

I print out the pages that I want to staple together into an actual “bundle”, put each child’s name at the top, and place them in our morning basket. If the kids have time after finishing their morning menu (because that doesn’t take long usually!) before we get started together, then they can grab their bundles and do whatever pages they’d like to do!
Any pages that I want to use as part of a an actual lesson, after a certain story, or just all together, I will save out of the bundle and give to them when we are ready to use them.

The beauty of it is that we can do as much or as little of the bundle as we want to, but my kids always enjoy seeing what activities will be in there each month!

The Extra Pages:

So those pages that I said I kept out of the stapled bundle….what are those you may be wondering? Here are a few examples:

In January, it might be paper snowflake instructions.
In February, it’s a worksheet for use after learning about George Washington.
In March, it’s a map of Ireland for a quick geography lesson.
In April, maybe it’s the page on dissecting a flower and labeling each part.
In May, it could be the spring scavenger hunt.
In June, it’s the license plate roadtrip game.
In July, it might be the list of minutes games.
In August, it’s the “Rate the Beach” worksheet.
In September, it’s probably the apple investigation booklet.
In October, it’s an activity page to complete after reading and/or watching Spookley the Square Pumpkin.
In November, it’s a Making Words page to complete after reading Cranberry Thanksgiving.
In December, it might be a recipe for sugar plums.

Now each month has more that just one thing I may save out, but the above is just giving one example so you can see the variety of different areas that these bundles can reach into throughout your homeschool day and throughout each month and season!

The Bundles:

Why It’s Easy:

This has been the easiest way for me to incorporate the fun seasonal activities that I desire for my kids without it interrupting our regular work time too much.

-Most mornings they are getting in that monthly/seasonal theming during morning time. It’s something we are doing already, so it was an easy add for us!

-The extra activities from the bundle like books, writing responses, recipes, crafts, etc….can be incorporated into any day that we may have extra time or planned around a family outing or trip we may be taking. It could just be that we spend some time one afternoon doing a craft….because we are usually done with school before 12:30 anyway!

-It doesn’t require planning a full unit study of something seasonal (even though I love those, too, and sometimes want to add something like that in!).

-It’s all ready to just print and go whenever we’re ready to use it! Plus we can use it differently from year to year depending on what we want to focus on most.

By weaving seasonal activities into your homeschool, you create a dynamic, joyful learning environment that keeps your kids excited and engaged. Each season offers a fresh canvas for exploration, creativity, and connection—so dive in and enjoy it! I love it as the momma, too! 🙂

What’s your favorite seasonal homeschool activity? Share your ideas in the comments below to inspire others!