Weekend Family Fun: Creation's Scavenger Hunt

Something that children always love are scavenger hunts.  I like putting meaningful scavenger hunts that will teach a lesson.  I will share some of them in the future.  Here is a simple one that the whole  family can participate as you go for a "Creation walk".  If fact,  I highly recommend going for a walk everyday with your children no matter the weather.   Kids like to get ready for walks anyways.  Bundle them up if it's cold with all their scarves, gloves and beanies.  Grab that umbrella for rain or sun.  Water boots are excellent since kids can't resist the puddles.  If it's too hot, carry a water spray bottle and drinking water.  So plan well for what time of the day is best to go out.  We like mornings, now that the weather is perfect around here.



Here is an idea of our hunt.  I printed a sheet of paper for each child on a nice nature background:

Creation’s Scavenger Hunt

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  Something fuzzy

  
  


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  Two kinds of seeds

  
  


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  Two pieces of man-made litter

  
  


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  Something straight

  
  


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  Something round

  
  


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  Something smooth

  
  


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  Something rough

  
  


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  Two different types of leaves

  
  


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  Something that makes noise

  
  


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  A chewed leaf

  
  


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  A beautiful rock

  
  


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  Something you think is beautiful

  
  


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  A pinecone

  
  


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  A critter – dead or alive

  
  


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  A feather

  
  


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  Something you think is a treasure

  
  

Sit down under a shady tree and give a treat to the kids for their great job hunting.  Share what they found and you can draw object lessons from each finding.  For example,  study how God perfectly designed the feather with hollow bones so they can be light and flexible for flight.  You can expand on flight and history of the Wright Brothers.   Collect all the rocks they picked up and talk about David who fought Goliath with 5 smooth stones.  Then practice their sling shooting.  What fun for the boys! And girls too!



The girls found rough and smooth stones.  We had a great conversation as we sat for a snack  and talked about how God uses each one of us in a family to make us smooth like the stone.  We are born rough but like the river rocks that get tossed along the river with other rocks, they end up smooth.   So we want our character to be smoothed out.   Be creative, the lessons are endless.

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The Home Is A Place For Continuous Learning- Part 4

Most of us are pretty familiar with the words in Deuteronomy 6:6-9. “And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up…Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”   This scripture is recited everyday in Jewish homes and weekly in the synagogue, yet, those reciting it have yet to understand it or begin to obey it.  God is clearly charging parents with the education of their children of both knowledge and Biblical truth.   It doesn’t mean that parents are to be the sole teachers of their children.  But, we are responsible and have complete authority to choose what kind of education and who teaches our children.  I would advocate that it is a great advantage to have the children, especially the young ones, being home educated because parents would be more able to shepherd the child’s heart than only seeing him a few hours a day.   Deuteronomy does say to teach our children throughout the day. 

In fact, due to our present controlling government, home educating our children can have the greatest impact to how our government and country changes in future years.   Making our homes a center for our children’s education will give a big blow to the “socialist agenda” our government has planned to go.

Nothing is “free”

The idea that public education is free is a big lie.  Every time something is said to be free, we become very discerning, especially if it comes from the government.  Public school, including charter schools, comes with a price tag, your freedom and your children.  For the last 200 years, people lost sight of how important freedom in education is.  We have given our children away to be indoctrinated by a humanist, atheist and immoral system of education.   One of the most important documentary films that clearly explain the indoctrination in the public schools is Indoctrination.  Get it. It is absolutely to be in our home library.  I have given it to neighbors and they have immediately made the decision to home educate their children just by watching this documentary.

Best Time To Home Educate Is Now

Like never before in history, we can home educate our children and be able to teach them anything we want under the sun.  Information has never before been so readily available with technology, like the internet and all the books available for free.  Seriously, who can’t home educate?  When my children ask me a question that I don’t know the answer,  I tell them, “let’s research it”.  They are learning that there are no limitations to learning.  If the Wright Brothers could invent the mechanics of flying, with limited resources available, and the countless of inventors and discoveries made, we have no excuse.

Advantages of Home Education

I will give just a short list of the benefits of home educating because they are simply many.

1. We have the privilege of being our children’s main teachers.


2. Learn to love to explore and make discoveries in
   God’s creation.


3. We can better shepherd our children’s hearts.  And have their hearts.


4. We indoctrinate our children in Biblical Truth and how to love God.


5. We can teach them what they are interested about instead of insignificant or unwanted material.


6. The whole world is their classroom instead of being locked up in a school campus.


7. Experience the blessings of God by obeying this command.


8. The subjects to learn together as a family are limitless.


9. Build stronger faithful generations as our children also home educate their children and continue.

10.Our churches and government will be stronger and more godly as we raise our children to lead in the world and take dominion.

11.We teach and learn from living an adventurous life with our children.

12.No time restrictions and no wasted time:  We teach while cooking, cleaning, gardening, home birthing, shopping, eating, at every moment and opportunity.

There are so many more.  These blessings are not easy either.  There will be things we may need to sacrifice to have our freedom.  I don’t believe anyone has obstacles in this area that can’t be overcome.  I speak from experience.  When you weigh the cost, the obstacles are worthless.  The souls of our children are worth more.

Is your home a place for education?  If you wish to home educate what are your fears?

The Home - Part 5

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Doctor leaves practice to be a Stay at home Mom!

May the Lord continue to raise up godly courages women who embrace their highest calling.  Then and only then will they be truly fulfilled as women.

Physician Wholeheartedly Gives Up Medical Practice to Be a Wife and Mother of Eight Children for the Glory of God! from Douglas Phillips on Vimeo.

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Why Home Education?

Our number one reason for home educating our children is that it is God's way of fulfilling the command of Deuteronomy 6. 

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   We desire the best education for our children and that can only come from the Word of God.  Thus our main textbook is the Bible.


2. We pray for our children to gain a heart of wisdom.  That would only come from learning God's ways and not the wisdom of the world.


3. We have no time to waste.  Too much time is wasted sitting in classrooms listening to teachers trying to keep order in the class.  Education is far more than just academics.  We teach about life.


4. We are the primary responsible for our children so we need to discipline their actions.  We cannot do that if we don't know what they did or said all day.


5. We are the experts when it comes to our children because we know them best.  We know what they need and what they don't need.


6. Age-integrated teaching.  Children are not age segregated like in school.  The older ones will learn love, kindness and patience when it interacting and teaching the little ones.  The younger ones learn better and faster from the older ones.  No room for selfish attitudes or immaturity.


7. Nutritious, homemade food,  rather than cafeteria food.


8. No peer-presure, no humanistic teachings, unstructured


9. Go at our own pace


10. Te tell you the truth we just love being together and learning together about God and life all day.

The list goes on and on.....

Which other reasons do you have for home educating?

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