Happy spring!  In this post I share a few creative ways to dye Easter eggs! Try Homemade Natural Dyes For the last couple years my kids and I have experimented with making homemade natural Easter egg dyes. So far our best results have come from red cabbage and yellow onion skins. Red cabbage makes beautiful blue eggs and yellow onion skins make orange. To make your dyes you'll need about a cup of red cabbage and a cup of yellow onion skins. Boil a small pot of water for each color. You'll want 2-3 cups of water per pot. Add your plant matter and reduce heat to low. Cover each pot with a lid and let them simmer for about 20-30 minutes. Let your dyes cool, then strain out the plant matter. Add your dyes to a few glass mason jars and add a hard boiled egg to each jar. Put on the lids and stick in your fridge. Leave the eggs in the dye for an hour or two for lighter shades and overnight for deeper shades. To make hearts and stripes like the eggs in the photo, cut pieces tape and st...

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 I often get asked what a typical school day looks like for our family as relaxed homeschoolers, but since our days are so varied, no single day would give an accurate picture of what learning really looks like in our household. Instead I decided sharing about an entire week would be better. Before I get started sharing about our week, here's a little background information about my family:  I have 3 girls. My oldest is 11 and on social media I call her L. My middle kiddo is 5 and we call her Red. My youngest is 3 and we call her Birdy. We don't have a strict wake up or bedtime schedule. We all go to sleep when we feel tired and wake up when we are ready. Typically, though, all three of my kids are usually in bed asleep by about 9pm. L and Birdy usually wake up around the same time as I do, about 7am. Red is my little sleeping beauty, and doesn't usually get up until at least 8, sometimes 9.  Most of our learning tends to be student and interest led. Some days my kids wak...