One of the best things we’ve done in our homeschool is to switch to a more literature-based approach. Moving away from texts and busy work and more toward rich, living books, notebooking, and narration has made subjects such as history SO much more enjoyable and the kids retain it better as well! I am most pleased with Beautiful Feet Books and our experience with them in this area!
Beautiful Feet Books offers curriculum programs that are literature-based and use the best books out there along with helpful study guides and resources. They are not new to the homeschool scene, having served families with wonderful curriculum for over 30 years!
Day 10 of the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways here at Proverbial Homemaker: Beautiful Feet Books!!
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Although they are best known for their history curriculum they also have an award-winning literature-based geography curriculum that, I’ll confess, I’m totally drooling over.
Here’s what Geography Through Literature includes:
- Great books! Caldecott Honor Holling classics
- A study of three geographic U.S. regions and world geography
- Geography, history, and natural science of each area
- Card stock maps for coloring and labeling
- Study guide with 39 lessons – discussion questions, links, vocabulary, book lists, etc.
- Great for 3d – 7th grade
Not only will you enjoy wonderful books with your children as you explore geography in a gentle way, but you’ll have finished maps that can serve as keepsakes. Your kids will love geography day and the fun way of learning the subject!
Looking for more information about their history curriculum? Read my full review here.
Win the Geography Through Literature Pack ($69.95 value)
Beautiful Feet Books is giving Proverbial Homemaker readers a chance to win a the Geography Through Literature Pack!
Here is what the pack includes:
- Geography Through Literature Study Guide
- Geography Map Set
- Minn of the Mississippi
- Paddle to the Sea
- Seabird
- Tree in the Trail
Giveaway ends at 11;59PM EST 12/26. Winner will be notified via email and has 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.
Check out ALL the fun prizes in our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway series here at Proverbial Homemaker!
by Stephanie, The Multi Taskin' Mom
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Can I say all of the above! I love curriculum! I would be most interested in the dyslexia section.
Books and learning with literature are my favorite. I’ve been thinking about trying a Beautiful Feet geography package for some time in our homeschool.
We use these at our co-op and they are truly beautiful!
We have used BFB Curriculum in the past. I love the literature.
Can’t find where to comment so I’ll reply to this one. The BF guides and literature are great.
I have purchased from Educents before. They have a variety of educational items. I can’t think of anything else for them to include.
I’m planning on using Beautiful Feet for our history next year. The Geography Pack would be great to go along with it!
I would like the Mod Design 1 , learn to code with Minecraft, as we purchased Minecraft for our Christmas,
I’m mostly interested in Dyslexia and ADHD friendly curriculums. And we love Life of Fred and always get them from Educents. Thanks!
I would like their Magic School Bus Science
I was interested in the shakers.
I love teaching geography to my children, especially since my undergrad is geography!
I think your selection is great. It would be cool to have some drama resources. Thanks!
I’d check out the science DVDs.
I think I’d like to try some of the arts and crafts kits because craft is not my interest, especially getting all the stuff together!!!
I would love to win this. I have one of the Beautiful Feet series and my daughter is loving it. If I was to get something from Educents it would probably be their Tegu blocks or something from the Math area.
I recently saw these maps on another mama”s blog post! we love the books, the geography lessons to go with them look awesome!
We already have several things from Educents that we are happy with. I might look next at some of the Minecraft themed items.
I cannot think of any other item Educents should have but does not. Life of Fred is the best according to my student! Lovely giveaway. Thanks!
Thank you for the giveaway opportunity!!
I have had my eye on some of the foreign language curriculum from educents.
I like the anatomy adventure series.
Exciting! would love to incorporate this in our school days!
Looks awesome!
What fun! I’m pretty sure my oldest would prefer to learn every subject through literature.
would love this!
Wow! I never heard of Goldieblox or Mona Melisa. I’m always looking for things to encourage her imagination.
Sounds like a great giveaway! Merry Christmas!
We love living history books!
I’ve been eyeing Life of Fred for YEARS but for some reason, can’t take the plunge. I’m just worried it wouldn’t work for my kids and I am so tired of buying curriculum only for it to go unused! So I would definitely love to have the opportunity to try LoF!
Maestro Classics 12 CD collection
We are using BF for American History this year and are really enjoying it. We would love to do the geography curriculum.
Would love to try these books!
If I could just buy anything I wanted, I’d buy the guitar lessons with the guitar kit.
I would like the Maestro Classic CD Set.
Great giveaway!
I just love everything from there! Mapping are definitely my favorites!
I have not looked at the Educents site in a long time. My has it grown! I like the idea of a “dyslexic” section.
We love learning with educational games and toys! Educents is great!
Fine Arts supplies! love it!
What a great idea for a geography!
Very interested 🙂
I would love to win this set…we have not used Beautiful Feet before but I have heard good things. I have many more children in this age group to teach and train so this would make a good addition to our repertoire.
I would also like the Tegu blocks or Life of Fred.
My daughter LOVES the Goldiblox toys. The crafty one looks good.
I would love their Maestro Classics Music Collection!
I would love to get Dice Off to help encourage Spanish language skills.
Thank you for the opportunity!!
Thanks for sharing the giveaway opportunity! I love BFB! Merry Christmas! <3
I would love the Minecraft curriculum!!
I like the K’nex building structures.
I really like the alphabet products for my preschooler.
My daughter loves to read, so this would be a great way to incorporate learning geography into something she loves to do
Life of Fred or Anatomy…Lots of things, actually!
I think my preschooler would like Stepping Stones-Chalk and Chuckles.
I would love this curriculum. My son just finished up a state curriculum and this would be a great replcement
Anatomy Adventure
I love a Mystery book set.. Thanks for the giveaway.
more life off fred books!
I love the idea of combining geography and literature. I love maps and love to put a “real” face on whatever we are studying by showing the actual locations involved in our subjects.
I have never had the opportunity to try this curriculum but it has always been on my list. I love the books that are used….Beautiful! xx
Looks like a great curriculum. I am off to check out Beautiful Feet Books!
The Visual Note taking Course looks rather helpful.
Multiplication and Division story cards
We use BFB for history and love the literature approach!
“Making Spelling Sense” would help with my dyslexic ones!
I’d like the truck wooden matching game for toddlers! My nephew would love it!
I love all the Life of Fred offers at Educents!
I would love the us wall map stickers and life of Fred readers. Thanks!
I love the different types of building blocks Educents sells! They have much better prices than other retailers.
Looks like an interesting way to learn geography. Definitely think my kids would enjoy it.
Excited for a chance to win this. Thank you.
I’ve been eyeing the Maestro Classics CDs for a while now. I’ve got a son who is interested in computer programming, so the KidCoder series looks good, too. They’ve got lots of great stuff!
The dyslexia materials look interesting to me.
I’ve been wanting to try Goldieblox and Electronics for Kids looks interesting because my husband is an electrician!
From Educents I’d like to try the LOF beginning readers.
these giveaways are great! I love learning about the new things out there for homeschoolers. Thank you!
Wow so much to choose from!
i’d love to learn more about the Electronics for kids products – my son would love them
Thank you for the opportunity to enter this amazing giveaway
Tegu blocks
So many neat things! My oldest daughter is learning ASL and would love the memory cards. Also, the Mod 1 , learn to code with Minecraft would be so fun for my boy! The geography set looks amazing!
Oh! So excited. We just finished Paddle to the Sea and would love to continue with the rest of the books. My girls really enjoyed the book! Thanks for the opportunity!
I love all the Peel and Play sets
I like a lot of the products from educents
I would like to try the Times Tales. Any help for the kids to remember their times tables is appreciated.
Jody
The tegu blocks…..my kids would love those!
I would like to try Life of Fred .
Reading literature and fun books to learn is so much more meaningful and helps my kids remember more than facts. Thanks for this great giveaway!!
I like Goldiblox
I am not familiar with Beautiful Feet, but we love curriculum that connects literature to other subjects. We would love to try anything based off of good literature!
We love Beautiful Feet! We are working through American History with them and it is so engaging! Their study guides are wonderful and the books to go along with them are great. It makes learning history through literature easy on the teacher and exciting for the student! I love there use of notebooking as well. I’m looking forward to seeing the notebook completed at the end of the school year!
We love Beautiful Feet! We are working through American History with them and it is so engaging! Their study guides are wonderful and the books to go along with them are great. It makes learning history through literature easy on the teacher and exciting for the student! I love there use of notebooking as well. I’m looking forward to seeing the notebook completed at the end of the school year!
I have not used this curriculum nor have I seen it. Very intrigued at teaching more through literature.
They all look so good it’s hard to pick just one.
Ooh, word puzzles! My girls are really into those right now. Some of the geometry things look great too.
I like the Life of Fred beginning reader set.
There are so many products from Educents that I can’t narrow down what I would like more.
My kids would love many items from the STEM category!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Maestro Classics
Tegu Blocks!
I have 5 kiddos 7 and under, so mostly I like all the little learning toys, like the wooden clock!
I would love the ukelele beginner pack. My son was been wanting one!
We’d love the Squishy Slimy Polymer Bucket!
Everything looks great! I went to the preschool page and saw tons of musical instruments that I would love to introduce to my children.
I am intrigued with the
Tegu blocks. They have so much potential for learning.
I would like the early math collection dvd’s.
I think the boys would like geography through a story. Thanks for the opportunity to win this set.
I need more in the series of Life of Fred books and I want to check out the Answers for Kids set.
Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I’ve been looking at the kidcoder and teencoder curriculum!
I have been wanting to try this curriculum by Beautiful Feet Books. It looks to be so awesome!
I also like the Life of Fred Pre-Algebra Series
Would love to win anything for my son. 🙂
Happy holidays,
Marj
Good luck to everyone!
5 Minutes to Better Reading sounds good.
We LOVE Beautiful Feet! What an awesome Christmas gift this would be!
I did not know Life of Fred had books other than math so I would pick the Life of Fred Language Arts Set Series, I will definitely be checking it out further.
We like the magnetic Blocks.
Fred books have my interest.
Marilyn
I love Beautiful Feet! We haven’t done the Geography. We have done the American History.
Too many choices and so many things to try. Anything history or science would be good.
We used the BFB early American History curriculum, and it was great! So many wonderful books to read and suggestions for activities and discussion in the guide.
My kids are still young and I’m very interested in checking this out.
I want to enter the giveaway for my nephew! Adorable educational books! Happy Holidays!
I would love to try out life of Fred books with our kids. I’m praying to find really great literature books for every subject.
Magic School Bus Nature Set
I like all the sales that they have.
I like the Life of Fred offerings.
So many choices at Educents! Life of Fred has always been of interest, and also their History & Art combo.
I love games! I could browse for a long time in that section!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I think my girls would love to try the goldiblocks!
I love BFB! This is a set I’ve had my eyes on for awhile!
This would be a perfect add to my geography curriculum.
I’ve wanted to try this BFB geography package for a long time!
My kids love playing with Magformers at friends’ houses.
But more importantly, I love, Love, LOVE this giveaway, and hope to win this geography pack. We are on Chapter 20/27 of Paddle-to-the-Sea from the library, and my 3- and 5-year-old boys can’t wait to read more. It’s the first of Holling’s books that we’ve read, and I look forward to reading more. It would be great to go back through it when they are older for a more “official” geography lesson. Though at least they are now familiar with the names of several of the Great Lakes (we live in the SE, so they wouldn’t be otherwise).
I love Beautiful feet books. I would love to check out the I Love a Mystery Book sets as well.
Life of Fred books are my favorite!
I have heard of Beautiful Feet Press, but never used them. I like the idea of geography through literature.
Wow! What a great give away! I love Beautiful Feet, and would be thrilled to win this for my class!
The I love a Mystery book set looks like fun!
I am curious about the Magic School Bus science kits. Looks like Educents has them.
I really like the Stepping Stones and Anatomy Adventures on Educents.
I am researching homeschooling and found this info helpful. I believe my 2 nd grader would enjoying reading those great books. Thanks!
I’d like any of the Peel & Play sets
Thanks for offering this giveaway. I would like Zone cleaning for kids and I will check out Beautiful feet for history.
Beautiful feet for history please!
We’d really like to try some of their foreign language resources!
The Maestro Classics 12 CD Music Collection
Peel, Play, and Learn Reusable Stickers
I’d love the Maestro Classics set.
What a wonderful curriculum! A blessing to anyone who wins.
I really like life of Fred.
My boys would have a lot of fun with it
We are really struggling with our geography curriculum, so I’d love to try something else! Thank you!
So many things to chose from!
I’d like the Life of Fred elementary series from Educents!
Beautiful Feet books in this giveaway would be perfect as we are going to start reading Pagoo next month.
I’d be interested in both the Tegu blocks and The Maestro Classics 12 CD Music Collection!
Thanks for the giveaway! I would love any of the music history curriculum!
I love looking at all of their resources for homeschooling. Specifically books.
Tegu Blocks or Maestro Classics…. both look amazing!
I’d love to try the maestro classic CDs!
I have been eyeing this set from BF for a while, thank you for posting this giveaway!
Love all of the Beautiful Feet products.
Awesome curriculum!!!
for my 2nd grader.
I would love to see more free printables
A lot of it 🙂 Geography through Literature would be fantastic. Love learning through literature.
I have loved using Beautiful Feet this year for history and character development.
I would like
i would love to buy writing resources from educents! i love that they have practically everything! the just add words prompts are neat! http://www.educents.com/just-add-words-picture-writing-prompts-for-january.html
I would love this
Looks great!
I would like anything that would be a creative way to help interest my 12 year old in history.
Nature Study
So many interesting items.
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Too many interesting looking things!
Maestro Classics and Life of Fred! 🙂
The kids would love the Star Wars Notebooks! I think I’d like something to do with arts and crafts, or science, as those are not strong areas for me and it would be nice to have fun supplements.
I’d love this!
we love everything we’ve used from Educents
The Magic School Bus kits!
Magic School bus science kits
Looks interesting!
looks like a great set!
My big thing would be Life of Fred LA sets.
My daughter would love this!
I have been looking into beautiful feet for a while! I would love to win this and try it out!!
What interests me most is that it’s literature based. I am a big fan of literature based curricula.
Beautiful Feet looks like a Great Way to Incorporate Unit studies in our homeschooling. Plus the maping part of their curriculum will dovetail nicely with our wandering homeschooling life!
My children love art, craft, music, literature, activity based curriculum. Anything that fits the above, we’d love to incorporate into our school day.
I’m really excited about Beautiful Feet! I want to begin with this with my oldest daughter next yr!
I’m interested in a gentle, interesting approach to geography!
I’ve heard good things about these from other homeschool parents.
I love the literature that’s included.
Love these days of Christmas
Love the books.
The books in the Beautiful Feet Geography pack look amazing.
Like to try beautiful feet. Sounds great
we love Holling C Holling books
Would like to supplement my grandchildren’s education with good quality curriculum,
Rich, engaging, living history!
BFB makes history come alive for my daughter!
Sigh. What can I say… we love everything about Beautiful Feet books! Thank you for the reminder of how much I truly do, because I am way too excited about this giveaway <3
Merry Christmas!
We love BFB! We will need this next year, it would be so wonderful to win it! Thank you for the opportunity!
I like the Beautiful Feet geography sets for their large maps!
We are currently using their Early American History Intermediate pack and my kids are really enjoying it. No more complaining about doing their history assignments!! Hurray!
I love BFB curriculum! We are using them for history this year and all 3 of my kids, although different ages, can each learn from the “lessons”.
These are all on our wish list. Beautiful!
I love using great literature to teach history and geography! BF books looks great!
We are using their Early American History program this year because we also love the literature based approach to learning! I am hoping to use Geography next year, so this would be a fun blessing!
Our kids love maps. The idea of exploring geography through literature is intriguing and something I think they would love.
We used BF books early American history last year, and it was so enjoyable.
I’m interested in the history through literature and geography through literature packs.
I like the Beautiful Feet books because they make the facts and short little stories of history books come alive for my kids!
I would love to try Beautiful feet! I have been drooling over the history but we just couldn’t afford it this year. Maybe next school year…. What a great giveaway!
I love beautiful feet books and so do my children. Would love to do the geography as well!
We are using American history by BF this year and would love to continue with geography next year!
I love the books that they choose.
Would love to try the Geography set! Love the books they include.
Love Beautiful Feet Books!! Such a wonderful company!
I use a Charlotte Mason philosophy for our school and this living book curriculum fits right in!!
We’ve loved the Early American set and would love to try this one!
I love how Beautiful Feet uses quality living books. We only have so much time in our homeschool and want to make sure we are using our time wisely – this Geography curriculum would definitely fill that requirement. Thanks so much for offering giveaway!
I love that subjects are taught through living books-and that the prep is already done for me! <3
These are great. Very useful if you use Charlotte Mason methods.
I love the honest learning that happens when someone interacts with a text and can explain what is being written about.
They are fascinating to read!
We enjoy BFB. We have used the history for years. I keep eyeing geography. Would love to win this. Thank you for the opportunity! Merry Christmas!
I am using the Early American History program and LOVE it. Can’t wait to do Geography!
This looks amazing!
I love geography and I love reading books with my kids so this sounds great.
I love the look of this course- my son would love this!
We love Beautiful Feet! We already use their Early American History Curriculum and it got us on our way last year. I supplemented with many, many additional books and we will probably be doing American History for 3 years due to all the good literature available for young children on this subject. I have been eyeing this Geography pack and would love to win it. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love that they use living books to teach history!
I love how Beautiful Feet Books combine a love of reading with a love of learning. The books are well crafted and memorable in and of themselves, but the accompanying teacher guides allow a child to think more clearly about what they have read. I haven’t tried the Geography set yet, and would love to win, and dive into those books and maps with my kids!
I love all of the family learning together around a book!!
Looks wonderful!
We own a few of the BF history guides and I’ve had my eye on the geography pack. I love that maps are included to correspond with each literature selection.
Thank you for sponsoring this give away!
Wow! Everything in the lack is amazing….a few have been on my child’s wishlist so it would be ace to win them plus other fantastic books (Now also added to wishlist!)
Been coveting beautiful feet books for a while!!
Hoping to add BFB Geography to our next year of homeschooling! Thank you and Merry Christmas!!!
This looks amazing! Would love to add this to our homeschool.
I would love to win this. We want to do this next year,
I’m so interested in beautiful feet books! I’ve been using textbooks for our first grade curriculum and I’m not too sure I can continue with it! It doesn’t always engage my girls attention! I’d love to try a literature based approach!
I typed my email address in wrong the first time, sorry!
I’m so interested in beautiful feet books! I’ve been using textbooks for our first grade curriculum and I’m not too sure I can continue with it! It doesn’t always engage my girls attention! I’d love to try a literature based approach!
Beautiful Feet courses are interesting and fun. I’d love to go through the geography course.
We have read most of these Holling C. Holling books from the library and really enjoyed them. It would be great town them and to have a curriculum that uses them.
Love beautiful feet books! This would be perfect for my homeschooling girls:)
I love beautiful feet products. They completely fit our charlotte Mason style home school!
I’m always looking for ways to use books in our homeschool, especially with other subjects.
My favorite thing about Beautiful Feet is all the lovely books! I’ve always been intrigued by the geography set, and I would love the opportunity to use it in the future. Thank you so much for the giveaway 🙂
What interests me most about the BFB giveaway? Why all those lovely, blank maps and books and….
I’d love to win this. We were planning to start this after Christmas anyway!.
Thank you for the review and great giveaway! I love Beautiful Feet books!
Love, love, LOVE Beautiful Feet Books. This is our first year using them and they are phenomenal!! Can’t wait to try more of their curriculum!
I love the books they use. They are quality stories with beautiful illustrations. No junk in them!
I like that you can do geography at the same time as literature. Seeing where you story happens makes it come alive.
I love beautiful feet books for the quality literature. Would be so excited to own the geography set!
As a family that loves reading aloud, this would be just our cup of tea. I’ve had my eye on Paddle to the Sea for a while and having the BF curriculum would be so helpful.
Love beautiful feet!
I’ve read a couple of Holling books and really enjoyed them.
Just love the maps! So well done.
We have used BFB before and really enjoyed them!
I am most interested in the BF books. We use a lot of living books and would love to have these resources!
The dyslexia section for sure.
Thank you for this amazing giveaway! Beautiful Feet publishes some wonderful living books. What I love about this geography curriculum is getting to use the Holling books and the great maps to learn history through literature. Would love to use this with my three kids in our homeschool!
I like the presentation of their materials. The map set is my favorite.
I love that it has maps to color and explore
How have I never seen this curriculum before? Definitely something I’m checking out next.
What a fun, useful prize!
I’ve never used this curriculum before. My youngest is in K and learns differently than her siblings. I would be willing to give this a try when she gets bigger.
We reuse curriculum, so I am starting to find that some subjects don’t sit as well as others. I love that it combines 2 subjects. I am also interested in the history, since this subject seems so wonderful.
I love the Geography Map Set the most. My LO just loves maps and would be using these non stop.
I need to work more on Literature and these look wonderful! It seems they would hold my son’s attention! Thank you!
I have not used BFB yet. I plan to use them next year. I love the living books with the notebooking ideas! It sounds like a great fit for my family!
I love this for my kids! Especially my daughter who I think would love this the most! I really want this. Thanks for posting and hosting this giveaway.
I like that they use living books to teach geography! Thanks for the chance!