Looking for ways to make your history lessons a little more fun? Nothing makes a homeschool child’s heart sing more than playing good game. So why not use that to your advantage and use homeschool history games for hands-on learning?
In our homeschooling, I’ve found that games of any type and level of complexity really help to reinforce learning. Kinesthetic learners in particular seem to absorb and retain concepts more when there is a hands-on aspect.
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We have a literature-based approach to history that we really love, but adding history games and fun projects to the mix, especially when they help us dig deeper into a topic the kids become interested in, has made our homeschool history program really solid.
We have used Homeschool in the Woods for several pieces of our history experience, including their popular timeline products, but right now my favorite thing is their A La Carte Projects.
If you’re familiar with Homeschool in the Woods, you know that their History Studies are massive learning packs covering various time periods and are really detailed and involved. We’ve gone through one ourselves and loved everything we learned!
However, even if you aren’t wanting to take on a complete set of their History Studies you’ll love what they have to offer. If you just want to supplement what you’re already doing with some fun games and hands-on learning, you’re going to love the A La Carte Projects as much as I do.
How We Add Homeschool History Games
Right now we are studying American history as a family and my oldest is also doing some independent study in ancient history. Of course, we also hit Bible times with our regular family Bible studies. There are lots of opportunities to add fun activities!
As we progress with our history studies, reading and discussing great literature, we select from the appropriate time period in the A La Carte Projects section and pick some fun activities. My kids are big on games, so we gravitate toward those.
I play A Trip to Town (our favorite so far) with my oldest two as a fantastic way to explore more about the terms and life of colonial America that we’ve been reading about as a family. We work our way around the town trying to gather all the items on our shopping list. I’ve landed in the stocks every game, but…
My oldest and I play Tomb Dash to go along with his ancient Egypt studies, working together against the clock to learn and review facts as we gather artifacts and find our way out.
Everyone got in on Pirate Panoply, although the littles mostly just enjoyed the coloring and talking like a pirate, but we all raced to see who could dress their pirate first as we learned about what they wore. That was totally unrelated to any other studies. We just did it for fun!
Next in our fun learning queue: Geography with the Name That State file folder game, the Passover Seder Game, and some non-game learning activities such as the Old Testament Tribune Newspaper and the Trip West in a Covered Wagon Lap Book.
What You’ll Find in the A La Carte Projects
There are so many things to explore in each time period. Here are the types of projects you’ll find:
- Timelines
- File Folder Projects
- Games and File Folder Games
- 3-Dimensional Activities
- Lap Books
- Newspaper Projects
- Notebooking Projects
There are many different ways you could use the A La Carte Projects at Homeschool in the Woods. You could add fun to your history studies like we do, enrich your Bible studies, or put together a fun game-based summer homeschool program!
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Sherry
27 Apr 2018I’d probably choose the WW1 Lapbook Project
Katie
27 Apr 2018Hi! We’d like On The Homefront and Penny Rug (among others)! What a fun resource for me to now check out. Thanks
Karen
27 Apr 2018johnstown flood
Wendy Clark
27 Apr 2018It would be so hard to choose just three! I would be interested in the Jamestown recreation, and any of the file folder games, like the WWI one and I know my son would probably love the pirate vocabulary one!
Luz
27 Apr 2018Wow! Looks like so much fun. Thank you for sharing Homeschool in th Woods. I personally had not heard about them before but I took a look through their site and I like what I see.
Luz
27 Apr 2018I got so excited I forgot that’s i really liked the Make-a-state Activity Pak. I’m pretty new to lap booking and I loved the layout of the example shown. It would be great for my upcoming 4th/5th grader kids and my younger ones could easily follow along too.
Tammy
27 Apr 2018So many great choices! We would enjoy the Science, Inventions, and Math Timeline; the High & Dry File Folder Game; and WWII Military Weaponry for my little man who loves tanks, planes, etc.
Jackie
27 Apr 2018Wow! These look like so much fun! I have just started incorporating more games into our schooling instead of just worksheets and textbooks, and I would love to win some of these!
April D
27 Apr 2018Wow! I have to say that my kids would love all the WWI and WWII activities on the site, as well as the westward expansion stuff. These are some pretty great finds. I don’t know how I’d narrow it down to choose! 🙂
Kirsten
27 Apr 2018My son would love the World War 1 and World War 2 weaponry bundles!
Cabot Mama
27 Apr 2018Oh my! How would I choose?! So many awesome options!! Thank you for letting me know they exist! My 7th grade son would choose everything WWI and WWI related, with Revolutionary War a close second. My 5th grade daughter would want the Penny Rug (birthday gift?!). And my 2nd & 1st graders would love the Fifty States game!!
Katrina Lewis
27 Apr 2018I think we would choose the art of quilling. Any of the WWII ones, and the penny rig! Those look so fun!
Sheri Newell Anderson
27 Apr 2018So many awesome items but would love the Pirate Panoply Game, The Armor of God Poster, and The Passover Seder Game, thanks!
Paula
27 Apr 2018World History Timelines would be great!
Amy
27 Apr 2018Oh my goodness, they have tons of cool stuff! I really like ones related to military and wars, but the armor of God is neat too!!
Marj
27 Apr 2018Thank you for the Giveaway!!!! Best of luck everyone
Angela
27 Apr 2018I am reading the Little house on the Prairie series with 2 of my boys right now so I would love to get the “Going West in a Covered Wagon” kit from Homeschool in the Woods.
Jennifer
27 Apr 2018Oh gosh! So much goodness in the a la carte section! I have only boys, and I have agreed to U. S. History for next year. I believe the States game, the World War weaponries and the Explorers would all be fantastic additions. If only we all had all the money in the world for educational additions! I am seriously impressed with these.
Ing
27 Apr 2018The a la carte products on homeschoolinthewoods look GREAT! I’d like to have the states and capitals game, some timelines, the composer and artist folders, and … wow! There are so many I’d like!
Leigh Owens
27 Apr 2018I’d choose the War Across Five Aprils, Native American, and Home Front. But it was extremely hard to choose between them all!!
Amanda
27 Apr 2018Wow, a lot to choose from. I’d have to get my son to help me decide to see what my kids would like the best.
Katie
27 Apr 2018Literary genres lapbook
Meghan A.
27 Apr 2018Wow, it would be hard to pick just three but at the top for our family, since we are studying American History and individual states, would be the American History Newspaper Collection and Name That State! The Penny Rug activity also looks very interesting as well as the games Taxation Frustration! and A Trip to Town.
Thanks! 🙂
Ginette
27 Apr 2018I would love to win this for my kids, thank you!
Ginette
27 Apr 2018We would enjoy the covered wagon project, Lewis and Clark, American History newspaper, orchestra file folder, or A Trip to Town game.
Erin
27 Apr 2018Probably the Science, Invention, and Mathematicians Timeline, the Composers through history timeline, and the War between the States timeline.
Mistie
27 Apr 2018These were all so neat! I was not aware of this resource. I think I am definitely interested in the Tomb game because we will be beginning ancient history again next year. The Seder game looked neat as well!
Christian Whetzel
27 Apr 2018What an awesome giveaway! Thank you for the giveaway!
Jaime Johnson
27 Apr 2018Thank you for posting about A La Carte Projects. I hadn’t heard of this resource before and I’m loving these resources. I feel we would be using the Westward Ho! File Folder Game the most. As popular as Oregon Trail is in this house it would complement our, soon to be reading, Little House series.
Marion
27 Apr 2018I would like The Bombing of Pearl Harbor ,WW1 and WW11
Marion
Amy Mac
27 Apr 2018So many great choices. I would love to use the Lewis and Clark expedition and maybe some of the World War II ones.
Dana
27 Apr 2018These may come in handy with our literature/history study next year for my younger kids.
Krista
27 Apr 2018Wow, I didn’t know they had those and there are a lot to choose from but as we are heading into the WW with boys I think the 3 I’d choose are the Military Weaponry Notebook Project for both World War I and World War II then for my final choice The Roaring 20’s Lapbook/Notebook Project.
Abigail Frazee
27 Apr 2018Covered Wagon Lapbook
Cassie
27 Apr 2018Homeschool in the Woods has some really fun stuff! We’ve used their timeline figures in the past and have bought the Knights lap-pack for my K and 2nd next year!
Heart of a Philanthropist Blogger Kim
27 Apr 2018I would pick the American History Newspaper collection, the Middle Ages Timeline collection, and Literary Genres Lap Book.
Sarah
27 Apr 2018My son would love the covered wagon lapbook.
Peggy Manley
27 Apr 2018I love the Jamestown project!
Jennifer Mathesz
27 Apr 2018I like the Time travelers products
Nicole P
27 Apr 2018Oh my soooo many great choices to chose from! My kids would love the Name the State game and Tomb Dash. We are also in the process of studying early American history and the 3d model of Jamestown would be a huge hit as well. Thank you for the chance to win!
Linsey
27 Apr 2018I’ve been wanting to try these!
Kera
27 Apr 2018Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Kristin Dickson
27 Apr 2018This looks like a fun giveaway! I would like art Fight for freedom, The war to end all wars, and the art gallery file folder games since my son loves to play games and those look interesting
Crystal Zdrojewski
27 Apr 2018Wow! What fun stuff! Just looking at the first page, I like the penny rug notebook, the covered wagon and Lewis & Clark lap books, and the science, invention, and mathematicians timeline.
Missy
27 Apr 2018I’d get the westward ho game, and either the wwI or wwII or civil war games. My boys would love them.
Charis
27 Apr 2018I’d pick Tomb Dash, the Kemet Chronicle newspaper, and Name that State.
Stacy
27 Apr 2018These are great! I love history, my daughter loves science. I would love all of these! But I think she would most enjoy ALC-1050, the Science and invention timeline, ALC-1020 Martin Luther pack (ok, this one is for me), and ALC-1003, the Pirates, because everyone loves pirates!
Molli Taylor
27 Apr 2018i love these the best:
~passover seder game
~the penny rug notebook
~native story lap book project
i think they would enhance our personal and education pursuits
Kirsten
27 Apr 2018These look awesome! Could totally use some of those Oregon Trail & Lewis & Clark lapbooks for our upcoming history units. And the colonial game looks like lots of fun too.
Zorah
27 Apr 2018I’d love to get the Armor of God poster, and the Sciece, Invention and Mathematicans timeline
Wendy
27 Apr 2018Homeschool in the Woods is ALL I use for history! I love all of their products, so I will have a hard time choosing 1 product, even off of the A La Carte.
Christy Whitsell
27 Apr 2018Tomb Dash
Greek Life
Journey throught the Middle Ages
CarolS.
27 Apr 2018OI!!! Too many choices!!
I’d pick:
Name That State
Science, Invention, and Mathematics
and
High and Dry File Folder Game!
They ALL look FUN!! Thanks for the opportunity to win!!
(((Hugs)))
Sarah
27 Apr 2018This looks like a great resource! Thanks!
A. Ross
27 Apr 2018I like the WW2 resources, some of the timelines, and the state game. Actually it all looks nice.
Kristen
27 Apr 2018I love the WWII weaponry item as well as the On the homefront and Pearl Harbor stuff. How exciting!
Kristen
27 Apr 2018We would be interested in the World War II On the Homefront or the WWI military weaponry notebook. Or any that have to do with Egypt or the Civil War. (We love history in our home.)
Audra
27 Apr 2018So many to choose from! One would definitely have to be The Trip West in a Covered Wagon Lap Book/Notebook Project.
Lisa
27 Apr 2018The Great War Lapbook/Notebook Project looks like a great resource to integrate all the aspects of WWI.
nikki garrett
27 Apr 2018My top three are
Merchant Marauder
Tomb Dash
A Trip Town
but I’m already eyeing several others for the next school year.Especially the name that state & the Orchestra one 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing this awesome site with us.
Melissa N
27 Apr 2018I am in love with the On the Homefront notebook as well as the other US History items! Thanks for sharing this resource. I’ll definitely be purchasing some of these in the upcoming year!
A
27 Apr 2018These look so interesting!
Robbyn F
27 Apr 2018I just got this in my email today but the info on this page says it ends April 9th. I will try anyway because I really enjoy Homeschool in the Woods.
Tauna Meyer
27 Apr 2018Sorry about that! It was supposed to say May 9th. I fixed it. If something on my blog ever doesn’t make sense you can go ahead and assume it’s human error because I make a lot of them. 😀 Thanks for letting me know!
Robbyn F
27 Apr 2018I would get either 1) The war to end all Wars game, or 2) Journey through the Middle Ages game.
Katie S
27 Apr 2018Thanks for the chance to win! I know my kids would love the WWI/WWII a la carte items.
SHANNON ALEXANDER
27 Apr 2018well, the military weaponry one looks like something my boys would love. Not sure if that would be my final pick though. So many good choices!
Lisa Lawton
27 Apr 2018These history units look really neat! I’m searching for a new way to do history that would let me teach all 3 kiddos the same!
Teresa W
27 Apr 2018Oh boy there are so many good ones! The Passover Seder stands out to me – I have always wanted to start incorporating Passover more in our family traditions. Name that State would be good too.
Bette
27 Apr 2018My boys would love more hands-on activities about WWII or the travels West and Native Americans!
Martha
27 Apr 2018I would love to have the Roaring 20’s lapbook project, The Great War lapbook project, and the Get Your Kicks on Route 66 file folder game.
Jennie
28 Apr 2018I’d get the middle ages game or something about WW1!!
Lesl T
28 Apr 2018Renaissance & Reformation Timeline
Tiffany
28 Apr 2018These look great! I have not seen them before, but would love to try them.
Michelle
28 Apr 2018Ummm….. all of them? They are all great!
Amber
28 Apr 2018WWII resources
Heather
28 Apr 2018Wow! So many great choices! We really like the ones that go along with the study of the States for next year’s curriculum and also the Penny Rug project looks fun and the Jamestown pop up looked very interesting as well! It would be very difficult to choose, which is a great problem to have!
Barbie Null
28 Apr 2018They all look amazing. To choose a few, I would say the Passover Seder, The art of Quilling, and Literary Genres Lapbook!
Jennifer
28 Apr 2018So many to choose from. I like the timelines. The covered wagon lapbook looks fun too!
Laurie
28 Apr 2018So many great options. On the home front particularly caught my eye.
Heather
29 Apr 2018We.would love the homefronf, covered wagon, snd science and math timeline. As well as several others!
Christie
29 Apr 2018I would choose the orchestra game, the newspaper collection and probably one of the timeline figures. So hard to decide!
Nancy
29 Apr 2018My boys would love the military weaponry items
Judith Martinez
29 Apr 2018I like the Passover seder game and the penny rug project.
Tanya
29 Apr 2018We’d love Tomb Dash!, Greek Life!, and The Passover Seder Game. Thanks for the opportunity! 🙂
Robin G.
29 Apr 2018Wow! There are so many choices. I would pick the lapbooks for WWI-The Great War, WWII-On the Homefront, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, The Roaring Twenties, so may of the Timelines, Literary Genres, Erie Canal. For games, I would choose Name That State, Journey Through the Middle Ages, Greek Life, Tomb Dash and Route 66. Thank you for the chance these.
Jennifer Olmstead
1 May 2018I can’t decide! The file folder games look fun (A Trip to Town, anyone?) but Ive been wanting to do some lapbooks with our littles.
Rebecca Kruc
3 May 2018I had fun just looking at all the great games… I’m thinking that the middle ages and renaissance games and anything between 1ad and 1776 would be good for this year!
Rebekah
4 May 2018I’m not sure, there are several that look fun!
Kim
4 May 2018Any of the WWI ones
Melinda G
4 May 2018These look great!! So many options!!!
Stevie
4 May 2018Tomb Dash
Laura Oliver
4 May 2018They all look awesome!! I think right now I would choose On The Homefront because my 7y/o is obsessed with Victory gardens.
Amanda Ulrich
4 May 2018How neat! What a fun way to learn. Thank you so much for the opportunity!
Kimberley H.
4 May 2018I’d like them all!
Dawn
4 May 2018So many choices but I think I’d have to get some of the file folder games!
Becky Salter
5 May 2018How hard is this?! But I’m especially loving the Ancient Greece timeline.
Tracey M.
5 May 2018If we won this giveaway, I would choose The Art of Quilling, New Figures 20th and 21st Century, Literary Genres Lapbook Mini-Study, High and Dry Game, A Trip to Town File Folder Game, or the Name That State File Folder Game.
Kira
6 May 2018It would be a hard choice but I would choose American History Newspaper Collection, The Roaring 20’s Lap Book, and The Jamestown Replica.
Delia Jones
6 May 2018Cool giveaway! I probably would choose The War Across 5 Aprils game, a timeline or two and possibly The War to end all Wars game.
Jessi
6 May 2018I think the Name That State File Folder Game would really interest my kids. We have family all over the US and it will lock in more states and their locations. Looks like fun!
Danielle Hull
9 May 2018I haven’t seen all their new items! I think I swould start with the Armor of God poster!