I’m an occupational therapist that stays home with my kids right now and I was so happy to find that the activities were completely developmentally appropriate. Kids this age I should learn learned by play and that’s what this curriculum is based around it’s not meant to be a full day schedule event. It’s more how to incorporate activities in your day-to-day life.

The Playful Pioneers Volume 2

We are new to homeschooling. This has been just what we needed.

I cannot even begin to describe how wonderful this curriculum is! My family teamed up with one other family to do all the weekly hands-on projects and also to encourage imaginative play with pioneer costumes. We have loved every aspect of this curriculum! We literally cannot wait to do school each morning!! Thank you for creating a resource that not only makes learning so much fun, but is also giving my family so many beautiful memories together that we'll be sure to treasure all of our lives!!

Here are some fun extra ideas to further enrich a year of Playful Pioneers:
- find another family or two to do the study together and make it a mini co-op!
- take photos of your kids doing all the hands-on projects and recipes and then make a homeschool "year book" at the end of the year
- buy time period costumes for your kids to encourage historical play (i.e. pioneers, colonial dresses, George Washington, pilgrims, cowboys, etc).
- pick up some old tin cups/plates from a thrift store to serve your "pioneer food" on. A bowl with a ladle to dip water out of is a great activity for kids of all ages.
- convert a regular kid wagon into a "covered wagon" by adding some hoops (hula hoops) and a white bed sheet for the canopy. Add a few stick ponies and "saw horses" and a rope for the cowboys!
- plan a cattle drive day! Cook food over a campfire, song some cowboy songs, set up a chuck wagon, try to learn harmonica.
- learn about "branding" cattle and design your own personal "brands". Then wood burn them into a keepsake.
- embroider little fabric squares with different things you learn during your school year, and then create a doll quilt out of the squares. (i.e. betsy ross flag, alphabet sampler, cattle ranch brand, name & school year, etc)
- check out extra books from the public library on whatever topic you're studying
- create a "history notebook" for older students to record their insights and what they learned from all the readings.
- try watercolor painting the weekly art prints as a way of studying them
- put on a skit or play of a favorite history lesson (i.e. the pilgrims and the first thanksgiving)
- the Little House books can be purchased as audiobooks, which make it convenient to not fall behind on readings while driving around town on busy days

❤️😊❤️ We love Playful Pioneers!!

Great quality and prompt with responding!

I bought the preschool seasons guide and have really enjoyed it. There are so many activities (too much for us) but that isn’t a bad thing. I can pick and choose what will work best for us. I like that a lot of nature in incorporated into the projects and activities. A few cons for me was the bible verses chosen sometimes were kind of tough for my four year old and I didn’t always get how the song chosen to help memorize actually went with the verse chosen. I also thought some of the phonics was a bit advanced for preschool . I loved that there were lots of visuals and we would actually water color some of the plain white pages to make them a more fun to look at. Some of the book choices for the different seasons were phenomenal! Ones I hadn’t seen before and were really great. Overall a great curriculum.

Really enjoying everything from this company. The intentionality it brings into our home is simply lovely and a God send.

The cards are so well done, as are all the products from The Peaceful Press. They provide the most beautiful and nourishing products that simplify my job as a homeschooling mom. Everything is so thoughtful that it feels individualized and special. It makes me feel do good to be using these in our homeschool like i am really giving our kids the best that is out there!

I am really enjoying the planner and have been using the Daily page for a week. It helps me hit all the important things that might slip my mind like water, vitamins, exercise, and quiet time. I also appreciate the long term planning pages. I am look forward to using the weekly plans and habit trackers.

Love this special time I have had with my kids going through this curriculum!

Excellent for the mom that needs help organizing her days and remembering the beauty of homeschool.

I tell you, you can feel the weight of richness and value in these guides. It's really beyond words for me and I'm just so grateful that the Peaceful Press exists and has created these guides that help connect and truly educate our children and families as a whole. Not sure if I've left a review before, but I'm practically gushing.

This is one of my favorite planners! I always have a hard time with planners because there are so many pages that won't actually get used. However, this was well put together, and I can see how intentional Jennifer was when she created this. I love too, that you can get a PDF version and use it over and over. Such a well laid out planner :)

As a mom of 4, 3 that are 5 and under this is simple, fun and straightforward. It does the planning and hard work for me!

Absolutely loved the quality and content of this curriculum!