Healthy Kids While Homeschooling [5 Ways]

Bright Classroom Ideas
3 min readSep 30, 2021

While homeschooling your kids, keeping them active and healthy can be a challenge. There are many different ways that activities can be combined though so that they incorporate the lessons for homeschooling, and methods to keep children active and healthy. A lot of the time these will overlap because keeping active has an impact on people’s mental health. So, the more active they are, the more likely you are to have healthy kids.

1. Indoor Gardening

Indoor gardening is a great way for you to keep your kids healthy while homeschooling as it allows them to learn and grow their own food. Even if your indoor gardening isn’t food that will be eaten, but flowers, your child will still be getting involved physically. This will be done by setting up the area, planting the seeds, and watering the plant pots.

Gardening can be linked to their studies as well, for example, biology lessons in terms of photosynthesis and life cycles. If you are choosing to do indoor gardening, it is advisable to look into the kind of equipment you might need; for example, you may want to use LED grow lights so that you can maintain the correct environment for what you are growing.

2. Cooking

Another way in which you can keep kids healthy while homeschooling is to get them involved in what you are doing in the kitchen. By helping in the kitchen, your children will be learning maths, because of the measurements for different ingredients, and helpful…

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