Continue your #readpaintcook journey with our first Adventure in Ireland with the Build Your Masterpiece Class, all about the flag, map, and History of the Irish Potato! This is the first of 3 adventures in Ireland, and includes hands-on art projects, art appreciation, art history, cooking Irish soda bread and lamb and vegetable stew, plus so much more! Perfect for kids ages 3 to 13 and beyond with our 40 page PDF. This adventure goes perfectly with our Life Cycle of a Potato Unit Study which is part of the Food We Eat Series of Life Cycle Unit Studies and our Vegetable Garden Learning Pack.

What’s included:

• 5 Lesson Plans; I is for Ireland, History of the Irish Flags, P is for Potato, History of the Irish Potato, Irish Art Appreciation, and S is for Soda Bread

• Book Lists for all topics, plus YouTube video links via QR Codes with as many read aloud’s as we can find for you to enjoy on the go

• 5 coloring pages; Europe Map, Ireland Map, Ireland Flag, Potatoes in the Garden, Irish Soda Bread

• Letter pages for PreK-grade 2

• Worksheets; sentence tracing and coloring for K-3+

• Artist Spotlight and Art Appreciation of Gerard Dillion 1916-1971 and a focus on the Connemara area of Ireland

• 1 Art Project; Potato Stamping

• 2 traditional recipes of Irish Soda Bread and Authentic Irish Stew with a Lesson Plan, History lesson, books and Coloring Page for life skills in the kitchen, math connections and more!

• Plus Additional Learning Resources via QR Codes with so many fun things to learn right at your fingertips while teaching

• Europe Coloring Map - Find Italy on it and color it in. Use again and again to continue to add more color as you learn about more countries along your #readpaintcook journey

• The Build Your Masterpiece Class Passport and Stamp Ireland #1 to collect!

• 3-part cards for the topics learned in this lesson about Ireland’s Flags, Map, Potatoes, old ways of cooking, Connemara, and more.

This digital product is for personal use only. Books and props not included, mix + match this adventure with our Life Cycle of a Potato Unit Study.

Learn all about the Life Cycle of a Potato with the second Montessori-Inspired Unit Study Series called “Ingredients We Cook With” for kids age 3 to 12. Learn about the 6 stages of how a potato grows along with the history of the French Fry, and so much more with our 41-page PDF that will encourage an appreciation for how potatoes grow, plus enjoy counting and cooking with them! This Life Cycle is a companion study for the Adventures in Ireland #1, which also features the Irish Potato, Potato stamping projects, art appreciation, maps, flags and more. It also pairs wonderfully with The Masterpiece Numbers - Counting 1 to 30 Learning Pack, for counting fun with Potatoes, watercolor dots and number flashcards you can color in.

What’s included in this Life Cycle Unit Study?

• Curriculum Guide, Book Lists, Helpful Video Links and a special QR Code with Additional Learning Resources via our website

• Sprout a Potato in a Jar Experiment and Coloring Page

• How a Potato Grows Lesson Page

• Sequencing Activity

• The History of the French Fry

• 4 Awesome Potato Recipes

• Life Cycle of a Potato Watercolor Poster

• Life Cycle of a Potato Coloring Page

• 3 Part Cards

• 3-D Life Cycle of a Potato Craft

• Tracing + Coloring Pages

• Parts of a Potato Plant Coloring Page

• Coloring Pages

• Pp Potato Card

• Potato Counting Cards 1-20

This digital product was created for your personal use only. Books and props are not included.

What’s better than Chocolate? We use it in our baking and cooking for almost every holiday, but where does it come from? Come find out in our next #readpaintcook journey all about Chocolate! This Build Your Masterpiece Class Adventure will take you and your kids around the World to learn where chocolate comes from, how the Cocao Tree is grown, what type of habitat it needs to grow in, and where it is made, and how it spread across Europe in the 1600s, plus enjoy some fun hands-on activities such as chocolate taste-testing, reading children’s books all about cacao, counting with chocolate, vocabulary words about chocolate, the process of making Chocolate and so much more!

This unit study is great to enjoy during the month of February, and around Valentine’s Day, but also any time of year. We have also included a special Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Unit Study with Montessori-Inspired 3-part cards, posters, counting cards, a sequencing activity, 3-D Craft, Coloring Pages, Coloring Book + Reader, Poetry Copywork, Tracing, Chocolate Recipes and more with our BUNDLED 70-page adventure for ages 3 to 13 and beyond! ( The Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Unit Study is also sold separately).

What’s included in our Chocolate Adventures:

• Scrapbook Cover Page

• Build Your Masterpiece Class Passport + Chocolate Adventure Stamp

• Europe Coloring Map

• C is for Chocolate Lesson Plan

• C is for Chocolate Letter Page

• Making Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Lesson Plan

• Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Recipe

• Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Coloring Page

• Top 10 Countries that Produce Chocolate

• The History of Cacao, Chocolate Spreads Across Europe, The London Chocolate Houses Study Guides

• Chocolate Play Dough

• Chocolate Cloud Dough

• EXTRA Activities: Chocolate Taste Testing, Chocolate Fractions, and Chocolate Chip Counting

• Chocolate Writing Activity Plus 3 pages of Vocabulary Cards

• Different Types of Cacao 3-Part Cards

• ALSO INCLUDED: The Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Unit Study - Find more details of the contents of this 39-page PDF Unit Study here.

This digital product is for personal use only. Books and props not included.

Celebrate this year’s Strawberry Moon, your first Strawberry bud, or delicious strawberry harvest this summer with our Strawberry Tea Time Guide, Coloring Pages and Counters.

These pages go perfectly with our Vegetable Garden Learning Pack! Find a discount code included in this printable for you to grab it 25% off! Use our Strawberry Counters along with our Masterpiece Numbers Curriculum.

What’s Included?

• Strawberry Tea Time Guide, which includes Book List, Recipe for Shortbread Cookies and Poem.

• Strawberry Coloring Pages

• Strawberry Counters

• 9 Page Digital Download

For Personal Use Only. Photo includes some printables of Strawberry Cards from our Vegetable Garden Learning Pack, and addition flashcards and number cards from our Masterpiece Numbers.

Busy As a Bee Learning Pack is here! Count to 30 with bees, color honeycombs, play matching games, learn vocabulary, bake with honey and so much more! Perfect for kids PreK to grade 5 and easily mix + match with our Masterpiece Numbers and Alphabet curriculum for added counting and spelling resources, as well as our soon to be released Novel Studies! Photographed here is our Number 3 Coloring Flashcard from the Masterpiece Numbers Learning Pack.

What’s Included?

• 14 Page-PDF Digital Download

• Book List About Bees

• 30 Bees To Count

• Beehive Play Mat

• Color & Count Honeycomb Hexagons Worksheet

• Honey Cornbread Recipe

• Drawing Prompt Page of Garden with Bees, flowers, grass and Clouds

• Vocabulary Words+Cards

• Honeycomb Match Up Game

• Match Up Worksheet

• Write Your Own 'List Poem' About Bees

*This digital product is for personal use only. Books and props not included.

Continue your #readpaintcook journey with our sixth Adventures in Italy with the Build Your Masterpiece Class. Within Adventure 6 we will be learning about the Renaissance gardens in Florence and the Lemons that grow there. The Villa di Castello is one of the oldest gardens, and was created in the 16th Century. It also has a collection of many different kinds of Lemon Tress, that have been cherished and cultivated over hundreds of years.

This Adventure is Lemon-tastic because we have also included an additional Unit Study all about the Life Cycle of a Lemon for you to enjoy as well as Lemon Inspired Art Projects that encourage the use of the 7 Elements of Art, including Parts of a Lemon Tree, Parts of a Lemon, worksheets, poetry copy work, recipes, crafts and more! We have also included a Spotlight on a special Beekeeper in Tuscany, who has invented a 100% eco-friendly Honey Jar made from Organic Beeswax. Take your Italy Adventues to the next level and continue your read,paint,cook journey today!

Bonjour! Dive into the Adventures in France Series with our third week all about the French Baguette with Art Appreciation by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh with Wheat Art of France plus our Wheat Life Cycle Unit Study.

Enjoy reading books about Paris and Baguettes, plus make your own DIY Cardboard Baguette Flipper to use while making your own French Baguettes, and French Carrot Soup. We also have a homemade Creme Fraiche recipe for you to make at the beginning of the week, in preparation of your Carrot Soup, which is a special ingredient in the French Soup; "Potage Crecy a la Briarde”. Place your stamps in your passport after you completed each project, for fun rewards and motivation along the way!

Our Read, Paint, Cook Unit Study Series include book lists and weekly rhythms for you to easily add art and culture adventures into your homeschool routine. Created for kids 3 to 13 learning together, there is something for everyone with the Build Your Masterpiece Class!

Read, paint and cook your way through March with us! Get ready to learn about Pancakes and Rainbows, Leprechauns, Lucky Symbols Around the World, Sheep, Ireland and Lighthouses, plus a mini Spring Adventure in Ireland, England and France with Blackberries, Art and Baking!

Pair it all up with our Adventures in Ireland 2: Saint Patrick Spotlight and our Life Cycle of a Clover Unit Study for an even more complete dive into the Build Your Masterpiece Class, with the FREE Teachers Guide included! This month of March is a perfect time to dive into that Adventure, and this learning pack was created with that in mind.

Included are 7 topics with a #readpaintcookactivitycalendar that has one activity to do each day ranging from reading, painting to cooking. Scan our QR Codes to reveal additional learning resources along the way to help keep these monthly activities simple and effective from day 1 to day 31, plus find book links, read aloud links, and easily shop for additional units that pair up along the way. We also have additional pages for your older students for full page drawing, writing, and Reading Comprehensive Questions for Chapter Book.

What's Included:

• Books List and Activity Calendars for 2022 to 2024

• 8 Lesson Plans, including Coloring and Writing/Drawing Prompts for each topic:

• Rainbows

• Pancakes Around the World

• Sheep, Ireland + Lighthouses

• Leprechauns

• Lucky Symbols Around the World

• Spring

• Blackberries (Mini Adventure in Ireland, England, and France)

• BONUS: Free Teachers Guide for Using Adventures in Ireland 2 & Clover Life Cycle Unit Study!

• Plus a NEW 8th Lesson all about Green Eggs & Ham to celebrate Dr. Suess' Birthday this month (March. 2nd).

Please tag us on Instagram @build_your_masterpeice_class to be featured! I cannot wait to see your March masterpieces! Enjoy building them with your kids. ~Alexandra

Continue your #readpaintcook journey with our special Book-Inspired Mini Adventure is Italy all about Strega Nona, and the Pasta Pot! We have included original coloring pages inspired by the Pasta Pot, and a selection of Pastas of Italy, as well as a fun Clay Art Project, and a hand-on recipe of homemade pasta noodles and yummy sauce to with with it! This learning pack compliments any other Adventure in Italy that we have released, and is a wonderful tribute to the life of Tomie dePaola, who’s books we cherish and have included in our Adventures in Italy. This learning pack has been 2 years in the making, and I have created this all around the book “Strega Nona” by Tomie dePaola. It was once originally meant to be released in another Adventure in Italy Adventure, but I decided it was better as a stand alone, add-on lesson! I hope you enjoy it as much as we have!

What’s Included?

• 21 page-PDF Digital Download

• P is for Pasta Lesson Plan, book list, and QR Code with Additional Learning Resources

• Color Magic Pasta Pot Coloring Page + Worksheets

• Create your Own Clay Pasta Pot - skills learned: Lean how to make a clay pinch pot

• Recipes: Homemade Pasta Recipe and Pasta al Burro (butter Cheese Sauce for your noodles)

• Pastas of Italy Coloring Page

• P is for Pasta Letter Page

• Italian “Pasta and Magic” Quote + Coloring Page

*This digital product is for personal use only. Books and props not included.