Free Printable Homeschool Morning Menu (Customizable)

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What is a homeschool morning menu you may ask? A morning menu is a group of practices, recitations, or skills that a child will repeat each morning in printable form. A homeschool morning menu can be adapted for specific age groups and added throughout the year.

Morning time for our family has become a little chaotic. I’ve honestly been on the brink of wanting to give up and just call it a complete disaster, but then again, no one said homeschooling was going to be simple and easy. One thing that has helped our chaotic morning times is creating a ‘morning basket’. This morning basket is filled with constructive things to do while I work. I’m sure I will go into more detail in the following blog posts, but for the time being, I want to introduce you to the thing that has made the most difference and that is our printable homeschool morning menu.

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What is in a Homeschool Morning Menu

I want to continue to emphasize that everyone’s morning menu can have different items based on age, the child’s needs, and your family’s unique homeschool or life experience. I will explain what we have in our morning menu for my five-year-old and my three-year-old.

If you are looking for content for older children, this post has some helpful content and freebies for older children.

My boys’ morning menus look slightly different from each other, but the bulk of them is similar. I basically print everything for my three-year-old but don’t enforce the same amount of ‘perfection’ as I do for my five-year-old.

Because I work from home, our morning basket veers slightly from the purpose I see with many other homeschool families. Typically I see morning baskets that are used for family group time in the morning. They contain read-aloud books and activities the family does together. Our morning basket includes items that are special for morning play (while I’m still working) and then group activities that we do together.

Our homeschool morning menu is a major part of our morning basket. It is the thing that signifies the transition from individual play or work time to group time as a family.

What is in our Homeschool Morning Menu?

The boys’ morning menu correctly consists of:

• ABC practice
• 1, 2, 3 practice
• Writing, spelling, and saying the letters in their name
• Weather and seasons
• Days of the week
• Months of the year
• Right and left-hand exercise
• The 10 commandments
• Pledge of Allegiance

Here is a sample of some of the pages. My five-year-old’s favorite page is the weather page because he says it’s the only one he doesn’t have to ‘think’ when doing. The name practice sheet will need to be printed twice. In the “I can spell my name” the letters can be cut, laminated, and then attached using velcro sticky dots.

How to Make a Morning Menu

There are two ways you can make the pages usable for dry-erase markers. You can either laminate the pages and then bind them with a ring, or you can purchase a menu that a restaurant would use. Either way, the pages will become reusable for your kiddos to do every morning.

We have done it both ways. At first, I laminated the pages and just bound them with a ring at the top and bottom. As we began to use them more and I wanted to change out the materials, we started using a menu that I purchased from Amazon, you can get the exact one we used here. Why use a menu? Because often times morning menus will get changed out frequently throughout the year as your child masters a skill or recitation. Instead of needing to laminate everything over and over again, you can simply change out the sheets of paper.

However, if you want to start off with laminating, we love our basic laminator and continue to be amazed by the very affordable price tag! As of April 2023, the original Amazon basics laminator that was only around $25 went out of stock, however, this is a similar version.

What is the difference between morning time, morning basket time, morning meeting, classical morning menu, and circle time?

These are all synonyms of each other! Basically, they are all a way of saying a similar or the same thing. Obviously, each one might vary slightly and the purpose behind the name will all be unique, but they are essentially all very similar.

Cindy Rollins originally coined the term “Morning Time” so her website has many valuable resources. I also highly recommend her book about morning time.

I like to think of morning time as a way of starting your day as a family. It’s a way of unifying your day and starting each day fresh and new! No matter what your morning time consists of, it can be a time of refreshment and fun as you start your day together!

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
    his mercies never come to an end;
 they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV

More Printables for Kids!

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How to Customize the Morning Menu

The button below will take you to a Canva template that you can customize to your liking. Where the word “Name” appears you can replace it with your own child’s name. As we add more pages for Bible verse memorization and other early elementary skills, the template will update. If you have questions on how to edit the document or need help, feel free to contact me! I’m always happy to help.

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