Hey friends! I hope that you are as happy as I am that summer is coming to an end!!! For homeschoolers that means no more crowds!!! We get our libraries, museums, parks, and everywhere else back!!! Plus, of course, everything about Fall is awesome!!! 🎃
We are required to send a Notice of Intent to Homeschool to our local School Board of Education along with an Assurance of Home Education, which is due by August 30th of each subsequent year. Here is your gentle reminder to make sure to get yours in! However, if you are new to homeschooling, you are allowed to pull your child from public school at any time, it does not have to be before the school year begins.
I decided to make a new template this year for my Assurance of Home Education. I wanted to keep it simple, but still fun & aestheticially pleasing! This is how I made ours for the 2024-2025 school year!
♡ Reminder: you do not need to go into excessive detail about your curriculum. As long as they are able to see that you have a plan and an approved curriculum, you’ve put enough.
I organized it by Course of Study on the left, and what we’ll be using on the right. These are the subjects required by the State of Ohio. If you are in another check, please check with your homeschool laws to see if you have any other requirements.
♡ I also made a BLANK & EDITABLE version HERE to make things easier for you! Or if you are the kind of person who prefers to write things in by hand, you can download a non-editable copy below to fill in yourself.
Grace Girls is back in session for the new academic year! This makes our third year attending Grace Girls! Our first meeting was last night & the girls learned How to Set a Table.
Grace Girls is sort of like an etiquette class where homeschooled girls get together to both socialize and learn how to grow up to be Proverbs 31 Women (aka homemakers). They have so far learned knife cutting & Kitchen safety skills, how to preserve fresh vegetables from the garden, how to plan meals, how to host a fall feast, how & when to start a meal train cooking for someone in need (elderly or sick neighbor, a family who welcomed a new baby, new family moved in, a death in the family, etc.), how to make corn husk dolls, and how to hand sew, mend, & embroider clothes. My girls have mentioned to me how grateful they are to learn these skills & how useful the classes have been for them.
Homemaking is something I had to teach myself starting from the very, very basics. I did not have a homemaking mother growing up. I am very grateful to be able to pass these skills on to my children while also still constantly learning new things myself.
Ms. Darla hosted our meeting. She taught the girls different ways to properly set a table. She worked on a tray, placing different styles, layers, & color schemes together.
She taught us that the most important parts to setting a table are consistency & making our guests feel welcome & wanted, rather than overwhelmed & intimidated.
She had different learning stations set up for the girls to take turns at so that no one space was too overcrowded.
Ella really enjoyed learning how to fold napkins at the first station. I particularly liked her napkin with the flower pocket. I would like to start setting our own table napkins that way for fancy meals & gatherings. It is so beautiful & will be an interesting way to use our flowers from our garden.
Mia loved picking flowers & putting together mini bouquets for table settings. I have never thought to do miniature personal bouquets for each guest, but I love that idea for future gatherings too. It especially sounds nice for a breakfast or brunch gathering.
At the second station, the girls each took turns setting their own place settings using fancy dishes. They enjoyed creating color schemes with the dishes, napkins, & placemats. Sasha had a lovely time arranging her favorite dishes – they were so much fancier than ours at home.
The third station was to set a Christmas themed table. I love the use of real pine needles & pinecones. That is so beautiful & festive. I’ll have to remember that for our own Christmas dinner!
Ms. Darla rented every book her library currently had on table setting, napkin folding, and hosting for the girls to look through to pick their favorite tables. She asked the girls what meals & what seasons the tables were set for. I took some photos from different books that I plan to use at my own home!
Of course we had to check our her beehives while we were there because we have plans to add our own to our home next year! Luckily, Ms. Darla also teaches homeschool families about beekeeping & honey extraction, so I’ll be able to get off to a good start!
We had a really fun time at last night’s meeting & we left feeling like we learned a lot. I love that each of my girls who attended found their own special talent to bring to homemaking & future gatherings. Ella found a way to make her love for origami useful at the table using napkins, Mia’s love for plants & nature brings creativity + beauty to the table’s decor and ambiance, & Sasha’s love for creating a beautiful space for each person she loves will be useful for setting each place at the table. Each person’s talents come together to create a magical gathering & after all, the most important part of the table is togetherness.
We are beginning our second year taking homeschool classes at Mason Cottage Day! It’s hard to believe it’s only been that long! I feel like Ms. Natalie is one of my dear lifelong friends who I’ve known forever.
So naturally, I wanted my first post of my new Series: Our Favorite Places, to be about her studio – Mason Cottage Day! In this series, I’ll be sharing about our very favorite places & what makes them our favorite.
Welcome to Mason Cottage Day
From the moment you arrive, her studio is so welcoming! She has a board outside her door with important information & business cards, as well as which classes she is currently offering.
We personally have taken Sewing, Embroidery, Baking, and Reading/Writing classes in our time at Mason Cottage Day. I think science would be a really fun class to take too!
One of Ms. Natalie’s former students made her this adorable giant wooden pencil & another student made her this name plaque. I love that she continues to display their artwork that they took the time to create for her even after they have moved on. It shows how much she truly cares about each and every one of her students.
Each month, Ms. Natalie changes the artwork on display. It’s so fun to see the different projects & types of art the students are learning, as well as what students have come up with on their own in the art room.
This is such a cozy reading corner for students learning to read, and I love the giant embroidery hoops on display. I had never seen them that large before!
She has a ton of books & learning games for all different ages. She has been working with Sasha on her reading, & it has been so impressive to see how fast Sasha has been making noticeable progress in her reading abilities.
One of my favorite things about Mason Cottage Day is that it is really geared toward homeschooling families. Siblings are welcome to come play for free during lessons! That’s incredibly helpful, especially for low-or-one-income large families who otherwise have to miss out due to pricing or scheduling conflicts.
There are plenty of interactive areas to play such as a kitchen/nursery/home play area, a doctor or veterinarian area, a building area, and a doll house area for children to use their imagination.
There is the cutest little hand-washing station for baking students, along with plenty of child-size aprons to choose from.
All of her baking is taught through these conventional ovens. They are the perfect child-size, beginner ovens to learn on.
Sasha has loved taking baking classes at Mason Cottage Day. She had learned how to make a good variety of different items. Her confidence in the kitchen is going up after each class & just like at our home, Ms. Natalie incorporates reading & math into her baking lessons, so those skills are also improving while she bakes. Sasha of course looks adorable in her little aprons & she’s always quick to let her siblings take turns helping her bake.
The art room gives students free-range to create to their hearts content. There is a painting table, all the coloring utensils you need, stencils, & tons of other various art supplies & tools. Anything out is able to be used, and if you see something in her art storage area that you want to use that isn’t out – just ask! She’s more than happy to accommodate little minds.
You can always count on seeing fun science projects or experiments going on from her science students – like this potato clock.
She even has a beautiful planter that is Ukrainian Petrykivka style, which makes my Ukrainian 💙💛 heart so happy to see.
Ella loves learning sewing & embroidery from Ms. Natalie. I have loved every single project that Ella has created for me. Ms. Natalie comes up with super cute, child-friendly projects. One of my favorite projects she has made for me was the peekaboo picture frame with the cutest photo of our kids at the park.
Another thing you can always expect to find at Mason Cottage Day is plants! Ms. Natalie loves plants & nature. She teaches about Monarch Butterflies in season & grows her own pollinator garden outside.
Because of our mutual love of plants & Pollination, we made her a bouquet from our own pollinator garden to bring to her as a gift. We love creating bouquets for people we love!
She has been such a great teacher and role model in our children’s lives. She is helping them learn lifelong skills that they can & will regularly use. She has the kindest & understanding soul. I look forward to our visits with Ms. Natalie as much as the kids do!
“I want children to feel comfortable in the studio. Everything is set up so that they automatically know what to do. It’s a great joy to see children of every age play, pretend, and learn while using all the different materials! Children always have very good ideas about what should be included, and I always take their suggestions seriously. A simple thing such as including little squeeze ketchup and mustard containers made one young person so happy…he had noticed that the play kitchen did not have them, and he suggested adding them. Playing and learning are very definite collaborative communication pathways. I hope the studio allows children to learn in their best ways!” – Ms. Natalie
Classes are an affordable $20 each, which includes all necessary materials! *Beginning October 1, 2024 classes will be raised to $30 each*
Mason Cottage Day is located at 105 E. Main Street, Mason, Ohio 45040. The free parking lot is located behind the Pop Revolution Gallery Building off of Mason-Montgomery Road.
It is right along the cutest little shopping Street – while you are there check out the Mason Whippy Dip for a yummy ice cream treat, or the attached Thai Terrace for a delicious dinner!
You can contact Ms. Natalie to visit her studio or schedule classes at nataliebaxter@yahoo.com
We are finally crossing another accomplishment off our Homeschool Goal list! 🐟🐟
The kids have been setting up their little Fishtank in the dining room for the past year now! They decided to go with a SpongeBob theme in their fish tank, and it ended up looking so cute!
After it got all set up, we filled up the water, filter, and chemicals for it, then let it sit a few days.
We started out getting 2 Elmerald Green Cory Catfish for our first two fish. They are supposed to be very easy beginner fish & they are very playful, which is something I really wanted for the kids fishtank. The kids named them Bob 🐟 and Fred 🐟.
We had to leave the bag they came home in, in the water for at least one hour to get safely acclimated to our water temperature from theirs.
I didn’t want to add more than 2 in case they didn’t survive the move. As a kid who often won bagged up goldfish from the local Midwest church festival games growing up, I remember the disappointment of excitedly checking on my brand new fish, only to find one floating at the top instead. I wanted to give our kids fish a better chance at life than those poor goldfish ever had.
They are already having a great time hanging out with Spongebob & friends!! They are so fun to watch.
We will be feeding them Algae Wafers & occasional slices of zucchini, squash, cucumber, or pieces of romaine or kale! They are known for eating the Leftovers of fish flakes that reach the bottom as well, so once we add more fish they will have that as well.
Next, I will take one kid each week (youngest to oldest) to pick out their own fish to add to the tank. If you add a bunch of different varieties at once, they will be more likely to die, so it is important to introduce new fish slowly.
Then once each kid picks their own fish, I’ll be adding 2-4 more Cory Catfish. They prefer to have schools of at least 4 or more (if size allows.) Since we already have 2 of the Emerald kind, I will be choosing another variety to add diversity. After that, we will be finished with the kids fishtank and can move onto preparing the fishtank in the living room 🐠.
With the weather being nice, we have had so many people stop by our Little Free Library lately! It makes my heart so happy every time that I get to witness a family stop by and pick up a book or two, or trade some of theirs ❤️.
It has been so much fun for our entire family running this library. From collecting book donations & making sure it stays fully stocked at all times with materials for kids of all reading levels, we try to do our best as stewards!
This last year I decided to keep Sasha behind in language arts because she just wasn’t getting it. I didn’t want to do the dissatisfaction that public schools do by just moving on to “grade level” when she doesn’t fully understand the concept, or worse, getting annoyed with her for not understanding because that certainly doesn’t help anyone, especially her.
I selfishly thought, if I do that, she will be “behind” her peers. If I do that, people will think I’m failing at homeschooling and tell me I need to give up and put her back into public school. Then I realized, two-thirds of American kids in public schools can’t read. I’m not hurting her by going at HER pace, I’m helping her not be part of that statistic. She’s not going to be “behind” anybody. She’s going to be right on her own time, and most importantly, she’s going to fully understand what she’s reading & be a strong, confident reader. Sasha is also currently working with our homeschool teacher of many talents, Ms. Natalie, helping her once a week to improve her reading skills in addition to her daily curriculum work. I know this was the right decision because she has come SO far this year using the Preschool curriculum instead of beginning at Kindergarten. It has made a huge difference and I’ve seen a huge improvement!
With so many children left feeling a huge lack of confidence in reading, it’s no wonder so many kids say things like “I hate reading” and try to avoid it.
I think the biggest importance is to help children turn that hate for reading into a love for it. One of our ways to do that is to hunt for new Little Free Libraries together! We love finding new ones and enjoying how creative everyone is in their ideas! We enjoy trading books that won’t fit into our little library into ones that will. The kids love finding books for each of their siblings that they think they will enjoy. They also love tending to ours! Like they say “A family that reads together, stays together.”
I wanted to share a Cincinnati-based organization – The Queen City Book Bank – with you that helps make it possible for you to get your own Little Free Library in your front yard as well as provides you with gently-used books to fill your library with as well! Their mission is to get as many kids reading as possible to lift this statistic.
Their next free book giveaway day is July 9th, from 9 am – 3 pm. They ask that you please bring your own bags 🛍.
📚 If you are interested in becoming a Little Free Library steward in Cincinnati, reach out to their Program Coordinator, Shymain Walker, by email at Shymain@queencitybookbank.org
Our public libraries are currently hosting their Summer Reading Program as well! That is a great incentive to get your children reading!
Barnes & Noble also offers a free summer reading program too! No purchase is necessary to participate! You can go on a Little Library Scavenger Hunt together to find new books to read, or borrow from the library or friends.
There are so many ways & resources to get kids interested in reading! We as parents have to change this statistic ourselves!!! For the sake of both current & future generations!!!
“A child who reads will be an adult who thinks.” 📚
We have been studying Botany this spring, so we took a field trip today to Krohn Conservatory to see all of the really neat plants & the Butterflies in Space exhibit. 🦋
The Butterflies really liked Ella & kept landing all over her. She thinks they were attracted to the other butterflies on her dress. 🦋
Mia did a good job with getting butterflies to land on her card. She had to give most of her butterflies 🦋 to Athena, though.
Sasha was the first to “catch” a butterfly 🦋 & she was very proud of that. I am pretty sure that she also caught the most butterflies out of all of us.
Athena had a bit of difficult time catching the Butterflies, but she was quick to take all of the ones her bigger sisters caught. 🦋
Moses loved chasing the Butterflies as they flew around the greenhouse. He had to keep being reminded not to touch the Butterflies, and to leave them alone while they were on their fruit feeding trays. 🦋 He still had a great time, nonetheless.
Mia wanted to take a photo of me with my butterfly too 🦋.
From now on, I am going to place orange slices that my kids don’t finish into my garden for Butterflies to feed on. I’ll have to come up with some sort of feeding station for them, but I have a few ideas in mind!
I loved the way this butterfly spread its beautiful wings out on this flower. I can only hope that one day our butterfly garden brings us this many different Butterflies to visit us!!
After the butterfly exhibit, the kids colored space themed pictures, made butterfly wand crafts, & took a photo in the “photo booth” in the Krohn Discovery Space.
We went on the Butterfly Scavenger Hunt. The Butterflies were hidden around the Botanical Gardens and we had to find them. We loved walking around and taking photos in the Picture This app of different plants we loved and wanted to add to our gardens while looking for the hidden butterflies.
It was a really great way to get the kids involved in looking at plants and making something kids would usually find “boring” to look at into something really fun & exciting for them.
My father in law got these really great shots of the girls running through the waterfall. It loops around to a cave behind it which was lit up with lights & more space decor. It was the kids favorite spot at the conservatory.
I especially love the photo of Mia. She looks like a beautiful fairy in it.
He also got this great shot of what looks like a mama butterfly with her baby butterfly under her 🦋. I thought that was really cute!! I love how similar the spots are on both butterflies. Moses is currently really into grouping things by mama & baby, so it was a cute little sign from the universe & natural world for us to get to see.
Even though we’ve been there before, we had a really great field trip today! The kids were all really well behaved & engaged. It was short enough where the kids never got to the point of being overdone, but wasn’t short enough that we felt that we wasted our time or money.
I loved that they pointed out things that we have been learning in our botany unit study!! That gives me so much reassurance that they are truly learning & taking in so much information and most importantly, actually applying it in real life! That makes me feel like a successful homeschool mama and I’ll take any win I can right now!!!
The weather has been so beautiful lately, we have been trying to do as much of our Botany classes outside as we can! We have put a ton of work into our back yard as a family, so it has been a really peaceful atmosphere to do our classes in.
Sati & Rocco decided that they wanted to take the class with us today as well.
The first thing we did today was learn the parts of a plant, and what each part is meant to do. For example, the stem sucks up the water for the plant and keeps it upright so that it can grow big & strong to support the weight of the plant. Sometimes a little man-made help is needed by using cages or trellises.
Then each girl picked a live plant with roots to examine & draw in their Botany workbooks. Mia worked with a Blueberry Bush that was purchased. Ella worked with a tomato plant that was propagated when a piece fell off of my tomato plants while planting.
When we were finished examining, drawing, & labeling our plants, the girls planted them. Ella added her to our tomato patch (and thought it was funny how small it was compared to the rest of them, *pictured below*) & Mia added hers along the fence next to my root vegetable garden.
Speaking of root vegetables, we also discussed them in our lesson today!
When we were finished we prepared our green bean seeds in a jar of water for next week’s lesson & checked back on our seeds from last week’s lesson in their ziploc bag “greenhouses.” The girls observed what has happened to the seeds over the last week, and what they think will happen over another week. Next week, we can check on our little pots from our Art, Play, Hike day & see how our wildflowers are doing also.
Botany has definitely been our favorite science unit so far!! It’s been so much fun to do as a whole family together & very hands on in every unit. I also love how many beautiful plants that we will get out of this unit! I’m excited to start incorporating some Botanical field trips into our classes also! We have a few fun ones picked out!
We went to the Art, Play, Hike homeschool meet up today! This is a free group for children of all ages, hosted by the Cincinnati Parks department.
Each Tuesday, this homeschool group meets at a different park around Cincinnati to do art projects, take a Hike, and make new friends to play & socialize with. Today it was held at French Park, which is right by our home.
We showed up an hour early by accident so we decided to take our own big hike while we waited for the rest of the group to show up. I told the kids they could choose which trail we took. They decided on one we hadn’t taken before. By the time we finished our super long hike, the group was ready & set up to begin.
Our first art project today was decorating kites! The kids were really excited to do this project.
Our second art project was decorating flower pots, then filling with dirt & planting wildflower seeds. Mia mentioned that it was great for our Botany class!
They provided baskets of paint markers & stickers for the kids to color their pots. The kids had a lot of fun personalizing them.
Moses fell down so many times on our hike he was covered from head to toe in mud by the end of it. We are trying to live with the “no such thing as bad weather” mindset, and he had fun so that’s all that matters.
The kids were really excited to run around and fly their kites. The got the hang of it pretty quickly and were able to fly them really high in the air!
Our second hike with the group was much shorter, but we went into depth about the different plants & flowers that we saw that are edible, pretty, or invasion (and how to safely remove).
This was a great meet up today & I’m really glad that we went. We all had a lot of fun, got a lot of exercise, and got to make some really cool crafts with each other & new friends.
When we first began homeschooling, I had absolutely no idea where to begin. There was SO much information on the internet. Different methods for homeschooling, different curriculums, different kinds of curriculums. I felt lost and overwhelmed, so I asked one of the only other moms I knew who homeschooled for guidance. She gave me a lot of great information & advice about what worked for her family, which I would later come to find out didn’t work as well for our family, which is perfectly fine because it was still a learning experience.
Throughout that first year I learned more about homeschooling and I found a curriculum called The Good and The Beautiful, and immediately knew it was the one for our family for the lesson part of homeschooling. It is SO beautiful and makes learning so fun & interesting.
It is what is considered an “all in one” or “grab and go” curriculum in the homeschool world. That means that you, the homeschooling educator, would simply follow along with the book. Everything that you need is included, although occasionally there will be optional materials suggested to use to enhance the lessons even further. Minimal planning is involved, making it very stress free. I really enjoy that the hard part is done for me, in a way that is easy for me to teach. It really helped improve my confidence in homeschooling in knowing that I am fully capable of teaching my children, regardless of my background.
The younger children are very hands on with the parent or homeschool educator. As they grow older and obtain more knowledge & skills, the lessons become more independent, although you will still be needed as their guide and to answer any questions they have.
I also really enjoy what all is included, and how subjects are incorporated together so you aren’t teaching several subjects all day long. For Example, Ella’s 4th grade language arts included geography, art lessons, cooking lessons, creative writing, spelling, and more. She is loving learning about different countries and making the foods from that location. Her Gnocchi & Scottish Shortbread Cookies were big hits!
I wasn’t great with math in school, but this curriculum makes it very easy to follow along and helps you to refresh, and sometimes relearn the math lessons yourself. It also makes math fun for us. Ella’s 4th grade math includes video lessons to watch which I appreciate as a math-challeneged person. The younger grades includes directions for the parent/homeschool educator to follow for teaching the lesson.
The Good and the Beautiful offers free placement testing to figure out where your child is and where they are best fit to begin with this curriculum.
I also really enjoy the fact that you can either buy the curriculum, or download the PDF for free and print yourself. The library offers to print a number of free sheets per day, which would significantly reduce your cost. This is also a great option for moms who would like to test out the curriculum with their child before investing.
Since we have decided to stick with this curriculum, I chose to purchase one of every grade level for the main subjects, then photocopy a week’s worth of lessons at a time to work on with the girls. This way I am able to reuse this curriculum all the way through with all of the kids and not have to purchase everything new each year.
For science, I buy one master copy of the lesson plan, but I do buy individual workbooks for each child that is completely that class. I will be able to repeat the lessons with the younger kids later on and will only need to buy new workbooks in the future. We pick our units based on our family’s interests.
I incorporate local field trips into our lesson plans to go along with what we are learning. For Marine Biology we went to the Newport Aquarium. For our current subject, Botany, we will be going on field trips to the Krohn Conservatory & the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, as well as grow flowers from seeds, tend to our gardens in our yard, and add more plants. For Geology over the summer, we will be visiting Mammoth Caves. The freedom of homeschooling and having time to learn as a family is seriously the best.
History is the one subject that I do use a different curriculum for, although The Good and the Beautiful does offer it. I use Master books, Tuttle Twins, and a lot of YouTube videos. We also own a large selection of history books & textbooks.
As with science, we also incorporate field trips into our history lessons. In February we went to the Underground Railroad Museum for Black History Month.
I love that we get to go on field trips and experience life as a family
There is a free app that goes along with The Good and The Beautiful that you will sometimes need for lessons. This will include songs, spelling, audio narratives, videos, reading boosters, and more.
There is a big re-sale market for this curriculum, so if you do not mark in your books, you will be able to re-sell for close to market value of your money back when you no longer need it.
If you live & homeschool in Ohio, The Good and the Beautiful is registered in the Ohio ACE Marketplace, and can be 100% reimbursed through this program. New applications are currently closed for the 23-24 school year though, unfortunately.
I am really glad that I was able to find this curriculum. It works really well for our family and my kids constantly tell me how fun they think this curriculum is. I love and advocate for using the old-fashioned pencil and paper method over a keyboard because I truly believe in the power of it.
Today we took a field trip to The Kids Discovery Factory in Batesville, Indiana. This is seriously the cutest little (and I mean REALLY little) town!!!
It is only $10 per family, unless you are currently receiving SNAP benefits- then your admission is free. I absolutely LOVE and appreciate that policy and it would be so beautiful if more placed offered that option to low-income families ❤.
It was SO cute & SO much fun! Inside it is full of different STEAM areas to play.
STEAM stands for
SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY
ENGINEERING
ART
MATH
The main room had a few building stations including tracks, pvc pipes, Legos, and miscellaneous wood building stations, the Amazing Air station, and a rocket launcher.
Inside of The Workshop was the Art Room. The staff puts out materials and a theme for inspiration with open invitation to create. Children are welcome to bring their creations home and provide bags to keep creations in.
The rocket launcher was a blast 😉🚀
This was a sensory style room and I loved it! Each of the frames on the wall were a different feeling. There were a lot of “light bright” type of activities. With the current solar eclipse theme going on, there was a space to try to make constellations on the light boards as well as glow in the dark stars.
Ella liked building with the small Legos. I really liked how they are contained.
Moses had a lot of fun with the moon sand area with the astronaut/moon landing theme.
The Amazing Air wall was also a lot of fun. The kids took turns laying down on the ground and having the scarves and loofahs hit them in the face. They thought it was really funny.
They really liked Tiny Town – a section of make believe and role play. They had fun cooking up meals in the pretend kitchen, shopping the grocery & farmers market, and playing in the mini house with the animals.
I loved this wall of career inspiration! It listed famous people from each field and a few facts about each. That gives kids a great opportunity to learn about a career they may have not heard of previously.
This heartbeat drum was really cool. It played the drum to your heartbeat so you could hear it out loud. It also told you how many beats a minute you were supposed to hear based on your age.
This room changes each month based on what theme is going on. For March the theme is Space. They had different stations set up to learn about outer space as well as solar eclipses with the 2024 Total Eclipse coming to our area!
The science project & art project this month were also about solar eclipses.
The big kids got some Solar Eclipse packets and glasses for free today as well that we get to bring back for a badge when we come back for the Solar Eclipse on April 8th!
This was such a great place for families of multiple age groups! There are areas for all ages and so much to do. And best of all, it’s totally affordable for big families!
Food and drinks are NOT permitted in the building so be sure to eat before coming. Batesville is very small and there are numerous places to eat within a 5 minute distance from the factory.
There is plenty of free parking in a parking lot as well as street parking.
I do wish that it was a little bit closer to our home, but it is a great special place to get to go once in a while. If you are in the area or just enjoy traveling the US and find yourself in Indiana, definitely check it out. It’s absolutely worth the drive & time!!
The woman working today did tell me about their expansion plans and I’m really excited to go back when this happens! They will be adding to the side yard for outdoor play, as well as finishing and adding to the other floors of the building as well for more play!
From Heroin to Housewife 
