Even if these trips require touring an indoor facility, it still adds diversion to our homeschool. For example, when our son won tickets to a professional soccer game, I made arrangements to take our daughters to a community theatre production. After locating free craft classes at a fabric store for our older daughter, I asked my husband Larry to check into the possibility of having our son attend some regularly-scheduled free classes offered at a building supply store. There is so much available to our children if we just look, and the Holy Spirit will enlighten us to it at just the right time. So we work that into our plans periodically as well.
Physical activity is a real boost to the morale.
On less cooperative days, we get out the stopwatch and time simple household tasks, especially if a task includes running from one floor of the house to another. Most people say that they begin getting spring fever about February or March. It never fails that as soon as we begin taking down the Christmas decorations, spring cleaning the living room seems to be a logical next step. To keep the motivation going, I usually reason that if I get my cleaning done gradually over the winter, I won't have to be stuck inside when the weather gets nice again. Our children love to see the house take on a new perspective, so they join in the effort, too.