For those who prefer shopping from home or looking for educational products to use as gifts (ha!), we wanted to share a few FREEBIES and Cyber Weekend Deals from companies whose products we use and recommend. Your purchases through the following affiliate links support our small family-run business and go towards the continuation of this website here at Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood. Thank you so much for supporting us (which in turn supports this website) while you shop this holiday season!
It’s time for our annual sale! Here at Half-a Hundred Acre Wood, you can take 20% off your purchase using the promo code STEWARDS at checkout from now through Monday, December 1. And… receive free media mail shipping when your order reaches $100! If you’re looking for award-winning penmanship curriculum, morning time plans integrating history/geography/science/fine arts, high school lesson plans, or American history-related resources, be sure to check our shop. We have low quantities remaining for many of our physical items (many of which are already heavily discounted), so grab them before they’re gone!
Not Consumed Ministries
Through Sunday, November 20 at 7 AM, Not Consumed Ministries is offering 30% off your entire purchase (and $5 shipping with $50 purchase, free shipping with $100 purchase), no coupon code needed. Not Consumed offers great family Bible studies. If you’d like to try one, you can take a look at this free 5-Day Bible Study.
Last year they added a great high school consumer math program and a Health/P.E. curriculum.
AND… their one-day Cyber Monday Sale is 50% off all digital products! (On December 1, this sales page will be updated with the Cyber Monday Sale.)
Be sure to check out these stocking stuffer deals under $10. We recommend checking out the Sermon Notebook Bundle, these beautiful Christmas studies, this Books of the Bible Game, Faithipedia (Old Testament & New!), the Siblings Bible Study (if your children argue with each other), To Every Nation missions Workbooks and the Still Singing Hymn study, which uses a tin whistle to teach music theory.
Institute for Excellence in Writing
IEW is having their annual clearance sale from 9:00 AM CST December 1 through 5:00 PM December 6 CST where you can save 50% off select products (while quantities last) using a coupon code that will be listed on this webpage.
Be sure to sign up for email reminders for the annual 12 Days of Christmas Giving Event (Dec. 26 – Jan. 6) where IEW provides free audios and printable resources from their award-winning products. They always offer such fantastic freebies! (They’ve even sent out – absolutely free – physical products that help with grammar and writing. It boggles my mind that we’ve received free portable walls, Grammar-on-the-Go charts, and Fix-It Grammar workbooks!) I always look forward to this event after Christmas!
If you evaluate your writing program at the close of this semester and would like to try something new, don’t forget you can try out three weeks of IEW’s Student Structure and Style for free.
You can also download my favorite webinar/talk, “Nurturing Competent Communicators” (along with “Four Deadly Errors of Teaching Writing” and “Reaching the Reluctant Writer”) here on IEW’s home page.
Generations God-Centered Curriculum
Stay tuned for significant discounts at Generations. (We’ll update this info just as soon as we know the details!) Last year, they offered up to 50% OFF on all their homeschool curriculum, readalouds, and audiobooks and even had a Cyber-Monday-Only $1 deals. In addition to the Christian (picture-book) biographies and read-alouds, the two resources we personally use and recommend include Kickstart: Launch Your Life and the devotional Created for Work, (read our reviews here and here) which we have really enjoyed as a springboard for discussion within our family. This fall we’ve been working through Kickstart in our youth group’s Sunday School, and it has been fantastic!
Classical Academic Press
Classical Academic Press offers some of our top picks for literature guides (Walking to Wisdom), logic/fallacies/debate (Art of Argument & Everyday Debate), and composition (Writing & Rhetoric). From November 19 to December 1, receive 20% off all non-digital CAP products* and free shipping on all orders over $75. Discount automatically applies at checkout.
Tuttle Twins
A couple of years ago, we gave a Tuttle Twins book to our youngest son, after which he requested the rest of the Tuttle Twins series for Christmas and for his birthday. Since then he has read the entire children’s paperback series, the Choose Your Consequences series and Tuttle Twins Guidebook series. These books teach children, pre-teens, teens, and adults about economic & political outcomes, logical fallacies, critical thinking, entrepreneurship, and more. Starting November 21 (through December 15), they’re offering a Black Friday Family Starter Pack and a Black Friday MEGA Bundle where you can grab their books at over 70% off. (This discount ends up cheaper than finding it all used on Thriftbooks!)
During Cyber Week, you can also save on annual or lifetime access to the Tuttle Twins Academy. Tuttle Twins Academy teaches big ideas like freedom, character, mindset, and persuasion through fun, engaging lessons your teens will actually enjoy watching. One membership covers your whole family – for a year or a lifetime!
Homeschool in the Woods
The history unit studies over at Homeschool in the Woods provide many hours of enjoyment through hands-on learning activities! In fact, if you subscribe to their monthly newsletter, you’ll receive the following Authors Mini-Pak free!
Don’t miss their different Black Friday through Cyber Monday Bundles (Nov. 28 – Dec. 1, 2025). These studies have helped our children to internalize the history their studying and have provided hours of great memories and keepsakes. Here are a four of the ten bundles they’re offering this weekend:
They’re also offering a 30% off build-your-own-bundle option for a la carte items. Homeschool in the Woods has been one of our favorite crafty homeschooling resources. Read more about their timeline resources, or their history studies, or their classical music and composers study.
Amazon
Amazon has several Black Friday & Cyber Monday deals, and you can support Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood by using our link when you’re shopping! Learning toys are some of our favorites for teaching young children through play, and our boys love playing board games and are especially fond of escape games like CLUE Escape games and EXIT the Game series, which are on sale at a great discount! Check this link for an ongoing list of deals in the Games department.
If you’d like to know the books our sixth grader has been reading this year or our recommendations for learning through math games and math picture books, be sure to check out our Amazon Recommendations here.
Check out our gift guides, our favorite Christmas Picture Books & Read Alouds, or our list of read-alouds this year (<– this link also takes you to my personal favorite reads of all time, along with a lot of our other favorites lists.) You just might find one of those glow-in-the-dark periodic tables on the list!
All About Learning Press Free Shipping + Freebies
All About Learning is truly one of our favorite companies for teaching children to read and spell. (You can read our reviews here.) Our high schooler and middle schooler have made me promise to never get rid of the All About Reading books they used years ago to learn to read.
If you’re curious about this program, check it out over the holidays with these reading and spelling activities, snacks, and picture book lists. It’s a great way to try out All About Reading and All About Spelling to see if it’s a good fit for you and your children! You can also download the Penguin Packet. Just click on the images below!
Compass Classroom
We use and highly recommend many of Compass Classroom’s courses for high school and middle school. Over Cyber Weekend (November 28 through December 1), Compass Classroom will have a sale on…
- The Story of Great Music
- Visual Latin (check out our review here)
- Word Up! Vocabulary (also recommended for elementary – check out our review here)
- American History – and World History (check out our review here)
- Devotional Biology (check out our review here)
- Economics for Everybody (check out our review here)
- Writing with Hobbits (check out our review here)
- Filmmaking from the First Directors (check out our review here)
- Calculus for Everyone (the only prerequisite is Algebra I!)
- and much more!
Stock up for next year or grab a half-credit elective for the spring semester. Stay tuned for sale details!
To try out many of these resources for free, be sure to take a look at their free trial of the Compass Classroom Membership. You can also find several free ebooks and audios by searching through their website! You can even try out a couple of lessons of Visual Latin (which we’ve really enjoyed!).
You can also download sample lessons of Compass Classroom’s resources here. And check out even more resources from around the web.
Notebooking Pages
Notebooking Pages is offering over 50 pages of free Christmas themed holiday notebooking pages, foldable cards, and recipe cards to use as you write your holiday letters. This company offers great free downloads, including notebooking pages for history, scientists, missionaries, geography/maps, and more. You can sign up for a free membership here.
When you sign up for the Free Notebooking Pages Product Sampler, you’ll receive…
- Access to the free member notebooking resource center.
- A free Notebooking Tutorial/Quick-Start Guide to help you get started with notebooking pages.
The Black Friday Sale Event will be coming soon! Nearly everything on the site will be discounted, including individual notebooking products, bundles, and our lifetime membership. The only exclusions are the notebooking app subscriptions. Last year’s discounts were as follows:
- 50% OFF all notebooking products
- 50% OFF all notebooking bundles …stack the savings!
- 50% OFF the notebooking pages lifetime membership …that’s just $48.50 for all current and future products plus our bonuses!
- Plus, get their 2025 Productive Planner FREE with any $12+ order!
Coupon code “SAVE50” will automatically be applied during checkout.
Yellow Spot:Sun Art Tutorials
Our children have used Yellow Spot Sun to produce award-winning art for our county fair. These fantastic tutorials introduce you and your family to different mediums and techniques while also learning about great art masters.
Stay tuned for details on this offer!
You can save on ALL art courses November 28-December 1, including the amazing Trailblazing Transit, Architects of the Ancient World, Winter-Themed Watercolor Lessons, and literature-themed art studies! (View more about these art project tutorials here.) We’ve also enjoyed The Nutcracker Tutorial. You can buy the art courses now and use them any time from the convenience of your own home, because they never expire!
For a taste of what’s available, be sure to check out the following free tutorials:
- The Trojan Horse Drawing Tutorial
- Picasso’s Rooster Art Project
- Self Portraits in the Style of Frida Kahlo
- By the Great Horn Spoon Art Appreciation Packet
With my limited background related to artistic endeavors, this truly is one of the simplest ways for us to embark on art projects as a family.
If I come across additional deals this week that meet our highly sought-after qualification of nerdy-gifts-for-moms-and-dads-to-give-or-receive, I’ll add them to this page. Happy shopping, and thanks so much for supporting Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood with your purchases!
Top Image Attribution: Todd Wilson, Family Man Ministries