If you're a Practical Homeschooling subscriber, here is some good news.

We have extended the deadline for the issue #95 Story Contest one last time, to January 10.

10 kids with the best stories will win the Story of Inventions Kid Kit from EDC Publishing. And believe it or not, we're short on entries, so your child has a GREAT chance of winning!

This fairly hefty kit comes in a 9" x 11" x 2" box. It contains the Usborne Story of Inventions book, an "Invented by/when/witness" rubber stamp, and your My Inventions Top Secret Inventor's Portfolio.

The Inventor's Portfolio contains instructions on how to develop the idea for an invention and how to protect your idea so you can prove it is yours.

It also contains a pocket for the record of your original concept (on a napkin or scrap of paper you had available at the time), and a notebook for you to write up and document the development of your idea, all stamped and witnessed.

Here is the story starter:

This time, it's a blast from the past! Pick an era from the past and imagine you were born then. Tell about a typical day in your life as a person of your own age would have lived it then.

Your entry must be 50 to 300 words long, must be your original work, and must not have been submitted or published elsewhere.
 
To enter, go to our site's Contact form. Select "Entry for current story contest" from the pull-down menu. At the top of the Message box, enter your name, address, phone, and age with your entry. (We need all this so we can, first, compare entries to those of kids with similar ages and second, so we can mail the prize if you win. UPS requires phone #s.) Then enter the story itself and submit your entry. Winners will be announced in the Jan/Feb/Mar 2011 issue of Practical Homeschooling.