Yes. Recipe Box Homeschool Edition covers all 5 core subjects (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, Life Skills) every month, with assessments, vocabulary, lab notes, and an end-of-year certificate. It functions as a complete science curriculum for most state-evaluator requirements. You can also pair it with another spine if your evaluator wants additional documentation — many families use it as their full science track.

One box covers everyone. Each month comes with parent guide notes and lab journal pages for all 3 age tracks (🐿️ Exploration 4–7, 🦊 Discovery 8–11, 🦉 Mastery 12+). Same recipe, same lesson concept, three different journals. A 5-year-old draws what they observed; a 14-year-old runs the lab independently and writes a report.

Read the parent guide (about 10 minutes), then run the lab with your kid for roughly an hour, every other week. No teaching degree, no science background, no prep. Katie wrote the guide to be read aloud — every question, every "watch for this" cue, every safety note is right there.

Yes. Recipe Box Homeschool Edition is currently approved as a curriculum vendor in Arizona, Arkansas, Utah, Wyoming, and Texas. You can submit through your state's ESA portal. For most ESA families, $540 is $0 out of pocket. If your state isn't on the list, we're actively working to add more.

Kids under 4 can do the box alongside an older sibling — they love the sensory part of lab work even if the chemistry is over their head. For high-schoolers beyond 12, the Mastery track scales into real independent lab work, and we publish optional advanced extensions (lab reports, variable testing, micro-research) for kids 14+.

Each monthly box ships with 4 essential oils, 6 recipe cards, and all the lab ingredients you need. The parent guide and age-track lab journals are emailed to you to download and print. Every year is a fresh curriculum — different recipes and experiments, expanded chemistry concepts, and a deeper version of each theme. It's an escalation, not a repeat.