Side-by-side comparison
Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool vs The Good and the Beautiful
A side-by-side from Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool and The Good and the Beautiful.
Easy Peasy and The Good and the Beautiful are the two most-recommended affordable Christian homeschool curricula on the internet, and families on tight budgets often arrive at the comparison after rejecting $500–$1,000 packages from Sonlight or My Father's World. Both are remarkably affordable, both are Christian, both cover K–12 — but they're built very differently and the quality varies in opposite directions.
Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool, created by Lee Giles, is genuinely free. The complete K–12 online curriculum assembles daily lesson plans from publicly available internet resources — YouTube videos, free educational sites, printable worksheets, online readings. Parents primarily supervise rather than teach. Optional printed companion workbooks run $4–$10 each, capping annual cost around $100. Easy Peasy is Christian non-denominational with Bible study as a daily subject. The genuine limitation: because lessons are assembled from free internet resources, quality is inconsistent, links sometimes break, and high school depth may not satisfy selective college expectations. Easy Peasy is unaccredited.
The Good and the Beautiful is mostly free at K–8 (Language Arts and Math PDFs are free downloads from the publisher) and modestly priced for printed materials ($49–$124 per Course Set). TGTB delivers professionally designed, integrated Charlotte Mason-style lessons. The visual quality is high, content is internally consistent, and lessons are open-and-go. TGTB's Christian content has LDS roots, marketed as broadly non-denominational. History, science, and high school courses are separate paid purchases (the free part is just LA and Math).
Both work for families exploring homeschooling on a tight budget. Easy Peasy is the cheapest option that exists. TGTB has higher production quality at a small cost.
At a glance
The specifics
| Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool | The Good and the Beautiful | |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool | The Good and the Beautiful |
| Established | 2011 | 2015 |
| Price | $0–$100/year | $0–$124/grade |
| Grades | PreK, K–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 | PreK, K–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 |
| Subject | Math, Language Arts, Science, History, Bible, Full Program | Math, Language Arts, Full Program |
| Method | Eclectic, Online Video | Charlotte Mason |
| Format | Digital | Print, Digital |
| Worldview | Christian | Christian |
The verdict
How to choose
Choose Easy Peasy if budget is the absolute priority (truly $0–$100/year for the whole family), you're trying homeschooling for the first time and don't want to commit to a paid program, you have reliable internet, or you're an international family without access to US retailers. Plan to supplement at the high school level for rigor.
Choose The Good and the Beautiful if you have a small budget but can afford printed Course Sets, you want professionally designed integrated lessons, you value visual quality, or you specifically want Charlotte Mason-style short focused lessons. TGTB's free K–8 LA and Math is the best free homeschool content on the internet by quality.
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