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Showing posts with label School Printables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School Printables. Show all posts

Friday, July 18, 2008

Tracing Letters & Numbers Worksheets

Educational worksheets to teach your children (preschool and kindergarten age) letters and numbers! These worksheets feature Standard Block Print (similar to Zaner-Bloser/ Manuscript), half with arrows, half without.
 

I created a whole slew of ABC and 123 tracing pages (can't you just hear the Jackson 5 singing in the background?) to teach my 4-year old how to write letters. She is so good at it now that she can copy words from anywhere--book covers, coloring books, magazines. This is a great resource if you homeschool or are preparing your young one for kindergarten. And it saves on ink by printing in gray, rather than black.

Download the free 5-page ABC tracing worksheets.

Download the free 31-page ABC&123 tracing worksheets.

Cutting Shapes Exercise

Here is an activity to help your preschooler with shape identification, as well as helping to improve cutting skills. Children need plenty of practice using scissors before they enter kindergarten, and this is a great exercise for just that. Click on the image and save to your desktop (or click on the image to view it full size and then print).

For a six-page file of different cutting activities (cutting shapes, and straight and curvy lines), click here.

Pre-K and Kindergarten Seasons Review

Looking for a way to help teach your preschooler or kindergartner the four seasons? Here's your answer!

I have a 9-page PDF file that is FREE! The first page (shown at right, click on image to view full size and save to desktop) lets your child practice writing the names of the four seasons, and provides fun pictures for your child to color.

The other 8 pages contain seasonal images for your youngster to color, cut out, and match with the correct season.

If you would like this free Seasons Review Booklet, just click here to download the PDF file in English (it's big...about 2 MB).

Also available in Spanish/Espanol - Las Estaciones

Quiet Activities & Puzzles

Looking for quiet activities to keep your toddler and young children busy? These are sure to do the trick!

Perfect for entertaining your kids: on road trips, during church meetings, Sacrament meeting, in waiting rooms, in hotel rooms, during nap time or quiet time, or anytime you need some peace and quiet.

Introducing 11 Quiet Activities & Puzzles accented with exciting colors teach your children creativity and problem solving!
  • Harmonizes left-brain and right-brain, turning them into better students with better grades.
  • Entertains them in a skill-building, proactive way, as opposed to the spectator sport of TV and mindless movies.
  • Children constructively occupied have a lot less time and inclination to disobey...which sure makes being a mom a lot more enjoyable.
  • Gives children a head start and competitive edge when they start school.

Given the choice, wouldn't you rather have a child who enjoys entertaining themselves by doing things that develop their brain, creativity and eye-hand coordination...than to always be providing spectator entertainment that leaves them without any sense of accomplishment or self-worth?


Simply slip the main activity/puzzle page into a heavy sheet protector (or laminate), laminate the small pieces and cut out, and use velcro or double-sided tape to make the pieces stick. When the smaller pieces are not in use, I just slide them into an envelope and slide the envelope into the sheet protector.

Puzzles & Activities Products
PA001 Train Car FREE
PA002 Spring Flowers FREE
PA003 Gummy Bears FREE
PA004 Doll Faces FREE
PA005 Sweet Shoppe FREE
PA006 Easter Eggs FREE
PA007 Loaves and Fishes FREE
PA008 Tithing FREE
PA009 Letters Puzzle FREE
PA010 Numbers Puzzle FREE
PA011 Pizza Puzzle FREE

Get the entire Quiet Activity Package (all 11 activities) FREE

Download the Quiet Activity Package (zipped) file now!

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Dear Santa Letter

Every young child yearns to write Santa a wish list every year. This traceable "Dear Santa" letter makes it a cinch for children not yet able to read and write.

Just give your child a pencil and some crayons and let them trace away! There are a few possibilities for filling in the wish list area:
  1. You can help your child spell the name of the items they want,
  2. Your child can draw pictures of the presents, or
  3. Your child can cut pictures out of ads or catalogs and glue them in place.
Once your child is done, he or she can color the gingerbread man as a present for Santa. Just click on the image to the right and print. Happy tracing!

Paper-Chain Families


My kids have fallen in love with decorating paper people holding hands. I call them paper families. It's real simple. Just click on the image to view the full size. Now right click and save as.

Print. Fold in half lengthwise first.

Now fold into quarters. Cut along image (careful not to cut the folds where the arms and legs are connected).

Hint: the image is the 2nd of 4 in a row. You'll have two sets of four when you're done.

Voila. Simple and fun.