Hands-On Book Craft Activities, Literature Games for Summer Reading Enrichment

Parents, are you worried about whether your kids will retain what they learned in school through three months of summer vacation?  Homeschoolers, need cheap, homemade language arts lesson plans? Special needs teachers, want interactive reading games? Work at home parents, maybe you just need activities to keep kids occupied so you can work. Whatever your need, I've got the answer. Here are hands-on reading activities and book based craft and literature games.  I've created these and give you permission to print (just don't sell them, please). Use these activities for preschool to high school. They're cheap to make, using recycled materials. Lessons are based on HOTS (Higher-Order Thinking Skills): analysis, application, synthesis and evaluation. Perfect summer reading enrichment. Hands-On Homemade Reading Crafts, Book Activities, Literature Games

Free Printable 2013 Calendars, Schedules, Organizers for Kids

One of the best ways to teach a child to be organized is to help them follow a daily calendar or schedule. Here are free printable 2013 calendars. There are monthly and weekly and year at-a-glance calendars, personal organizers and schedules. Many are coloring page calendars, too. Free printable coloring page calendars make great math and time lesson plans for elementary and special needs students. Keep preschoolers busy when older siblings aren't in school with free printable coloring page calendars. You might have kids color calendars and give as birthday or holiday gifts.  Free 2013 Coloring Page Calendars

Free Printable 2013 Personal Calendars

Do you keep a personal or family calendar? If you're like me, you have several going at once. Here is a tool to personalize, customize and design your calendars. Make coloring page calendars with animal, Bible, holiday, fantasy and cartoon character calendars. The calendar creator tool is free to use and customize. Make personalized free printable calendars for everyone this holiday season. Print 2013 calendars in color for older family members and make color your own calendars for children. You might also print all the calendars in black and white and ask children to color images and give colored calendars as gifts. This makes a great Advent service project or countdown to Christmas activity. Read more

Free Christmas Countdown Calendar Printables for Busy Parents

Looking for a cute Advent countdown to Christmas calendar? Here is a complete free printable advent countdown calendar activity featuring teddy bears labeled from 1-25. This Christmas countdown craft can be adapted in many ways for religious and secular advent calendars.  read more

Free Printable Chanukah Crafts for Kids (and busy Jewish Moms!)

Hanukkah or Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, begins at sundown Dec. 8, 2012. On the Hebrew calendar Hanukkah always falls on the 25th of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar. For busy Jewish parents, trying to juggle work, kids and Hanukkah preparation, life can get busy around the holiday. Here are free printable crafts and activities to keep kids productively (operative word) occupied! Assign children tasks of making decorations and cards. This keeps them happy and out of mischief (for awhile anyway!) read on

Free Printable Halloween Word Games, Word Search, Word Scrambles, Puzzles

Little ones look forward to Halloween, but so do big kids. And sometimes it's hard to keep anxious kids, young or old, productively occupied while waiting. Got some big kids that need activities to keep them busy till trick-or-treat? Maybe you're a teacher or home school parent that needs activities to keep kids on task? Here are free printable Halloween and trick or treat word puzzles, games and word searches. Games are educational too! Use these free printable word games, word searches and puzzles for classroom lesson plans.   Free Printable Halloween Word Games, Word Search, Word Scrambles and Puzzles 

Free Printable Blank Checks for Money Math, Economics and Banking Practice

Money, banking and finances are some of the most practical math applications. Students learn to write checks, balance a check book and manage debit, savings and checking accounts. Here are free printable checks, check register, deposit and withdrawal slips. Links and websites listed below have free printable bank and check book activities to give students hands-on money math practice. Use these activities in consumer math classes, special education lesson plans, homeschool and math activities.  Free Printable Blank Checks for Money Math, Economics and Banking Practice 

Free Printable Math File Folder Games--Helps Working Parents Keep Kids Productively Busy

File folder games are a teacher's best friend in classroom resources. They work great for busy working parents, too. File folders games are great for parents of special needs students as they are hands-on, interactive resources. Here are free printable math activities that can be easily made into file folder games. You can print these games and glue the game board to a file folder. Cut out the pieces and laminate game board and pieces. Place game pieces in a Ziploc bag and attach bag to game file folder. The websites listed have free printable file folder games for number recognition, counting, skip counting, money math, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, math facts, fractions, decimals, story problems and other math concepts. Free Printable Math File Folder Games for All Grades

Free Calendars--free printable personal planner, online organizer

Speaking from several decades of teaching, one of the most challenging concepts for students to master is calendar skills. Calendar skills are vital skills for personal organization and time management. Here are free printable calendar, free online organizer and personal planner tools and lesson plans to use them. Use these to organize your family life, too.  Click here...

Free Printable Children's 2014 Calendars

Free Printable 2011 Coloring Page Calendars, Schedules, Organizers for Kids

One of the best ways to teach a child to be organized is to help them follow a daily calendar or schedule. Here are free printable 2014 and 2015 monthly and weekly calendars, personal organizers and schedules for kids. Many are coloring page calendars, too. Read more...

Free Printable Online Article Writer Monthly Organizer and Payment Schedule

Free Printable Article Writer Monthly Work Organizer and Calendar
Do you write, sell and publish articles online, for Associated Content, Bukisa, Demand Studios, SEED, Examiner or other online publisher? Then you need this free printable monthly calendar article organizer.
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