Jun

29

Ready for some tracing fun? Here’s a tracing sheet with three different shapes in three different sizes each. Tracing is a great activity to help practice correct pencil grip and to strengthen the muscles of the hand, and can be very helpful for special needs kids as well.


Jun

26

glubbleIsn’t that a great name? Glubble is a new plugin for Firefox that allows kids to surf the web safely, showing only the best of the web that parents choose to allow. It causes Google and Yahoo search results to show only content from the trusted “Glubbleworld” instead of the entire web. It also has a “child friendly look and feel with interfaces for pre-reading and reading age young children.”

Are you an Internet Explorer user? I used to be too, and once I switched to Firefox, I never looked back. Click on the banner below to give it a try. There is very little difference between the latest version IE and Firefox, so it will be an easy change to make!


Jun

23

More 4th of July Fun

June 23, 2007 | Comments Off

flag Here are some more July Fourth activities as we get ready for Independence Day!

Printables4Kids has a July 4th word scramble to keep you busy, and the Free Holiday Ideas site has some neat ideas for homemade “poppers” made from things like Mentos and Alka Seltzer!


Jun

22

July 4th Independence Day Word Search

June 22, 2007 | Comments Off

fireworksFourth of July is coming up soon!

Just in time for the parades, fireworks displays, picnics, barbecue and everything red, white and blue, here is a word search to get you in the mood!


Jun

21

Do you like pop-up cards? Via Thingamababy, I found a site that has lots of wonderful pop-ups you can make. There are free templates and instructions for a pop-up pig, birthday cake, rabbit, birdhouse an ark with animals and even a pop-up Oz, and many others! These are very creative cards and would be a hit next time you have card-giving occasion.


Jun

18

spatula

Thanks to PhatMommy, I discovered a site dedicated to teaching kids how to cook called Spatulatta. It had recipes, games, instructional videos and even basic instructions for things like shredding cheese and boiling eggs. 4th of July is coming up soon, so check out their recipes for a Fourth of July Backyard Party.


Jun

15

So, it’s summer now, and you hate the idea of your kids forgetting everything they learned in math this year right? I know there are lots of parents who like to keep the basics fresh in those little minds over the summer, and I have a great resource that will help you do just that. My Education Junction is a wonderful site with recipes, ideas and good stories, among other educational items. They also have a whole set of printable math worksheets that includes basic addition and subtraction, counting money and telling time!


Jun

13

find nemo Any Finding Nemo fans out there? Here’s a fun Nemo wallpaper I created to help entertain your little ones when you just need them to sit still for a minute! Nemo is in 3 places in the wallpaper among all the other fish. Another option, once they’ve found all 3 Nemos is to ask them to count the yellow fish, purple fish, etc. To use the wallpaper, click on the image or link above to open the JPG and then right-click and choose Set as Desktop Background, or Set as Wallpaper. This is a 1024×768 image, but it looked great stretched to fill up my enormous monitor.


Jun

12

classicsThe radio show, “Classics for Kids” has a wonderful website that I just discovered and am so excited to share it with you! You can listen to current and past week shows as well as play games such as the Note Name Game and Rockin’ Rhythm Master, and you can even compose your own music. It’s a great site for kids to get familiar with instruments, composers and classical music in general. The Musical Dictionary has recordings of how all the instruments sound, and if click on Hear the Music, you can listen to entire pieces of great classical music.


Jun

10

This is a really cool freebie for the kids who love Legos. You can get a FREE 2 year subscription to LEGO magazine! Besides being a fun read, I’m sure the kids will love getting mail addressed to them for a change, instead of Mom and Dad! :) Thanks to Play Library for the tip!
And… Printables4Kids just posted about some neato Lego Duplo coloring sheets.


Jun

8

daddy

Free print and color cards at the Fisher Price website are perfect for Father’s Day coming up on June 17th. There are cards for dads who like to fish and play golf, as well as some ties to color and a sweet “I love you Dad” page!  Hope this helps to make this Father’s Day a special day for the Daddy in your life.


Jun

6

pencil Time to trace! This tracing sheet for preschoolers and even special needs kids will help the kiddos to practice correct pencil grip and to strengthen the muscles of the hand.

Marcie who is mother to two boys, one of whom has autism, says that it is also helpful to place the sheets on an incline and tape them for easier manipulation.


Jun

4

computer Looking for some free online and printable activities? Check out TheKidzPage.com. They’ve been online since 1998 and have oodles of coloring sheets (both online coloring and printable sheets), jigsaw puzzles, arcade games, kids clip art, spot the difference games, and online toys to play with! So much good stuff on this site- some of it is designed to be educational and some is just plain fun!

Remember, just for subscribing to FreeStuff4Kids, you get the free Summer Fun Book. Once you’re subscribed, the link to the download page will be at the bottom of the post that you receive, either in your feed reader or in your e-mail. (Not sure what a feed reader is? Check out this post at my personal blog.)


Jun

1

FreeStuff4Kids is almost 5 months old! We’ve had fun making and discovering free goodies for kids during this time and thought it might be fun to do a “greatest hits” list to highlight the most popular freebies during the lifetime of this site. If you’re a regular reader here, I appreciate your visits! If you’re new, welcome and I hope you find things here that will make your life as a parent easier and things your kids will really enjoy.

Now that we’re heading into summer, the kids will be home and looking for things to do and I have an exclusive bonus for those of you who subscribe to FreeStuff4Kids! Starting today and for the next several weeks, exclusively for subscribers, there will be a link in the feed, or e-mail (depending on how you’ve subscribed) to a download page for the “Summer Fun Book”. There are two versions- one available to those subscribing to this site’s feed and the other to those subscribing to Char Polanosky’s Printables4Kids site. We worked together to come up with some fun stuff for both younger kids and older kids. So, if you’re not subscribed already, now is the time! There are links at the bottom of this post and at the top of this page.
On with the greatest hits!

play money Printable Play Money is available in denominations of 1, 5 and 10 and each page has three bills.

rice krispies When you’re ready to make something sweet and gooey, you’ll want to check out 13 Ways to Dress Up Your Rice Krispy Treats. There are lots of new ideas to dress up the classic dessert that I’m sure you’ll want to try!

The Printable Alphabet Tracing Sheets have been very popular with the preschool crowd

drawing Lots of kids want to learn to draw, and there are some very good tutorials online to help them do just that. In particular, I posted a review and a link to a site that has been very popular that has step-by-step instructions on how to draw animals and people too!

And finally one of the most useful finds this year has been 101 things to do with kids. This one is definitely something to print out and keep in your bag for those times when there’s lots of time and not a lot to do!


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