About Me: Free Printable Q&A Journal of Writing Prompts for Kids

About Me: Free Printable Q&A Journal of Writing Prompts for Kids

This free printable journal for kids is filled with creative questions and writing prompts that will inspire even the most reluctant of writers to create their own book about what they know best. A book about themselves. People change. It’s especially noticeable with...
Moon Chinese Legend Shadow Puppet Show for the Mid-Autumn Festival

Moon Chinese Legend Shadow Puppet Show for the Mid-Autumn Festival

Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival by staging a shadow puppet show based on the Chinese Moon legend that explains the origins and traditions of the festival. Falling on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival happens in...
Free Printable Back-to-School Book of Questions for Kids

Free Printable Back-to-School Book of Questions for Kids

As a first-day-of-school tradition, make this free printable back-to-school book together with kids! Filled with writing and drawing prompts, it captures their likes, dislikes, hobbies, and aspirations. A fun keepsake for parents and a creative way for teachers to get...
Wooden Block Alphabet Free Printable Cards

Wooden Block Alphabet Free Printable Cards

Learn the alphabet the hands-on way – by building letters with wooden blocks! Use our free printable cards for inspiration. People process information differently, and while three main processing methods are defined as auditory, visual and kinesthetic, there are...
Beauty and the Beast: Shadow Puppets

Beauty and the Beast: Shadow Puppets

Inspired by the Beauty and the Beast fairy-tale, these printable shadow puppets will let the kids tell their version of the “tale as old as time”… When did you hear your first fairy-tale? For most of us, the date would be unknown because our...
52 Questions to Ask Children: Free Printable Q&A Journal

52 Questions to Ask Children: Free Printable Q&A Journal

If you like creating keepsakes and family traditions, you will like this one. Download this free printable template for a Q&A journal with 52 questions to ask your children – and fill it once a week or whenever convenient! People change. It’s especially...
Magna-Tiles Uppercase Alphabet Printable Cards

Magna-Tiles Uppercase Alphabet Printable Cards

A great addition to your literacy corner, these printable cards encourage kids to make letters with Magna-Tiles, Picasso Tiles, and other magnetic tiles. It is a fun hands-on way to teach the alphabet to preschoolers and kindergartners who like building. Also check:...
Name Writing Nature Hunt

Name Writing Nature Hunt

Sometimes, a new focus is all that is required to return the vibrancy to something that is beginning to pale. This is what this activity is about – making a familiar walk special by having a spontaneous nature hunt. But we weren’t just hunting for pretty...
Peek-a-Boo Book from Envelopes

Peek-a-Boo Book from Envelopes

As a part of the Junk Play series that focuses on creating crafts and toys for kids from recyclables, we made a little peek-a-boo book from envelopes.   Lately, my son has been very partial to sea creatures – whales, sharks, and dolphins. We took him to see...
Send a Book on an Adventure: Bookcrossing for Children

Send a Book on an Adventure: Bookcrossing for Children

Have you ever lost a book? It has happened to me a couple of times. But have you ever lost a book on purpose? I have not had such an opportunity until a few days ago when our family decided to participate in bookcrossing. As it turned out, there is...
Best Board Games for Nurturing Creativity

Best Board Games for Nurturing Creativity

Board games did not come into my life until I was in my early twenties. I had some experience playing Monopoly when I was a little girl, and there were a few versions of Snakes and Ladders, but I did not discover the variety of board games available until my best...
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Box Set Review

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Box Set Review

If you have never read Calvin and Hobbes, it requires a short introduction. It was a comic strip written by Bill Watterson and published daily in the newspapers from 1985 until 1995. The comic features the daily life and philosophical observations of a six-year-old,...
Make the Shadow Puppets for The Gingerbread Man

Make the Shadow Puppets for The Gingerbread Man

In the winter, evenings are longer, so our family shadow puppet theatre opens more frequently. We decided to start the holiday season by staging a  familiar fairy-tale – The Gingerbread Man. The Gingerbread Man and Its...
Picture Books that Make the Best Gifts

Picture Books that Make the Best Gifts

We love books, and have pretty much set a monthly fund for “growing the library”. It has been growing so well that the books are now everywhere. They are spilling off the shelves, and can be found in the baskets by our beds, on the kitchen table, and in the car. It...