Print our puppet theatre pattern, then make a simple puppet theatre from cardboard at home! Bonus: You can colour it however you like.

Using a free template, print and make a bunch of articulated dragon puppets - available in various colours and a colour-your-own version.

Learn how to make shadow puppets with moving parts and have playful shadow puppet duels with these free articulated knight puppets!

Use one of these 150+ shadow puppet templates to present fairy-tales, fables and nursery rhymes, teach about animals, and explore the traditions behind some festivities. Some are based on particular stories, and others are open-ended; some are free, and others are paid - take your pick!

Not all shadow puppets have to be black and white - make colourful ones, using free templates, recyclable plastic, some glue, and sharpie markers!

Use clothespins and free templates to create puppets of a talking unicorn and a roaring dragon.

Make these colorful and quirky paper puppets using clothespin, free printable templates and a bit of yarn!

Make a friendly puppet for every finger, using these free templates of paper animals - a pig, a mouse, a cat, a rabbit and a horse.

These adorable and free Little Red Riding Hood finger puppets are great both for story times and for dramatic play!

No puppet theatre? Put on a costume! With a free printable mask, the transformation should be easy!

Using this game of deduction, you will learn about twenty amazing women who changed the world. Includes Marie Curie, Frida Kahlo, Florence Nightingale, Rosa Parks, and many more!

Animal Trivia for kids is a printable educational game that introduces players to the amazing animal diversity on our planet. Challenge each other to a battle of wits and learn together!

If you like LEGO and playing board games, try this LEGO twist on the popular games of Charades or Pictionary!

Birds are a very diverse and fascinating group! In this game, players are attempting to deduce the identity of their opponent's bird, by asking questions and using a key of twenty four birds.

This bird bingo printable game features 48 species of birds from around the world. With beautiful watercolour illustrations and multiple levels of complexity, it will bring joy to bird enthusiasts of all ages!

Featuring the flags of 120 countries and two ways to play, Flag Bingo is a fun educational game that challenges children to learn and identify the flags of the world. 

In this game, players will be challenged to act, discuss and imagine, while learning all about emotions and each other. 

Use your wit and imagination to complete little-known proverbs from around the world and trick other players into thinking that they’re the original sayings.

Most animals do not want to come in close contact with humans, but if you learn to notice and recognize their tracks, you will be able identify which animals visit your neighbourhood or like to walk along the same trails as you do. 

In 1980s, Tetris was one of the most famous and popular games. This Tetris printable game is a fun screen-free way for kids to play this family favorite.

Would you Rather? is a simple game that has immense popularity among children. Using these free templates, you can print off all of the cards or have one page with all 100 questions.

I spy with my little eye... tons of free printable I spy games for kids!

Want to teach your kids how to play dominos? Just print this fun and colourful set!

No Thank You, Evil! is a great tabletop game of creative make-believe, adventure, and storytelling! They have a physical copy as well, but it is really easy - and fun - to set it up at home with printable cards and dice.

Play with dress-up dolls and study anatomy at the same time!

Learn how to make paper insects and study insect anatomy with this printable insects kit!

Introduce the history of space exploration to kids by reading about influential space suits and making astronaut paper dolls! 

Paper dolls have great potential for teaching all kinds of topics to children - history, geography, even science! They are also simply fun.

Learn how to make a cardboard dollhouse with this free printable dollhouse template!

This printable pop-up papercraft dollhouse was created to teach kids about things they can do in their house to help prevent climate change. Each of the four rooms in the dollhouse is a separate free PDF template. Although the instructions are in Japanese, the excellent photos allow one to build the dollhouse without knowing the language.

Print and assemble a little paper neighbourhood. There are three free different models of houses included!

The forest background is perfect - not just for the forest gnomes, but also for animal figurines or little cars.

Make a quick fairy garden with this free printable fairy garden template!

Transform a sheet a paper into magical pinwheels!

Make a windmill model at home and hold an engineering study with children! How many blades is the best? And at what angle?

These paper tops are sturdy and easy to spin, even for little ones. You can decorate them and watch as your designs blend into circles when the top spins.

Not only are these spinner toys fun to make... but they provide a great STEAM activity for anyone learning about colour theory.

Study anatomy and play a doctor, using free life-size printable human body organs!

Pair up the life-size anatomy printables above with this doctor's office pretend play kit for an immersive experience.

Set up a dentist's office and learn about brushing teeth... made from rocks!

Watch as your children tend to all of their stuffies with this free printable vet's kit.

Children can use this cute mail box to send notes to each other!

Playing detectives and driving that imaginary car becomes even more fun if you use free printable licenses and ID cards!

Adorable and free, this paper fruit is a must for your play kitchen or grocery stand!

Open up an ice cream shop with this interactive pretend play set. Works well by itself - and also with some play-dough.

After an ice cream shop, try a sandwich shop next!

These free grocery store printables are a great prop, either for pretend shopping or for putting in a play kitchen.

Use play money - for playing shop, restaurant, or even a vet! With 15 different printables, you will not run out of currencies soon.

Do your kids like foam glider airplanes? Craft a DIY version together at home! 

These straw rockets are a blast and a great STEM activity!

Using a free printable template, cut, colour and assemble a beautiful hot air balloon - it will work great with some little toys!

Stretch as complicated a road as you like across your playroom with these free printable road templates.

And if you don't have enough cars, you can fold some from paper as well.

...Or a printable school bus. It opens on the back, so you can put toys inside!

Put together a fleet of paper airplanes.

Finish your busy city with a selection of printable signs.

Free cards that encourage children to build DUPLO animals - from A to Z! Letter designs are also included, and so is a fun fact about each of the animals.

Challenge children to make letters - or write whole messages - with LEGO letter cards.

Cute and addictive - create a LEGO mosaic of everything under the sun! These free cards feature animals, and the site has a lot more themes, such as holidays, superheroes, or Star Wars.

These 50 animal pattern block designs are perfect for STEM centres in your preschool or kindergarten! Children will learn the names of animals, practice building skills and math – all at once.

Looking for new Magna Tiles designs to try? Here are 64 Magna Tile ideas to build, both in 2D and 3D, with printable cards for inspiration.

Humans aren't the only great architects - many animals go to great lengths to build their homes. Using these cards, children will learn about ten animals and the houses they build, then complete the engineering challenges and build your their own versions of these amazing dwellings!

Geoboards are perfect for hands-on math activities in your school or homeschool. They are wonderful for teaching beginning geometry. You can use them for area and perimeter. You can build 2D shapes with them and create patterns.

Do you have little builders in your house? This list will keep them busy! It’s 100 invitations to build, a list of fun, unusual, even downright silly things that you can build with. 

If the weather is good, try these STEAM challenges - meant to inspire children to have fun in their backyard. They are very easy to set up and most use supplies you probably already have on hand.

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.

Learn how to start a nature journal with kids using a free printable template that offers ten creative prompts. It is a perfect nature STEM activity for kids, as it encourages them to go outside, explore nature scientifically, then record their nature finds artistically!

Even preschoolers can use this free printable gratitude journal template to learn how to express gratitude. Simply invite young children to use “I am grateful” gratitude prompts to draw what they have to be thankful for!

Roll the cubes and tell or write a story that includes the pictures that are shown on the cubes. The cubes are a breeze to make with a wide variety of free printable templates!

For younger children, instead of story cubes, you can try Tell Me a Story cards.

Draw the missing half of an insect to make the picture complete! These drawing prompts are good for children learning the concept of symmetry and, of course, for all young insect enthusiasts.

Not an insect enthusiast? Try draw-the-missing-half of flowers prompts! Learn about bilateral and radial symmetry in the process.

Roll a die and see what kind of monster you will draw. Monster Math is a printable game that challenges children to draw while working on simple math – counting, number writing and recognition.

Robot Math works on a similar principle to Monster Math, but it challenges children to draw while working on simple geometry – shape drawing and recognition.

Draw, cut and create a puzzle of your own! With this free printable puzzle template, kids can make as many as they want.

Collaborate with nature and finish the ink pictures of birds with flowers, leaves and branches!

Experiment with different styles of eyes, noses and smiles with this free page full of various blank faces.

Make your own comic with this simple printable comic prompt.

These free drawing prompts are a great way to spark children's creativity and imagination! 

Mats give a new dimension to play dough play. Have fun trying this pack of ten free printable play-dough mats!

Math Movement Dice turn practising math into a game! Children can practise their addition, subtraction, even multiplication facts, work on their gross motor skills and have fun at the same time. With the free printable template, you can make the dice and play too!

You can still move around without the math, using this dinosaur action cube!

If you’re looking for a fun and silly way to keep the kids active, try these free farm animal movement cards. They also can act as a little reading practice for beginner readers.

Go on a nature scavenger hunt, while simultaneously studying math!