Children love cartoon dinosaurs, but most prefer realistic pictures of dinosaurs. Here are free printable dinosaur coloring pages. Use as lessons for science class, preschool activities, unit studies, day camps and home school, too. read more
free printable lesson plans on alphabet to zoology and everything in between
Free Printable Dinosaur Coloring Pages
Children love cartoon dinosaurs, but most prefer realistic pictures of dinosaurs. Here are free printable dinosaur coloring pages. Use as lessons for science class, preschool activities, unit studies, day camps and home school, too. read more
Free Printable Ancient Rome Lesson Plans, Roman History Activities
The study of
ancient civilizations is essential to any curriculum. From Ancient Greece,
the world gets classical art, music, a system of government, Olympic games,
philosophy and more. The western world owes much to Ancient Rome for
advances in technology. Roman roads were forerunners to the modern highway.
Classic Greek and Roman architecture and columns have set the bar for modern
buildings. The aqueducts of ancient Rome paved the way for modern plumbing and
irrigation. Greek and Roman military, warfare and weaponry foreshadowed modern
warfare. Science, astronomy, the stars and planets all have Greek and Roman
roots.
All the romance
languages stem from Greek and Latin (the language of Ancient Rome). Both the
Greek and Roman empire were unparalleled in history. If you're a teacher or
homeschool parent, you'll want free printable Ancient Rome and
Ancient Greece lessons plans. Use these for social studies, geography, Bible,
religion and government. Use these for law, medicine and science as well. Mr.
Dowling has free printable Ancient Greece lesson plans and activities on Ancient Rome. Next check out the awesome materials
from DK Eyewitness Books. Along with Usborne, these are the best picture books as they show actual artifacts.
Mr
Donn.org is full of world history lessons and activities. Mr Donn has dozens of
free printable Ancient Rome
activities on Italy, the
Etruscans (from which comes Tuscany), Romulus and Remus, the Roman Forum, the
Roman Baths, Roman roads, the Roman empire. There are activities on Greek and
Roman family life, home, buildings, clothing, art, food, music, religion, gods
and goddesses and more. Here are lesson plans on the cult of Mithras, a "newer" religion of ancient Rome.
Now sail over to ancient Greece where Mr. Donn has free printable lesson
plans, too. Check out these free printable lesson plans on the Byzantium Empire too.
ProTeacher
has 40+ free printable world history lessons on Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. Print projects, units of world history
lessons, activity pages, workbook pages, craft projects and hands-on activities
You will need to submit your email address to join the share community at
ProTeacher to access your free printables. There are coloring pages, cut and
paste crafts, games, puzzles, Latin dictionary worksheets and more.
Discovery
Education has a comprehensive list of materials, world history lessons on
the Roman gladiators. Student Handouts has free printable Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece worksheets, maps and world history
lessons. The wonderful part about this website is that the maps and pictures
are primary sources. This means that the maps were drawn during that period of
history in question. The images are vintage and historical. Give students
activities that cover history and geography as well as culture. Follow up with
free printable Greek and Roman crafts and coloring pages from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome from DL-TK.
Free Printable Science Projects, Science Experiments, STEM activities
Parents,
do you get a little queasy when your child tells you she needs help with her
science project? Does the school science fair give you panic attacks? There's
always that cool dad who comes up with awesome science projects that leave your
little bean plant looking pathetic. Then there's that creative mom who makes
other parents look like losers. Well fear not--here's a list of free printable
science experiments, science projects and science crafts to knock that science
fair out of the universe! Teach your kiddo valuable science lessons with these
STEM activities (STEM activities cover science, technology, engineering and
math--what was called in the old days science experiments).
Home
Education Resources is a really comprehensive website with tons of free printable science projects and STEM activities. lesson plans and learning
materials for teachers and homeschoolers. This page has 24 free printable
science experiments for third or fourth graders on up. You can use them for
younger grades if the instructions are read and explained to the students.
There are experiments on color, light, physics, forces and motion and health
activities. Use for a basis for science fair projects.
TSL
Books has over forty free printable science lesson plans,
experiments and STEM
activities that could be used as science experiments. Choose from many
different concepts: animals, habitats, biomes, plants, seeds, mammals, ocean
life, weather, butterflies, five senses, motion, vehicles, fuels, planets, farm
animals, whales, savanna life and more. There are cut and paste activities,
puzzles, crossword, booklets, matching, coloring pages, mazes and more. Use
these materials to assemble a science fair display.
Paper Toys has free printable paper
models of vehicles, buildings and artifacts. Print and make these 3D
paper crafts to use in science projects for a technology and science fair. This
site has even morefree printable paper
models to make for engineering science projects. ABC Teach has complete
units with free
printable science experiments and ideas for science projects. Scholastic has morefree
printable science experiments. And Enchanted Learning is always a good source for free printable
materials for science projects and STEM activitiesFree Printable Handwriting, Cursive Penmanship Worksheets
One
of the lessons that often gets lost in a teacher's busy school day is penmanship. Arguably, cursive is less
important with the advent of computers. Legible handwriting is not nearly as
prized as it was when students wrote more and typed less. Older people remember
spending hours practicing manuscript and cursive writing. And their penmanship
was neater.
This isn't a debate over the validity of teaching cursive or handwriting skills. Teachers should at least look for neatness in
schoolwork. Here are free printable handwriting worksheets, manuscript writing
practice pages and cursive penmanship worksheets. Use free printable manuscript
(printing letters) and cursive writing worksheets.
There
are different methods and styles for teaching penmanship. Zaner-Bloser style is
the older handwriting style in which printed letters are written vertically
with no slant. Then D'Nnealian came into vogue in the early 1980s. D'nealian
manuscript (printed letters) are written at a slant with more rounding of
letters. D'nealian is more comfortable to write and works with the curves of
the hand and body. D'Nealian print also transitions to cursive writing better.
Here are free printable penmanship lessons for both styles of handwriting
worksheets.
Writing
Wizard has many free printable
handwriting worksheets and writing practice pages for manuscript (print) and cursive writing
practice pages. There are upper and lower case letters. You can print pages
with single letters to practice. Kids Zone has really nice free printable handwriting worksheets and
writing practice pages. The
letters are grouped according the movements needed to write them. For example,
there are the "rockin" round' letters and the "up the slide
letters." This site is very kid-friendly. There are gobs more free
printable writing and reading lessons on printing, tracing, alphabet, Dolce
sight words, phonics, poetry and more.
Handwriting
for Kids has a collection of free printable penmanship writing practice
pages and handwriting
worksheets. Look for cursive writing practice pages on this site. Home
Education Resources has a great assortment of free printable penmanship lessons and handwriting worksheets. Each of the
cursive handwriting worksheets has a coloring picture on it. Children love to
color the pictures when they have finished their handwriting practice. Make the
coloring page a reward. When they have shown you their five best examples of the
letter, they get to color the pictures.
Handwriting
may be a lost art, but it will probably always be needed to some extent. Use
these free printable handwriting practice pages as lesson plans, in homeschool
or tutoring.
Free Printable Math Manipulatives, Hands on Activities
The best way to
teach math is with real-life applications. The best way to demonstrate math
concepts is with hands-on materials that are multi-sensory. These tools are
called manipulatives because kids can touch and interact with them.
They're not just paper and pencil activities or textbook lessons. Math
manipulatives include real or play money (for market math), clocks for telling
time, fraction bars, pattern blocks, parquetry blocks, peg boards, base ten
blocks, Unifix cubes and Cuisinaire Rods. Here are websites with free
printable math manipulatives for homemade
materials.
Mason
has a webpage with dozens of links for free printable math manipulatives, Print pattern blocks, geometry shapes, Base
Ten blocks, color tiles, XY blocks and fraction bars. These tools are commonly
used in preschool, kindergarten and special needs classrooms, but should be
used in all grades to teach geometry, algebra and other maths.
Sparkle
Box from the United Kingdom is jam-packed with free math manipulatives and printables. There are free printable PDFs of clock
activities for telling time, fraction pies and bars, coins and play money for
learning about money math and many free printable math games. Math games
include spinners, dice, game board, pieces and accessories, all free printable
cut-out activities.
Making
Learning Fun has hundreds of free printable math games and manipulatives. This website is organized according to theme,
such as Cats, Apples or different children's literature books. Each theme or
topic has free printable math lessons, crafts, cut and paste, puzzles and more.
Teacher Resources Galore is huge clearinghouse of educational
materials, including free printable math lesson plans.
Each math curriculum content area has dozens of free printables listed. Search
for the math content area that you are teaching to find what manipulatives you
can print. Just click to open the PDF and print.
Jimmie's
Collage is a neat homeschool blog with gobs of mom-teacher-made math manipulatives to
print.
Free Printable Organizers, Charts, Planners, Graphs, Calendars
One way to save on school shopping is to print your
own planner pages and skip buying a student planner or homework organizer. Here are links for free printable student planners, homework
organizers and 2015
children's calendars.
Homeschooling parents, use free printable lesson planners and personal organizers.
Free
Printable.net has loads of free printable
calendar templates, seasonal and holiday
themed lesson organizers, dated personal planner pages and blank student
planners. There are also free printable games, crafts, greeting cards,
classroom activities and more. Why not print out a back-to-school welcoming
packet for students?
Family
Fun has free printable
back-to-school organizers and summer crafts activities, photo frame crafts, homework
charts with stickers, classroom and family organizers, monthly and weekly
planner pages, student personal organizer calendar and charts. There are also
teacher welcome letter templates.
Blessed
Beyond a Doubt is a mom-blog with free printable student
organizers and homework
planners. There are links for free printable school activities, activity
booklets with games, puzzles, crossword and coloring pages. Printable Planners
has customizable free students planners, calendars and homework organizers to print.
TLS Books has design-your-own organizers and free printable color-your-own children's calendars.
Scroll
around these websites for more school themed printables. Look for games,
puzzles, crossword and coloring pages. Print free pencil topper crafts, teacher
and student stationary, incentive stickers, book and binder labels, book and
binder label stickers, book marks and book covers. These cute crafts are
guaranteed to please preschoolers, kindergarteners and elementary students.
Even middle school and high school students would, truth be told, love these
fun crafts.
For
more free printables, visit me at Free Coloring Pages 4U, Catholic Activities, Free Printable Lesson Plans and DIY Homeschool.
Free Printable Mystery Writing Prompts, Story Starter Ideas
Are you writing cracker-bland stories that readers only nibble? What defines a story that readers gulp down whole, beg for more before the first even digests? Characters, plot, climax and something else. Learn to write gulp-down-whole stories. A detective story is a branch of mystery fiction with more definitive parameters. Here's how to write stellar detective fiction.
-Write what you know. If you grew up in Michigan in the 1960's or Mozambique in the 1940's, write to that specific knowledge. If you were in a particular culture or religion, use that too.
-Choose a time period and locale: You can set your story in any time period or place, as long as you know enough about it to make your writing credible.
-Choose a primary setting. Where did the whodunit take place? An abandoned mental hospital, a disused school, onboard a ship, in an old lady's ancestral home: tie it to your locale and envision the details. Be precise, especially as the setting affects the mystery.
-Create a detective: Depending on your setting, match an appropriate person. Your detective can be of any age, strata of society, occupation or nationality.
-Determine how your detective will interact with official authorities. Is he a policeman? Does she solve mysteries as a hobby, but assist with investigations? Maybe he hasn't always been on the side of justice. Father Brown's friend Flambeau was once the greatest jewel thief in Europe. Perhaps your detective operates separately from public investigators or is too young to work professionally. Your detective may have a different occupation altogether: librarian, pharmacist, garbage man (I'll bet a trash collector sees lots of dirty secrets).
-Frame the crime: It may involve a celebrated murder, art theft or a simple local incident that affects only certain people. Maybe it's just an odd occurrence that unravels a larger problem. Outline and sequence the problem. Create a timetable for personal reference and draw a map if necessary. These become the plot.
-People the story. Who are the dramatis personae? Fill in characters, witnesses, suspects, accessories and assistants. Perhaps it's a airplane crew, or members of a club or a family in which the crime occurs.
-Scatter some clues. Toss in details that a witness may notice but not understand. General clues are fine, but try to spice them up (tire marks from certain vehicle, unique food). At the same time, don't make them so complicated that only an expert would understand them.
-Identify the MMO: Every crime is based motive, method and opportunity. The motive is the reason a character might have for committing a crime (money, jealousy). The method is how the crime committed (in the old garage with a tire iron). The opportunity means who was available to have committed the crime.
-Identify the alibis (or lack thereof) for characters: According to the timetable, decide who was where and when at the time the problem occurred or crime was committed.
-Write a climax: Generally, something happens which brings all the events together. It's usually an event of some drama with some element of surprise. You might include some danger or disaster. It is this event that ultimately explains the mystery.
-Write your denouement: This is the resolution of the mystery. This is when secrets come out and loose ends are wrapped up. Some details will reveal themselves and your detective can articulate the rest: the what, who, when, where, how and why.
-Summarize with a short conclusion. Here is the final outcome where we part company with the detective. You might even give a few hints about her next adventures,
Be sure to read a few detective stories for inspiration.
Free Printable Diary of a Wimpy Kid Lesson Plans
Jeff Kinney was
named one of Time Magazine's top 100 most influential people a few years ago.
And I'm going to guess that unless you're in middle school, you've never heard
of him. What has Kinney done to merit such a nomination?
Besides
sharing a last (maiden) name with me, Kinney is the author of the wildly
popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid kids book series.
The Wimpy Kid in question is Greg Heffley and the "diary" is his
personal journal of life in middle school. What makes these books resonate so
with kids? They're graphic novels (educationally correct name for cartoons).
Pictures
poke fun at everyone in Heffley's young life, including himself. We empathize
with Greg's intimidation by tuned-out teen brother Roderick and annoyance at
lisping, ever-innocent younger brother Manny.
Series
includes Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Last Straw, Roderick Rules, Dog Days, The
Ugly Truth, Cabin Fever, Third Wheel, Hard Luck, Greg Heffley's Journal and a
Do-it-Yourself Book. The Long Haul came out in November. Here are free
printable Diary of a Wimpy Kids activities for Children's Book Week 2015, May
4-10.
Fun
Brain has an online Diary of a Wimpy Kid book to read. Parent site Poptropica
has free Diary of a Wimpy
Kid printables. ESL Printables
has free Diary of a Wimpy
Kid worksheets. Here's a Diary of a Wimpy Kid
quiz to print from Quiz
Moz. Ed Helper has a make your own Diary of a Wimpy Kid
word wall.
Teacher
Vision has a free printable Diary
of a Wimpy Kid unit with writing activities, reading extensions,
text to text questions, text-to-life connections and text to self connections
based upon the book series. These sites have free printable Diary
of a Wimpy Kid coloring pages. Here's the other list of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
pages to print.
Free Printable Bible Lesson Plans
A very popular summer activity is VBS, or Vacation Bible School. Almost every local church sponsors a
week-long Vacation Bible School. And don't let the term 'school' intimidate.
Most VBS programs are fun-filled, hands-on and activity based. Here are free printable Vacation Bible School crafts, lesson plans, games and
Bible activities. These general Bible crafts are suitable for Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox Christians. Old
Testament activities would work for Jewish families.
Making Friends has free
printable Bible lessons, Christian crafts and religious
activities. T Print VBS coloring
pages,
crafts, activities, games, puzzles, crossword, cut and paste and more. There
are lots of VBS theme printables to choose from. Teachers, you can search by
what it's for, who it's for, what it is made from and kind of craft.
Free Kids Crafts has a plethora of free printable VBS coloring pages, Christian crafts, and
Bible activities. Check the Seasons and Holidays pages for religious themed
crafts to print in your Bible school. There are also free printable VBS themed units and activities: VBS Bayou Crafts, VBS Safari Crafts, VBS Western
Crafts, VBS Australian Crafts, VBS Rainforest Crafts, VBS High Seas (Pirate)
Crafts, VBS Panda Crafts and VBS Jungle Crafts
Christian Preschool Printables has loads of free Bible printables, games, lessons geared to
younger children. Use these free printable Bible activities for Sunday School,
religious education and VBS activities.
Danielle's Place is a nicely laid out craft site. There's an
annual membership fee, but many printable Bible activities to sample free. It would be worth the reasonable price to have
access to all the crafts.
DL-TK has a remarkable selection of free
printable Bible school activities, There are old and new testament coloring pages, Bible games,
religious lesson plans and Christian crafts. DL-TK is cross-referenced by
activity theme and type of activity (game, craft, puzzle, greeting card,
Eldrbarry has free printable VBS materials from entire themes. Elder Barry walks you through each lesson
plan, how it works, how to organize and even offers pictures of how the
activity worked in their church. The medieval VBS theme is really neat.
Sunday School Fun Zone offers one-stop source for free printable Vacation Bible School crafts and printable Sunday School Activities. There are lots of color,
cut, paste and assemble craft projects to boost fine motor skills and eye-hand
coordination. Perfect for preschool and kindergarten. Bible Kid's Fun Zone has free
printable Bible craft projects too. Family Crafts from
About.com has a wonderful assortment of free printable Bible crafts,
Many websites don't list crafts as VBS specifically. Crafts are
listed by theme, Bible scripture passage or Bible story. Just search site for
the theme of your VBS. For more free kids' crafts, visit my blogsCatholic Activities, Free Coloring Pages 4U and Free Printable Lesson Plans.
Free Printable educational card games, board games
Card games and
board games are excellent teaching tools. Games are interactive and hands-on
and children learn many skills when they play card games. Educational card
games teach kids to count, add, subtract, prioritize, plan, organize, sort,
coordinate and evaluate. Card games can be created to teach content area and
subject matter in lesson plans Card games help students memorize information.
Here are free printable educational card games, playing
cards, flashcards, dominoes and Memory games to use as lesson plans.
The
Kidz Page has free printable educational card games, word games, flashcards, math games, sudoku
games and lots of other educational learning games. They are brightly colored,
cheerful games. Activity Village has free printable educational cards games, deck of cards for learning games, Memory
games, dominoes and more. Planet Pals has a free printable animal matching deck of playing cards. You can play this game as Memory games also,
finding pairs and sets.
Print
Games has several cute free printable card games. Some are styled on vintage card games like
Crazy 8s, Old Maid, Go Fish, and the regular deck of playing cards for
solitaire, poker, rummy, etc. There are board games to print also. These make
excellent family games and party games.
Mom's
Minivan has a great assortment of free printable educational card games, travel and car games. There are bingo
games, Battleships games, matching and Memory games, cootie catchers, connect
the dot games, flashcards, decks of playing cards, dominoes and more.
DL-TK
has a nice assortment of free printable educational
card games, math games, matching
and Memory games, dominoes, playing cards, flashcards and board games. There
are free printable game tokens, playing pieces and dice.
Disney
Family has gobs of free printable Disney
activities, including Valentines
based on Disney characters. Why not print sets of Disney valentines and make
them into educational cards games, flashcards, playing cards, dominoes,
matching and Memory games? Tim's Printables has free printable decks of
playing cards.
Free Printable Leveled Readers, Phonics Workbooks
Your
new reader has just mastered her phonics lessons;
she's reading with some fluency. But summer vacation is here. She won't have
access to classroom readers. Do you buy a set of classroom readers to keep up
her momentum? You can but you don't need to; there are free printable reading
books, phonics books, spelling, vocabulary and grade leveled readers right here
on the Internet. Or maybe you need some summer
enrichment writing activities for your reluctant reader. He's not too crazy
about reading to start with, and you are concerned about how the long summer
will affect his phonics and reading skills. Certainly you need some reading and
writing activities that your children will enjoy. You will also want free
printable reading books, phonics books, spelling and writing activities that
are easy to manage.
The
sole reason many people hire a tutor for their children is that they feel
inadequately prepared to teach them. It's important that if you elect to tutor
your child at home, you feel confident and prepared. As a teacher, parent and
former homeschooler myself, I can assure you that you can tutor your children
at home. With the multitude of free printable reading books, spelling, writing
activities and phonics lessons available, all you really need to do is assemble
some materials for your child, spend a few moments each day on the writing
activities, monitor his progress, and most importantly, relax and have fun.
This
link offers over 30 free printable reading books and leveled
readers to cut, color and
assemble. Making booklets will be fun for you and your child to enjoy together.
Print these booklets free of charge by simply submitting a valid email address.
There are no fees. Naturally, Reading A-Z hopes that you may purchase more of their
fine materials. That is your choice. Meanwhile you may enjoy the free booklets.
These books are written according to grade level. There are stories that
introduce science, social studies and other school content, while practicing
phonics, syllables and spelling patterns. Enchanted Learning has more free printable reading books and leveled
readersand booklets. DL-TK has
many free printable reading
books and leveled readers for preschool, emergent reader and early readers.
Free Printable Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Activities
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a
wonderfully whimsical children's story written by Judi and Ron Barrett in 1982.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a modern tall tale. Here are free printable Cloudy with
a Chance of Meatballs activities and lesson plans. There are reading lessons,
writing activities, literature extensions, lessons in hyperbole, genre study
and even a weather unit based on the book.
Ed Helper has several free printable Cloudy
With a Chance of Meatballs lesson plans.
Check here for more free printable lesson
plans based on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. This site has free printable Cloudy With a Chance of
Meatballs weather science activities.
Click here for free printable vocabulary and reading lesson
plans from Cloudy with a Chance of
Meatballs. Here's a site with free printable vocabulary lessons based on Cloudy With a Chance
of Meatballs. And last but not least, for a little
fun from all that study, free printable Cloudy
with a Chance of Meatballs movie coloring pages!
Free Printable Polar Express Party Planner Kit
Here's a Christmas holiday party for kids with literature connections. Print a free party kit from "The Polar Express" complete with games, crafts, party decorations, invitations, greeting cards, party favors and more. This party theme kit is based on the beloved book "The Polar Express" by Chris VanAllsburg and the hit holiday movie.
This free printable Polar Express party kit is perfect for those looking to host a secular Christmas holiday party and avoid religious Christmas themes.
Houghton-Mifflin, publishers of Vanallsburg's original book offer free Polar Express activities, coloring pages, crafts, games, coloring pages, Christmas tree ornaments and holiday decorations.
Here are just a few of the free printable activities--a Santa hat, poetry frame worksheet, Christmas card, North Pole sign, winter holiday party garland and patterns for snowflakes. Games includes puzzles, word search, fill in the blank and matching. Make Polar Express recipes including mint cookies and of course, hot chocolate! For healthier versions, make snowballs (popcorn balls), edible snow (popcorn with Parmesan cheese), Rudolph punch (cranberry and blood orange juice) and reindeer food (carrots, celery and sliced apples). String jingle bells on red ribbon or yarn for party crafts and give as party prizes. Make bird feeders by spreading peanut butter on pine cones and rolling in bird seed
Free Printable Series of Unfortunate Events Activities
A
Series of Unfortunate Events, is an endearingly popular children's literature
series. It's penned by the mysterious and elusive author Lemony Snicket. Despite the gloomy author's grim predictions
that no one will like these kids books, millions
of children and adults continue follow the Baudelaire children, Klaus, Violet
and Sunny. Why not read this wonderful children's literature series with your
students or homeschool kids? Here are free printable Series of Unfortunate Events
worksheets and activities to
supplement.
Lemony
Snicket has over twenty different free printable Series of Unfortunate Events games, activities, coloring pages, word games,
trivia, ciphers, crossword puzzles, fill-in-the-blanks, anagrams and activities
based on works of children's literature. You'll love the activities using Sunny
Baudelaire's baby talk to translate messages. Harper Collins, publisher of
Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events free
printable 20 page literature guide and activity
book based on the Series of Unfortunate Events kids books. The illustrations
come from the book and can be used as coloring pages. They lesson plans are
called Lamentable Lesson Plans.
This
site has free printable Lemony
Snicket activities and games based on ASoUE kids books. Notably, there is a link for a free
download of the complete Series of Unfortunate Events game for PC. There are
also complete free printable Series of Unfortunate Events reading guides for
the 13 kids books (of course he had to stop at unlucky number 13!) Lemony
Snicket (Daniel Handler) is one intelligent dude. This link to Quiddich show
that despite being children's literature, there are many adult allusions to
history, literature and world events in the Series of Unfortunate Events kids books. These volumes of children's literature
make excellent classroom literature for read-aloud and reader's workshop and
teen novel study. The vocabulary is challenging, plots are complicated,
characters are engaging and the concept riveting. Explore them in your school,
library summer reading club, homeschool or book discussion group. The movies
have been quite popular too.
Free Printable Shel Silverstein Printable Activities
Shel
Silverstein is a beloved poet, children's author, musician and artist. He's
given the world of children's literature dozens of books, poems and funny
illustrations to enjoy. Shel passed away in 1999, but children's literature
will never forget his charming, silly poems and books. A Light in the Attic,
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Runny Babbit, The Giving Tree, Don't Bump the Glump,
Lafdacio, the Lion Who Shot Back, A Giraffe and a Half, The Missing Piece,
Falling Up are just a few of his delightful works of wit and whimsy. InSilverstein's
poems, animals talk, grown-ups are silly and children rule the world from
cardboard pirate ships. If you would like to play in his wonderful world, here
are free printable Shel Silverstein activities, coloring pages and lesson plans.
There
are free printable Shel Silverstein lesson plans,
games and poetry writing prompts and activities for National Poetry
Month in April. There are online Shel Silverstein games you can play.They each feature the funny characters from
favorite Shel Silverstein poems. He's made free printable poetry writing prompts and
activities booklets as
well. These poetry writing prompts are perfect for classroom lesson plans,
homeschool and library reading clubs But you don't need to be a teacher,
librarian or even an adult to enjoy free printable lesson plans. His website is
devoted to his favorite people: kids!
For
young artists, cartoonists and poets, Silverstein designed a free printable
poetry writing prompts and activities for children to illustrate. Kids will
love creating their own poetry prompts and activities book about "Kate's
Scissors" and all the funny things Kate cuts with her scissors. There's
another poetry writing prompts activities booklet called "Eight
Balloons" for children to make. There are Shel Silverstein themed crafts
too. Here are free printable Giving Tree lesson plans. This Sweet Life is a blog with a free printable
Shel Silverstein activities packet. Print crossword puzzles, word search,
coloring pages and more. Teacher Vision has free printable Shel Silverstein activities, too.
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