The Common Birds coloring book
The Common Birds Coloring Book from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology contains terrific line drawings of over 50 common feeder…
Category: Arts & Crafts
Projects, Experiments & Hands-On Fun
TheHappyHousewife.com has a great collection of almost 100 hands-on projects, crafts and experiments especially for homeschoolers, on all sorts of…
Santa’s Christmas Village – Paper Doll Project
SANTA’S CHRISTMAS VILLAGE Want a fun “hands on” decoration project for your kids for the Christmas season? This is it!…
When Mother Lets Us Sew
When Mother Lets Us Sew, by Virginia Ralston (PDF ebook) Here’s a delightfully written and eminently practical little guide to…
Mother Nature’s Toy Shop
Here’s another wonderful vintage book from Gutenberg.org by Lina and Adelia Beard. In it, the authors show how to make…
Tracing Great Art
Here’s a simple, short lesson plan from the terrific Practical Pages website that is full of neat ideas to make…
10 Week LEGO Class
Mary (and her son) at HomeGrownLearners.com put together this fun 10 week class all about LEGOs! The full 10 session…
Hand Made Books
MAKING BOOKS with your KIDS Author and artist Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord has been a teacher of making books since the…
The Kaplan Anatomy Coloring Book
This excellent 200+ page anatomy coloring book and review guide from Kaplan is a perfect resource from which to print…
Art for Teens Who Say They Can’t Draw
StartsAtEight.com has a great post on how to help your tween and teen-aged student dramatically improve their drawing skills, utilizing…
Finish the Drawing Starter Pack
Our daughter Jess has published three volumes of her very popular “Finish the Drawing” book series on Amazon. Today we’re…
Larry’s TOON Institute
If your kids are interested in animation and learing how to animate their own cartoons, here’s a great collection of…
History Crafts
FirstPalette.com is a free children’s craft site, with hundreds of colorful step-by-step craft projects for young students. If you search…
The Mother Goose Coloring Book
Today’s resource is this lovely collection of vintage illustrated Mother Goose rhymes, taken from various books from the late 1800s…
1000s of coloring pages & more
The EduPics site has 1000s of clip art images, coloring pages, pictures, photographs and handicrafts. Everything has been classified in…
Dragonfly Helicopters & other Science Toys
SCIENCE TOY MAKER: Mysterious, Kinetic, Noisy, Do-It-Yourself Science Projects that Entice Scientific Investigation We featured this site in years past,…
The Magic Horse
Have you ever heard of Charlotte (Lotte) Reiniger? She was one of the foremost pioneers of hand-cut paper silhouette animation,…
The Toy Maker’s printable paper toy collection
Here’s a delightful collection of 40 colorful and whimsical paper toys designed by Marilyn Scott Waters that are actually fun…
The Art Zone
The National Gallery of Art has a great interactive art site called THE ART ZONE – an amazing array of…
Advanced Animation by Preston Blair
If you have a student who is interested in animation, here’s a wonderful resource that they will love: “Advanced Animation”…
A Beatrix Potter Treasury
Today we feature a wonderful treasure chest of books, audios, videos and lessons about the stories of Beatrix Potter. Her…
Origami Airplanes, Whirly-Gigs, Boats and more
ORIGAMI AIRPLANES, WHIRLY-GIGS & BOATS! Here’s a great site with dozens of animated tutorials on how to fold high-performance paper…
Housing a Forest
Tammy Dube loves being creative and encouraging kids to be creative as well. Her website Housing A Forest is packed…
Printable Graph Paper & More
Have you ever needed a very specific type of graph paper or grid paper for a project or lesson? If…
Previously…
Here are a few recent freebies we posted in July just before the lights went out: GREENLEAF GUIDE TO OLD…