KrazyDad.com offers dozens and dozens of collections of easy (and not-so-easy) mazes that you can print out for your kids.
These come in handy downloadable PDF ebooks containing 12 mazes per ebook and include collections of geometric shaped mazes, animal shaped mazes, and yes, even Dinosaur shaped mazes. Dinosaur shaped mazes! It doesn’t get any better than that! These are great “thinking puzzles” that keep young hands busy for extended periods of time.
CLICK HERE to go to the website
WALT SCOTT’S CHRISTMAS STORIES (PDF comic books)
Here are two great issues of these classic Christmas comic books by cartoonist Walt Scott. These are filled with great stories of woodland creatures & elves celebrating Christmas, and also have several true accounts of how some classic Christmas carols were written. Very different, very well illustrated, and great light holiday reading material for little ones! Enjoy!
To download Issue #1, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” to your computer.
To download Issue #2, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” to your computer.
Christmas with Mother Goose (PDF e-comic book)
This year we found yet another delightful vintage collection of Christmas comic book stories for young at heart readers of all ages, by the incomparable Walt Kelly! These feature Mother Goose characters and of course good ol’ Santa in some truly classic children’s comics and poems – very funny and well written, with some of the best artwork ever done for young children’s comics. This is “just for fun” stuff your kids will adore. And if you want some educational value from it, check out the “months of the year” story for little ones learning just that. Don’t miss it!
RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key and click the link, and save to your mac!
Here’s a delightful vintage collection of Christmas comic book stories for young at heart readers of all ages, by the incomparable Walt Kelly! It features the classic Mother Goose characters in some truly classic children’s comics and poems – very funny and well written, with some of the best artwork ever done for young children’s comics. Don’t miss it!
To download this PDF comic book, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save as” to your computer.
(It’s a big file… 22 megs, so allow a little time for it to download.)
See more at Jess Erskine’s delightful website CrunchyBunny.com!
Another from Jess at CrunchyBunny.com
You’ll want to read the full post at CrunchyBunny.com!
By popular demand, here’s an encore presentation of THE FUMBLETONS videos by Jess Erskine (creator of CrunchyBunny.com). Each short 2-3 minute video offers up a cool (and actually useful!) household tip wrapped up in the adventures of a slightly eccentric family, all played by Jess Erskine. If you haven’t seen these before, you are in for a treat! They just get better and better as you go through them!
CLICK HERE to go the the YouTube playlist of all nine episodes!
HT to Jess Erskine at CrunchyBunny.com
Well, today we’re off for a return visit to the countryside where a delightful stack of fun, classic children’s records from yesteryear awaits us.
First up, join in on a jolly version of the classic children’s song, “Oats, Peas, Beans” by Roger White, as we quickly follow Mr. Farmer through his very busy day.
Next, we stop by the house of “The Little Crooked Man” (of the Mother Goose rhyme) with his crooked cat and crooked mouse, and then visit “The Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe” in a fine record by Roy Hallee.
Next, we travel with Uncle Don Down On The Farm where we meet all the animals in a fun musical adventure from long ago Sonora Records.
And last but not least, we join Uncle Lumpy as he tells about one of our favorite characters, Little Orley in a couple of fun musical adventures… as he is first unexpectedly serenaded by a little mouse and his friends in the Barnyard… and then puts on his own great barnyard concert you’ve just got to hear to believe.
All of the above = loads of fun for kids of all ages. Enjoy your visit down on the farm!
Here are your download links. You can click these to stream online, or RIGHT CLICK these and “save” to your computer:
Oats Peas Beans & Barley
(.6 megs, 3 minutes)
There Was a Crooked Man /There Was An Old Woman
(1.3 megs, 6 minutes)
Uncle Don Down on the Farm
(2.3 megs, 12 minutes)
The Barn Dance
(3 megs, 3 minutes)
Orley’s Big Concert
(7.4 megs, 8 minutes)
And finally…
Here’s one more little treat from us to you… one of our favorite fall songs… and certainly the catchiest song about a pumpkin ever! This song does mention Halloween in passing, so if that bothers you, don’t download it. But if you just want a fun, old fashioned pumpkin song, check it out and your kids will soon be singing along!
To download this MP3 song, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” to your computer. To just play it online, click the link.
Let us know if you enjoy your musical visit to the countryside!
