July 17th, 2009 by admin
The website KOL Jr offers free online bedtime stories for preschoolers.The stories are organized into the categories Animals, Arthur, Fairy Tales, Family and Rhyming.
A bedtime story about Arthur and his new puppy at KOL Jr.
Other good sites where you can look for free online stories for kids include Starfall.com and Speakaboos.com.
June 25th, 2009 by admin
The blog Elementary Art Lessons features instructions for beautiful art projects for preschoolers, Kindergarten and also for older kids. The blog is very attractive, instructive and has plenty of illustrations.
Projects include scratch art, cave art, shape collage, 3D scuplture and much more.!
A pretty scratch art project in Grade 1, from the blog Elementary Art Lessons.
June 25th, 2009 by admin
The website Toy-A-Day offers one new printable paper toy pattern in PDF format per day. Using these PDF:s, you can build famous cartoon characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Super Mario and Pokemon, or famous people, including Barrack Obama!
A Pokemon paper toy from the Toy-a-day blog.
The printable PDF pattern for building the Pokemon paper toy.
June 22nd, 2009 by admin
A fun craft activity for kids is to build spotted paper mushrooms out of construction paper and recycled toilet paper tubes. These are easy to build, so you could quickly create an entire forest of red mushrooms!
Source: simplekidscrafts.com.
May 26th, 2009 by admin
The website simplekidscrafts.com has published a number of great Youtube videos on preschool crafts. One of them is the above video instruction on how to build your own cute ladybug, complete with black dots!
You will need the following materials to make the insect:
- one large red pom pom
- one medium black pom pom
- one pipe cleaner
- two googly plastic eyes
- a piece of lace + one bead (optional)
You will find all the instructions in the video! Good luck!
April 21st, 2009 by admin
April 22 2009 is Earth Day. Looking for some educational crafts to do with your kids to teach them to take care of our planet? Have look at the list of printable Earth day crafts at DLTK’ Crafts For Kids. For example, you can build 3D paper globes from printable templates, or print Earth Day coloring pages and posters. You will also find Earth Day poems, games, colorr posters and much more. Go and have a look!
Or, make some recyceled egg carton crafts as described in the great blog The Crafty Crow .
April 19th, 2009 by admin
Paperfoldables.com is a great site where you can print free PDF templates for 3D paper models, both paper animals and paper people. Just print, cut, fold and tape. These crafts might be a bit hard for your preschooler, but if you build them together they can certainly have fun playing with the finished designer toys!
If you like these, you might want to buy the book Urban Paper: 25 Designer Toys to Cut Out and Build