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Free Printable Activities for Kids

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Updated on 06/16/22

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These free printable activities for kids will keep the kids happy and content for hours, not only because they're busy but because they're working their brains with them. There are thousands of printables below that are not only fun but also educational.

The free printable activities for kids including printable mazes, paper dolls, hidden pictures, connect the dots, color by numbers, as well as some seasonal printables to keep the kids having fun all year-round. These printable activities will help your kids with counting, math, writing, and problem-solving skills while still having a great time.

If your kid responds better to learning activities on the computer, be sure to check out some free online activities for kids like online connect the dots, color by number puzzles online, word search games, free online mazes, and fun online games for Halloween.

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Here's a list of the best places to find free printable mazes for kids. Mazes can help kids develop muscle tone while using a pencil and also asks them to brainstorm different scenarios. Young and old really can benefit from completing mazes.
There are thousands of mazes out there for kids including easy ones for kids in preschool, all the way up to very challenging mazes that are perfect for those in the upper elementary grades. The easier mazes have fewer twists and turns and have larger paths while the tough mazes are nothing but a series of small twists and turns.

No matter what your child is interested in, you're most likely to find a maze for that too. You'll find mazes about science, holidays, animals, sports, transportation, fairy tales, and more. They're sure to catch your child's attention too. They're in all different sizes and shapes and even colors.
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Print off some of these hidden pictures for kids, and they'll spend the afternoon searching to find all the hidden objects. It's a great way to develop some problem-solving skills while still having fun.
Most of the puzzles are in black and white making it easy for kids to circle or color in the objects they find in the puzzles.
These include the popular Highlights Hidden Pictures as well as hidden pictures from many other websites that range from easy to difficult.
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Kids of all ages seem to love connecting dots to reveal a picture, and they'll get to do just that in this printable activity for kids.
There are easy, intermediate, and difficult connect the dots puzzles here that include connecting numbers and the alphabet. Easier connect the dots puzzles have only a few numbers or letters to connect while difficult puzzles can have hundreds.
If you have an older child that needs more of a challenge, there are even connect the dots worksheets that have them skip count to reveal the picture.
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A step up from coloring sheets, these printable color by numbers will have your children matching and using a legend to color in a picture. There are color by numbers here where the colors are already decided but there are also somewhere your child gets to decide the colors.
Besides regular color by number printables, there is also color by numbers that require the kids to perform some calculations to read the key. These are great for older kids who crave that creativity in each subject they study.
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These easy printable Soduku puzzles are just what the kids need to keep them entertained but also working on their skills in math and problem-solving.
These are all easy puzzles that either has small grids or have larger grids that have more cells already filled out than the average Soduku puzzle.
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Seasonal Printables for Kids

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Kids love to celebrate holidays and seasons, and they'll get to do just that with these seasonal printables.
- Halloween Printables: Halloween is much more fun with these free printables for kids. These include Halloween coloring pages, printable masks, word searches, pumpkin carving patterns, greeting cards to color, printable pumpkins, bookmarks, calendars, bingo cards, and more.
- Easter Printables: Hop to it with these Easter printables that will help your kids celebrate this spring-time holiday. Kids will love these printable cupcake toppers, baskets, banners, bookmarks, masks, labels, favor cones, games, pinwheels, paper Easter bunnies, gift tags, Easter egg coloring pages, and general coloring pages.
- Christmas Printables: Kids love Christmas and lucky for all of us, there's no shortage of Christmas printables for kids. There are printable coloring pages, letters to Santa, Christmas lists, word search puzzles, thank you cards, and bingo cards.
- Thanksgiving Printables: Practice thankfulness and gratefulness with these Thanksgiving printables that will help everyone celebrate. Printable centerpieces, table decorations, banners, coloring pages, and worksheets are all themed around Thanksgiving.
- Valentine's Day Printables: Valentine's Day printables that include cards, stickers, love coupons, treat bags, candy labels, coloring pages, banners, bingo cards, wrapping paper, and word searches. These sweet printables are sure to put a smile on the faces of everyone who sees them.
- Spring Printables: Printable flower garlands, paper flower bouquets, artwork, straw toppers, banners, cup wrappers, pinwheels, and wreaths, are just a few of the spring printables available.
- Summer Printables: Celebrate the long sunny days of summer with these summer coloring pages, word searches, and clip art. What a great way to celebrate!
- Mardi Gras Printables: Kids will love these Mardi Gras printables that include masks, coloring pages, hats, party tags, decorations, cootie catchers, worksheets, and party invites.
- St. Patrick's Day Printables: The printables here all celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Included are printable decorations, tags, and banners.

15 Free Halloween Printables for Kids

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Updated on 01/27/22

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Kids love Halloween printables. They're great to use in the classroom or just at home to get the kids in the mood for Halloween.

Some of these free Halloween printables for kids will help them learn, and others will encourage them to use their imaginations, while other Halloween printables are just so they can have fun.

This list of Halloween printables will keep the kids busy for weeks coloring, carving, and crafting. All you need to do is print off what you want and then hand it over. Free and easy!

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Bunny Cakes

You've Been Booed is a fun neighborhood game that takes place during October. You "boo" your neighbors with treats and then ask them to pass on the fun. These free Halloween printables include signs and instructions so you can get started in no time.
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If you're looking for Halloween printables, you're not going to want to miss this list of free Halloween coloring pages.
You'll find thousands of free coloring pages with fun and scary pictures of ghosts, witches, monsters, trick-or-treaters, and more. They are genuinely a Halloween printable that your kids will have a blast with.
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The kids will love these Halloween printables that let them create Halloween cards for grandparents, friends, and whoever else they'd like to wish a Happy Halloween to this year. There are lots of choices here, and some Halloween cards will let the child include their picture.
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These Halloween printables are bingo cards that would make a great Halloween party game or classroom activity. You'll find a wide selection of Halloween printable bingo cards here that fit in with any age group.
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These Halloween printables will have your child putting their thinking cap on. No matter how old they are, from children learning to read up to those in middle and high school, there's a puzzle here that will fit their skill level.
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These free pumpkin carving patterns are the ultimate in Halloween printables. Print a pumpkin carving pattern out and then use it to carve a masterpiece on your pumpkin this year. Whether you're a beginner carver or more advanced, you'll find a ton of options in this list of 31 places to find free pumpkin carving patterns.
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Do It Yourself Invitations

These free, printable Halloween invitations are great to send out for a children's Halloween party. Your child can even help with the printing, decorating, and mailing of these Halloween invitations.
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How much fun would Halloween printable finger puppets be for your child this Halloween? Print out this sheet of some fun Halloween characters to create some fun and functional Halloween finger puppets.
Printable Halloween Finger Puppets from Lia Griffith
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Family Education

This Halloween printable is very simple but a whole lot of fun. Print out this picture of a pumpkin and let the kids use their imaginations to turn it into whatever type of jack-o'-lantern they can dream up.
Create Your Own Jack-O'-Lantern Printable from Family Education
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Use this Halloween printable to create a Halloween basket to keep candy or treasures inside. Just print it out and fold it on the lines to create a fun pumpkin basket in a matter of minutes.
Printable Halloween Basket from The Craft Train
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Family Education

This Halloween printable can be turned into a fun Halloween game.
Color and cut out the pieces and you have a fun game similar to pin the tail on the donkey and it's called pin the stem on the pumpkin.
Printable Pin the Stem on the Pumpkin Game from Family Education
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Some kids love mazes. Is your kid one of them? If so, you don't want to miss out on this group of Halloween printable mazes. They can be printed in color or black and white if your child would enjoy coloring them.
Halloween Mazes That Are Printable from DLTK
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If You Want 2 be Happy

These Halloween printables are all Halloween bookmarks! There are spooky, funny, and just plain goofy Halloween bookmarks here. With this Halloween printable, it is as easy as printing and cutting. What a great way to encourage kids to read during Halloween time. These could also be laminated and used as classroom rewards.
Halloween Bookmarks to Print from If You Want 2 be Happy
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DLTK

With this Halloween printables project, you can make a Halloween calendar!
To begin making your calendar, choose a month and year and then choose an image to be featured at the top of the calendar. There are tons of different images you can choose from including a bat, cat, Frankenstein, a ghost, jack o' lantern, vampire, witch, and zombie. Each of the images is available in your choice of black and white or color.
Click Create Calendar, and you've got one fun and spooky Halloween calendar that you can print straight from your browser.
Printable Halloween Calendar from DLTK
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Lia Griffith

This free Halloween printable gives you a sheet full of spooky monsters that are actually more adorable than scary. There are rectangle, large circle, and full circle stickers that can be run through a full-page label on your printer and then cut out. There are monsters, spiders, and black cats in fun shades of orange, green, and black. Stick these on candy bags, boxes, or anywhere else you want to add some fun this Halloween.
Printable Halloween Monsters Sticker Sheet from Lia Griffith

What to do with your child at home: print out educational cards

Contents

Print out educational toys: take your child at home with benefit
Print out educational toys for the development of speech in children
Funny poems for the development of speech
Fine motor skills for children to develop
logic
Games for the development of logic and thinking
Labyrinths for children
Lego schemes
Math tasks for preschoolers
Count up to 10
Count to 20 and further
Figures and space
Mathematical Development for students
graphomotorics
General developmental games and tasks for children
Print development for the development of observation
Task for children “Royal crown”
Print creative development cards
Drawing
Sculpting
Applications and cutouts free of charge
Print children's coloring
How to keep your child busy at home: games
Tasks for preparing for school
Print out development cards for the New Year
Print out Easter development cards
How to make educational toys for children reusable

Print out educational toys for children and quickly solve the problem: what to do with your child at home in bad weather, during illness, on long unexpected vacations, such as quarantine - once and for all!

When all the toys have already been played, cartoons have been watched, it remains to study creativity and development .

We offer a selection of high-quality educational games, tasks for children, board games, crafts, masks, active games, a selection of children's literature.

The proposed material is a commented list of tasks, activities, exercises, games for the development of children proposed on the site. Follow the link and download materials for free for personal use.

Print educational cards: keep your child busy at home

Give reasonable content to the life of preschool children, and they will not be lethargic, absent-minded, bored, lazy, or immoral. But what does it mean to give reasonable content to the life of a preschool child? This means the ability to find material suitable for the child's various activities, for his games, exercises and improvement of the organs of external senses, as well as for the development of his observation of the surrounding life and nature. This material must be accessible to his mind and heart and must strengthen his health.

Vodovozova E.N., teacher, writer

If you download developmental tasks for children that correspond to the age of your child, print it out on a printer (preferably in color) and laminate it, the school of 7 dwarfs, and Kumon, and the Lomonosov school will envy such a manual .

Analogues of expensive development aids are not difficult to make. Focus on the interests and needs of your child, do not forget about diversity.

Offering every time different educators , you will achieve the maximum effect in classes with children!

Print development books for the development of speech in children

Speech therapy games organically fit into the daily life of a preschooler and form an active and passive vocabulary, the ability to use lexical phrases, cases, tenses, prepositions, listening skills and much more.

What to do with a child at home? Of course, talk more and communicate with him!

Drawing up a story based on a series of plot pictures

Games with prepositions

Games for the development of speech

Tasks for the development of children's speech

Finger games

poorly developed language sense. It is almost impossible to master the standard school curriculum with such problems. Therefore, it is important to solve all speech therapy problems before school .

Funny poems for the development of speech

Fine motor skills for children

Exercises for fine motor skills for the child for the development of fingers

Games for the development of fine motor skills

Finger games for children

Finger coordinating-motor exercises for children

in children: tasks for development.

Didactic games with clothespins for children: print templates and pictures with tasks for games with clothespins.

Ideas for the development of fine motor skills with paper clips

Print out development cards for the development of logic

Developing tasks for logic prepare the child for understanding mathematics, form the concepts of performing written and oral tasks, train perseverance and patience, fine motor skills.

Games for the development of logic and thinking

Cut puzzles for children

Find a pair

Find the half of the flower

Sudoku for children

Sudoku rules for kids

Tasks Find the shadow

Tangram patterns

Development of logical thinking in children

Children's exercises for the development of visual thinking

Labyrinths for children

Print out mazes for children 2+: from the most simple tasks 2+ for schoolchildren.

Labyrinths for children 3-4 years old

Mazes for children 5 years old

Mazes for children 6 years old

Lego patterns

Pattern repetition is a very useful skill for a preschool child. In addition, in the process of such repetition, one can also study something, actively using sensory perception.

For example, Lego figures.

Schemes for Lego

Drawing with Lego

What to build from Lego Duplo

Lego mathematics - these are interesting tasks with the Lego constructor for counting and designing. Tasks for grade 1 and for preschoolers in kindergarten and at home.

Math tasks for preschoolers

Count to 10

Colorful math tasks for preschoolers: easy to download and print simulators.

The composition of the number up to 10 - study, consolidation, simulator

Print tasks for addition and subtraction up to 10 for preschoolers and first graders. Habitual and unusual tasks: crossword puzzle, graph, pyramid.

Educational games "Learning numbers" for children: a selection of fun games and tasks.

Teaching mathematics to preschool children

Counting up to 20 and beyond

Tasks and cards for teaching counting up to 20

Write down numbers and numbers up to 20 - printouts of tasks for those children and parents who have been studying numbers within the second ten for a long time and in no way can't find suitable jobs.

Connect the dots by numbers - coloring pages that develop mathematical abilities, fine motor skills, spatial imagination, knowledge of counting and numbers, sequences, accuracy, attentiveness, perseverance.

Shapes and space

Geometric shapes for preschoolers on the plane.

3D Geometric Shapes for Preschoolers

Geoboarding Worksheets - Free printable worksheets.

Math Educational for School Students

Math games or “fun math” are an effective way to help your kids train their brains while playing without giving the impression of hard work and study.

The puzzle “Mathematical cube riddle” is very exciting and at first it may seem difficult not only for children, but also for adults. The puzzle requires stacking the cubes in a tower so that no number or pattern appears more than once on each side.

Logical thinking can and even needs to be trained! That is why you need to print tasks for children on logic and offer them to the child from time to time. This is not only useful, but also interesting!

Here: umbrella logic, logic kaleidoscope, projection, cat path, haunted house, pyramids, tetris and other interesting logic games!

Educational puzzles for children - free to print. Fascinating pictures of the puzzle easily solve the problem of what to do with the child in a useful and interesting way!

Experiments and experiences for children at home in a kindergarten or school, with parents or teachers

How to teach a child to tell the time with clocks and digital clocks. Tips, ideas, tasks for printing.

Graphmotor

Preparing a hand for writing - print tasks

55 colorful prescriptions for preschoolers

Graphmotor tracks for children - the first tasks for children about graphomotor skills, preparing a hand for writing.

Recipe - strokes for preschool boys

Dotted dots for preschool girls

Hatching for children is a necessary element of preschool preparation. Print pictures for hatching.

Drawing by cells : the first option and the second.

Dotted prescriptions for children 3-4 years old

Dotted prescriptions for children 4-5 years old

Dotted prescriptions for children 5 years old

Mathematical recipes for children introduce the child to numbers, numbers, geometric shapes and the basics of mathematics.

Graphic dictations

The development of graphomotor skills: theory

General educational games and tasks for children

Interesting developmental tasks: treasure hunt, drawing puzzles, untangling lines!

Tasks for the study of color and shades

Tasks for the development of visual perception in children and adults

Educational tasks for children with monsters

Educational games with Dr. Plush

Educational games with Lalaloopsy

How to teach a toddler to brush his teeth - a fun task

Educational tasks for children 5 years old

Height meter - print for free

Educational tasks for kids - download and print

Neuromotility - exercises for children

Print educational cards for the development of observation

Lack of attention and inability to concentrate on a task for a long time is a distinctive feature of modern children. The ever-accelerating pace of life and excessive interest in the media play a significant role in this. The child does not have time to follow the flashing frames and gets used to the rapid and superficial assimilation of information.

Children can (and want to!) focus only on what interests them at the moment. A child can carefully listen to his favorite fairy tale at least a hundred times in a row. From this follows a logical conclusion - to train attentiveness, perseverance, diligence and concentration of attention should only be interesting tasks.

Tasks from the "Find and show" series are an adapted version of Wimmelbuch for children - separate thematic sheets with search elements, "find, show, count or color" tasks.

These toys are a great way to develop and entertain your child.

👉 Interesting coloring pages for boys and girls: vehicles and dinosaurs, mermaids and kittens, animals and travel, etc.

👉 Print tasks Find and count for children free of charge: color sheets in A4 format from the series find, show and count.

👉 Tasks Find and count: 20 coloring pages with tasks for kids. An excellent educational game for both very young children and elementary school students

👉 Find and color: interesting pictures and simple items to find, optimal elements for coloring!

👉 Find the shadow tasks for children train the ability to perceive the difference between objects or symbols solely in form, not paying attention to other differences: color, size, orientation.

👉 Seekers-finders: you need to find a given object among the flickering of similar pictures.

👉 Find the differences 😎

👉 Find a pair - print picture assignments.

👉 Find and show mazes

The task for children "King's crown"

This is a game of recognition of shape, color and spatiality. We are talking about the arrangement of precious stones on the crown according to the model in compliance with the shape and the required color.

This game should be colored in the colors you want to work on with your child. For older preschoolers familiar with math coloring, patterns can also be encoded by drawing a symbol on the gems (like triangle=green, square=yellow, etc.).

Print out creative cards

Print out colorful templates to use with buttons (as well as pom-poms, round stickers, plasticine patches, fingerprints, etc.).

In addition to effective fine motor development, button-laying practice improves attention, sensory abilities, perseverance and concentration, the ability to distinguish and match colors, etc.

Drawing

Non-traditional drawing for children

Templates for drawing with cotton buds

Drawing for kids

Teaching children to draw with a pencil step by step - one of the most necessary activities for preschoolers to develop fine motor skills!

Templates for creating pictures with plasticine patches (or finger paints).
Plasticine modeling for children - step by step instructions.
Plasticineography allows both toddlers and school-age children to actively work with their fingers. Creative templates here.
How to make modeling more interesting for children. Here.
Plasticine drawing: print out plasticine mats.

Cutouts and cutouts for free

✂ The lightest and simplest cutouts for 3 year olds are designed for kids who have just picked up scissors and are learning how to use them.

✂ Cutout templates for kids “Learning to cut with scissors” is a great practice for cutting and writing skills.

✂ Application templates with funny characters.

✂ Print paper appliqué templates for kids: fairy, pirate, unicorn, superhero, shark from Baby Shark song, dinosaurs, robots, math appliqués.

✂ Print blanks for applications Fish, Octopus, Funny Monsters, Seabed and others.

✂ Craft-cutting animal in the form of an arc. On special supports, cut out pictures will stand on their own!

✂ Coloring-cutouts. Animals, transport, train, farm and more. Also coloring-cutouts Wild animals.

✂ 3D house template for gluing.

✂ Cut-outs for boys: sharks, dinosaurs, monsters and wizards, dragons, knights, robots, pirates. No flowers or unicorns!

✂ Christmas applications for children made of paper: templates for a Christmas tree, a snowman, cutouts of Santa Claus's helpers

Print children's coloring

Coloring is the most famous and versatile way pass the time and develop fine motor skills . At the same time, the child's enthusiasm depends only on the parents' painstaking choice of really interesting coloring pages for children.

Circle Coloring Pages for Toddlers
Large collection of themed coloring pages for toddlers and older children. There are also coloring pages for adults!
Beautiful complex coloring pages for adults and teenagers. Coloring-antistress and others.
Coloring pages for girls: fairies, unicorns, princesses, elves, etc.
Gluttonous Fish Coloring Page
Coloring Numbers
Color Learning Coloring Pages
Draw Half of the Picture
Draw the Picture - a game to develop fantasy
Pixel Coloring Pixel Art - paint the cells according to the pattern.
Cry Babies Coloring Pages
LOL Coloring Pages
Peppa Pig Coloring Pages in A4 format
Coloring pages with dots drawing Masha and the Bear
Frozen Heart Coloring Pages.
Harry Potter coloring pages.
Big wall coloring
Big Christmas coloring
Unicorn coloring
Kitten coloring.

Activities for kids at home: games

Large selection of children's and family board games to download and print. Very useful post 👆 be sure to visit!

Card file of games for children of preschool age: topical long-known and new modern games for children.

Activities for kids at home: a selection of creative ideas for quiet or active play for children of all ages.

What to do with children at the dacha on a hot sunny day or in cloudy weather? The brightest selection of country ideas for children and creative parents!

Games with wooden blocks for the youngest and older children: ideas, methods, possibilities, benefits.

Games and exercises for the development of spatial imagination.

Lego challenge games for kids: 8 ideas for building toy lovers.

Funny games for kids of all ages.

Word games help to master the lexical and grammatical structure of speech, to cope with the excitement of speaking.

Educational games for children of different ages

Kinesiology games and exercises for children for the daily development of both hemispheres of the brain.

Memory exercises for children

A selection of useful games and toys for children to learn letters and read the first syllables.

School Readiness Tasks

The School Readiness Test is a simple test for 6 year olds that is easy for all parents to complete.

Preschool dotted and graphic dictations for preschoolers prepare the muscles of the hands for writing, form the correct position of the hand with a pencil, train coordination of movements, perseverance and concentration, the ability to follow oral and written instructions, visual memory and, of course, fine motor skills.

You also need to give preschool basic knowledge about the structure of the world, mathematics, correct speech, writing, reading, etiquette and social communication skills, etc.

Therefore, it is never too early to engage in developmental assignments for preschoolers! The main thing is not to overdo it.

Here tasks for preparing children for school are structured, they can be printed for free.

Useful tasks in the article Tasks for preparing for the 1st grade at home.

I really don't feel like studying in the summer, especially if the bright warm sun is shining outside the window and my friends are walking around. Summer preparation of children for school will help.

Here: Exercises to develop reading skills

Online preparation for school for children: remote tutoring, educational platforms, free channels, cartoons and tasks.

You will also find useful articles Psychological readiness of a child for school, What you need to teach a child before school and Adaptation to school.

Print educational cards for the New Year

🎄 Tasks for the New Year's advent calendar: crafts, decorations for the Christmas tree, puzzles, educational toys, ready-made New Year's tasks for children.

🎄 Ideas for ready-made New Year's tasks: free printouts, illustrations for the simplest tasks such as finds, labyrinths, comparisons on New Year's and Christmas themes.

🎅 How to make a simple advent calendar waiting for the New Year: ideas for tasks, decorations, gifts.

🎄🎨 Large Christmas coloring book for kids - 5 coloring options: a winter European landscape, a Christmas light bulb and three large Christmas tree coloring pages: from 10 A4 sheets and even from 22 A4 sheets!

Winter tasks and games for children: how to have fun outdoors and at home.

Print Easter development cards

Not only New Year's and Christmas advents, but also Easter ones are gaining more and more popularity.

Easter Advent Activities for Kids

Easter Coloring Books for Kids

Paw Patrol Easter Egg Holder

Easter Paper Basket

How to make reusable toys for kids

It does not take much effort and time to make regular manuals printed in offset in a printing house or printed on a printer reusable. Everything is elementary. So, you can use:

Files for A4 development cards. Preferably smooth, glossy, as dense as possible.
The tighter corners are even better, you just need to find one that is completely transparent and not too slippery.
If you print a lot of worksheets with developmental tasks for children at once and combine them into a single manual, folders with inserts.
Special reusable folders for benefits are a good option, but too expensive, sometimes not even 10, but 100 times (!!!) more expensive than their budget counterpart - regular files, corners and insert folders.
For development boards other than A4, larger or smaller, you can use adhesive tape (for small parts) and self-adhesive covers for textbooks.
The Laminator, along with a color printer, is an essential item for a sensible and economical family that uses printed jobs for their children.
Once you have laminated/strengthened the worksheets for children, look for the best marker to work with these developments. Ordinary alcohol can be poorly erased, water can write poorly and collect in droplets. Whiteboard markers are ideal, any are good: both expensive and cheap.

Learn more about reusable notebooks, coloring books and stickers, How to make a one-time reusable

Don't forget about our book selections for children, for example:

What children need to read before school

Top 30 books from around the world for children. The Independent version

10 best books for children about science and the world

Therapeutic fairy tales for children

World children's literature in Russian - our selection of the world's most famous children's books

10 books for children that will please and for adults

The best books on parenting

Drawing up a story from a series of plot pictures

Contents

How to use cards to make up a story based on pictures
Making a story based on a series of pictures "Seasons"
Retelling fairy tales based on reference pictures
Seasons
What for?
Picture stories
If a child fails to write a story
What is wrong?

Drawing up a story based on a series of plot pictures develops speech, logic, thinking, observation, enriches vocabulary and provokes a serious thought process.

One of the basic aspects of preparing a child for school is the formation of coherent and understandable, logical speech in a preschooler.

Monologue speech is especially important in preparing for school, because preschoolers use mainly dialogues.

Compiling a story based on a series of split plot pictures seems to be a more difficult, but much more interesting task for preschoolers than a story based on one static picture. In the case of a series of pictures, you can use a larger number of different verbs in different tenses, more descriptive phrases.

Such pictures also have a positive effect on logical thinking : after all, you need to establish the correct sequence of actions.

fine motor skills involved : cutting pictures.

How to use cards to make up a story based on pictures

print out a card,
explain to the child the task and ask the child to first cut the story pictures along the dotted line,
if the child likes to cut and glue, you can offer to stick the pictures in the correct order on a blank sheet paper (otherwise you can skip this item and simply lay out the pictures in a logical order on the table),
the most interesting thing: let the child try to compose a story according to the plot pictures.

Drawing up a story based on the series of pictures "Seasons"

These illustrations are more difficult to compose a story, since the story itself will be more descriptive: fewer verbs, more adjectives.

Note: the author of the illustrations is unknown, taken from open sources. If you know the artist, please write in the comments or through the Contacts page so that you can give credit!

Retelling fairy tales based on reference pictures

Thematic pictures for making up a story for preschoolers based on fairy tales and seasons. Auxiliary pictures for retelling fairy tales: Kolobok, Turnip, Teremok.

Seasons

What's what?

Pictures can be cut out. The task of the child is to arrange the correct order and make up a story based on a series of pictures.

Stories in pictures

After cutting the pictures along the dotted lines, invite the child to put the pictures in sequence and make up a story based on them.

The game contributes to the development of fantasy, coherent speech, logical thinking, observation and attention.

If the child fails to compose a plot story

If the child's story is jerky, meager, poor in prepositions and adjectives, without using bright figurative phrases, help him.

You can use leading questions:

how many characters are in the picture?
what does he/they look like? What are they wearing, what is their mood?
what is he/they doing?
what time of day, season in the picture?
Did you like the picture? Is the hero good or bad? Would you befriend him/them?

Suggest, in turn, also to compose a story based on a series of plot pictures. Try: the story should turn out bright and exciting, like a fiction writer! The child should feel the difference .

Then child tries again compiling a story using the same cards (if not tired).