Montessori World

Montessori World has lots of information about the Montessori method which I have found very good for early childhood activities. Check out the handwork section there are craft ideas for young children. Or the Beginning Reading section has ideas for activities that promote early reading. I think it is a great resource specifically for hands on early childhood education.

Making Books

Making books with Kids is a blog with ideas of different kinds of books to make with kids. A lot of the ideas are based on thematic units but the over all ideas can be used for anything.

Art Projects for Kids

Art Projects for Kids is a blog that teaches how to do different art projects with children. The tags divide it by age so you can search by grade or our you can search by medium.

Halloween Counting Cards

These are just a cute Halloween activity idea!

Playful Learning

Playful Learning says that it is learning experiences that promote positive family interactions. The activities are divided by subject area and seem to be good for multiple ages.

Geography Help

World Atlas is a website that has link to Geography information. If you want to know something about a country or place check it out at World Atlas.

TLS Books

TLS Books is a collection of printables for preschool through 5th grade. The lessons are divided by grade level. They also have divided by holidays, crafts and handwriting. All the worksheets are FREE.

The Teacher's Corner

The Teacher's Corner is a collection of things for teachers. It has lesson plans, units, bulletin board ideas, and FREE printables. It looks like it has some great ideas to use to supplement your child's education or when homeschooling.

Sites for Teachers

Sites for Teachers is a listing of sites that cater to teachers. Including sites have free printables.

Lanternfish

Lanternfish is a website with teaching resources for ESL. But many of them are appropriate for all children. Its got great vocabulary ideas for all children.

Christian Preschool Printables

Christian Preschool Printables is an online collection of printable activities based on christian beliefs. There are some cute things based on the New and Old Testament. It is not the most user friendly site though...so there will be some culling to see what applies for the concepts being taught.

Food Storage and St. Patricks FHE

St. Patrick's Day ideas
It has some really great ideas and recipes for use with food storage. Also, it has a cute FHE activity for St. Patricks Day. Use the link bar on bottom left of website and click on FHE to locate it :)

A to Z Teacher Stuff

It is A to Z Teacher Stuff...enough said...anything and everything...one of my favorite teacher sites.

Lapbooks

Lapbooks look like a fun learning idea for all ages. As the site says

A lapbook is a project book or file folder, laid out in a creative manner, that fits in the child’s lap.

“Using creative means to display unit studies, topics, or projects
- by computer or by hand - for most ages.
* Fold a card folder into a shutter;
* Use mini-books and various folds
to ‘package’ the information and visuals
(photos, graphics, pictures)
Interactive, hands-on, addictive! “

The blog has more ideas on using, making ect.

Tot School

Tot School is a collection of links of blogs about teaching tots.

Universal Preschool

Universal Preschool is a collection of research about preschoolers, thoughts for parents, and ideas to do with preschoolers. It has a section for FREE curriculum too.

A Bit of This and a Bit of That

A Bit of This and A Bit of That is a montessori mama blog. It gives ideas of activities to do when teaching little ones using the montessori method.

Artful Parent

Artful Parent is a blog about doing art with children. It has tried and true activities for parents to do with their children.

Just Preschool Themes

Just Preschool Themes is a collection of activities based on themes just for preschoolers...go figure just as the name says...looks like a great resource.

Perpetual Preschool

Perpetual Preschool is just another site full of ideas for preschool aged children. Most of the ideas are set up by theme. It also has research articles for parents to help them as they work with their young children.

Preschool Express

Preschool Express is specifically for parents to use with their preschool age children. It is divided into sections including numbers, alphabet, art, and holidays. It is FREE and has a lot of great options.

Rhythmic Movement for Children

Rhythmic Movement for Children is a list of activities to do toddlers to help them learn rhythm. It is a looks like a great way to prepare for music lessons, dance or any other activity where rhythm may be important...like swimming or football :)

Songs with Actions

Laugh, Learn, Love has a list of songs that have actions. Angel Girl is really getting interested in songs with actions...especially eensy, weensy, spider and popcorn popping.

Laugh, Learn, Love Games

Laugh, Learn, Love is a blog all about activities for children. This is the link straight to a list of games that would be fun play with children. There are a combination of outdoor games and in the car games.

Martha Steward Kids

What can go wrong when its Martha! So here is the link to Martha Stewart Kids. It has crafts for kids. Ideas for cooking with kids and ideas for birthday parties. So check it out!

Making Learning Fun

Making Learning Fun is a website of free early childhood education materials. The site is divided by individual activities and theme. It has cute ideas for books too.