Uh-oh.

[conuly]

So, Ana's in-class birthday party is MONDAY.

When I was a kid, my mother used to make little activity books for our classes on our birthdays - things like mazes or word searches.

I want to do something similar for Ana this year. I have 24 rainbow crayons I need to unload on somebody.

WHAT DO I INCLUDE? Mazes? Connect-the-dots? A mad-libs type thing? A coloring page?

Also, where can I find online resources to help me make (or steal-with-permission) this shit?

Comments

[blackhanddpants.livejournal.com]

Just Google "make your own printable whatever." There's tons of stuff like that freely available on the internet.

[blackhanddpants.livejournal.com]

Oh, and don't forget word searches and simple crosswords, as well as "how many other words can you make from the letters in 'Brooklyn'" kinds of puzzles.

[blackhanddpants.livejournal.com]

Substitution codes! Rebuses! Hidden picture puzzles! Oh, I should not have gotten started!

[conuly]

No, no, keep going!

Here, have some links from my working-with-kids past. :)

[karalianne.livejournal.com]

It's been a while, so I can't actually vouch for any of them anymore, but I've got them bookmarked so they were obviously useful to me at some point in time.

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/

http://www.homeschoolingadventures.com/

http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/printable_booklets.html

http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/printable_games_index

http://www.speakingofspeech.com/

http://www.teas2dine4.com/4printable.html

[wednes.livejournal.com]

When I got married, we made Mad Lib books as favors. We just used various love songs and took out key words. It was pretty easy.

These pagan themed coloring pages are also awesome:

http://www.crystal-forest.com/Coloringpages.html