Before you submit your children's book to publishers learn how to format your children's manuscript first! Here is the easy guide to help you look like an expert.
Make your own book for kids with this free printable template!
Handprint Pigeon Craft For Kids | Fun Mo Willems idea. Use a free printable PDF template to cut out & make. Great for preschool, kindergarten, + elementary.
This is one of our most popular printable Bible worksheet activities for kids. Use the link below to download in easy print PDF format. Don't miss our Bible Worksheets Worksheet: Learn about the Bible
Are you looking for some great history books for kids? There are several authors and series you can always count on to have great history books for kids.
Make your own book for kids with this free printable template!
Are you reading Swimmy by Leo Lionni? Be sure to incorporate this cute, DIY Swimmy stamp craft! It's fun for the kids & easy to set up!
If your kids are fascinated by fossils and love learning about dinosaurs, they will really enjoy these Paleontology Printables and Resources.
Get your kids interested in the world's greatest detective with these children's Sherlock Holmes books, including a series about his sister Enola!
Inside: You can publish a children's book. You can do it this year! Let's get started with three different paths forward. Shortly after publishing Belinda Baloney Changes Her Mind I started getting messages that were worded much more eloquently but essentially boiled down to this: But, like, how? It's a great question! And a question
Babies to Bookworms provides a list of election books for kids to introduce them to government, voting, and the election process. Teach kids to vote early!
Week 35: Practice Writing – Write a Book! Having your kids write their own book is wonderful writing practice! When my son was 5 and waiting for his little brother’s Play Gym class to en…
Haven't tried a book tasting with your students yet? This fun reading activity is an awesome way to introduce genres in your elementary classroom or library!
Mo Willems Activities and Crafts for kids! Mo Willems infuses humor kids love with an artistic simplicity that seems deceptively easy.
Talk about a difficult concept with the help of a book! Plus, check out our tips for reading to your kids to increase comprehension.
In a previous post on making collages with kids, I mentioned my visits to P.S. 142 and the wonderful students I worked with there. A few weeks ago, I made my last visit to two 1st grade classes, a…
Hundreds of high-quality short play scripts for elementary school students. Download a pdf script today!
Our guest today is a 30 Days or Less alumna and the author of a charming children's book. As you can imagine, writing a book for children is no easy feat, especially for a first timer. Carrie agreed to tell us about the process that took her from a simple idea she had while working
We are always inspired to do fun crafts and learning activities whenever we read some of our favorite children’s books! Here is a list of activities we’ve come up with inspired by popular children’s books (alphabetized by title). (Book titles are affiliate links.) Be sure to follow our Children’s Book Activities Pinterest board! …
Wild Thing Book Activities! This unit is fantastic for Maurice Sendak's book Where the Wild Things Are. Writing worksheet and craft included. Perfect for kindergarten or first grade!
A free comic strip template for Elephant and Piggie books, plus a set of super cute Elephant and Piggie paper bag puppet templates.
Author's Purpose PIE'ED Anchor Chart- take author's purpose to the next level for upper elementary students by using the PIE'ED Method!
Wonder activities for your classroom that are "wonder" ful and effective with your Wonder novel studies or We're All Wonders Book.
These FREE Printables and Unit Studies for Eric Carle's Books will help you expand on what your kids are learning through these beloved books.
If you have little ones or are a teacher of little ones, I’m guessing you probably have at least one (if not many) Eric Carle books in your collection. We certainly do– like, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider,and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see”. These are some of the boys’ very favorite […]
How to write chapter outlines or chapter summaries for your memoir book proposal, including examples of how long they should be.
For Virtual Book Club for Kids this October we are spotlighting Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anne Dewdney! This week we hosted a pajama party themed preschool book club and had so much fun reading
Flashlight Friday made it to my kinder room this year! Why? Students need to read every day. Reading should be fun. Flashlights are always fun. So it is simple..... Reading + Flashlights = FUN It really is that easy. We did this week one! #kindersCAN All you need: -Flashlights
We love connecting projects to books, and we're always inspired by the amazing group of bloggers who participate in the Virtual Book Club for Kids (you can also check the club out on Facebook) as the group comes up with some great extension activities each month. This month's author was Leo Lionni. We chose to read and do a project using a book we've really been enjoying lately, A Color of His Own. This is the sweet tale of a little chameleon who is looking for one color to stay all the time, but keeps running into that challenge that chameleons change color. In the end, he winds up finding a friend to always be with so they can at least always be the same color together. I've used this book in the past as a primary teacher. It's a great way to talk about friendship and also about what makes us each unique. My boys have been loving the simple tale and the colorful illustrations this spring. For our activity extension we decided to use cray-pas and watercolors. I love how colorful this art technique can be. I sketched several chameleon outlines onto white drawing paper using permanent marker. (I'm including a printable copy here in case you just want to print one out, or use the printable to trace onto thicker paper.) Afterwards the boys and I each colored in a chameleon using the cray-pas. Big Brother and I thought about ways to create different patterns. Little Brother focused on just coloring his in, using mostly one color. After we were done coloring, we watercolored on top of the cray-pas. The watercolor doesn't stick to the cray-pas, and fills all the white spaces around it. We all had different strategies for painting. When they were done I cut the three chameleons out and we hung them in our play room. I love how they are a set but each one unique. That's part of what can also make this project a great classroom activity, especially for the start of a school year. Or turn it into a fun family project, with each family member creating a chameleon to represent themselves. What Leo Lionni books does your family enjoy? Have you read this one yet? This post may also have been shared at some of these terrific link parties.
These FREE Printables and Unit Studies for Eric Carle's Books will help you expand on what your kids are learning through these beloved books.
So many ideas for kids activities from books by Julia Donaldson such as Stick Men trails, paper dolls chains, arts & crafts, and free activity sheets.
These 15 picture book activities go great with your preschooler's favorite stories. Great hands-on activities that help to further explore the books!
If you are looking for some high-interest activities, try using animated shorts to teach inference. Free handouts focus on student learning.
Book Week is here again, and so begins the last-minute panic for a costume! Never fear, Macca the Alpaca is here (with his best pal Al)! Choose your favourite alpaca, or siblings/friends can recreate the dynamic duo from the picture book Alpacas With Maracas by Matt Cosgrove. These simple print o
Award-winning children's book author who speaks in schools and keynotes conferences worldwide.
No David by David Shannon is a classic book to read in kindergarten. Here are free No David activities, videos and book ideas listed all in one place.
Do you want to get started with project based learning, but you’re not sure how? Maybe project based learning sounds too complicated, in-depth, and overwhelming to you? That’s how I felt when I first delved into PBL. But now I know there is nothing to be afraid of! In this post, I will give a quick explanation of project-based learning and then give you some tips and ideas to begin to implement it in your own classroom. What is Project Based Learning? Project based learning, simply stated, is an authentic learning experience
We’re well into week three of our Tomie dePaola author study and knee deep in Strega Nona’s world! My class has fallen in love with the characters in these books. Their folkloric quality, Big Anthony’s bumbling, Bambolona’s brusqueness and Strega Nona’s endearing ways have captured their hearts and their attention. We began this part of […]
Welcome to one of my hundreds of character building posts. Today we focus on respect. These 20 ways to teach kids about respect include my previous lessons, crafts, activities, book collections and thoughts about teaching kids the importance of showing respect. I am also including other ideas I’ve found around the web so you are...Read More
Resources, activities, and free printables to go along with books by Laura Numeroff. Includes ideas for the If You Give series.
