Just Color ~ Camping

The idea behind Just Color! is simple ~ theme packs all focused around coloring. There are mostly coloring pages, and a few coloring activities. The coloring pages are all in one download to make it easier to download and print all at once, in case you have coloring monsters like I do!

I just added a new Camping Coloring set! We go camping a LOT {in a camper, not a tent} and it I absolutely our favorite time together as a family!

Camping Theme Coloring Printables

Remember, if you want to make a mini coloring book, you can always scale down PDF files! If you have any problems downloading or printing these or other PDF files, see troubleshooting tips here.


Looking for more Camping Theme fun?

Camping Theme

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Mothers Day Printables

Mother's Day Printables

Last year I made Father’s Day Printables for my kids to make for Daddy, and this year I decided to create a Mother’s Day set also.  I may just give them to my husband so he can have the kids do them for me Winking smile.

There is an interview page, a page for the child to draw their mom, and a cover page for the child to color in.  You can see how we put ours together to make big cards for daddy in this post. You could also just staple the page together, or punch holes and tie with a nice ribbon!

Included is also a set for GRANDMA, and since I know that many children have other special women who love them like a Mommy, I made a BLANK set, where you can fill in the name.

~>~>~> Download your free Mother’s Day Printables here <~<~<~

{if you have any downloading/printing trouble, please see this post}

A few books that celebrate moms {affiliate Links}…

Early Childhood Theme Printables A-E

Theme Printables A through E

Other Posts in this Series…

Theme Printables F-J

Theme Printables K-O {coming soon}

Theme Printables P-T {coming soon}

Theme Printables U-Z {coming soon}

 

I wrote about my views on using themes with young kids, and there are certainly a LOT of early childhood themes to choose from! 

If you are like me, at times you choose a letter and build on it for a week or so with your tot/preschooler. It helps me stay focused as a teacher and not forget things! Having a letter of the week is not important, or necessary, it is just helpful for my type-A personality. In honor of this, I have created a series of planning help posts, gathering together all themed printable packs I could find that could extend a letter of the week.

Other times, I build on a theme with no focus on our letter of the week. These lists will help you find things in an orderly fashion!

When you begin planning, Pinterest and Google can be a bit overwhelming!  I am creating this series to help you with your planning.  I have gathered all FREE theme based printable packs {mainly early childhood focused, tots-1st grade} that I am aware of and sorted them by letter so you can browse through and get ideas all in one place! I did NOT include holiday based packs, simply because there are so many and they are pretty easy to find when holidays roll around.

I have included free printable theme packs from bloggers around the web including; Homeschool Creations, 2 Teaching Mommies, Spell Outloud, 3 Dinosaurs, Confessions of a Homeschooler, Me & Marie Learning, Ooopsey Daisy, All Our Days, Creative Learning Fun, Royal Baloo, 123 Homeschool 4 Me, Lawteedah, Our Little Monkeys, Creative Preschool Resources, Our Country Road, Homeschool Share, Preschool Mom, Gift of Curiosity, and Over the Big Moon. {if any of you ladies notice an error please let me know!}

If the pack was created by another blogger, I listed their {blog name} in the brackets.  If there aren’t any brackets, I made it!

Letter ATheme Printables A

Letter BTheme Printables B

Letter CTheme Printables C

Letter DTheme Printables D

Letter ETheme Printables E

    Looking for more printables?

    Theme Printables F through J Alll Printables A to Z 300 Printables-Packs-from-1plus1plus1equ

    Other posts about using THEMES with young kiddos…

    Planning-for-a-Theme6 Why-Themes7 How-to-Plan-Using-Themes6


This post is #10 in my series for the iHomeschool Network Spring 2013 Hopscotch. Visit other bloggers participating here!

Links will be added as the series progresses!

Homeschooling-Tots-and-Preschoolers_Day 1 ~ Where to Begin with Tot School eBook

Day 2 ~ You Don’t Have to Do it All!

Day 3 ~ Developmentally Appropriate Practice

Day 4 ~ Time Invested in Tot Schooling

Day 5 ~ 10 Tips for Studying Nature with Tots

Day 6 ~ Exposure vs. Mastery

Day 7 ~ Why Themes?

Day 8 ~ Teaching Tots in a Large Family

Day 9 ~ Our Favorite Learning Tools for Tots

Day 10 ~ Early Childhood Theme Printables A-E

Easter Homeschool Fun

{disclosure: this post contains affiliate links}Easter Fun in Homeschool

I used to be great at planning holiday homeschool theme time.  Now, not so much.  As the work load for 3 homeschool kids has increased, I have less time to really plan out all of the extra stuff.  So, although these photos make it look like I was massively organized and prepared, I assure I was NOT.  I haphazardly dug out the Easter storage bin, put the books on the shelf, dumped the trinkets in a bin for the {goofy stuff not even related to Easter} sensory bin, and set out a few bunnies and eggs {also unrelated but cute}.

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I love this little wagon basket, and put our Easter board books in it…Easter Homeschool Activities -2102

Our very favorite Easter books


Everything you will see below was a spur of the moment thing, I literally grabbed something when we had a few extra minutes! To top it all off, I was so unprepared, we did most of this AFTER Easter!  The kids liked the little Easter addition, as always, which is why I try to always do special theme things for them. Hal of the reason I am writing this post now is so I can come back to it next year and hopefully it will help me with some planning!

They especially LOVE crafts, so I browsed my Easter Pinterest board and chose this one! It was a BIG success!

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Krash got very into it and chose to make a checkerboard and use oil pastels instead of paint. He gave it to his grandparents as a gift so I didn’t get a pic of his final project, it was beautiful!Easter Homeschool Activities -1604

 

He wanted another craft the next day while I was doing school with Pac, I showed him how to do this cross craft and he loved it!  Again, no final shot since he gave it as a gift!Easter Homeschool Activities -1639

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Ladybug enjoyed this activity, with a hidden Easter message!Easter Homeschool Activities -2038

 

We colored a bit from my Easter Just Color printable setEaster Homeschool Activities -2013

 

We did a few activities from some Easter printable packs too.  Here she was doing a 1-10 Easter Cross puzzle {which I cannot find where I got, please let me know if you know-it had 3 crosses and a green hill with yellow behind it}…Easter Homeschool Activities -2011

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We read Benjamin’s Box and used our Resurrection Eggs mini book too.  The kids always love learning about the story with the eggs!

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EMPTY!

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Our annual game of Easter MemoryEaster Homeschool Activities -2069

 

Loved having What’s in the Bible Volume 10 as another resource this year!What's in the Bible-1252

 

We added volcano eggs to our family egg dying night, they were a fun addition!

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Before I put it all away, here was our Easter work display…

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See our Easter Theme Pinterest Board here!

Girls Gymnastics Printables

Many of you know that my boys joined a gymnastics team this past fall.  They competed this season and LOVED it!  Ladybug also takes a gymnastics class once a week band she loves it too!  Since Krash has grown out of theme printable packs for the most part, I decided to create a GIRLS GYMNASTICS PACK for Ladybug!

Girls Gymnastics Printables

Download the Free Girls Gymnastics Printables Here!

girls gymnastics printable pack

{disclosure: yup, you guessed it! Those are Amazon affiliate links!}


Looking for more theme based printables, see this post!

Printable-Theme-Packs


Ideas for Using Dot Fun Printables  Ideas for Using Roll and Graph