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Free Printable Flashcards Alphabet Animals Cards

March 16, 2021 by Selena Robinson 22 Comments

If you’ve been enjoying our free printable flashcards series, we hope you’ll love today’s entry!

So far, we’ve featured flashcards for learning colors and shapes, but this set of free printable flashcards alphabet animals cards lets you teach the letters from A to Z with animals!

Most kids love animals and, in this set of free printable flashcards alphabet cards, you can use an animal to introduce each letter – from A to Z!

Printable Alphabet Animal Flashcards for Early Learners

These are so fun for young learners! Plus, they’re an excellent introduction to beginning letter sounds.

Read on to see how to get your set – free!

And, if you want to help kids begin practicing their handwriting, check out our companion Alphabet Animals Notebooking Pages for letter writing practice!

Help early learners to recognize letters and letter sounds with these Alphabet Animal Flashcards!

What’s In the Free Printable Flashcards Alphabet Animals Set?

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In this set, you’ll find free printable flashcards for every letter of the alphabet – each one featuring a different real or imaginary animal!

Featured animals include:

Alligator
Elephant
Monkey
Orangutan
Xiphias (Swordfish)
And 21 more!

You can use the cards to help kids learn animals, letters, letter sounds, or all three concepts!

You might even want to use the set as an introduction to an animal unit.

Try teaching the kids how to make each animal’s sound or how to move like each animal.

Printable A to Z Animal Flashcards for Kids

For the imaginary animals, ask the kids where they think an animal like that might live or how it might interact with people.

Place each card on a binder ring for easy use again and again!

Get a look at the alphabet animal flashcards in action in the video below.

Scroll down to get your free printable flashcards Alphabet Animals Flashcards!

Resources for Learning the Alphabet

If you’d like to even more resources to teach your children the ABCs, try these alphabet books and activities for little learners!

Books for Teaching the ABCs

Alphabet Crafts and Activities for Kids

Try these other ideas for early readers!

These alphabet animal notebooking pages are a fun way to practice handwriting!

Learn how to spell in American Sign Language with these printable sign language alphabet flashcards!

These printable cookie and cupcake alphabet worksheets are so fun for helping early learners practice letter recognition!

To get your set of our A to Z Animals: Alphabet Animals Flashcards, click the image or the link below!

You’ll get the cards sent to your inbox – plus, you’ll get our weekly newsletter this weekend!

>>> Printable Alphabet Animal Flashcards <<<

Falling Leaves! Leaf Identification Flashcards and Matching Activity

September 8, 2020 by Selena Robinson 37 Comments

Fall is nearly here!

I love summer, but fall is a close runner-up for my favorite time of year.

The leaves change colors, the weather gets cool, plus we get to start baking and knitting!

So I thought I’d share a set of printable leaf identification flashcards!

These are perfect for fall learning, but you can really use them anytime of the year.

They’d also be great for a spring unit, since that’s when plants begin to flower again.

I am woefully ignorant about plant species, so I learned quite a bit by making these.

I hope you and your students enjoy them as well!

Plus, keep reading to see how to get a set of expanded leaf identification activity cards for your class too!

Be sure to check out our other fall printables, including our Fall Sight Word Flashcards and our Fall Alphabet and Number Playdough Mats!

What’s In the Free Printable Flashcards: Leaf Identification Flashcards Set?

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In this pack, you’ll find printable flashcards for eight different leaves, including:

Ash
Oak
Maple
Ivy
Fern
Birch
Grape
And Ficus

One set includes both the leaf pictures and names, while a second set features the leaf names only.

Another set includes just the pictures if you’d like to do a review or a matching game.

Free Printable Flashcards: Leaf Identification - Look! We're Learning!

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Use these realistic leaf identification activity cards to help students recognize common tree species!

Printable Leaf Identification Activity Cards

Want to turn this lesson into a reusable activity for science centers?

Pick up the expanded version of these leaf identification cards!

This set of leaf identification flashcards includes 12 different plant species!

In addition to the leaf vector drawing cards, this set includes realistic plant pictures to use on a nature walk.

Leaf Identification Cards Matching Activity

This set also includes two sets of plant species labels for kids to match up with the unlabeled pictures.

Use these at science centers by placing each set of flashcards on a separate ring.

After students review the labeled cards, let them practice matching up the names with the right leaf picture cards on their own!

Printable Leaf Species Identification Cards

To get the expanded set of Leaf Identification Activity Cards, click the image or the link below to visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store!

>>> Leaf Identification Activity Cards <<<

Fall Leaves Books and Crafts

Make your leaf learning into a full unit study by pairing our printable Leaf Identification Cards with these books and crafts about fall leaves!

Books about Fall Leaves:

Fall Leaves Activities:

Check out some of our other fall learning ideas!

This fun and easy leaf matching file folder game is a fun color recognition activity for little ones!

Practice telling same and different objects apart with these same or different leaf worksheets!

These simple leaf science activities for preschoolers are perfect for a fall science unit!

To get your copy of our free Leaf Identification Flashcards, click the image or the link below to get them from our Store!

>>>>> Leaf Identification Flashcards <<<<<

Free Bug Printables Pack for Kids

April 29, 2020 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

Happy spring everyone! I love this time of year.

The warmer weather, the longer days, the brighter skies – it’s all great stuff! It’s just the BUGS that bother me.

When I was a child, I was deathly afraid of almost everything that had more than four legs. (Except potato bugs. They’re adorable.)

But I’ve been learning to love bugs along with my kids, who think they’re awesome. So I thought I’d share a free Bug Printables Pack with all of you!

This would make a great science resource to cover before heading out on a nature walk.

You could also pair it with a unit about insects, spring, summer, or ecosystems!

Read on to get your copy! And don’t miss our fun list of kids’ activities about insects!

Free Bug Printables Pack

This free Bug Printables Pack has over 25 pages of insect-themed fun!

To use this set of insect identification printables, you’ll need the following: (This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

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This resource includes:

A set of bug flashcards (labeled and blank)
Bug identification pages with color pictures and traceable names
And insect coloring pages

Students can practice reading the correct names for each insect and then tracing the names themselves.

Use the insect identification flashcards to help kids learn how to quickly spot common insects in the neighborhood.

And don’t forget to use the coloring pages for a quick art activity!

If you want to reuse this activity later, laminate the pages and let students write on them with dry erase markers. Perfect for science centers!

Scroll down to get your free Bug Printables Pack!

Don’t miss these other spring activities for kids!

To get your copy of our free Bug Printables Pack, click the image or the link below to download it!

>>> Free Bug Printables Pack <<<

Aquarium Arithmetic Seek and Find Math Activity

April 6, 2020 by Selena Robinson 5 Comments

I am in the small group of people who actually enjoy solving arithmetic problems.

When I was young, I would doodle math problems in my notebook in my spare time.

My kids, though, aren’t big fans of arithmetic, unless I can make it fun.

So instead of just giving them a sheet of problems to solve, I put together a fun aquarium-themed lesson: our Aquarium Arithmetic Seek and Find activity!

And if you’re looking for a way to practice adding and subtracting online, you can get this in a digital version too!

Read on to see how to get your copy.

Plus, take a look at our easy Sidewalk Chalk Outdoor Math Game for some hands-on math practice fun!

Aquarium Arithmetic Seek & Find Math Activity

To use this aquarium arithmetic math activity, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links are included in this post. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

This product includes eight sheets of addition and subtraction problems.

As kids solve the problems, they’ll search for the ones whose answers match up with the answers listed in the instructions.

Once they find the corresponding problems, they can color them in!

For example, one of the pages instructs kids to “color the problems that have a difference of 5”.

So after kids solve the subtraction problems, they can go back and color in the bubbles for the problems that equal 5.

Easy!

A full set of instructions and a complete answer key are also included!

Scroll down to get your copy of this Aquarium Arithmetic Seek and Find Activity!Check out these other math learning ideas for kids!

To get your copy of our Aquarium Arithmetic Seek & Find math activity, click the image or the link below to get it from my Teachers Pay Teachers store!

>>> Aquarium Arithmetic Seek & Find Math Activity <<<

Prefer to use this online with your students? Pick up the digital version for distance learning below!

>>> Aquarium Arithmetic Math Practice Activity – Digital Version <<<

This post is part of the Free Aquarium Unit Study linkup! Check out more fun aquarium activities and learning ideas below!

Aquarium Animals Letter Find Worksheets from 3 Boys and a Dog

Under the Sea Fun Octopus Vegetable Platter from Crafty Mama in ME

Fish Books for Kids from The Jenny Evolution

How Fish Breathe – A Science Experiment from Tales of Education at Home

Fun Things to See at the Newport Aquarium from Something 2 Offer

Aquarium Scavenger Hunt Printable for Kids from CraftCreateCalm

Aquarium in a Bottle: Ocean Sensory Idea from A Little Pinch of Perfect

Aquarium I Spy from Schooling a Monkey

Preschool Playdough Mats: Mountain Playdough Shape Mats

October 14, 2019 by Selena Robinson 6 Comments

With Piglet starting on preschool work this fall, we’ve been using a lot of preschool playdough mats.

So this week I’m sharing a brand new printable set of preschool mats: Mountain Playdough Shape Mats!

These are super fun for little ones who are working on fine motor skills, shape recognition, and more!

Plus, they’re a perfect activity for preschoolers who are working on a geology unit along with their older siblings.

Read on to see how to get yours for free!

And don’t forget to stop by and check out some of our other preschool printables, including our Apple Tree Counting Mat and our Beach Playdough Number Mats!

Preschool Playdough Mats: Mountain Playdough Shape Mats

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Once you laminate these mats, you can use them again and again, so here are a few different ways to use them with your preschoolers.

Give your child a Do A Dot marker and challenge him or her to fill in each shape with a different color. Or each dot with a different color.

You can even ask your child to make a color pattern (one green circle, one red circle, one blue circle, then repeat it).

Hand out circular stickers and let your child stick them into the circles. This is particularly great for toddlers or for times when you want to avoid a potential mess. 😉

Use playdough to fill in the circles. Have your child roll small bits of dough into circles and place them in each circle to form each shape. This is excellent for fine motor practice.

Give your child dry erase crayons and bring the mats along when you’re going to a place you’ll have to wait.

Good choices include the doctor’s office, the drive-through, or a long car ride. Toss a basic washcloth into the car and use it to wipe off the mats for reuse.

Scroll down to get your copy of our free Preschool Playdough Mats: Mountain Playdough Shape Mats!

Don’t miss these other preschool resources!

Plus, get more ideas for working with preschoolers on my Learning for Little Ones Pinterest board!

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This post is part of the Mountains Unit Study roundup! Stop by to read even more learning ideas about mountains from my fellow bloggers!

Adventurous Mountain Books your Tween will Love from Crafty Mama in ME

Children’s Picture Books About Camping from The Jenny Evolution

Mountain Sequencing Puzzle from Schooling a Monkey

Making a Mountain Out of A Mole Hill from Tales Of Education At Home

My Side of the Mountain Survival Lessons from FrogMom

Free Printable Flashcards: Addition Flashcards 0-10

April 4, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

We’ve been working to help our kids memorize addition facts for the past few weeks, so I thought I’d make a new set of free printable flashcards: addition flashcards 0-10!

But the thing about addition facts is that they’re pretty boring, right? Naturally, I had to add a little fun to these cards. What’s more fun than a trip to the state fair?

Read on to get your set of these free state fair-themed addition flashcards!

And, for more flashcards to make math learning fun, try our printable polygon flashcards or our fraction flashcards!

Free Printable Flashcards: Addition Flashcards 0-10

To use these addition flashcards 0-10 with your kids, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links are provided here for convenience. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

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This pack includes 30 pages of addition flashcards, featuring problems from 0+0 to 10+10.

There’s also an Answer Key included!

Try to play a game where kids can match up even sums and odd sums.

Or have the kids match similar sums to find how many ways they can add numbers and reach the same answer.

You could even challenge kids by giving them an answer and seeing if they can find the math problem that will result in that answer.

Scroll down to get your copy of our free printable flashcards addition flashcards 0-10!

Check out some of our other math learning ideas below!

For more ideas for teaching math, follow my Math Mania board on Pinterest!

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Free Polar Animal Notebooking Pages

November 29, 2018 by Selena Robinson 5 Comments

Hey everyone! We’re ready to begin a new unit study about polar animals!

To help the kids get interested in researching and notebooking, we put together a set of polar animal notebooking pages that highlights ten different animals of the Arctic and the Antarctic.

These are wonderful for finding out more about these incredible creatures and the region in which they live. Perfect for a winter unit study!

If you enjoy these, don’t miss our list of 50 free winter printables for kids!

Free Polar Animal Notebooking Pages

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The product includes notebooking sheets for:

Arctic Fox
Emperor Penguin
Polar Bear
Snowy Owl
Walrus
Beluga Whale
Puffin
Caribou
Harp Seal
Arctic Hare

Each one includes spaces for kids to record basic facts about each animal, including their average weight and length, their species name, and the environment where they live.

All of the notebooking facts can be found easily using Wikipedia or any of the kids’ science websites such as National Geographic Kids or even Wikipedia.

Plus, there’s a Who Am I? fact matching game at the end to give the kids a quick refresher on what they learned. And the answer key is included!

Scroll down to get your free polar animal notebooking pages!

Books about Polar Animals:

Keep the learning going with these fun affiliate children’s books about polar animals!

Polar Animal Activities for Kids:

Extend the unit with these adorable polar animal activities for kids!

Stop by and see some of our other winter activities!

Get more ideas for winter learning on my Winter Activities for Kids board on Pinterest!

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Free Printable Flashcards: Spanish Number Flashcards 1-10

November 5, 2018 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

We’re back to learning español this week with a new set of free printable flashcards! This time, we’re sharing Spanish number flashcards for numbers 1-10!

Childhood is a wonderful time to learn a foreign language. Kids’ brains just slurp up the nuances of language like you would not believe. So why not give them a head start? Plus, Spanish is super fun to use!

If you like these, don’t miss the rest of our printable Spanish flashcards! There are sets featuring Spanish verbs, clothing words, days of the week in Spanish, and more!

What’s In the Spanish Number Flashcards 1-10 Pack?

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This pack of Spanish number flashcards lets kids learn both English and Spanish number words at the same time!

Use the first set to review both languages, then the second to practice reading and comprehending Spanish number words alone.

Each card includes the number and the number words for reinforcement, especially with early learners.

A pronunciation guide is also included, so you’ll get a chance to practice saying each number correctly.

Scroll down to get your free Spanish number flashcards 1-10 set!

Books for Learning Spanish:

Looking for excellent Spanish learning resources? Try these books for teaching Spanish to kids!

Don’t miss our other Spanish language learning resources!

Plus, learn more about teaching a foreign language to your homeschoolers with the tips on my Foreign Language Pinterest board!

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Free Printable Flashcards: Spanish Family Flashcards

October 8, 2018 by Selena Robinson 5 Comments

Today, I’m sharing yet another set of flashcards for you! So far, we’ve already learned Spanish days of the week, Spanish opposite words, and Spanish food words with flashcards. This week, it’s on to Spanish family flashcards!

Our set of free printable flashcards is called “La Familia” and it’s all about how to say basic family words in Spanish! In this set, I’ve used formal family words for “mother” and “father”, because mama and papa in Spanish are still “mama” and “papa”. 😉

If you love these, stop by and check out all of our printable Spanish flashcards, including printables for learning community words, colors, winter animals, and more!

What’s In the Spanish Family Flashcards Pack?

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In this set of Spanish family flashcards, you’ll learn the Spanish words for:

Little Brother
Little Sister
Brother
Sister
Mother
Father
Family

You’ll also find a pronunciation guide for saying each word, an English set for review, and a set of blank cards for quizzes!

Since there are English cards included, you can use these as part of a family unit with your young learners.

Let the kids play a matching game with each set of language cards or call out the Spanish family words and see if the kids can guess which member of the family it is!

Scroll down to get your free Spanish Family Flashcards!

These resources and activities feature more helpful tips for teaching kids how to speak about family members in Spanish!

Resources for Learning Spanish Family Words:

Activities for Learning Spanish with Kids:

If you love these flashcards, don’t miss our other Spanish learning posts!

And check out ALL of our printable Spanish flashcards as well!

Be sure to follow my Foreign Language for Homeschoolers board on Pinterest for more Spanish language tips!

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Over 50 Free Fall Printables for Kids

September 17, 2018 by Selena Robinson 21 Comments

It’s the middle of September and we’re nearing my favorite time of the year: fall! Which gave me a perfect excuse to share some of my favorite free fall printables for kids!

We’ll be using several fall themes for unit studies with our kids in the upcoming weeks, including leaves, farms, harvest, and apples.

If you’d like to learn about autumn with your children, you might like to look through the list of over 50 free fall learning printables for kids below!

By the way, if you’re ready to stock up on printables for other seasons of the year, don’t miss our roundups of free spring printables for kids, free summer printables for kids, and free winter printables for kids!

50+ Free Fall Printables for Kids

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In the following list, you’ll find all kinds of fall printables for kids, including autumn printables, math worksheets, apple activities, scarecrow printables, lapbooks, and more!

If you get a chance to try some of them this year, I’d love to know which ones your children loved the most!

Farm Do-A-Dot Shape Mats – Look! We’re Learning!

Scarecrow Kindergarten Worksheets – Kindergarten Worksheets and Games

Fall Coloring Pages – Kids Activities Blog

Football Printable Pack – 3 Dinosaurs

Fall Color Sorting Printable – The Outlaw Mom

The Apple Pie Tree Lapbook – Homeschool Share

Fall Word Problems Printable – Royal Baloo

Fall Math for Preschoolers Packet – Teaching Mama

PreK/K Fall Pack – This Reading Mama

Apple Harvest Scissor Skills Printables – Look! We’re Learning!

Printable Autumn Leaf Puppets – Picklebums