Parents Corner

Helpful tips, information and free activities for parents

 www.dotolearn.com

This website was originally created to help children with autism and special needs. It is a great resource for parents, teachers and students. They provide reading games and strategies, art projects, math activities, songs and games. The website also offers a number of materials and games to purchase.

www.crayola.com

This website offers free printable coloring sheets in a wide variety of categories. Additionally there is a parents’ corner with a daily craft activity and celebration or party ideas. Crayola also discusses techniques to use with their products and gives free art tips.

www.amazingmoms.com

The slogan on this website is “keeping life fun and festive” and it fits perfectly with the information listed on the site. It aims to provide simple art and crafts ideas for children age 3 to 6^th grade. Other sections on the website include: parties, playtime, recipes, family fun and holidays.

http://pbskids.org/zoom

This website is based off of the television show “Zoom” on PBS and it provides a number of games, downloadable and printable activities, and all of the activities from the show. There is also a section for parents and teachers. It is aimed for kids who are older, ideally preteen to teenage years.

http://www.familieswithpurpose.com/

This website is designed to provide resources not just for children, but for the whole family including activities, games, crafts, family night activities, science experiments, just to name a few. The activities range in level and difficulty which makes them ideal for even busy families. This website is great for showing the importance of making the family a central network.

http://www.abcteach.com/

Thousands of free printable worksheets and activities are listed on this website and available to print and use for children’s education purposes. The website does offer membership for a small fee and then gives even more benefits to its members although a lot of free materials can be accessed without membership.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/siteindex.shtml

This website offers free resources for parents, students and teachers including printable worksheets and reference pages. It is organized by the letters of alphabet and different resources correspond with each letter.