Creative Learning Activities for Children 2 to 8 Years Old

A to Z Kid Stuff
http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/
This website offers many ideas and activities for toddlers to school-aged children.

National Network for Child Care (NNCC)
http://www.nncc.org/
NNCC is an Internet source of over 1000 publications and resources related to child care. Publications are research-based and reviewed. Provides e-mail List Serves. NNCC unites the expertise of many of the nation's leading universities through the outreach system of Cooperative Extension to share knowledge about children and child care.

Crayola.com
http://www.crayola.com/
Most everyone has heard of Crayola crayons and just as many have used them at one point. Well crayola.com has created a site that offers a number of great craft ideas. What is really helpful is there is a link near the top of the page for educators. On the educators page is curriculum ideas and early childhood craft ideas. The website also offers a number of printable color sheets.

DLTK's Printable Crafts for Kids
http://www.dltk-kids.com/
DLTK's Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some of our children's favorite cartoon characters.

EduPuppy.com
http://www.edupuppy.com/
EduPuppy.com: Everything for Education Preschool-Grade 2, is a prescreened
database providing a comprehensive cornerstone for Early Childhood Educators using the Internet. EduPuppy links directly into exceptional sites providing wonderful content and resources for teachers and families.

Gryphon House Publishing: Free Activities
http://www.gryphonhouse.com/activities/index.asp
Gryphon House Publishing website has a page of free activities. The activities are categorized and are plentiful.

Idea Box: Early Childhood Education and Activity Resource
http://www.theideabox.com/
This website offers daily activity ideas, along with seasonal and holiday ideas, recipes, and songs.
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KinderKorner.com
http://www.kinderkorner.com/
This is a personal website, the creator is an educator in California. The website offers some fun and interesting ideas and activities but is not easy to navigate and the pages are very long.

KinderStart.com: Learning Activities and Crafts
http://www.kinderstart.com/learningactivitiesandcrafts/
This website offers a list of different activity idea links. The links go to pages that offer a list of websites on the certain activity. Has lots of information available.

Squigly's Play House
http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/
Squigly's Play House offers nine areas of activity ideas. The nine activity areas are Games, Crafts, Jokes, Pencil Puzzles, Coloring Pix, Brain Teasers, Writing Corner, Seasons & Holidays, and Postcards. Is a great site for ideas and easy to navigate.

Where is That?
http://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html
A geography game geared towards children 6 or older. The game has five different levels of difficulty so eight year olds will still be challenged. Is fun and challenging.