Free Printable Color Cut and Paste activity: sorting objects, food and animals by color.

Free Printable Color Cut and Paste activity: sorting objects, food and animals by color.

Summer break is here and with that it is up to us parents to find ways to entertain our little ones while they are at home. I’m sure we all have plenty of memorable activities planned, but sometimes you just need to keep little hands busy for a while so you can get some adulting done and Print-cut-Paste-craft is here for you! I will be posting a series of fun and, why not, educational activities to keep your little ones hands and minds busy and active, and as usual all you need is a printer, scissors, glue and your imagination (and sometimes some crayons or colors). Let’s get this summer started!

Here is the first summer activity and it is a color sorting activity: print the two templates and have your kids color the objects and then sort them in different groups according to their color, the result should be a beautiful rainbow of things! This is a great activity to practice those fine motor skills your preschooler needs to be ready for kindergarten, but personally I have also used it to practice naming the colors and some basic foreign language vocabulary with my kids! I have tried to include animals, foods and objects of every color so, for an extra activity you can also have your kids sort them out into different categories. The possibilities are endless! I hope you enjoy this color sorting coloring/cutting/pasting activity and look forward to more simple summer activities to follow soon!

Click here to download the pdf of the activity or right-click on the image to print a jpeg version of it.

 

Preview of Free Printable activity color sorting by print-cut-paste-craft.com
Color sorting free printable activity page 1 of 2 by print-cut-paste-craft.com
Page 2 of 2 of the color sorting activity by print-cut-paste-craft.com: color chart.
Free Printable Rhyming Card Game: Practice Basic Rhymes While Having Fun!

Free Printable Rhyming Card Game: Practice Basic Rhymes While Having Fun!

Hello! I created this card game to help the kids practice some basic rhymes while having fun. Here is how it works:

  • Print the pdf file and cut out the cards
  • Shuffle and Distribute all the cards to the players. It is ok if one person has an extra card
  • First, the players look at their cards and if they have a set of three matching rhyme cards they put them down showing them to the other players
  • Next, the players take turn taking a random card from their opponent. Anytime they make a match they put it down and then go again.
  • Beware: nothing rhymes with Orange! So you really don’t want to get stuck with that orange card!
  • There are two ways to end this game (depending on the age and personality of the players)
    • the player left with the orange card at the end of the game loses
    • OR when all the matches are found, the player with the most matches wins!

Rhyming card game preview by print-cut-paste-craft.com

Rhyming card game preview by print-cut-paste-craft.com

 

Ready to practice your rhymes and have fun?

Get your FREE PRINTABLE RHYME CARD GAME BY CLICKING HERE! ( it will open a page from which to download the cards)

Have fun!

Gabriella

Big Cheese model car by the amazing Doug Cenko!

Big Cheese model car by the amazing Doug Cenko!

Hello! I normally only post activities that I created myself, but these are times in which lots of fellow artists are pulling together to share free resources and activities for kids to do at home and I want to make sure all of you get to know about them as I come across them.

First up, the amazingly talented author and illustrator Doug Cenko has on his website several activities related to his wonderful books: there are free printable  “My Papa is a princess” and “My mama is a mechanic” paper dolls, “Sleepy Solar System” coloring pages and, my personal favorite, a model to build a Big Cheese car from his book “Little Monster Truck Go!” . If you haven’t read the book yet, there are 5 adorable little monster trucks each with their own unique shape and personality: my favorite is the kitty truck of course, and I hope Doug will a model of that to the list too…. but for now, enjoy the Big Cheese template by clicking here and don’t forget to get Doug’s fantastic books (click on the names to be redirected to their page on Indie Bound).

Enjoy!

 

Preview of Doug Cenko Big Cheese model

Preview of Doug Cenko Big Cheese model

Doug Cenko Little Monster Trucks Go cover

Doug Cenko Little Monster Trucks Go cover

Free Printable Creative activity: challenge your creativity with Blobs!

Free Printable Creative activity: challenge your creativity with Blobs!

I created this activity with slightly older kids (or perhaps adults) in mind, as a way to help them be creative without having to follow a pattern too strictly. It is a game I play often when I feel like doodling: I create a bunch of organic looking shapes and the imagine faces and creatures inside of those. I am posting here my own final result as well as my own blobs  but I can’t wait to see what all of you come up with! It’s sort of like looking at clouds and seeing all sorts of creatures in there. All you need is to print the free template, add some faces and features and then color. Don’t forget to share your work with me in the comments! (click on the second image to open the free printable template)

Gabriella Vagnoli Colorful blobs/ monsters activity.

Gabriella Vagnoli Colorful blobs/ monsters activity.

Free printable blob faces template by Gabriella Vagnoli available at print-cut-paste-craft.com

Free printable blob faces template by Gabriella Vagnoli available at print-cut-paste-craft.com