Author: Kay

Websites are great at providing helpful tips and instructions for just about everything. If you’re like me, though, you often need those same tips when you aren’t near your computer, or when you don’t have internet access. That’s why I’ve just introduced a new site: SwiftTips.com, which has helpful instructions laid out on attractive printable tip sheets that you can reuse or tape up in important places as well as share on social networks such as Pinterest or Facebook.

If you like to cook or bake, you probably don’t want your computer or smart phone on the counter where it can get ruined. Fortunately, you can just print out the SwiftTips.com kitchen reference charts and keep them in cookbooks or inside cupboard doors. These charts provide quick, illustrated guides for setting a table, cooking with a crockpot, and choosing the correct oven temperature. There are also conversion charts for easily exchanging gallons for quarts for pints, or cups for tablespoons for teaspoons.

Classrooms are another place where it’s handy to have a tip sheet on hand. I have plenty of academic classroom charts for converting GPAs, measurements, metrics, fractions, and decimals. Math and science students can punch holes in these and keep them in a binder, while teachers can put them up on the walls.

Finally, there are plenty of personal guides for any everyday troubleshooting you may encounter. These include everything from cleaning guides for laundry and hardwood floors to conversion charts for shoes, hats, and clothes to tips on how to use a manual camera. There are also mechanical guides for car owners who need to jump a battery or check their oil.

Overall, there are 41 templates at this new site, and all are available to download and print for free as a PDF file. If you want them to last longer, I recommend laminating them, or printing them out on cardstock.

Summer is finally here, which means family vacations, which means long car trips. Fortunately, I’ve got a brand-new site for passing the time and curtailing boredom. PrintableBoardGames.net has 20 board games that are fun for the whole family, at home or on the go. No worries about losing pieces, either; a new board or new game pieces can just be reprinted and replaced.

I’m a big fan of the classic games of strategy for two people. That’s why I have one- and two-page boards devoted to standard games such as Chess, Reversi, Go, Rummy Cube, and Mancala. Fans of dominoes will also be pleased to see that I have sets with values that go through six, nine, or twelve. These games require nothing but a printer, paper, and a pair of scissors. Cut everything out and start playing! You can use your own game pieces, or you can cut out the ones provided. For small pieces (as with Go), you can use a hole-puncher to get them free!

Some of the boards require a few accessories for full gameplay. There are several dice games such as Backgammon, Snakes and Ladders, and Pachisi (which is a lot like the game Sorry!). You need a die or two to play these games. The boards are fully colored and, in the case of Snakes and Ladders, fully illustrated with cute designs. These boards can be laminated to be used again and again.

If you have a writing utensil and a notebook, you can play any of the new paper and pencil games. These include word guessing games like Safe Cracker, a colorful version called Master Code Cracker, and Quick on the Draw, which is a sketching game similar to Pictionary. These are the easiest for car trips, and can be played with two or more people.

All of the games at PrintableBoardGames.net are free to download and print as PDF files. You can download them individually, or save yourself some time and get the whole game collection for only $11. Just download, print, and hit the road!

It’s almost Father’s Day! Whether you’re buying a dad a gift, sending a card, or making something from scratch, I have a lot of printables that can help add a fun, decorative touch. No shopping required!

If you have the greatest dad in the world, then why not make it official? Choose from the “World’s Best Dad” and “Father of the Year” awards at FreePrintableCertificates.net. These certificates are colorful, fun, and have cute illustrations of gold medals, stars, and flowers. You can print one as a free PDF and write your dad’s name in by hand, or customize it in a word processor with the $5 DOC version.

If you got a nice, store-bought gift for your dad and want to personalize it a bit, I have nearly 20 Father’s Day gift tags at FreePrintableGiftTags.net. Strong dads, happy dads, robot dads, and dads with kids decorate these gift tags. They’re all free to download and print as a PDF or DOC.

If you have young kids who want to help get something for Father’s Day, consider a themed art project. Kids will love filling in the dad coloring pages at FreePrintableColoringPages.net. Each page can commemorate a Father’s Day activity like golfing and opening presents as a family. Coloring pages are all free to print as a PNG file.

If you’re all grown up and far from home, you can still send a card to show your appreciation—and you don’t even have to go to the store! FreePrintableGreetingCards.net has dozens of Father’s Day cards, with pictures of presents, pocket watches and animals. All of the cards are fully illustrated and brightly colored. Some are serious and reflective, while others are more celebratory and festive. All greeting cards can be printed for free as a PDF, or customized as a $4 DOC.

Running a business or a department can be difficult, and the key is to have great, constant communication with the people who work for you, who buy from you, and who want to be involved with your company. That’s why I have a whole batch of 30 new business letters, sales forms, expense requests, and property management templates.

There are a lot of new employment letters that cover job applications, requests, and rejections. There are also broader form letters that can serve as interoffice memos about benefits, transmittals, and staff input. The letters are sample forms, with pertinent information highlighted in bold so that it’s easy to replace.
Communication is also essential when it comes to property management.

That’s why I have new landlord forms including a neighborhood checklist, an appraisal sheet, and a notice to enter premises. Tenants can also keep the peace by using my utilities tracker and payment record.

BusinessFormTemplate.com has just about everything a company needs, including shipping invoices, labels, feedback forms, and sales letters. The documents are free to download and print as a PDF, or to customize as a DOC file.

I am pleased to announce that I’ve added 60 new printable signs to PrintableSigns.net in two categories. It has always seemed to me that neither libraries nor fundraisers have large budgets to spend, and therefore would need signs that are not only readily available, but free as well.

I’ve added 32 library signs that can point patrons to the checkout line, the reference desk, children’s books, magazines and films. There are also a number of helpful cataloguing signs for arranging reading material with the Dewey Decimal System.

The other new category is dedicated to fundraiser signs. As a dad, I know that raising money for school funds or extracurricular activities can take up a lot of time and require a lot of resources. That’s why I made these signs as attractive and eye-catching as possible, while leaving blank spaces for people to fill in specific information. There are signs for raffles, spaghetti feeds, pajama days and bingo, all decorated with bright, colorful pictures.

Overall, there are more than 3,500 signs to choose from at PrintableSigns.net. There are a lot of road signs, danger signs and caution sides for safety purposes. There are also language, pool and recycling signs for everyday use. The files are free to download and print as PDFs. An editable DOC file is also available for $1.99 and can be customized in Microsoft Word.

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been so long, but I’m adding to my PrintableMazes.net site for the first time since I launched the website in 2009! PrintableMazes.net now has a whole new batch of easy, fun, hand-drawn mazes. Because they’re all done by hand, they have a slightly different look and feel than the computer-generated mazes that are there from before.

The new printable mazes are fun and colorful, and depict cute, cartoony insects, dinosaurs, football equipment, and leaves. They’re fun as art, puzzles, or two-person games. The templates range from easy to much more difficult mazes, which means they’re perfect for kids of varying ages.

PrintableMazes.net has hundreds of mazes that are all compiled into convenient maze books. The books are divided into simple, easy, medium, and difficult collections of about 250 mazes each for only $9. Otherwise, they can be downloaded individually and printed as a free PDF.

The modern family is a complex thing with a lot of people connected in a lot of ways. Fortunately for genealogists and school projects everywhere, FamilyTreeTemplates.net has 15 new family trees that are cute, professional, fun, and diverse.

Most of the new extended family trees have graphics such as apples, birds, and people to illustrate the lines of ancestry. These new, expanded templates cover cousins, relatives removed by marriage, aunts, and uncles.

There are also more formal family trees that lack the cute, colorful illustrations. These include genetic trait trackers, genealogy charts, and man/woman symbols. These are better for a more scientific approach to ancestry tracking.

FamilyTreeTemplates.net has every conceivable style of family trees, including fan, circle, bowtie, and hourglass family trees. There are four-, five-, six-, seven-, and eight-generation charts, as well as ancestral history forms. Each of the 100 templates can be downloaded as a free PDF or a $4 editable DOC version that can be typed into directly.

For celebrations of family and accomplishments, presents are often in order. I recently added 32 new gift tags for graduation, holidays, and birthdays to FreePrintableGiftTags.net.

The new celebratory gift tags are perfect for parties and ceremonies alike. Each one is colorful and features some really cute illustrations.

Even though Mother’s Day is past, the Father’s Day gift tags are going to come in handy for whatever present you give your dad. They show a happy father with his kids, and there’s even one with gift ideas like a tie, a mug, and a gold medal. If you use that tag, you may want to make sure that you’re not accidentally revealing the present you bought!

There are also a lot of birthday gift tags that are perfect for parties with a lot of kids. Make sure your present doesn’t get lost in the shuffle with these bright, cheerful tags of happy kids opening presents and blowing out candles on a birthday cake.

All the templates at FreePrintableGiftTags.net are free to download and print as a PDF or DOC file. The PDF can be printed and written on by hand, while the DOC version can be edited in a word processor.

The end of the school year seems to be the time that students receive all the recognition, more specifically the senior students who are graduating. However, it’s also important to reward the daily efforts, as well as the smaller graduations from one grade to another. That’s why the 51 new school certificates are great for students of every age.

Honoring a student’s hard work and effort is easy and fun with the achievement certificates for science and spelling. There are several cute designs featuring super students, spelling “bees” and laboratory equipment that are perfect for science fair participants and expert wordsmiths.

There are also a huge number of promotion certificates for every grade from kindergarten through high school. Teachers and parents alike can praise their kids for graduating from elementary school, primary school, middle school, junior high, or high school, depending on the region’s education system. They’re all decorated with colorful borders and graphics of mortarboards.

I have just over 1,400 certificates at FreePrintableCertificates.net these days, in fun and formal categories that span holidays, weddings, baptisms, and more. They’re all available to download and print for free as a PDF. An editable DOC file is also offered for $5. If you were to purchase every form, it would cost you thousands of dollars, but I’m offering the whole certificate collection for only $69. It’s a great deal for anyone working with event planning, ceremonies, large staff numbers, or students.