Author: Kay

The days leading up to Halloween are almost as fun for my 5-year-old as the holiday itself. She gets to do craft projects in class, work on her Halloween costume, and prepare for the huge haul of candy she brings home every year. (Not that we let her eat it all, but I digress…) I’ve uploaded a bunch of printables for people who like this holiday as much as we do, whether it’s for costume contests, haunted parties or just classroom activities. I recently told you about HalloweenPrintables.net, my site dedicated entirely to printable Halloween activities. But there are even more holiday designs at other FreePrintable.net sites.

FreeprintableRecipeCards.net has a lot of Halloween recipes for organizing festive treats for holiday parties, potlucks, and so on. The cards are available on 3×5 and 4×6 lined cards and feature jack o’lanterns, coffins and goblins. The PDFs are free, and editable versions that can be typed into using Microsoft Word before printing cost $7.

There are a number of Halloween award certificates for pumpkin carving, decoration, and costume contests at FreePrintableCertificates.net. The PDFs are free to download and print, while an editable DOC version (type in winners’ names, etc.) costs $5.

If you want to win that Halloween costume award but you’re running short on ideas or time, PrintableMasks.net has over 100 Halloween masks that can be printed and cut out for free. They have the usual scary masks of werewolves and Frankenstein monsters, but there are also fantasy masks such as unicorns and dragons, animal masks, and people masks.

My younger daughter loves to color, and she can easily go through a whole coloring book in a day, so I’m happy to offer dozens of Halloween coloring pages at FreePrintableColoringPages.net. Featuring everything from pumpkins to witches to monsters to ghosts, these files can all be downloaded as PNG files for free.

For families hosting parties, I have a number of helpful sites. There are plenty of Halloween-themed invitations at PrintInvitations.net, holiday greeting cards at FreePrintableGreetingCards.net and jack o’lantern letterhead templates at FreeLetterheadTemplates.net. Each one features creepy, silly, festive and fun pictures of pumpkins, ghosts and ghouls. All are available for free as PDFs. The premium versions cost a few dollars each.

Lots of people enjoy learning new recipes and trying them out for their family, especially as the weather gets colder and there’s less to do outside. With the new batch of 30 printable recipe cards at FreePrintableRecipeCards.net, I’ve introduced some new kitchen illustrations in addition to a selection of cute animal cards.

The new ethnic food recipe cards are great for people who want to add a little cultural variety into their cooking ventures. I think the red noodles look particularly tasty, but there are also depictions of sushi, sausages, and salsa.

The new batch also includes animal recipe cards, which make cooking with kids particularly fun. There are scenes highlighting cows, pigs, birds, and ladybugs out in the green grass.

Overall, there are more than 185 different recipe cards to choose from. There are a lot of holiday recipe cards as well, which are useful with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas coming up. All of the recipe cards are available for free to download and print as a PDF, while a premium, editable version costs $7 and can be opened in Microsoft Word. The recipe cards are available as 3×5, 4×6 and 8×10 templates. Whatever you choose, I recommend printing them on card stock, or laminating them for maximum durability.

I think I look forward to Halloween as much as my kids do. I’ll never be too old to dress up in a goofy costume, play games, and chomp on candy. With holiday fun in mind, I want to let you know about some of my new free printable activities for Halloween projects and parties.

HalloweenPrintables.net features more than 80 spooky printable Halloween activities for children of all ages, which can be helpful for parents who need some ideas that are quick and fun. (They’re great for school and parties, too!) There are colorful greeting cards with pumpkins and witches, mazes with black cats and spiders, party signs with zombies and ghosts, and dozens of coloring pages that are perfect for craft time. There are even some word searches and facts about Halloween. The newest additions are fun for the whole family and include memory cards, bingo and word matching games.

Individual DOC and PDF files are all free to download, or users can get the entire Halloween printables collection for only $19.

An eye-catching border can really make a flyer, letter, or craft project stand out. Whether you’re working on scrapbooks, greeting cards, classroom activities, or just need some cool stationery, I hope you’ll enjoy the new Halloween and Thanksgiving printable page borders on PageBorders.net. They’re among 28 holiday and seasonal designs I recently added to the site.

Of the new holiday border printables, the Halloween borders are split between spooky designs of cauldrons and flapping bats and fun, festive pictures of goody bags and candy corn. The Thanksgiving designs have silly, cartoon pictures of turkeys wearing pilgrim hats.

There are more than 175 borders in the PageBorders.net collection, in both formal and informal styles. The formal ones are great for weddings and other events, whereas the informal ones are fun for educators and kids.

All of the borders are available to download and print for free as a PDF, JPEG, PNG or DOC file. A customizable document in the original AI (Adobe Illustrator) format is also available for just $7.

With young children, every new event feels like a milestone, especially lost teeth. My 5-year-old is very excited at the prospect of losing her first baby tooth, and it’s hard not to be excited with her. The 11 new tooth fairy letters I’ve added to ToothFairyLetter.net are nice ways to share in your kid’s enthusiasm, instead of making the exchange just about money. (A tooth as a commodity is an interesting tradition.)

ToothFairyLetter.net has a large number of Tooth Fairy poems, coloring pages, and letters to boys and girls that talk about first teeth and magic castles. There are also gender-specific notes and funny letters for children who are getting older and taking the situation less seriously. There’s even a new Tooth Fairy invoice.

A section that I think is especially helpful is the extraordinary situation Tooth Fairy letters category, which addresses the issues that some kids have anxiety about. That includes swallowing the tooth, losing it at school, losing multiple teeth and having a tooth pulled at the dentist. Most of the letters also encourage kids to keep up good dental hygiene.

All of the letters come with full-color illustrations of teeth, smiling faces or the Tooth Fairy with a magic wand. They also include a very authentic-looking Tooth Fairy signature for verification purposes. The templates are free to download and print as PDFs, or $5 for a DOC file that can be customized in Microsoft Word or its equivalent. With the premium DOC versions, you can type in a child’s name and other personal details before printing.

Memos and letters always look more official when they’re written on great letterhead. The new letterhead templates I’ve added to FreeLetterHeadTemplates.net aren’t just official, though, but also fun, classy, and sometimes a little silly.

For example, you can make thank you notes writing more enjoyable by letting kids write on animal letterhead or on stationery featuring cartoon numbers.

Each of the new monogram templates is decorated with a letter from the alphabet as a watermark background. They’re simple and elegant and great for weddings or daily business.

Finally, the sports letterhead brings the site’s total up to 125 free templates. Sports fans can show their support of up basketball, football, soccer, and other activities with this full-color, illustrated stationery.

All of the letterhead is available in DOC format and is free to download, customize in Microsoft Word or another compatible program, and print.

Whether you’re a parent scrambling to get school supplies together, a student working on a last-minute assignment, or a teacher in need of forms, charts, and worksheets, TeachersPrintables.net, PrintablePaper.net, and other FreePrintable.net web sites has lots to download and print for free.

This year, I have one daughter starting 10th grade and another beginning kindergarten, and in my family we almost invariably forget something important. I hope my sites come in handy for parents and teachers who need paper, flash cards and study charts to be both accessible and affordable.

TeachersPrintables.net has more than 300 free printables that will help classroom teachers. That includes grading sheets, attendance charts, hall passes, lesson plans, and parent communication forms. This month’s new additions include desk tags, flash cards, and numbers charts for math.

There are over 135 flash cards at PrintableFlashCards.net. Some of them are ready-to-use in categories such as science, math, literature, and more. Or, use the free Flash Card Maker to create your own.

PrintablePaper.net now has over 900 printable papers covering everything from graph paper to music paper to regular lined pages that are perfect for taking notes. Plus, they’re free!

In my family, my wife is in charge of the keeping of the genealogy. She really enjoys the research, and has traced our families’ paths backward quite a ways. There are lots of family history fans out there, especially judging from the popularity of my recent additions to FamilyTreeTemplates.net.

There are 15 new printable family trees, along with genealogy charts and forms. Site users had requested a tree with room for more siblings, so I’ve added another of those. Plus, there’s a new 6-generation fan-style family tree, a cousin chart, a pedigree chart, a descendant chart, and new full-color illustrated family trees for children (My favorite is the dinosaur family tree).

The genealogy forms include: a correspondence log (to record research-related communication), a library research checklist, a tracker for online research, a family unit history page, and more.

All of the family trees and charts are free to download and print in PDF form, or pay just $4 for a DOC version you can edit in Microsoft Word, typing in names, dates, and so on. (The fan charts are available in only free PDF form.)

A few months ago, Sharon Bourque wrote to ask if she could use the juggler boy coloring page from FreePrintableColoringPages.net as a template for a quilting design. I said of course.

I was delighted that Sharon took the time to write in and share the great news that her quilt, titled “Time Flies,” had won an award in the Quilts on the Rocks 2012 show held last month in Sudbury, Ontario, in Canada.

Congratulations, Sharon! Beautiful work. My wife is a quilter and was similarly impressed.

I love it when people find different uses for printables. Besides quilting templates, the coloring pages could be used as paper-piecing patterns by scrapbookers and paper crafters. Oh, and quilters, be sure to check out the specialty quilting paper at PrintablePaper.net.

I hope you’re having a wonderful summer, with plenty of barbecues, picnics, potlucks, family reunions, and other tasty goings-on. I’ve recently added to FreePrintableRecipeCards.net, so there are now more recipe cards than ever for sharing with friends and family, or adding to your own collection.

There are 30 new recipe card designs in all, including: country flags (Italy, Germany, and Mexico), abstract shapes, polka dots, cupcakes, cheesecake, and fruits. Yum!

After repeated requests by site users, I’ve now added 8-by-10-inch cards. The 8×10 recipe cards can be printed on standard letter paper, hole punched, and placed in binders, or used however you’d like.

There are now more than 150 recipe cards at FreePrintableRecipeCards.net, all free to download as PDFs you can write on in pen. Or, pay $7 per design for a DOC version you can type directly into using Microsoft Word. The cards come in both lined and unlined versions as well as in 3×5 and 4×6 sizes.