With Valentine's Day right around the corner, Pinterest, email, and blogs overflow with valentine crafts. Alas, many are also costly. So, don't pay. Here are free printable preschool valentine worksheets, games, crafts, learning activities and lesson plans. Fru-gals and fru-guys, use these for Valentine's Day fun.

Over the Big Moon is a mom-blog with 31 pages of free printable preschool Valentine's Day worksheets. They've added an extension pack with even more free printable preschool Valentine lesson plans for children. These kits are perfect for little ones ages 30 months to six. The activities are mostly for pre-readers and emergent readers. All the activities have a valentine theme.

To practice literacy and writing skills, there are letter tracing sheets focusing on the letter "V", vocabulary cards, phonics activities, word and sound matching and shadow letter tracing activities.

For early math skills reinforcement, there are valentine-themed counting worksheets, sorting activities, pattern extensions and sequencing games. There are several activities to develop visual acuity and eye hand coordination, including spot-the-difference games, coloring pages and four-piece puzzles. There are also several pages of cutting lines in different patterns to help children practice scissor skills.

The packets are free to print from the Over the Big Moon website. Or here's an alternate website with the same valentine printables. Directions are available. Valentine graphics could be reused as DIY valentines. Have children cut out pictures and glue on construction paper hearts.

For preschool classroom use, print activities in the craft center. Or put printed activities in a folder. Use as homework or vacation activities. Give as Valentine's Day gifts. Roll in recycled paper towel tube. Add a cute valentine pencil, a few crayons, scissors and glue stick. Wrap in recycled paper that children have decorated and tie the ends. Use for Valentine party favors. Senior citizens may enjoy these activities too,

Free printable pop-up crafts, kirigami, cut paper designs, greeting cards

Pop-ups on a computer are pretty annoying but in the world of art, pop-ups are magical. Pop-up crafts are 3D designs, usually of made of cut paper, that "pop" when you open or unfold them. In Japan, cut paper crafts are called kirigami (similar to origami). Kids love pop-up books with interactive details and they love to make their own pop-up books. Robert Sabuda is a children's illustrator who specializes in mosaics and pop-up books. Sabuda has designed beautiful 3D pop-up crafts and made his patterns available in free printable format. There are tutorials for pop-up cards. Sabuda has put links to free printable pop-up crafts for holiday craft and cut and paste kirigami. These could be used for scrapbooks and art projects for children.  Free printable pop-up crafts, kirigami, cut paper designs from Robert Sabuda

Free printable Thanksgiving crafts, greeting cards, decorations, worksheets

  As the fall holiday season counts down, you'll want free Thanksgiving printables and activities. Here are websites to use. Need Thanksgiving decorations, greeting cards, party invitations, place cards, place mats, coloring pages, activities, table decor and clipart? You're covered. How about Thanksgiving children's activities, games, worksheets, cut, paste and assemble activities and lesson plans? Here are printouts for all your holidays needs. Use these printables for home, classroom, Sunday School, scout troop, 4H group, after school programs, library programs, PTA/PTO, day care, home school, etc. These activities are perfect for activity coordinators of senior centers, nursing homes and adult foster care or home-bound groups.Free printable Thanksgiving crafts, greeting cards, decorations, worksheets | Examiner.com

Use Free Printable Catholic Easter Coloring Pages as Greeting Cards

Catholics entered the penitential season of lent which takes us up to Easter. For us, Easter isn't bunnies and candy. It's is about the Passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Here are free printable stations of the cross, rosary, saints and Easter bible story coloring pages. Why have kids color, write messages on the back and send as notes of encouragement. Sure, lent is a sacred time, of fasting and prayer. But it's also about almsgiving. And reaching out, sending loving messages, is a great way to give. .Free Printable Lent and Catholic Easter Coloring Pages

Free Printable Advent Calendars, Religious Christmas Clipart

Advent is the religious season preceding the Feast of Christmas. The Advent Season begins four Sundays before Christmas and lasts from 21-28 days depending upon when the first Sunday of Advent falls. In 2008, Advent begins on Sunday, December 2 and includes December 9, 16 and 23. As a penitential season, Advent is observed with three main virtues: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. On Advent Sundays candles are lit on the advent wreath. As a penitential season, the candles are blue or purple. On Gaudette Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, we light a pink candle to symblolize the advent attitude of joy. On Christmas the white Christ Candle is lit. Here are free printable advent calendars and religious Christmas clipart Free Printable Advent Calendar
to make with kids.

Printable Halloween Crafts, Cards to Print Free

Hey all you parents and teachers, with Halloween approaching do you find kids restless and distracted? Well here's a fun idea to incorporate trick-or-treat in the classroom, plus work on fine motor skills. Make free printable Halloween crafts and greeting cards. Use printables for preschool, elementary, even middle school or high school art classes. Use with special needs students or seniors in nursing home occupational therapy. Make cards and deliver to shut-in neighbors. Best idea of all, connect kids and seniors and make these crafts together! Picture is one of the free pdf cards you can print and make. Read on for links. Free Printable Halloween Crafts, Cards, Games, Toys

Free Printable Paper Greeting Cards for World Holidays

Teachers and parents, if you need fun paper crafts for kids, may I suggest my e-friend Marilyn "The Toymaker?" www.thetoymaker.com. She draws these whimsical little creatures, writes stories about them and then creates nifty crafts to go with them. AND she puts a lot of them on her blog for you to print free. Marilyn is awesome like that. And she makes printable cards for many holidays, even less popular ones--pagan holidays, Diwali, Cinco de Mayo, Chinese New Year, Jewish festivals. Just please read her rules and use fairly. This image is a pumpkin card/toy she made for Halloween. You can print it free if you visit her website. She's made inexpensive books you can buy, too. For more on this read Free Printable Paper Toys, Games for Preschool Kids

Free Printable Memorial Day Cards, Remembrance Day Cards

Memorial Day and 4th of July conjure up images of flags, parades, flowers, soldiers, banners and all that is most beautiful in America. While you may not think of Memorial Day as a holiday for sending greeting cards, especially with the high cost of cards and postage. Memorial Day is a particularly special day for soldiers and older citizens however. Senior citizens love patriotic holidays like the 4th of July and Memorial Day because they can remember with nostalgia the soldiers coming home from overseas, the parades, those loved and lost. Senior citizens also really enjoy receiving greeting cards. 4th of July and Memorial Day are a bittersweet holidays for relatives of fallen soldiers and for those who served in the armed forces, too. Read more

Free Printable Snowflake Patterns, Winter Crafts for Greeting Cards

February is the time when winter gets long, especially with 2013's impending blizzard. Why not celebrate the season with free printable winter crafts? Make and send greeting cards just because! Cheer up lonely homebound seniors with a winter themed card. Here are free printable snowflakes and winter activities. Cut snowflake patterns and use to decorate! Family Fun is always a one-stop source for free printables, crafts, games, activities and fun. Winter is no exception. Visit this like a get your printer warmed up, because you can print crafts galore. Got preschoolers at home who miss older siblings and get bored easily? No problem. Family Fun has literally hundreds of winter themed cut and paste, coloring, paper folding, dioramas, diy greeting cards, craft activities and lessons. Family Fun isn't just for preschool children, though. Check out the dozens of free printable crafts for older children too. Perfect for homeschool, classroom activities, scout troops, 4H, Sunday school, Bible school and any kids' activity group.  Free Printable Snowflake Patterns and Winter Craft Activities

Free Printable Winter Crafts, Activities

The winter season is a popular theme in preschool and early elementary. In science, winter is perfect for studying  chemistry, physics, earth and life science. In social studies, students might explore winter-specific holidays and religious celebrations: Yule, Saturnalia, Winter solstice, Vernal Equinox. Concepts are adaptable across different curricula: writing, math, reading, literature, art and crafts. Why not weave winter into crafts with these online printables? You could have kids cut snowflakes, use to decorate cards and send to elderly and old folks who are disabled or shut-in. Seniors in nursing homes and senior centers love cards. Why not brighten up someone's day with a cheery homemade card? Here are free printable winter season activities. Most are interactive, hands-on project-type activities.  Winter Printables, Snowflake Patterns

Free Printable Advent Countdown to Christmas Activities

We homeschooled our four children for over 10 years. As a Catholic family, we set aside the month of December for advent activities. Advent begins on the 4th Sunday before Christmas and countdowns to the feast of Christmas. Make crafts and let people know about the real meaning of Christmas. Send religious greeting cards during Advent and through Epiphany. Here are more Advent countdown activities.   read more

Free Printable Princess Party Package, Glamour Girl and Fashion Accessories

Th HP (Hewlett Packard) website offers lots of free printable party supply packages. From the Kid's Corner, in the middle of the page there are four different links for party supplies kits in different themes. Each link has three or four complete craft activity sets. Themes include animals, race cars, pirates and glamour fashion princess. The animals theme with four 3-D Chinese zodiac animals, including the rat, tiger, dragon and pig, each decorated with bright festive colors. There are also three free printable model race car projects. These links contain pages with all the pieces needed to assemble the project, as well complete step-by-step instructions for each. The glamour princess kit has a cut and paste paper high heel shoe that triples as a party craft, party favor and treat holder. So many cute crafts to choose from I can't decide which is my favorite. Read on Free Cut and Paste 3D Greeting Cards and Crafts Projects

Free Printable Easter Crafts, Activities, Decorations

Whether you celebrate Easter as a religious holiday or just enjoy the eggs, bunnies and candy, the holiday is fun for young and old. Coming as it does in spring, Easter is a celebration of new life and nature. For kids, it's a great time to explore science concepts of plant life, insects and baby animals. Here are free printable Easter crafts, coloring pages and activities for classroom, homeschool or just family fun. Read more at  Free Printable Easter Crafts, Activities, Decorations 

Free Printable Valentines Day Craft Activities and Decorations

Free Printable Valentines Day Craft Activities and Decorations Looking for cute free Valentine's Day craft activities and party decorations? Here are websites full of free printable crafts, games, party supplies, greeting cards, valentines and holiday activities. Perfect for classroom valentine exchanges and parties. There are valentines, party invitations, boxes for classroom exchanges, candy holders, treat boxes, greeting cards and more. These activities work well in classrooms, scouts, day care and senior citizens' groups. Read on for free printable valentine crafts

Free Printable Thanksgiving Coloring Page Greeting Cards

Free Printable Thanksgiving Coloring Page Greeting Cards Thanksgiving is a great holiday for sending greeting cards. It's a season to let people know you appreciate them. Here are free printable color your own Thanksgiving greeting cards. Children can enjoying coloring and giving to friends and loved ones. Greeting cards cheer shut-ins, seniors and those who aren't able to get around as well. With free printable cards, sending warm wishes is only a few clicks away. Free Printable Thanksgiving Greeting Cards, Coloring Pages

Free Printable Pop Up Greeting Card and 3D Kirigami Templates

Any time is a great time to explore paper crafts, especially the holidays! Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding and kirigami is cut paper crafts that create 3D stand up or popup cards and art. Here are free printable origami and kirigami patterns and template for you to cut, fold and create.

Pinterest has links for loads of free printable kirigami cut paper crafts and origami with patterns and folding lines printed on the paper. There are is a free printable origami frog, fish, turtle, pond scene and origami boat. Oh My! Handmade has free printable kirigami snowflakes. Crafts Crazy has morefree printable kirigami patterns. This link takes you to more free printable kirigami patterns.

ScissorCraft is a great place to begin your children or students on folded or cut paper crafts, origami, kirigami and popup cards. 

Scissor Craft has free printable cut and fold animals printed in bright cheerful colors. Here free printable origami patterns and paper. Here are more downloadable free printable origami paper. Check here for origami patterns of cranes, koi fish, flowers and animals.

Easy Cut Pop Up is primarily a pay site, but they do offer a few free printable kirigami patterns to create cute scissor crafts and pop up greeting cards. Scroll down the page past the 'buy now' patterns to find your free printable popup cards and patterns. And I'll give Easy Cut Pop Up this high five: their crafts are really nice and attractive. If you were going to purchase kirigami patterns, $3.95 each, this website's pricing, isn't a bad deal.

Kirigami for Kids has wonderful free printable origami patterns and stencils perfect for young children to help them get the hang of cutting and folding paper. Check out their huge assortment of free printable popup cards and paper crafts. From this link, click around the site for lots more kirigami, origami and paper crafts. Origami and kirigami makes lovely paper crafts, gifts, popup cards and homeschool and classroom art projects.

Free Printable Valentines Day Cards and Crafts

At each holiday I have a few bookmarked websites that I check for free printable crafts, greeting cards, coloring pages and activities. Here are my top favorite free printable valentines crafts websites for Valentine's Day activities.Free Printable Valentines Coloring Pages Cards

Free Printable Valentine's Day Cards and Color Your Own Valentines

Kids love to exchange valentines on Valentine's Day. Valentines are going up in price just like everything else. How about a green, creative, money saving option? Kids love to exchange valentines on Valentine's Day. Valentines are going up in price just like everything else. How about a green, creative, money saving option? Free printable valentines for school exchanges? Here are many to choose from. Free Printable Valentines Day Greeting Cards

Free Printable Coloring Page Thanksgiving Greeting Cards

 Thanksgiving is a great holiday for sending greeting cards. It's a season to let people know you appreciate them. Here are free printable color your own Thanksgiving greeting cards. Children can enjoying coloring and giving to friends and loved ones. Free Printable Thanksgiving Coloring Page Greeting Cards

Free Printable Greeting Cards and Party Invitations for Children

Free Printable Party Invitations and All Occasion Greeting Cards for Kids
Making and sending greeting cards has been a time-honored tradition in my classroom and homeschool. We made Get Well Soon, birthday, holiday cards. We made our own invitations, too. Here are free printable invites and greeting cards. Read More