Printable Paper: The 10 Best Free Sites for Kids

The printer can be your best friend when it comes to finding activities and learning materials for kids. Print graph paper, music paper, colorful writing paper, paper dolls online, paper furniture and educational or just plain fun coloring sheets- all for free!

If your children are getting too old for simple coloring games and need more of a challenge why not encourage them to explore Art Journals with free, creativity-inspiring videos?

If these don't hit the spot, find out how to make the best paper airplane in the world or try fiendishly simple origami!

The Basics

Print graph paper, music paper, dot paper, penmanship paper, bowling scoresheets, writing paper and many more useful papers for free at site below.

http://www.printablepaper.net/

Kindergarten Activities

The site below has a lot of good learning activities for very young children. These include alphabet and number coloring printables, games, animals and religious picture coloring themes plus many, many more. Your little one would have grown up before working through all of these kindergarten activities!

http://www.first-school.ws/preschool/printable-activities/index.htm

parenting.leehansen.com

Great site with many printables for kids and craft ideas, The content is always changing.

http://parenting.leehansen.com/crafts/

Colorful Gift Wrapping for Kids

http://www.papergiftwrap.com/

Printable gift wrapping for many occasions.

Printable Cards and Writing Paper

Sweet printable writing paper and cards

http://www.dltk-cards.com/

Furniture to Print and Fold

Wonderfully detailed furnture to print and make into models.

http://members.tripod.com/~cwoolse/miniprintables/furniture.html

Paper Crafts

Many printable paper crafts including special, holiday-themed crafts. pranks and origami. One of the very best sites.

http://familyfun.go.com/printables/

London Poster with Printable Dolls to Paste

Americangirl's poster of London to print with paper dolls to print, cut out and paste.

http://www.americangirl.com/travel/london/poster.html

Dora the Explorer Coloring Pages

A lot of coloring and fun activities from Nick Jr here.

http://www.nickjr.com/parenting/activity_finder/printables/dora/index.jhtml

Victorian Doll

Visit the site. Click on Gayles paper doll- top left of page. Print, cut out, dress up!

http://www.skyglass.com/

Other Cutting out and Pasting Craft Activities

Make Your own Cut and Paste Illustrations

Find a book or magazine with some good pictures like animals, airplanes or dolls. Give the young artist some white paper (not too opaque).

Show the youngster how to trace the outlines of the pictures and then color them in.They can be cut out and pasted in a scrap book with special labels like "Elephant drinking blue water".

Accordion books can be made with bigger sheets of paper folded into the shape of an accordion. Illustrations can be bound into book form with colored ribbon or sewn together with a needle and thread

This will help with art and design skills and reading and writing. You might have a famous fashion designer or graphic artist in twenty years time!

Make Your own Cards for Birthdays, Christmas, Easter or any Occasion

Cut out pictures from magazines or, better still, old cards and glue onto construction paper. They can be colored, painted, decorated with sequins, old buttons, feathers. felt cut outs, dried flowers or leaves, broken jewellery or anything decorative and attractive. This is a way to make a rainy day go fast and will make whoever is lucky enough to receive it very happy.