Los pollitos is a printable story and coloring book of a traditional children’s song. In addition to the story-coloring pages, it has figures for stick puppets, picture cards for games and a teacher and parent guide with ideas for using the material and additional activities. The song is available to download from Music with Sara, and there is a YouTube video of the song with the illustrations. I had a wonderful time collaborating with illustrator [...]
These free Spanish coloring pages from Song School Spanish include lots of basic vocabulary. The pictures are big, clear and labeled in Spanish. There are pictures for many common nouns related to topics like food, animals, weather and the parts of the body. There are also sheets for numbers and colors. In addition to common nouns, there are Spanish coloring sheets for the question words, emotions and most common verbs forms, like tengo, tienes, quiero [...]
The days are getting longer and warmer, and I have started to talk about spring in my classes. Here are a few helpful resources if you are thinking about the changing season too. La asociación mundial de educadores infantiles has a set of ten coloring pages of different flowers. These are common flowers and coloring them is a great way to brighten a room, learn vocabulary and learn to identify flowers. There is also a [...]
This set of Spanish St Patrick’s Day materials and activities is from the wonderful website Nourish Interactive. The free printable Spanish materials include coloring pages, word search puzzles, scrambled word puzzles, bookmarks, worksheets of words to alphabetize and lunchbox notes. All of these activities teach Spanish food vocabulary if you talk about them with kids learning Spanish, and of course they teach healthy eating habits! You can find all of these activities and others here: [...]
Manitas is a magazine for kids published by the newspaper Prensa Libre of Guatemala. They have a fun set of activities and cards for Dia del amor y la amistad or Valentine’s Day. There are several things I like about using this page with Spanish language learners, both in the instructions and the activities: – The page uses some of the different names for Valentine’s Day in Spanish: Día de cariño, Día del amor y [...]
These printable coloring sheets with words in Spanish reinforce vocabulary for parts of the house and common household objects. The four pictures are from Childtopia. Three of the sheets have a list of Spanish words for objects that children find and color in the picture. One of the sheets has a list of words and also spaces to label the objects in the picture. The words are not used in sentences, so you will want [...]