DLTK's Educational Activities for Kids
Animated Literacy Resources

Animated-Literacy is a program created by Jim Stone to help children learn reading and writing with the use of Alphabet Stories, Songs, Gestures and Coloring Pages.  It's a very cute integrated program (my oldest daughter studied it in Grade 1 and seemed to enjoy it).   For more specific information on the program visit the Animated-Literacy website.

The program is one you must purchase or get through your school, but one request I've received that I felt would be ok to meet was to tie existing craft, coloring, etc ideas found on the site into the Animated-Literacy program -- for example doing Camel crafts and coloring at home while your children are studying the "Crazy Camel" part of the program can help loosely tie at home fun with what the kids are doing in school.

Actress Annie  (short a sound)  --  (ants, apples, alligators, antelopes, acrobats, astronauts, abacus)

• alligator TP roll craft
• ant coloring page
• astronaut paper craft
• awesome apple paper craft  -- I'd change his name to "Alvin Apple" or other short a name

Baby Barnaby

Crazy Camel  (hard c sound) --  (cookies, candies, caramels, carrot cake, cotton candy, cashews)

• camel coloring pages
• camel egg carton craft

Daisy Dragon -- (dance, dine, dotted, diaper)

• dragon coloring pages
• dragon tp roll craft

Edgar Elf and Ellie Elephant (short e sound) -- (energetic, escaped, elbows, envelope)

• elephant coloring pages
• elephant paper craft
• elephant tp roll craft
• elf paper craft  (this is the easy leprechaun craft, but just call it an elf)

Farley Fox -- (fishing, fiddle)

• fish coloring and crafts - I think the "Gone Fishing" game would be especially fun
• fox coloring pages

The Ghosts and Griselda Green (hard g sound) -- (gliding ghosts, garden gate)

• ghost crafts - the footprint one is my favorite
• ghost riddle coloring page

Hippy Hippo -- (humming, harmonica, hop, harp)

• hippo coloring pages 
• hippo tp roll craft

Ichabod Ichthyosaurus  (short i sound) -- (itchy, inchworms)

• (inch) worm coloring pages

Ike's Night Bike Ride  (long i sound)

Jenny Jaguar -- (juggle, jars, jumps, jogs)

• jaguar tp roll craft -- it's actually a cheetah cub, but it'll pass for a jaguar here

Kimmy Kangaroo -- (kisses, kids, kudus, kicks, kittens)

• kangaroo coloring pages
• kangaroo heart paper craft
• kangaroo tp roll craft
• kitten coloring pages

Lizzy Lamb and Lonnie Lion -- (lemon leaves, laughed, licked, lips, lucky)

• lamb crafts and coloring 
• lion crafts and coloring 
• it would be fun to do the paper plate lion and the paper plate lamb for Lizzy and Lonnie

Mimi Mermaid -- (magic, mop, monsters, mice)

• mermaid coloring pages
• mermaid writing paper
• mice crafts and coloring pages
• monster coloring page

Nellie Newt -- (nuts, noodles, noon, night, naps)

Dr. Ollie Ostrich -- (otter, ox, octopus, omelets)

• ostrich, octopus and otter coloring pages
• octopus paper craft
• octopus tp roll craft

Polly Panda -- (painting, purple, pants, pizza, plates, porcupines)

• panda tp roll craft
• pansy purple color buddy

Quentin Quail -- (quarterback, quick)

• quail coloring page
• quarterback Q alphabuddy paper craft

Rhino Ralph and Rosie Raccoon -- (rodeo)

• raccoon action song
• raccoon coloring pages
• raccoon song
• raccoon tp roll craft 
• rhino coloring page

Sadie Seal -- (surfing, seas, swimming)

• seal coloring pages

Timmy Tiger

• tiger crafts and coloring pages  (there's a cute paper bag puppet that would be a good choice)

Uncle Upton -- (umbrella, umpire)

• Uncle U alphabuddy craft

Victor Vampire -- (violin, van)

• vampire craft
• vampire riddle coloring page
• violin coloring page
• van coloring page

Winkie Walrus -- (well, worm, whiskers)

• walrus and worm coloring pages

Max the Ox and Felix Fox

• fox coloring pages

Yakety Yak -- (yo yo's)

• yak coloring page
• yak alphabet tracer page
• yo yo coloring page

Zackary and Zena Zebra -- (zoo, zig-zag)

• zebra tp roll craft
• zebra coloring pages

Woody Woodchuck -- (cookies)

• woodchuck (groundhog) tp roll craft
• cookie recipes

The Thick Thorny Thing

Lou Lou the Moose and her Loose Tooth -- (flute)

• moose coloring pages
• moose tp roll craft
• happy tooth paper craft

Arnie Aardvark

Chauncy Chipmunk

Leaping Eve

Grouchy Owl and Brown Mouse

• mouse crafts and coloring pages
• owl crafts and coloring pages

A Hare Named Abe

• hare (rabbit) crafts and coloring pages

Old Joe Crow

• crow coloring page

Sheriff Shad and his shaggy sheep

• sheep (lamb) crafts and coloring

Whirling Irving

Orty Orsen

Oiling Joy's Noisy Toy

The White Whistling Whale

• whale coloring pages

June's Pet Mule

• mule (donkey) tp roll craft

Ping Pong