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)
Daisy Dragon -- (dance, dine, dotted, diaper)
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)
Ichabod Ichthyosaurus (short i sound) -- (itchy, inchworms)
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)
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)
Nellie Newt -- (nuts, noodles, noon, night, naps)
Dr. Ollie Ostrich -- (otter, ox, octopus, omelets)
Polly Panda -- (painting, purple, pants, pizza, plates, porcupines)
Quentin Quail -- (quarterback, quick)
Rhino Ralph and Rosie Raccoon -- (rodeo)
Sadie Seal -- (surfing, seas, swimming)
Timmy Tiger
- tiger crafts and coloring pages (there's a cute paper bag puppet that would be a good choice)
Uncle Upton -- (umbrella, umpire)
Victor Vampire -- (violin, van)
Winkie Walrus -- (well, worm, whiskers)
Max the Ox and Felix Fox
Yakety Yak -- (yo yo's)
Zackary and Zena Zebra -- (zoo, zig-zag)
Woody Woodchuck -- (cookies)
The Thick Thorny Thing
Lou Lou the Moose and her Loose Tooth -- (flute)
Arnie Aardvark
Chauncy Chipmunk
Leaping Eve
Grouchy Owl and Brown Mouse
A Hare Named Abe
Old Joe Crow
Sheriff Shad and his shaggy sheep
Whirling Irving
Orty Orsen
Oiling Joy's Noisy Toy
The White Whistling Whale
June's Pet Mule
Ping Pong