Author - Valerie Mcclintick

St. Patrick’s Day Printables

St. Patrick's Day is on March 17th and I've added some new resources on our websites to help you teach this Holiday! This set of bible printables features the verse from Matthew 6:20, "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven." This is a great verse around St. Patrick's day...

Aquarium Notebooking Pages

Today I wanted to THANK all of our Crafty Classroom subscribers by offering a special freebie! This is a HUGE set of Ocean Animal Notebooking PagesOver 30 different creatures, each with their own facts sheet and coloring page. About this set:This set includes printable notebooking pages and coloring pages for different animals...

Printable Valentines

Last week I whipped up these cute little Valentine's and just had to share them! Color Your Own Printable Valentine1 Color Your Own Printable Valentine2 They are so small and detailed that your older girls will love them too! I'd recommend printing on cardstock, using sharp colored pencils, then cutting them out with funky scissors and then...

New Bible Craft Printables

I've been spending some serious time working and reworking our Bible Crafts section to make it easier to find just what you're looking for! You can now search our bible crafts by Old Testament, New Testament and Holiday themes. I've also redesigned quite few of our crafts making...

Valentine’s Day Printables

Valentine's day is coming! It's a fantastic time to share God's love with your kiddos, and I've just compiled all of our resources in an easy to find post! Here is a link to a video of our Jesus Loves Me Lapbook Most of the resources we used are found on our websites below. Valentines...

Gifts Kids Can Make….

Okay, so I don't know about you, but finding gifts that children can make can sometimes be troublesome. Especially, when you wait until a week before Christmas to get started. Ahem. Anyway, if you have a child who is interested in making gifts for family members, next week is a great time to...

Christmas Printables

As you plan your Christmas lessons this year, we've got some great printables to help you out! New this year we've added a set of printable Bible Verse Ornaments, that would make great take home projects for children. And here are some links to our most popular printables: Christmas Coloring Pages Luke 2:11 Bible Verse Printables Psalm...

Veteran’s Day Printables

Do you homeschool through the holidays? We usually continue class as usual for most of the Monday holidays, but we do try to incorporate so holiday themed activities for that day. I just can't DO a four day week. I've tried in the past, and a four day week quickly turns into a three...

Thanksgiving Bible Printables

I have added a few NEW Thanksgiving resources this year, just in time to print and have ready for your little ones next month. These resources would all be great for a notebooking or lapbooking project, or to enhance your Thanksgiving bible lessons. If you find these useful, please share and help us spread the...

Patriotic Printables & Resources

Don't you love teaching during an election year? To be honest this is actually only my second election as a homeschooler. But this year I'm really excited because this is the first year that I'll have TWO students that actually understand and grasp what I'm teaching. So, I decided that now would be a...

Writing a Biography Printables

With all the back to school mayhem going on at our house, I haven't had much time to tackle my "to-do" list. One thing I really wanted to work on was posting more of our Writing Guides. (I get emails about these all the time) So I did scramble an extra evening to add...

What’s That Bug? Notebooking Printables

So if you've been following us on Facebook this Summer, you've been treated to a plethora of animal and bug photos. We've been visited by many NEW and interesting creatures this Summer, and most of them we've needed help in identifying. As handy as the internet it, sometimes it's hard to look...

Our Homeschool Classroom

It's week 2 of the Not-Back-to-School Blog Hop, and that means Homeschool Classroom photos! Yippy! I love going through all the different posts for new ideas, but if I'm not careful sometimes I get Homeschool Classroom envy. (it's a real disease) For me, it's easy to go from inspired to discouraged if my ideas don't pan out...

The Homeschool Budget

Do you have a homeschool budget? Do you know what's going out and what's coming in? Yeah. Me neither. And between all the Back-to-school supplies, Used-Curriculum sales and crazed Online ordering, I am at a loss for what I actually spent on our Homeschool this year. So in an effort to regain my sanity, and in classic,...

How to Bind your Notebooks…

This week I made a big purchase. There has been something on my homeschool "wishlist" for quite some time. I've spent the last year rationalizing away the cost. Quietly planning all the different projects that I would use it for. Promising myself that I would get my monies worth. Do you know what it is...

Fourth of July Bible Printables

Next week is Independence Day! I can't believe it is here again already. It seems like it catches me by surprise every year. Here are some printable resources you can use with your kiddos next week: Or maybe Pin for next year :) Preschool Bible Printables on Christian Preschool Printables Includes: God Bless America Coloring...

Scripture Art: Trees

This week we finished up our third scripture art project! I thought I would take a second to share a bit behind the scenes. These projects usually take two 30minute lessons. The first day for the artwork, and the second day for the scripture. Even though I'm kinda flying by the seat of...

Dinosaur Report Printables

Over the next few weeks my two older children will be preparing a research report on Dinosaurs! Each kiddo will be choosing a dinosaur to research, preparing a written report, presenting an oral speech, and creating a visual presentation. I wish I could take credit for this fun idea, but actually this is an assignment...

Scripture Art: Seasons

Since our last "Scripture Art" project was such a huge success, I decided that we would try another~ We continued to work with watercolor (This is the set that we are using) And we kept the lesson really really simple, with LOTS of table talk a little bit of technical instruction. We folded our...

Love Bible Verses for Children

Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to share God’s love with children! We’ve got some fantastic Preschool resources for you to use this year, and now we’ve got a few activities for your older kiddos as well. Valentine’s Day Bible Activity Pack This Valentine’s Day teach children the TRUE meaning of the word LOVE! This Bible-based,...