Everyone Likes Free Stuff
Living on a limited budget AND finding funds for curriculum can sometimes be a struggle. There isn't always much left for extras. But that doesn't mean your children have to miss out. The internet is overflowing with free resources, available at the click of a mouse. Let me show you where to look!
Yahoo Groups
Yahoo Groups can be a great source of information and encouragment. They can also be a great source for freebies. Group members are very good about passing on information about deals they've come across and the group files sections often contain worksheets and things which have been made and contributed by generous individuals.
- Lilliput Station
- This is a collection of projects, resources, notebook pages, and websites I have gathered or created to use in enriching my children's home education. There is a lot of notebooking, lapbooking, crafts and activities oriented stuff because our homeschool is very hands on.
- Homeschool Form Share
- Most of us have created homeschool forms for one thing or another that have worked well for us. You are welcome to add your forms to the file section as a help to other homeschoolers. Feel free to post anything relating to homeschooling. We can all benefit from one another in so many ways. Share your planning ideas, curriculum, schedules, and teaching styles (notebooking, lapbooking, unit studies, classical, CM, etc.).
- Notebooking Nook
- Are you a notebooking veteran or are you interested in learning more about notebooking your lessons? If so, then this is the group for you. Here you will be able to share your ideas, plans, and resources with other homeschoolers. You will also learn the ins and outs of notebooking. No more filling in the blanks of a workbook... open your child's imagination to the wonderful world of notebooking!
- Notebooking
- This group is for homeschoolers with an interest in notebooking. Whether you have been notebooking for years (and have binders in every room of your house!), or are just interested in starting, this is the place for you. Ask questions, share resources, pass along favorite tips and ideas, and of course, let us know what notebooks you are working on!
- Homeschool Treasure Trove
- Homeschool Forms, Files, Photos, and Fabulous Finds.
- The Printable Preschool
- This group is for the group owner to share her preschool - early primary worksheets. So far there are over 270 files for download. Please only use them for your own personal classes/students.
Squidoo
Since you are here, I'll assume that you already know what a great resource Squidoo lenses can be. Here are several Squidoo groups which are dedicated to homeschooling and educational topics. Many of them are run by homeschoolers like yourself.-
Notebooks and Lapbooks Headquarters
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This group is for all things related to notebooking, lapbooking, or any combination of the two. If you aren't sure what "notebooking" or "lapbooking" are, please visit some of the lenses below to learn more about these great m...
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Unit Studies Headquarters
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Happy at Home Headquarters
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Welcome to HAPPY AT HOME!! Happy at Home is a place for Christian homeschoolers to share ideas and materials so we can all continue to stay "happy at home". We'll feature appropriate curriculli, field trip ideas, craft/art ideas, and ways to stay m...
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Charlotte Mason Homeschooling Headquarters
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Welcome to Charlotte Mason Homeschooling! This group features lenses that help homeschoolers implement Charlotte Mason's philosophy in all areas including narration, living books, poetry, Shakespeare, timelines, living math, composer study, art...
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The Homeschooling Group Headquarters
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THE HOMESCHOOLING GROUP We're looking for lenses about homeschooling and unschooling! If you have a curriculum review, a "how we did it" story, a great method for teaching a particular subject, or even a philosophical WHY to homeschool - add it here!...
Notebooking Sites
There are numerous sites with free notebooking pages for you to print. Even some of the commercial sites have a freebie section.
- Highland Heritage Home School
- Many items that hopefully will prove helpful to your own classroom - be it either in a school or at home.
- Notebooking Nook
- All forms and notebooking pages here at Notebooking Nook are copyrighted. You may use them within your family, co-op or classroom. No portion of these pages may be used for commercial gain.
- Notebooking Pages.com
- Please feel free to use any of the free homeschooling resources available here for your homeschool or classroom. There is an assortment of free notebooking pages, free lined paper, free homeschooling charts and printables.
- Homeschooling With Index Cards
- Lots of free notebooking pages
- Our Los Banos Homeschool
- A free American history curriculum, downloads, worksheets and other printables.
- Notebook Pages for Apologia Science
- These are blank templates with space for your child to write and illustrate information they learn while working through the course.
- A Joyful Keeper of The Home
- Free back to school Notebook Pages
- Homeschool Launch
- This site was created to promote open information sharing among homeschool parents. There have been 72536 downloads of 365 files, uploaded by 505 members.
- The Homeschool Shop
- Free monthly download from Westvon Publishing, home of original homeschooling products such as History Scribe, Happy Scribe Copybooks, Rocks and Minerals Kits for Kids and the Master Planner.
- Homeschool Notebooking
- New FREE Notebooking pages each and every month.
- NotebookingPrintables
- Holidays, Bible, gardening and birding, Civil War, and Fall pages
Lapbooking Sites
Love lapbooks but hate to spend money on them? Here are some sites where you can find enough free lapbooks to keep your child busy until graduation.
- Preschool Sunday School Bible Lapbooks
- Make fun lapbooks about popular Bible stories. We provide you with the templates, you supply the kids!
- Homeschool Share
- Homeschool Share (HSS) is a on-line cooperative effort of several homeschooling moms to provide free but quality literature-based unit studies and resources. They have a wonderful collection of free lapbooks
- Homeschool Helper
- Homeschool Helper has a collection of free homeschooling unit studies and lapbooks, free worksheets and other homeschooling helps.
- Hands of a Child
- Hands of a Child offers a free biannual unit. These are great lapbooks, with full study guides included.
- Lapbook Lessons
- This website is full of Free Lapbooking Resources! You'll find Bible Lapbooks, Christian Character Lapbooks, Little House Lapbooks, Insect Lapbooks, Alphabet Lapbooks and more! Great for Homechooling!
- A Journey Through Learning
- Freebie lapbook to download. Not sure how often it changes.
- Albright-News Blog
- Several free lapbooks to download plus links to other freebies.
- Tot-Books By Carisa
- A Tot-Book is simply a small lapbook for a tot! There are 12 free Tot-Books here and a link to two more.
- Lapbooks By Carisa
- Nine free lapbooks plus more on her blog
- Simply Lapbooks
- This is a group where the files shown on the Simply Lapbooks blog can be downloaded.
Other Sites With Printables
- SparkleBox
- 1000s of FREE teaching resources for Foundation Stage and Early Years practitioners. Add extra spark to your classroom!
- ZiggityZoom
- Best kids website for preschool fun with free printables. Kid-friendly. Animals, characters, dragons, dinosaurs, princess, pirate. Halloween and Christmas. Arts and crafts and Educational projects and activities for young kids.
- SchoolExpress.com
- Numerous FREE items including 11,000+ worksheets, Thematic Units and Activity Fun eWorkbooks.
- NEELB
- Religious Education Worksheets
- Teaching and Learning Company
- There are a total of 81 MB of free teacher resources available. These lessons are really nice.
- Teacher Created Resources
- Find a wide selection of free teacher resources, including over 400 free lessons, activities, brain teasers, teaching tips & more for preschool, elementary, and middle school teachers.
- Carl's Corner
- lots of great free printables
- LearningPage.com
- Lesson plans and worksheets. Great printables!
- DonnaYoung.org
- Free printable resources, tips, lesson plans, and book reviews for homeschool, home, and classrooms.
Complete Curriculums , Lesson Plans, and Free Online Textbooks
Here's one of the best homeschooling deal on the internet- sites where you can find complete curriculums available for just the cost of paper and printer ink.
- The Puritans Homeschool Curriculum
- A free home school curriculum consistent with the historic reformed Biblical faith as it is summarized in the original Westminster Standards and the Three Forms of Unity.
- An Old-Fashioned Education
- You'll find here a directory of free homeschool curricula, literature and text books organized for the use of homeschooling families.
- Ambleside Online
- The Ambleside Online curriculum is a free homeschooling curriculum designed to be a modern equivalent to the curriculum that Charlotte Mason (CM) used in her own PNEU schools.
- SAS® Curriculum Pathways®
- SAS® Curriculum Pathways® provides innovative, web-based resources in the core disciplines, for grades 8-14. Topics are mapped to state and national standards.
- Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
- free math curriculum
- Teaching With God's Heart for the World
- This curriculum presents a "whirlwind tour" of God's enduring passion for missions, all-the-way-through-history and all-across-the-globe. Using weekly unit-studies, this curriculum is created to be used over a one-year school year, although it can be easily adapted to be used throughout two years. It can be used as a core curriculum guide (for elementary children), or as a supplement to another curriculum. It is written especially for elementary grade levels, but it can also be used for the whole family to study missions together.
- ThisNation.com-American Government & Politics Online
- American government & politics portal. Free online textbook, documents library and more..
- The KISS Grammar Site
- Free grammar workbooks
Free Audio Resources
- Storynory Educational Stories
- Greek Myths, Robin Hood, Saints' Holidays, and more. You can also find many recordings of great literature and geographic tales on this site. My children find the voice of the woman who reads these a bit annoying, but I enjoy them.
- KidsKnowIt Educational Songs
- These songs are not downloadable, but you can listen to them all free on the site. There are some really catchy songs for teaching facts about various topics. My kids had a lot of fun with Yo Mo Concerto.
- Free Kids Music
- Free and legal MP3 music download for kids! You have to search through to find the educational songs, but there are a lot that are just fun too.
- Singing Science Records
- A six-LP set of science-themed folk songs converted to MP3's available for free download. Some evolutionary content.
- LibriVox
- LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
- Kiddie Records Weekly
- Kiddie Records Weekly is a project devoted to making recordings from the golden age of children's records available to today's generation of online listeners.
- Lit to Go: MP3 Stories and Poems
- Lit2Go is an online treasury of children's literature in audiobook format that can be played on any computer or MP3 player. Each passage is aligned with the Sunshine State Standards and includes reading strategies and other information to support classroom use.
- Free Old Time Radio Downloads
- Free access to OTR - Old Time Radio Shows - in mp3 audio format
- Children's Records: Children's Vinyl Record Series
- There were a number of children's record series (vinyl records) sold in the US during the 1950's and 1960's. Among them were Tale Spinners for Children, Golden Records, Mercury Storyteller, Pathways of Sound, Telegeneral Let's Pretend and Riverside Wonderland. Many records available here as zipped MP3 files.
Free Online Books
- The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project
- The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project publishes online editions of classic children's books from the golden age of children's literature (1880-1922). They offer these resources at no charge and grant permission to individuals to print copies for personal and educational uses.
- G. A. Henty Books
- Read on the website, or download.
- Scott Foresman Reading
- Online Grammar and Writing Handbooks
Preschool Curriculum
There's no need to spend piles of money just to keep your preschoolers busy. There are plenty of free resources and even complete preschool programs available online. Now your little ones can do school too!
- Brightly Beaming Resources
- This wonderful site is home to the Letter of the Week preschool curriculum and a lot more great stuff.
- Preschool Videos
- Looking for educational videos on YouTube isn't always worth the work involved. But on this site, the work has already been done for you. This is a collection of YouTube videos for preschoolers, some educational and some just for fun.
- BOOST Reading Helps
- Lots of great phonics material and readers which you may legally download/print without charge just for signing the guestbook.
- tls Books
- free worksheets
- First School
- Free preschool printable activities, crafts, lesson plans, themes and coloring pages for toddlers, preschoolers, Kindergarten, daycare, after-school.
- Kinderart Littles
- A wide variety of theme based ideas for preschoolers including: Alphabet/Pre-Writing, Color, Imagination/Play, Music, Numbers/Math, Oceans/Lakes, Recipes, Safety and Science/Nature.
- DLTK's Alphabuddies Alphabet Activities
- This is not an alphabetical listing of all the crafts on the site, but instead is a group of crafts designed to help teach children their ABC's.
- Christian Preschool Printables
- Free Bible Crafts and Bible Activities
- A Book A Week & A Rhyme A Week
- Activity Cards to go with children's literature (preschool- K age)
- ABC I Believe
- The first four lessons are free.
- Preschool Post
- A free year long Christian Preschool Curriculum, filled with lessons that teach key concepts and important bible stories. Perfect for Christian Homeschooling, Sunday School, Children's Ministry and more! Print everything you'll need, including crafts.
- MontessoriHome.com
- MontessoriHome.com offers free reading lessons online for beginning readers through a series of programmed reading lessons.
- Literacy Center Education Network
- The Literacy Center provides resources for preschool and kindergarten teachers including early learning and educational material for preschool and kindergarten age children. The ultimate resource for teachers and educators.
Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Freebies
These are free, but there's a catch. You have to get them while they are available. So, be sure to check back so you don't miss any of them.
- Homeschool Freebie of the Day
- You'll want to bookmark this site so you can visit it every day. They offer a lot of wonderful education freebies, but each is only available for one day.
- Fortunately For You Books
- Fortunately For You Books offers a free monthly freebie. They also have a dollar menu.
- Currclick
- Currclick offers a different "for sale" product for free each week. They also have a great selection of free products.
- The Old Schoolhouse Magazine's 2nd Annual Freebie Directory
- Over 40 homeschool freebies in this second annual Homeschool Freebie Directory from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. Have a great time browsing through the offers, claiming your freebies, and visiting the websites. Be prepared to pace yourselves. You've got a whole year to explore and discover the many wonderful resources and interesting products along the way.
- Dover Sampler
- Would you like some fun, FREE samples from Dover? Sign up for the Dover Sampler, and each week They'll send you an email with links to free content from books favored by customers like you. Download, print, enjoy!
- Dover Teacher's Sampler
- Sign up for the Dover Teacher's Sampler and each week They'll send you an email with fun and educational projects and activities -- puzzles and brain-teasers, science projects, stories and poems, nature illustrations, and much more.
- Dover Design Sampler
- Sign up for the Dover Design Sampler, and each week they'll send you an email with links to free clip art. You'll get samples from books featured in their Clip Art and Design on CD-ROM Shop - plus a wide variety of samples from their other books too.
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Need More Ideas?
What Are Your Favorite Homeschool Freebies?
Is there a site you couldn't do without? Please share it with the rest of us!
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- tandemonimom tandemonimom May 5, 2009 @ 8:42 pm
- This is a very helpful lens! Welcome to The Homeschooling Group!
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- LilliputStation LilliputStation Jan 18, 2009 @ 2:34 pm | in reply to Jimmie
- Thanks, Jimmie. I actually had the Teaching Learning Company listed already, but hadn't had a chance to look up the Dover links yet and forgot to add Donna Young. I think I may add a separate section for audio freebies when I get a chance.
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- Jimmie Jimmie Jan 14, 2009 @ 9:33 pm
- More free goodness:
http://www.donnayoung.org/index.htm
http://librivox.org/
http://www.teachinglearning.com/free-teaching-ideas.php
and Dover Samplers
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- SoniaC SoniaC Jan 14, 2009 @ 11:07 am
- Thanks for sharing this, Melissa!
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- LilliputStation LilliputStation Jan 13, 2009 @ 8:41 pm | in reply to Angieinky
- Thanks, Angie. Great links. I'd been to the Albright blog before, but forgot to include it in my list and I had no idea Journey Through Learning had a freebie.
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