Pastiche Family Portal - Learning and Play for Parents, Teachers, Kids
Ranked #912 in Family, #18,724 overall
Pastiche Family Portal is an award-winning family web site filled with hand-picked home and family lifestyle articles, seasonal crafts, recipes and personally screened quality family links for parents, teachers, day care providers and even special sections for KIDS!
This family-friendly web site started publishing free content more than 10 years ago, and today continues to offer something for every member of the family. At Pastiche Family Portal you'll find web site features about parenting, plus special content areas focused on babies, children and kids activities. The Family Portal is a "pay it forward" web site that's a genuine labor of love.
You'll find feature pages for all popular holidays with history of the day plus links to related clip art, coloring pages, crafts projects and printable paper crafts for children and adults. Holiday pages include links to in-depth articles with decorating ideas, tips for entertaining, recipes and selected, reviewed off-site resources.
We all like to eat delicious foods, save money and keep our families and pets healthy and safe. At Pastiche Family Portal you'll find delicious favorite recipes, tips for frugal living, genuine freebies, special shopping deals, family safety articles and timely features for every member of the family.
There's a special section for moms, dads, grandparents, kids - even a section for teens and tweens - with links to homework helpers, cool books, phone toys and online games, pre-screened personally by the publisher (that's ME!).
At Pastiche Family Portal you can play online games, solve a jigsaw puzzle, print seasonal gift coupons, stickers and lists for planning parties and get real deals on shopping and freebies.
This family-friendly web site started publishing free content more than 10 years ago, and today continues to offer something for every member of the family. At Pastiche Family Portal you'll find web site features about parenting, plus special content areas focused on babies, children and kids activities. The Family Portal is a "pay it forward" web site that's a genuine labor of love.
You'll find feature pages for all popular holidays with history of the day plus links to related clip art, coloring pages, crafts projects and printable paper crafts for children and adults. Holiday pages include links to in-depth articles with decorating ideas, tips for entertaining, recipes and selected, reviewed off-site resources.
We all like to eat delicious foods, save money and keep our families and pets healthy and safe. At Pastiche Family Portal you'll find delicious favorite recipes, tips for frugal living, genuine freebies, special shopping deals, family safety articles and timely features for every member of the family.
There's a special section for moms, dads, grandparents, kids - even a section for teens and tweens - with links to homework helpers, cool books, phone toys and online games, pre-screened personally by the publisher (that's ME!).
At Pastiche Family Portal you can play online games, solve a jigsaw puzzle, print seasonal gift coupons, stickers and lists for planning parties and get real deals on shopping and freebies.
Summer Features at the Family Portal Web Site
Summer Season Coloring Pages, Paper Crafts, Clip Art and Printables
You'lll find plenty of holiday paper crafts, clip art, printables and coloring pages with seasonal themes in the Free Printables section at Pastiche Family Portal.Summer time is a great time for kids to craft a luau lei necklace. Our free printable version let's you make a paper craft flower lei tha's already colored or you can print off an outline version that's ready for the kiddos to color, cut and assemble.
More Seasonal Features at Pastiche Family Portal
- Summer Crafts for Kids
- Printable Printable Summer Season Coloring Pages
- Patriotic Coloring Pages - US, Canada and Australia coloring sheets
- Free Family Downloads - clip art, ebooks, coloring books, posters, greeting cards, iron ons, stickers and lots more
- Patriotic Iron Ons US and Canada plus flags for Australia and Ireland
Book for the Month: Bringing Up Geeks
It takes a cool parent to raise a real kid
Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World
Amazon Price: $10.08 (as of 11/25/2009)
Hicks reclaims the childhood taunt "GEEK" by defining it as a "genuine, enthusiastic, empowered kid" - and makes the case for letting kids be kids, not miniature adults who grow up far too fast.
Bringing up Geek Kids
Redefine what "cool" means for a child
Highlights - Pastiche Family Portal
Hot Topics and Popular Content This Week
Holidays and Special Days - holiday traditions, recipes, crafts and downloads for families and teachersFood, nutrition and cooking - favorite family fecipes & gifts from the Kitchen
Family Clip Art Collections - free clip art for holidays, birthdays, scrapbooks and paper crafts with no registration
Paper Crafts and Printables - fun and ready to print craft sheets, bookmarks, stickers, masks, activity sheets, cards and decorations
Free Coloring Books and Posters - hundreds of coloring sheets organized by topics. Easy to print and color or use for crafts.
Seasonal Features - special seasonal articles, crafts, recipes and ideas for spring, summer, winter and fall
Letter from the Publisher - What's New - letter from the publisher with links to special articles, new content
Freebies - free offers and downloads for home or school, free baby stuff, coupons, free software, books, jewelry and vacations. No junk, no hassles, prescreened genuine freebies.
Paper Crafts to Print, Cut, Paste
Fun Free Coloring Books and Coloring Craft Printables
Pastiche Family Portal is famous for its large collection of free printable coloring sheets and coloring craft sheets.
Here's a sampler of coloring pages you can print or download at the above link:
Here's a sampler of coloring pages you can print or download at the above link:
Children's Features at Pastiche Family Portal
Arts, crafts and learning activity pages designed for kids
Pastiche Family Portal features special sections designed for children including a Kids Stuff page of activities, kid-safe links, kid-safe search engines, children's crafts, homework helpers and safety information.Kids Stuff - Crafts, Games, Links, Printables, Software, Puzzles, Coloring Pages, Crafts, Holidays and lots of Fun for Kids of all Ages. All links pre-screened!
Printables - Bookmarks, cutting pages, iron on transfers, masks, stickers, activity sheets, holiday crafts, greeting cards and paper toys.
Kids Links - links to educational sites with children's content about ecology and conservation, energy, nutrition, fire safety, United Nations, FBI, dictionary, encyclopedia, atlases and maps, math, almanacs and resources at the Internet Public Library.
Coloring - Print and color pages, posters, cards and coloring crafts
Paper Crafts - print, cut and paste crafts, gifts and games for preschool through middle school age children
On-Site Games - bubble wrap pop, memory match, word games, jigsaw puzzles, arcade games - paintball, aqua energizer, surf net kids Game of the Day and more.
Babies and Having a Baby
Pastiche Portal Family Crafts
Pastiche Craft Printable Blog
Every week you can find a seasonal family craft feature from Pastiche Family Portal highlighted on the Pastiche Craft Printables blog.
Here's a sample of recent features from the Pastiche Printables blog.
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Family Favorite Recipes
Articles and Features for Grownup Family Members
Special Sections for Mom, Dad, Grandparents
Moms - features for mothers, expectant moms, step moms, single moms, new moms, career moms and WAH moms, links to women's features.Dads - tips for dads, dads to be and new fathers, non-custodial dads, single dads, step fathers, links to men's features.
Grandparents - seniors or not, parenting issues relate to grandparents only with a slightly different perspective. Articles, tips and ideas for getting the most enjoyment from the grandparenting experience.
Seniors - content for family members who may not be grandparents but are older members of the family, this section features senior family member topics, issues, articles and links of interest to older family members.
Family Portal News Stories and Articles
We're Famous for our Family Friendly Free Content
Read site reviews, news and features pertaining to Pastiche Family Portal from mommy blogs, family web sites, teacher portals and parenting magazines on the Internet.- Pastiche Family Portal - Inside Scoop
- The inside scoop about Pastiche Family Portal, a site overview at 5 Minutes for Mom.
- Fran's Free Fantastic Family Projects
- Frans Fantastic Family Fun references to Pastiche Family Portal resources.
- Creamy Alfredo Sauce Recipe - Food and Drinks Articles
- This creamy chef-style sauce is definitely NOT for the weight watcher in your family. Its high fat content means a high cholesterol level so we don't eat this dish every night, but the sauce is so rich and yummy, you'll want to make it as a special treat for guests or special dinners
- Lisa Barker - Syndicated Columnist
- Syndicated humor column on motherhood, family, marriage, working, work at home.
- Winter Break Ideas to Keep Kids “Consumed”
- Shaping Youth - To continue our series on Shaping Youth's ways to “market mindfulness,” I'll first shine the spotlight on Ms. Freddi Zeiler, who at age 14, decided to make a difference in the world and ...
- Hansen Family Chronicles: Online Games - Relaxation Time!
- Family fun and games, links to puzzles and free online entertainment (family-friendly).
Online Games and Puzzles
Pastiche Family Portal Search Results
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Pastiche Family Portal is an Award-Winning Parenting web site featuring a wide selection of family-friendly articles and free features for families, teachers and caregivers. Pastiche Family Portal started as a college term project in web site development and marketing experiment in 1995. Today the site serves more than 44,000 pages per day to 19,000 unique visitors from all over the world.
Highlights from popular sections of Pastiche Family Portal:
Highlights from popular sections of Pastiche Family Portal:
- Family Hobbies, Games and Pastimes - Scrapbook, Genealogy, Photography, Drawing, Crafts, Puzzles and Journals
- Hobbies and crafts tips, resources and guides to collectibles, free hobby activities, and family entertainment for family enjoyment and relaxation for low or no cost.
- Family Wellness and Health - Biofeedback, Quit Smoking, Womens Health, Exercise and Fitness, Assistive Technology, Family Wellness and Nutrition
- Family resources for wellness and good health. News stories, alternative medicine and homeopathy stories, aromatherapy, book reviews and recipes, tips for weight loss and weight control, dieting, home safety and first aid information, assistive technology news and genetic issue articles.
- Family Friendly Resources - Recommended Parenting and Family Sites
- Family Friendly Links to Web Sites for Parents and Caregivers for Kids and families. Links for Moms, Kids, Dads, grandparents, caregivers, or child day care providers interested in family and parenting issues
- Family Boutique Shopping Mall-Baby Gifts, Crafts, Home Goods, Toys, Books
- Family shopping boutique for fashions, kids toys, collectibles,wahm, books, gifts, prints, posters and birthday presents.
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Family Portal Publisher
Lee Hansen (aka Pastiche) is the publisher of Pastiche Family Portal, a family-friendly web site with features for every member of the family - from babies to grandparents.
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I'm Pastiche, and I've been publishing Pastiche Family Portal since 1995.
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- Ultimate Top 100 Kids Sites
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- 10 fast, fun and easy spring activities to do with the kids. RaiseGoodKids features childhood education articles and ideas for creative parenting written by a stay at home mom who's also an experienced preschool special education teacher.
- Free From Me! - homeschooling printables
- Printable collections of shapes, number cards, sight words and other resources for homeschooling and study helps.
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This lens highlights only a few of the hundreds of pages filled with timely family features on Pastiche Family Portal. Visit the site and see why it's an award-winning family webzine that's been online more than 10 years.
This lens highlights only a few of the hundreds of pages filled with timely family features on Pastiche Family Portal. Visit the site and see why it's an award-winning family webzine that's been online more than 10 years.
- Summer Features at the Family Portal Web Site
- Book for the Month: Bringing Up Geeks
- Bringing up Geek Kids
- Highlights - Pastiche Family Portal
- Paper Crafts to Print, Cut, Paste
- Family Friendly Crafts, Coloring, Recipes, Shopping
- Fun Free Coloring Books and Coloring Craft Printables
- Children's Features at Pastiche Family Portal
- Babies and Having a Baby
- Pastiche Portal Family Crafts
- Family Favorite Recipes
- Articles and Features for Grownup Family Members
- Family Portal News Stories and Articles
- Online Games and Puzzles
- Pastiche Family Portal Search Results
- Visit Pastiche Family Portal
- Family Friendly Links - Parent Resources
- Featured Lenses and Family Links Directories
- Family Portal Publisher
- Welcome Friends - Leave a Comment or Just Say Hello
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- More Great Parenting and Family Resources
- Pastiche Publishes the Family Portal Web Site
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Pastiche Publishes the Family Portal Web Site
I've been building this free resource for more than 10 years
Pastiche Family Portal was one of my first web sites. It was a place for me to collect favorite articles, share my original clip art, paper crafts and coloring pages plus other home and garden goodies. It was also where I experimented with web development/design, affiliate marketing programs and SEO. I started Pastiche Family Portal in 1998 and it's a popular resource today with over 3,000 content pages, all free for home or classroom use without registration or sign up.
Visit Pastiche Family Portal, the Parenting and Home School Resource.
Visit Pastiche Family Portal, the Parenting and Home School Resource.
Lensmaster Pastiche has been a member since August 12 2007, has rated 1,380 lenses, favorited 509, and has created 124 lenses from scratch. Lee Hansen donates their royalties to Squidoo Charity Fund and Room to Read. This member's top-ranked page is "Clip Art Borders & Frames". See all my lenses
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