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Most teachers are frequently looking for classroom materials that are inexpensive. If you're interested in making some of your own materials, most likely you still don't want to spend a lot of money on them. Paint chip crafts are a great option. Not only are paint chips readily available but many teachers have already come up with great ideas for them. Most of the academic ideas here are for elementary grades, but they can be adapted for older students.

self-setting rubber

This site is dedicated to providing teachers and homeschoolers with fun, educational games for free. If you'd like to learn more about how to use file folder games in your classroom, please check out our tutorials section.

These two-page print-outs make word wheels; each one consists of a base page together with a wheel that spins around (they are connected by a metal brad). When you spin the wheel, words are formed or displayed. Heavy paper (like cardstock) makes better wheels.

The basic idea for place value cups is to use Styrofoam cups and labels them with numbers.

This Blog is written by a Mom about the inventions and ideas she uses to live, love, and have fun with her son. Each entry demonstrates creativity and joy in games, toys, learning, and how to make each day special for the whole family. Worth returning to often for inspiration and ideas. Indexed for handy searching.

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Crayons in a glue stick container.

"Notebooking Central booklets complement Dinah Zike's Notebook Foldables for Spirals, Binders, and Composition Books book and companion CD, an essential guide for notebooking. Each Notebooking Central booklet contains content-specific Notebook Foldables with graphics to aid comprehension and memory, front tabs that elicit student responses on the back of tabs, underneath tabs, and on the notebook page surrounding tabs, and ideas for the use of Notebook Foldables within different content areas."