Wouldn’t it be great if you could make gingerbread houses without all the messy clean-up? Well, you can with the Gingerbread House activity, in either the Annie’s Books Online or the IntelliTools Classroom Suite® versions. Bonus: Gingerbread house clip art collection!

This IntelliTools Classroom Suite® activity has a toolbar with buttons containing four new frame animations to use in creating IntelliMation® in your activities. Meet Gary, Emily, Todd, and Rita, four detailed walking kids who are eager see what adventures and learning experiences you can design for them! Bonus: Tips on how to get the most out of any frame animation in Classroom Suite!

I’ve found an excellent source of free photos and clip art. The free images from FreeDigitalPhotos.net are of high quality and fairly small (400 x 260, for example), ideal for including in activities. The site specifically states that the images may be used for educational work and included in software.

For the easiest tree decorating experience of your life, try the Holiday Tree activity. I’ve created twenty-one beautiful ornaments to put on your virtual tree. It only takes four steps at most to complete a tree, and you don’t even need a step stool! Bonus: Holiday Tree clip art!

Mayan Jungle Adventure gives readers a chance to determine the outcome by the choices they make. Students get lots of reading practice with this activity, while having exciting encounters with the various perils of the jungle. The complete activity set also includes a supporting book, writing activities and a comprehension test, plus extra materials for teachers. Bonus: Photos, clip art, and printable puzzles!

Is your class doing a unit on Greek mythology? Here’s a web site with a host of games and other resources to make learning about the Greek gods easy and fun! Bonus: A link to another page about the Roman game Rota. Learn the rules and how to play this simple game!

Have you ever been building an activity, and needed a good animal photo? Browse the collection of photos Trisha Shears has made available, and you’ll almost certainly find what you need!.

I’m always on the lookout for web sites that offer free educational resources, so I was delighted to find a web site that enables you to make a scale model pyramid. If you are doing a project on Egypt, you’ll love this site! It has a printable full-color template and step-by-step instructions to assemble the four sheets into a remarkably realistic small pyramid. Bonus: Two printable sheets of stone patterns to make more models!

Just because everything is blooming, I decided to upload a selection of flower photos. You can print these out in a fairly large size to hang up in a classroom. However, if you plan to use them in an activity or on a web page, you will need to re-size them in a graphics application.

I’m always on the lookout for new ways to use digital photos. Recently I’ve been experimenting with making them into jigsaw puzzles. The results are many different puzzle making options, including templates in IntelliTools Classroom Suite and HyperStudio 5 formats, PDF Puzzle Patterns for off computer puzzles, and a links to pages where you can make online puzzles, all using your photos.