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!

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!

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!

Snow includes two anchor books, a sequencing activity, and a phonics activity using some of the “ow” words from the Snow story. There are also cloze activities in some formats. The Snow story uses photos and movies to illustrate a perpetual winter problem for those of us who live in cold areas: What can we do with all this snow? Making A Snowman answers that question! Bonus: All 7 photos used in Snow and 14 more, plus clip art!

Wrapping A Gift is an interactive make-it-yourself activity. Readers choose the wrapping paper and ribbons to wrap a virtual gift package. On the final page their gift design becomes part of a printable card. Bonus: Clip art collection and printable gift tags!

Just in time for Halloween, this fun activity lets students create digital jack-o’-lanterns. In all, nine different faces are possible. The artwork is very three dimensional and realistic. Once a jack-o’-lantern is finished, students add a lighted candle, and finally gets to see what their creation will look like on Halloween night. Bonuses: Zip files of both the art and creepy sounds!

Remember those wonderful Lincoln logs we played with? Here’s a chance to build a virtual log cabin. When it’s finished, students use the magic of their imaginations to go inside and see the furnishings of a real cabin. There’s a surprise when they look out the window and see a bear looking in! Bonus: Log Cabin Clip Art collection to download!

Ten Trucks uses photos and a “red fish, blue fish” style vocabulary to engage beginning readers and help them work with adjectives. There are all kinds of truck photos, ending with a very cool custom painted truck. Students use errorless and guided writing activities to work with adjectives. In the highest level writing activity, My Cool Trucks, students custom-paint their own cool truck images and write about them. Bonus: Lots of truck photos and clip art to download!