CAYAS Links

CAYAS LINKS

Mailing Lists

CHILD_LIT (A mailing list primarily for the discussion of children's literature theory and criticism)
LM_NET (A mailing list primarily for School Library Media Specialists)
PUBYAC (A mailing list primarily for Youth Services Public Librarians

Organizations

ALA (The American Library Association) and interest groups ALSC and YALSA
WLA (The Washington Library Association)
WLMA (The Washington Library Media Association)

Children's Literature

The Children's Literature Web Guide

Great Sites for Children and Young Adults

Genres

Cultures

Age Appropriate

Multimedia

Craft Links

Family Crafts by Theme - Find a large selection of free craft projects sorted by theme. Make crafts related to everything from animals to transportation. Perfect to help you plan a special birthday party or add a creative touch to your lesson plans.
ABC Teach - This is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and teachers. Free Printables: 5000+ free printable pages and worksheets. Subscription required for many of the resources, however much of it is free to visitors.
Activites for Kids - ActivitiesForKids.com provides information regarding family activities, childcare, private schools, after school activities, and products and services for your children, all within your state or area code.
A to Z Kidstuff - Offers free lessons and activities for Toddlers, Pre-Schoolers, and School-Age children. This sight also includes links to reviews of Children's music, movies, and books.
Childfun - Provides craft ideas, printable coloring pages, and other activities parents can do with young children.
Coloringbookfun - a division of childfun.com ColoringBookFun is still the largest free coloring page site on the internet. We will never charge our users a fee to access this site.
Coloring Pages - Free Printable Coloring Pages - You can choose from hundreds of printable coloring pages for kids! Disney coloring pages like Winnie the Pooh and other characters like Scooby Doo are favorites. We also have a large selection of Bible and Christian pages, and of course, many, many holiday pages!
Crayola.com - Find rich, hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time.
DLTK - DLTK's Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun, printable children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some of our children's favorite cartoon characters.
Enchanted Learning - Produces children's educational web sites which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. Full of craft ideas, coloring pages, and other reproducibles.
Family Fun - Great ideas. Practical advice. Fun stuff to do. Lots of activities and crafts sorted by theme or age group.
First School - First-School features free fun preschool lesson plans, educational early childhood activities, printable crafts, worksheets, calendar of events and other resources for children of preschool age. The preschool crafts, lesson plans and activities are appropriate and adaptable for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten level (ages 2 to 6).
Ivy Joy - I have coloring books, lots of links, and a coloring sheet search engine.

Programming

Boy Scout Song Book - Words to literally 100's of songs.
Carol Hurst - This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
EZ Library Programs - The EZ Library Program Directory was created by the Mid-Hudson Library System to help librarians find easy, inexpensive program ideas covering a wide range of topics, activities, costs and ages--from infants to adults.
Step by Step - Whether you are a daycare provider, teacher, homeschooler, and/or mom you will find something here that will help you. Over 200 themed program ideas for preschool age children.
Bayviews - This organization is an association of people interested in library work with children and young adults. Its purpose shall be to strengthen and maintain work with youth in the libraries of Northern and Central California according to the highest standards of professional librarianship.
Birthday Party ideas - The World's Largest Collection of Birthday Party Ideas. There are over 8,000 different birthday party ideas submitted by parents from around the world all available for you to read, search and incorporate into your birthday celebration -- and all for free! BirthdayPartyIdeas.com is the premier online birthday party ideas site for millions of parents since 1999.
We Can Teach - With hundreds of lesson plans, thousands of links, and tons of other resources, we hope you find something useful to help you out. For those of you who need songs and poems or lesson ideas we are here.
CML Kids - A great resource for booklists for different age groups and themed storytime ideas with downloadable craft.
Everything Preschool - This site contains over 30,000 early childhood education ideas separated into over 100 themes, 26 Alphabet Idea Sections, & Lesson Plans.
Harris County PL - Includes craft ideas, storytimes, hand rhymes and more.
Hummingbirded - A resource site for early childhood-kindergarten educators.
Kididdles - A great site for children's song lyrics. You can even listen to the music for some.
Perpetual Preschool - Over 12,000 free ideas for parents and educators of young children. Includes ideas for daily themes, seasonal themes and holiday themes.
Preschool Education - Preschool Education has many ideas to help with your Winter time theme planning.
Preschool Rainbow - Preschool education activities and early childhood education lesson plans that give preschool children choices. Ideas for pre-k and kindergarten teachers that enrich classroom curriculum are arranged by theme. Plus easy at home fun learning games. There's even a search function and an opportunity to submit your own ideas.
Scouting Bear - A whole list of audience participation stories sponsored by the Scouts.
Songs for Teaching - The definitive source for educational music. This site contains thousands of pages for you to peruse- many with lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions. Downloadable for a fee.
Sunnie Bunniezz - Promotes Storytelling; an Educational Kid Safe Site on the Internet. This site is for adults and kids alike. There are links to poetry, puppetry, clowning, magic, storytelling, puzzles, and activities.
Sur La Lune - by Heidi Anne Heiner. SurLaLane Storytime happens in a real place, once a week during the school year for a large group of friends and acquaintances. Family matters have prevented me from holding a regular job since leaving my position as a children's librarian in California several years ago. The closets in my house and brain are filled with storytime materials. I also have a notebook I compiled of themes while working in California. Instead of letting all of these resources wither away, I've decided to share it on the web in conjunction with my long-lived fairy tales site.
Teachers and Families - A websource developed by teachers for students and their parents. The site offers free learning resources for pre-K through high school students. Created by the Network for Instructional TV, Inc., a not for profit learning and technologies corporation established in 1979 and appeared on the web in 1998. You may also subscribe to an expanded library of preschool activities and worksheets and other resources for K-12 students.
Virtual Vine - A resource for Early Childhood teachers, preschool through second grade. It's a site filled with ideas and activities to make teaching and learning FUN through themes and units, displays, literacy and math activities.
OSPI Grade Level Resources - An online grade specific resource for home schooling.

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