Sesame Street
An assortment of pages featuring favorite Sesame Street characters with numbers, shapes, letters, health & safety and holiday themed pages along with an entire set of pages for each character. Click here to download Sesame Street activities

Maisy The Mouse
Four fun pictures of Maisy Mouse with her friends Cyril, Charlie and Tallulah. Click here to download Maisy Mouse coloring sheets

Thomas The Tank
Engine Coloring book pages and activity sheets with Thomas, Edward, James, Sir Topham Hat and the Island of Sodor. Click here to download Thomas and other Sodor activity sheets

Dora The Explorer
Color Dora, Boots, Diego and all of their friends with the coloring and activity pages found at the Nick Jr. website. There are many coloring pages, paper dolls and activity books featuring our favorite explorer – Dora!

LazyTown
If you’re like us, you’ve been searching for LazyTown DVDs, books and music! Stephanie and Sportacus are ready for to go in these coloring pages and stickers. Look for the new LazyTown DVD this fall! Click here for the latest Lazytown activity sheets

Backyardigans
Coloring pages for Pablo, Uniqua and Tyrone as well as some activity packs. This is one of our favorite shows and we all love the clever songs the Backyardigans sing – click here to print the official Backyardigans song sheets for “Yeti Stomp”, “A Pirate Says Arr” and more! Click here to print Backyardigans coloring pages and song sheets

Lilo & Stitch
A dozen coloring book pages with Lilo, Stitch and all of the intergalactic buddies, cousins and you can think of. Click here for Lilo & Stitch activity sheets

Jakers!
Print coloring pages for Piggley, Ferny, Dannan and Wiley the Sheep. Our favorite Irish pig and his friends have lots of other activities on this PBS Kids website. Find cute coloring sheets for favorite Jakers! characters here

Caillou
You can make an entire coloring book out of all of the coloring pages on the PBS Kids Caillou website! You’ll find pictures of Rosie. Mommy, Daddy and Caillou having fun together. Download the Caillou coloring book here

Jay Jay The Jet Plane
Coloring pages and activity sheets of Jay Jay, Snuffy, Tracy, Savannah and Herky are only some of the things you’ll find for your toddler on the Jay Jay website at PBS Kids. Click here for Jay Jay coloring pages

Seven Little Monsters
There’s a coloring page for each of the Seven Little Monsters at this fun website for the PBS Kids show. If your child loves Maurice Sendak’s Seven Little Monsters who live at #1234567 Chestnut Street with their Mom, this is one of the few places you can find extras featuring the Monsters besides the books. Seven Little Monsters coloring pages are here

There are more than fifteen coloring sheets featuring Arthur, his family and friends. Print off coloring sheets of Arthur, D.W., Buster, George and the entire gang here.

Remember Emily’s favorite game, Tower Of Cows? Play along with a printable version, found here. It includes the Cow standing cards, along with two decks of cards to print. This is a great game that teaches math concepts in a way that’s lots of fun and very interactive!

Make a Cootie Catcher, either themed with Arthur and his friends or one personalized with your child’s interests using the Arthur Cootie Catcher printable.

More Arthur Card Games
Go Fetch is like the classic Go Fish card game, only with Arthur characters. Very cute! Print the Arthur themed playing cards by clicking here.

Crazy Bus is an innovative card game you can print at home. The cards consist of characters and of description cards. Your child selects a character card based on the description card he draws and puts the character into the Crazy Bus. Print them here!

Just print the pdfs at home and follow the easy instructions to make fun art and crafts with your kids. We spent a rainy Saturday going through the crafts and they’re all really good, but our kids definitely had their favorites:

Your kids can have a starcatching adventure with this free Dora Printable from Nick Jr. Make Dora’s Star Pocket and then cut out four Explorer Stars. Color everything and put the star pocket together and you’re ready for great starcatching adventures!Print Dora’s Star Pocket and Stars

Printable Dora Bracelets. Print this page on your color printer and help your kids cut out the bracelets. Use sticky tape to tape the ends together and enjoy!

The printable Dora and Diego Silly Paper Dolls are lots of fun! This pack of printables has Dora and Diego paper dolls, along with coloring sheets filled with clothes, hats and silly shoes. Your kids can color the funny costumes, cut out the shapes and have fun playing dress up with the paper dolls.

Your child can make their very own Map! Have them roll a blank piece of paper into the “map”. Then print and color the decorations on this printable. Help him carefully cut out the eyes and accessories, the tape or glue them to the Map. Click here to print the Dora’s Super Map Activity.

Click here to print the Dora The Explorer Decoration printable

Looking for more great coloring pages and activity sheets featuring Dora The Explorer? You can view all Dora printables and coloring pages by clicking here!

You’ll need a box of ice cream sugar cones, frosting and small red candies or other sprinkles. To make this super easy, buy two cans of ready-to-use white frosting, and tint one with green food coloring. The decorator frosting in squeezable tubes can also make it easier for little ones to apply frosting decorations to the trees.

Turn the sugar cones upside down and have your child spread the green frosting over the outside of the cones. Use the white frosting or tube frosting to add garlands or strings of “lights”. Now, decorate the trees using red candies, sanding sugar and other decorating sprinkles.

Assemble the forest of decorated trees on a cake platter sprinkled with a layer of coconut or granulated sugar to simulate snow. This holiday centerpiece is not only fun to make, but delicious to eat. Enjoy!

Help your young children enjoy the production even more by introducing them to the story and help them understand what to expect when they first see The Nutcracker. A picture book following the story of Clara and her journey, like George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, with photographs of the New York City Ballet production.

Or recount the story as you would a fairytale, embellishing perhaps with details you remember from times you have seen the program in the past. This is also a grand way to relive the event once you see the production, and have your child help tell the story as well.

Here is a helpful reminder to get you started on your retelling of the classic The Nutcracker:

The story opens at the Stahlbaum family Christmas celebration, where they are welcoming many friends and family members into their home to celebrate the holiday. There is a very large tree, which is the focus of the stage. Clara is a young girl in the Stahlbaum family, and her godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, makes wonderful toys. Herr Drosselmeyer entertains the guests with two life-sized dolls that wind up and dance around the room. Then, Herr Drosselmeyer gives gifts to the children, including a special gift for Clara – a nutcracker. The children play with their toys, and as they do, Clara’s brother Fritz, becomes jealous of Clara’s gift. He grabs the nutcracker and swings it around carelessly and breaks it. Clara is heartbroken over her broken doll.

It is getting late, and the guests begin to leave. The family says goodnight and the children go to bed. Clara awakens in the middle of the night and goes downstairs to find her nutcracker under the tree. She falls asleep and begins to dream. Her mother finds her asleep on the couch and covers her with a warm blanket for the night. In the dark, Herr Drosselmeier returns and fixes the Nutcracker’s broken jaw while Clara sleeps.

In Clara’s dream, she finds herself in a Christmas fantasy where the Christmas tree has grown enormous, and her nutcracker has grown to the size of a human and is the Nutcracker Prince. Clara becomes surrounded by Mice, who begin fighting with soldiers and with the Nutcracker. Then, the Mouse King appears and attacks. The Nutcracker Prince tries to valiantly defend young Clara, but is struck down in the battle. Clara is able to save the Nutcracker Prince by throwing her shoe at the Mouse King and defeating him.

Clara runs to thank the Nutcracker Prince. When she kisses him, he turns into a human! Clara and her Prince are whisked away through the Enchanted Forest, where they see dancing snowflakes and many other wonders. Together they travel on an icy boat further to the Kingdom of the Sweets.

(This begins Act II)
In the Kingdom of Sweets, Clara and the Prince experience the wondrous beauty of the Sugarplum Fairy, who receives them in the great hall of her castle. When the Prince reveals how Clara saved his life, the entire court greets her with honor. Clara is escorted to a miniature throne to view the presentation that has been prepared for her.

Delicacies of the Kingdom of the Sweets appear. Chocolate, coffee and tea are represented by Spanish, Arabian and Chinese dancers. Other dances follow – a lively Russian trepak, dance of the merlitons (penny whistles), Mother Ginger (the French equivalent of the Old Woman who lived in a shoe) and her children, the beautiful Waltz of the Flowers, and the great pas de deux by the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier. In the finale, the courtiers of the kingdom kneel in homage to Clara for rescuing their Prince. The ballet concludes with a brilliant waltz.

When the dancers are finished, Clara and the Nutcracker Prince sail home in a magic sleigh made of ice and candy. On Christmas morning, Clara wakes under the tree holding her nutcracker doll.