Welcome!
Hello and welcome to Gift of Curiosity! If you are a parent, caregiver, or teacher who likes to engage children in hands-on, developmentally appropriate learning activities, you are in the right place!
βCuriosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.β
Β –Β Β Β Β Β Β Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
How Gift of Curiosity can help you
My aim at Gift of Curiosity is to provide you with educational resources, printables, and ideas for hands-on learning activities so you can engage children ages 2-9 in a range of fun, playful, and educational learning activities.
I know you are busy, so I make it easy to come up with creative and educational learning ideas. Whether you are looking for printable worksheets, hands-on science, fun sensory play, exciting art projects, or other learning activities, you will find plenty of ideas at Gift of Curiosity!
Tip: When you spot red text on this site, you can click on it to get more information.
How to find your way around the site
Near the top of my site you will find navigational categories, including activities, holidays, thematic units, books lists, and printables. Those links are the best place to start finding the activities you want for engaging your children or students.
- Click on Printables if you want to see all of the educational printables I offer on this site.
- Click on Activities if you are looking for ideas in a broad category such as arts and crafts, science, shapes, or sensory play, among others.
- Click on Holidays if you are looking for ideas related to the major American holidays.
- Click on Thematic Units if you are looking for a range of activities across the curriculum on a topic such as Insects, Life on the Farm, or Polar Animals, among others.
- Click on Book Lists if you want to see a list of children’s books I have reviewed by topic.
Another option for getting started includes simply going to the home page to see my latest posts.
Or, if you are searching for something specific, you can use the search tool in the right hand sidebar to find posts specific to your topic.
Staying up to date
The best way to stay up to date with all of my new activities and printables is to subscribe to my email list, which you can do at the very top of this page. When you subscribe, you can expect to receive new emails from me about twice a week. Β Plus, subscribers get subscriber-only access to new educational printables every month!
Still feeling curious?Β
If you are curious to know more about my motivation for starting Gift of Curiosity, please see myΒ About Gift of CuriosityΒ page. And if you’d like to know more about me and my family, please see myΒ About MeΒ page.
Thank you for the share with me! The page look beautiful!
I am sure I will get lots of ideas for my pupils!
As a K4 teacher, I am always looking for creative hands on activities to engage the children in. I absolutely love your website. Thanks for sharing all your creative ideas FREE. I can tell you love what you do.
Thanks for the wonderful ideas.
I love the printable section.
Great ideas, Wow.
I just found your site and just love it. Thank you
Thanks Lynne, and welcome! I hope you find some content that is useful for you!
We’ve been using your printables for a while now and my children love them. Keep it coming! Thanks so much.
I’m a mom and also a preschool teacher from Indonesia, I just found your site and I’m really blessed. Thanks a lot Katie.
Thanks and welcome. And hi from America all the way to Indonesia!
my kids will enjoy activities
I am a new preschool teacher and your site has a lot of useful resources. ( All Smiles)
Best of luck to you in your new (and oh-so-important!) role. I bet your students bring smiles to your face everyday. π
excelente recurso para nosotros maestro de educaciΓ³n especial donde nuestros ninos aprende jugando graciasss
Muchas gracias!
Thanks for all the creative ideas!
I am mom of wonderful beautiful girl from Russia! Thanks for your ideas! We love this site!!!
I love this site, very helpful for my class in daycare thank you for the good ideas.
This is so awesome. I can not wait to start using all of this. My class is gonna love this! Thank You!
Hello,i am from Indonesia. i am preschool teacher Your idea very wonderful, and i love it
Su pΓ‘gina me parece excelente para ayudarnos a los papis a fortalecer las capacidades y habilidades de nuestros peques, yo tengo 2 niΓ±os, uno de 4 aΓ±os 11 meses y el otro de 2 aΓ±os 8 meses.
Gracias.
Bienvenida Leticia! OjalΓ‘ y que encuentres algo que les sirva a tus hijos.
This is a lovely website full of great ideas and activities. Thank you Katie! xx
just came across your website & love it:)
Thanks for your gigant help.
I am new to your site, via Pinterest. I nanny a 2 yr.old boy; a 3 yr old boy and his 10 month old sister. I am happy to have your ideas in my arsenal.
Welcome Gina! I hope my resources will be of use to the kids you work with!
I am so glad that I found this website and subscribed. The activities and printables are exactly what I was looking for to use with small groups.
Thank you for sharing your ideas in this way. They are fantastic and very useful. It is much appreciated.
Mel
thanks for the great ideas. I am preschool teacher in Germany and I think my kids will love your stuff…
Joanna
Thank you so much for sharing your very creative ideas! Your website is fantastic! I am a preschool and pre-k teacher for autistic children and you have a lot of sensory ideas that I am excited to use. I do not have the words to tell you how grateful I am that you have provided such excellent activities! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
(heart) Sue
hello katie,
thank you to have accept me, I find your site wonderful, there is full of interesting things , thank you to share that with us, and all your creative ideas. sorry for my approximate English, I am French π
Spend a good day
Merci et bievenue!
Iβm a special education teacher and a mom from Taiwan .I found your site and Iβm really blessed. Thank you a lot , Katie.
I am looking forward to using your great activities in my pre-k classroom! Thank you! π
I love your ideas – thank you for sharing them!
Hi, I have just subscribed to this website and I want to say Thank you. My daughter and I have lots of fun doing these activities.
Thank you for your kind note, and welcome!
Hi! Found your website, and subscribed immediately! Thank you for all these wonderful ideas and activities. I’m doing the dot printables with my 2 1/2 yr old and he absolutely loves them.
Thank you for sharing the wonderful ideas. Can’t wait to carry them out in class with my pupils π
I am certain that I can use your lovely ideas. Thank you so much for your incredible kind heart and share your brilliant and fun ideas. God Bless! π
Δ± like your page…wonderfull things…with love
I just found this and it is phenomenal !!!!! I can not thank you enough for sharing these fabulous and fun learning tools
You are quite welcome. So glad you have found some useful resources!
I ‘m a 4-year-old girl’s mother.I am from China.I think I join in the amazing place here. Thank you for your great ideas.
i love this web site!
Your creativity is absolutely fabulous and so awe-inspiring!!!! Dont know where to begin.
Thank you for such funtastic ideas. Want to do them all now!!!!
How kind! I hope you find lots here to inspire you!
I am excited to explore your website to add to my 4K activities, especially literacy ideas!
Thank you for this wonderful site!
I love this site and I’m not sure why I haven’t signed up for your mailing list ’till now… have used a few of your lesson plans and they have been a huge hit with my kindergartener. Her favourite was definitely the “taste” portion of your 5 senses lesson plan π Looking forward to more great ideas in my inbox!
I love it i decided to make my Grand daughters Christmas gift this year so made a wooden box and i am print her stuff from your site and laminating it so she can reuse it for a long time. this site is amazing
I am a pre-school teacher and am looking for new ideas and inspiration.
Bonjour, je suis une institutrice de Belgique. Merci pour le partage !
Hi, i’m a teacher from Belgium. Thanks for sharing !
Wonderful activities and very creative.. thank you for the helpful resources.
I use a lot of the printables I find here….my students love those printables…specially the little ones…hahaahahah the dot a dot just made my life easy!!!
thank you so much for this incredible website and the all things you have made for us…
thank you…Obrigada!
Hello. (μλ νμΈμ)
I live in South Korea.
My two sons like your website. (ME TOO!!!)
Thanks for sharing ~~
Welcome!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and love with us! Love all your ideas.