Free Printable Projects for Older Kids: From Holiday Stuff to Room Decor

Cutting, pasting and coloring is great for younger kids, but sometimes, older kids want a little more of a challenge. Do you need some challenging cut, paste and fold projects for kids eight and older?

Children can enjoy these free printable projects:

at home
in day care
at school
on car trips
with the babysitter
at Grandma and Grampa's
in VBS
at Sunday School
at camp or day camp
at scout events
at festivals
at boring adult events
in waiting rooms
and more!

You'll find free printable:

3D projects
paper folding and cutting crafts
cut and paste picture frames
scrapbook materials
room decor
mobiles
stickers
greeting cards
stationery
party supplies
posters

These links provide dozens of themes and designs:

pirates
princess
rainbows
rockets
paper airplanes
trains
flowers
animals
pond life
fish
cats
dogs
horses
boats
and more!

Kids can make free printable decorations, cards and gifts for holidays and events:

Halloween
Thanksgiving
Christmas
Valentine's Day
St. Patrick's Day
Easter
Graduation
Birthday
Patriotic
Father's Day
Mother's Day
and more!

So where are all these wonderful free printables? All at Familyfun.com on the link called 'Paper Crafts'. They open as a pdf. document. The graphics are beautiful and the colors are really rich and vivid. They take a moment to load, because they are so elaborate and nice, but they are worth the moment of wait. On the pdf. document menu, you can choose how large you want the images to print. The projects are cross-referenced as well. All together,
There are:

Picture Frames: 35 cut, paste and assemble free printable picture frames.

Party Fun: dozens of greeting cards, stationery, party supplies, games, stickers in all sorts of themes from pirates to flowers to plaid!

3D themes: four themeswith four to five projects in each theme:

-five paper airplanes and rockets (This would make a great ceiling mobile!)
four origami projects to assemble and create a wildlife diorama (This project might make a great play area for toy pets or dolls, or a school project.)

-train with locomotive, cargo and freight cars and signs and signals (This would be nice as a dresser or shelf decoration, school project, or part of Lego, Brio or other train or car play.)

-a farm scene with barn, silo, animals, tree and fences (This would also be good for animal play or for a school diorama)

Holiday Templates: dozens of free printable templates for holiday related cut outs.

Halloween
Thanksgiving
Christmas
Patriotic
Valentine's Day'
Easter
an more!

Stickers: dozens of stickers for over 25 themes and holidays.

I have not even begun to list all the free printable stuff from Family Fun. This is surely one site to favorite and bookmark!