President's Day Printable Activities for Children

President's Day occurs each year on the third Monday in February. The day honors both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Parents can use this holiday as an opportunity to teach children about Presidents through fun President's day printable activities found on the internet. Following this year's inauguration up with more Presidents' Day activities can reinforce the history tidbits learned earlier.

If you have not tried the President's Rap at EducationalRap.com (http://www.educationalrap.com/130/44-presidents.html), it is a perfect President's Day challenge for your older child and a fun way to learn all the names of the Presidents up through Obama.

President's Day activities like the President's rap, combined with printable activities like coloring pages and word searches make learning more fun. Consider adding a few of these activities to your studies about Presidents.

1. Find President's day printable activities at Alphabet-soup.net.

Alphabet-soup.net offers a variety of printable activities for President's Day. Direct link to the President's Day activities is found here. http://www.alphabet-soup.net/hol/president.html. On this site parents will find coloring pages, word searches, and a recipe for Cherry Thumbprint cookies.

2. President's Day coloring pages and other printable activities can be found on daily coloring pages also. This site, with its root location at http://dailycoloringpages.com offers a President's day coloring book, pictures of President Obama and one of Obama and Martin Luther King JR. http://dailycoloringpages.com/united-states-coloring-pages/us-presidents-kids-coloring-sheets/president-barack-obama-coloring-pages/

3.Woodman's web, located at the URL http://woodman.usd259.org/Check%20it!/Presidents'%20Day.htm offers trivia for several President's Day subjects. The site has information on each President, Log cabin craft instructions, instructions on how to make Lincoln's hat from a paper roll, and President's Day printable activities like Washington, Lincoln and a US Presidents word search puzzles.

4. Other President's Day printable activities can be found at Alfy.com (http://www.alfy.com/arts_crafts/puzzles/) and The SD Dept of Educations website at http://doe.sd.gov/octa/ddn4learning/themeunits/Presidentsday/la.htm.

These President's Day printable activities and the President's rap should make learning about the holiday fun for children.