New Book Giveaway Contest for Kids to Encourage Early Literacy and a Love of Reading

ZiggityZoom.com announced the beginning of a contest starting October 19th, 2008 and running until November 5, 2008 give away 5 Sets of Bunbun Board Books.


The goal of the Giveaway Contest is to encourage parents to:

• Read to their kids every day


• Encourage their kids to tell stories or retell parts of stories they have listened to


• Encourage their kids to draw pictures about the books they have listened to or read


• Take thie kids to the library or bookstore to pick out books that interest them


• Introduce Letter Recognition and Writing Activities during preschool years

At ZiggityZoom.com we provide a group of online interactive books that parents and kids or kids can listen to with sound or without. We also have Kindergarten Readiness Worksheets and Activities from Letter Tracing, and a Story Telling Template. Whether you have a 2 year old or a 6 year old we have appropriate activities, worksheets, stories and ideas for you to encourage your kids to listen to stories, learn to read and love to tell stories.

To Enter the ZiggityZoom.com Bunbun Kids' Book Giveaway click here.


5 Winners will be selected to Win: Bunbun at Bedtime and Bunbun, The Middle One.
All entrants will be emailed a Printable ZiggityZoom Coloring Book.

We have tons of reading and early literacy activities and tools on our site.

Check out our online interactive stories at:Check out our Interactive Stories-here

Or let your child draw a picture or a picture and a sentence if they are a bit older using our Tell a Story Template

Toys, Games, and Costumes You Can Make For Free with Stuff From Your House

Today's Activity- a Great Activity for Every Day of the Week

At Ziggity Zoom we have lots of activities, games, coloring pages, fitness and searching games and educational worksheets. We also have great ideas for easy dinners and snacks.
Come check out our daily tips, ideas and activity every day for a new idea to inspire you to have fun and teach your kids new things!



We will focus on providing ideas for play, games and worksheets that help your kids grow (by having fun of course) through observation and experiments, and games that improve listening skills and some ideas that are about having fun and family time. And ideas for healthy living and getting your kids up and moving which is so important for kids to do.

With Today's economy, parents are looking for ways to save money and still keep their kids busy and entertained. We want to give you a few ideas to keep your kids busy and have fun too!


Fun Toy to Make for Free


Sock Puppet Toy-Dog

To Make a Sock Puppet gather a few socks, spare material or paper and glue and make this cute dog puppet and a few your child can play with.

Pretend Play and Dress Up


Knight Costume-Dress Up

Make this Knight Costume for Halloween or for pretend play and dress up. We also have many other easy, fast costumes you can make with a pillowcase, such as, Hula Girl, and Princess.

Family Fun- Free Games and Toys


Mermaid Puzzle

Make this Mermaid Puzzle-it is a perfect activity to keep your kids busy one afternoon that helps their hand-eye coordination and logical thinking skills. We also have a Pirate, Dragon,Robot, Surfer, Goodie Twoshoes Puzzles for your family to enjoy and for Free!

Food Tidbit of the Day:

Want a Quick Meal for Dinner that is All Wrapped Up in 5 minutes?
Make a Bean and Veggie Burrito

Make this Bean and Veggie Whole Wheat Wrap in 5-10 minutes and serve with fruit for a healthy, balanced meal.


Check back daily to see new ideas and activities for you and your kids. Bookmark our site and sign up for our newsletter to get great acitivities, articles and tips from ZiggityZoom.com

To see our Activity from Oct 3-Halloween Stickers, Leap Frog Lily Pad Kids' Game, Whole Wheat White Pizza Dinner

To see our Activity from October 2- Halloween Place Mat, Look and Find Backyard and Dinnertime Game Ideas

Ziggity Zoom Focuses on Kindergarten Readiness a Site for Preschool Kids

Is Your Child Ready for School?

At Ziggity Zoom we have lots of activities and Educational tools and worksheets to help you work with your child to learn their numbers, letters,drawing lines,shapes, colors,
alphabet,following directions, and pencil grip. This is perfect for preschool kids or kindergarteners or parents that homeschool and are looking for worksheets.
Check out our worksheets and stories and please let us know what else you would like to see!

General Kindergarten Preparation Suggestions

• Recognizing both captial and lowercase letters in the alphabet


• Recognizing and drawing four basic shapes (circle,square,triangle, rectangle)


• Coloring and Cutting


• Recognizing and writing first name


• Recognizing and counting out loud 0-10


• Sharing and Taking Turns


• Listening and following directions


• tying shoelaces


• buttoning and zipping clothing

Below are worksheets and activities that will help your child learn and master the basics needed to start Kindergarten.


As parents we want the best for our kids- we are our kids first and best teacher. Let ZiggityZoom.com help you teach your child
skills they will need to read, listen, explore their worlds, and make their own observations. We have worksheets, outdoor activities, games, and more to make learning fun.


Educational Worksheets-Letters, Numbers, Colors, Matching, Shapes,Spanish-English and Line Tracing Worksheets

Print off worksheets to do with your child.


Alphabet Tracing Worksheets- Letters A to Z

Teach your child their letters and how to draw the letters.

Active and Outdoor Learning Games

What better way to teach your child about Observation and Following Directions than with a Look and Find Series of Worksheets and 2 games that teach color and/or numbers.


Kid/Parent Learning Activities

Play I spy or a car look and find game with your child to improve listening and observation skills.

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Halloween Fun for Your Kids- Crafts, Activities, and Costumes for Free

Halloween Fun for Kids-Costumes, Crafts, Activities and Coloring!
At Ziggity Zoom we have lots of activities for Halloween and other Holidays. We have Halloween T-shirt transfers, Halloween placemats, Halloween stickers, Halloween craft projects, like a group of Spooky houses or group of trick or treaters. We even have Halloween Coloring Pages of witches, ghosts, cats and animals trick or treating. We have ideas of a Halloween party
and how to make Halloween Night a fun, easy evening. And Easy dinner ideas for Halloween night and a Halloween party.

Great Halloween Ideas for Your Little Trick-or-Treater!

Click on the links below to find Halloween crafts, coloring and ideas at ZiggityZoom.com


Fun Halloween Craft-Trick or Treat Gang- Out of Recycled Products

Make a Fun Group of Trick or Treaters with your child. And use recycled products from your house- good for the environment and a fun holiday craft.



Black Halloween Bats

Make this easy Bats for a great Halloween Decoration to put around your house. Your kids will enjoy helping you and the bats only take a few minutes to make.



Spooky Halloween Houses Craft

Make these fun, colorful Halloween houses with your child.
Your child will love seeing these house as the centerpiece or playing with them.



Halloween Print Your Own Stickers

Print these Halloween Stickers and have fun giving them to your child all month long or cut them out and let your child decorate paper or a holiday item.



Halloween Black Cat-T-shirt Transfer-Boo 2 You!

This is the cutest t-shirt design- Perfect for your child or for yourself- even parents need a little Halloween flair!

I Wish 4 Lots of Candy-T-shirt Transfer-Halloween Witch Design

Check out this cute shirt for you or your child-or even matching t's.



Halloween T-shirt Transfer-Cat Design

Perfect Halloween Shirt for even the littlest of Trick-or-Treaters This would even be cute on a onesie!

Halloween Cat and Pumpkin Place mat Craft

Make a Placemat to get your Trick-or-Treater in the spirit!

Halloween Printable Pumpkin Place mat

Halloween fun for the dinner table- get in the Halloween spirit with this cute place mat.



Halloween Coloring Sheets and Pages

Print and color a Halloween Coloring page or color it online.

Halloween I Can Spy Place mat

Get Your House in the Halloween Spirit with a Place mat they can search for Halloween Items.



Make a Pirate Costume-Hat

Most boys want to be a pirate for Halloween at least 1 year- here are easy patterns to make a pirate hat. Below is the vest and eye patch.

Halloween Costume or Dressup-Pirate Vest and Eye Patch

For the little pirates in your house-here is the pirate vest and eye patch!



Halloween Costume or Dress-Up Play- Knight Costume
Make Your child a great knight costume for Halloween that they can use to dress up with anytime.

Make a Halloween Costume- Hula Girl

Need a cute, quick to make costume that is free! Well this Hula Girl outfit is perfect and so cute on a little girl!



Make a Halloween Costume- Princess Crown

Need a cute, quick to make costume that is free! Well this Princess Crown is perfect to wear with a pink or shiny dress. Just make a wand with alumium foil and presto- a Princess!



Make a Halloween Costume Mask-Monkey

Need a cute, quick to make costume that is free! Well Well you can make this cute Monkey Mask or click to see an Alien Mask, Elephant Mask, Cat Mask, Giraffe Mask, Bunny Mask- these are also great for a Safari or Animal Party or Play.



Spooky Halloween Ghosts- to hang outside.

Make these easy Ghosts to hang outside and get your house in the Halloween Spirit! The project uses items from around your house and you can reuse everything you make the ghost with- so celebrate Halloween while reusing and recycling!



October Freebie- Halloween High-Resolution Art Print

Download this adorable Halloween Horse Art Print on high quality paper and frame perfect to spice up your house for Fall or for a child's room with an October birthday.