Bring Your Friends to Your Homeschool
Printable Friend Cards
Printable Friend Cards for Homeschoolers
It is often said that you can't have too many friends. This can be especially true when you are trying to do a learning task that requires the input from many different individuals. You know the kind I mean? The type you need for graphing in math or studying individuality and diversity in social studies - How many of your friends prefer a dog to a cat as a pet?
Some homeschools are blessed with many children so group work is often not an issue. Sometimes in smaller homeschools, co-ops, or even traditional classrooms, there are not enough children to make math tasks easy to facilitate and complete. This is especially true for graphing, percentage use, and fractions. Although one could call relatives and friends outside the home, this could prove to be a very time consuming task during your regular learning schedule.
Consider making a set of printable My Friend Cards for the learning year. These cards are fun, easy, and quick to make. Each child could make their own set or have children make sets to combine together as one big family set.
Cards come with a variety of friends to choose from. There are different coloured backgrounds to help differentiate friends or sets of friends. There are also options to colour your own background or colour your own friend. Plus we have included a template for the child who wants to draw and colour in their own friend.
Cards require basic information to be filled in about this friend: name, age, hobbies, etc. This information could be based on a real person or completely made up. Parents could fill in the information to help provide desired results or children could fill it in based on their real friends, characters from books, saints, historians, or whomever they wish. Space has been provided to add additional details about the friend to suit curriculum needs or fun play. This is a great resource to help teach about diversity, individuality, and friendship. This could even be used in a CCD classroom to help teach about Creation and how we are made in God's image but through the uniqueness of our soul share differences as well as similarities.
Select the desired friends below. Right click and select "save as" and the desired destination on your computer.
Set of Black & White Cards