Thrifty Thursday: The Summer Olympics 2012

In case you didn't know it, the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics is tomorrow. In honor of this once every four year event, I'm linking some free or almost free resources to use with your own kids to study this special holdover from ancient times.

Free resources:

• Summer Olympics 2012 Lapbook (For those who don't know what a lapbook is, it's basically a scrapbook page put on file folders. I use the lapbook pieces and just put them on scrapbook pages, construction paper, or whatever I have around the house that is relatively sturdy.)
• Olympic Medal Chart (Choose five countries and keep track of how many gold, silver, and bronze medals they win. Of course make sure the United States is one of them!)
• Olympic Sports Coloring Book (This comes from the United Kingdom, which is where the Olympics are being held this year, thus the "misprint" of the word, coloring, on the cover.)
• Videos and Games Featuring the 2012 Olympic Mascots
• Check for books at your local library. Here are some titles to get you started:
• Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics
• Grace and Glory: A Century of Women in the Olympics
• DK Eyewitness Olympics 
• Ancient Greece and the Olympics: A Nonfiction Companion to Hour of the Olympics
• The Story of the Olympics
• Great Olympic Moments
• Decathlon, High Jump, and Other Field Events
• Swimming, Diving, and Other Water Sports
• Gymnastic Events
• The 2012 London Olympics
• A Picture Book of Jesse Owens
• Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman

So cheap it should be free:

• The Summer Olympics 2012 Lapbook with Study Guide  (For only 45 cents this is a steal! Fifty-eight pages of lapbook activities and information.)

Hopefully some of these resources will be a way for your family to all enjoy and learn via the Summer Olympics!

So excited to share the Olympics with my girls since they are old enough to enjoy it this time around in the tree house,

Chelli