timeline figures

[bbrandonsmom]

What's your favorite timeline figures? I found ones that use little house type ones or something-they were neat looking and the kids could color them. I've seen some that are pretty drab. I want to say it was Winter Promise?

 

I'm looking for some also that either on online that I can make small enough to print for a wall map, or buy them. We bought a huge wall map, that we put the animals we learn about on, but I thought it would be neat to add the people we learn about on it too. Maybe character stickers from some place?

[MamaSheep]

My favorites, hands down, are the ones on CD from Homeschool In The Woods. I love that I can resize them and print them with or without text descriptions. And they're well-drawn and fun to color.

[Ann.without.an.e]

Seconding...

Homeschool in the Woods, I have the complete set on CD and they are wonderful.

[robsiew]

We use Homeschool in the Woods too... sorry, haven't seen anything else that compares to them!:001_smile:

[~Tara~]

Homeschool in the woods is all we've used too :p

[NoPlaceLikeHome]

These are free:) I have not tried printing them out yet:)

 

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/sitemap/famous_people.php

 

Here are the instructions:

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/help/cliphelp.htm

Edited October 12, 2010 by priscilla

[Chris in VA]

Hanna's Homeschool Helps yahoo group has figures that coordinate with all the SOTW volumes. She includes a template, too, that you can fit your own computer image into, in case you want to cover something she doesn't. They are free and you just print them off.

Love the Homeschool in The Woods ones, too.

[cyndi60]

Priscilla,

Thanks so much for this. We were looking for something and this is just what we needed.

Cyndi

Wife to dh of almost 30yrs.

Mother to 6 ages 28-11

Have homeschooled since 1986

[Create Your Ritual]

Can I ask how small you can get the timeline figures using the CD from Homeschool in the Woods. I am working on SOTW Ancients with the kids and using the Add-A-Century Timeline notebook/binder... unfortunately I don't have tiny figures on a sheet or sticker page to just peel off and add to the sections of the notebook. I would be looking for stamp size figures. Any suggestions?

[MamaSheep]

Can I ask how small you can get the timeline figures using the CD from Homeschool in the Woods. I am working on SOTW Ancients with the kids and using the Add-A-Century Timeline notebook/binder... unfortunately I don't have tiny figures on a sheet or sticker page to just peel off and add to the sections of the notebook. I would be looking for stamp size figures. Any suggestions?

 

I don't think there's any limit to how small you can get them. There are a couple of versions on the disk. One is just a pdf version of the pages that you get in a printed packet. You could just print those at a reduced size, using the print dialog settings on your computer.

 

There are also basic picture files (I think they're jpg files if I remember right) of each timeline figure. I like these because you can just copy and paste them into a word processor document and make them whatever size you want. For our timeline book I make a table with cells around 1.5 inches wide and copy/paste them into the table cells, and they all look good at that size--although to be fair there are some that are more of a horizontal format that I extend across two cells in order to keep them at about the same height as the rest. I think for postage stamp sized ones I would use the version without text, because at some point they will get too small to see what they say (the "without text" versions still have a label and date, just not an explanation), but I think they'd be fine at an inch or so. They might be hard to color at that size, but that's not really necessary.