How to create your own clip art with Ribbet

Today I will show you how to use Ribbet to create clip art. Creating clip art is something I like to do in order to create customized printables. It can be a very simple process.

I recommend using Ribbet because their service is inexpensive and provides new clip art weekly. They have a variety of texts and stickers (clipart) with makes creating worksheets a cinch.

If you want to get a little more creative, creating your own clip art can be done easily with Ribbet. First thing is to open up your blank canvas. You want to chose a size based on your own clip art needs. I am going to make a blank canvas with a transparent background. You want to make sure your background is check off as transparent.

The next thing you want to do is make your clip art. In this example I will make a sun with the shapes that Ribbet offers as stickers. I chose different sized circles and I vary the color to make it stand out a little more. I also at the rays coming off the sun with a unique starburst shape. After I layer my starburst and circles in a pattern I like. I use my combine everything button to keep it all in place.

The last step is to save the file. Ribbet automatically defaults to save everything as a JPEG. You need to switch your image to save as a PNG. This will save your transparent background.

Now you have officially created and saved your clip art. You are ready to use it at your convenience! I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. 

With Love 

Fraggle Momma

Free Learn Your Name Printable

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Things aren't transitioning as smoothly as I had hoped so here is a free printable to tide you over until our new launch. My new goal is next week. I will continue to post here for now. Tomorrow look for a  new tutorial on Ribbet, the program I use to create my printables.

Thanks for your patience!

New Email Incentive: Free Nautical Simple Planner!

I have released the new nautical lesson planner with block schedule page, lessons plan by week pages and notes pages. I will release an extension pack for this planner shortly. The extension pack will also come in your email next week.  

Farmers Market Free Printable Pack

Farm Market Free Printable

 Here is a sneak peak of some of what is inside. The entire pack is 15 pages. It covers basic addition and subtraction, sequencing and more.

Free Hospital Packing List Printable

Here is a free printable hospital pack list for giving birth. I'm over the half way mark with my pregnancy so I decided to start getting things in order since I went early with both Boober and Mokey.

How to Create Your Own Printables

Creating your own printable to use for homeschooling is relatively easy. I like that I can fine tune my own printables in order to work specifically for Boober's unique needs or interests. For instance he has become OBSESSED with Mario for some reason, so we made a Mario printable for math.

The program I will be using to demonstrate how to make your own Printable is Ribbet. There is another program called PicMonkey that you can use as well but Ribbet navigates better for beginners.

Homeschooling with Netflix

Today I'd like to focus on the eductaional programing offered by NetFlix. Homeschooling with NetFlix is great option on those days where you are under the weather, or one of the children is under the weather. Netflix allows you to put on some educational TV and create a lesson with minimal effort.  Here is a list I have compiled of educational programs from Netflix that you can refer to as needed for your homeschooling needs. I  have also compiled a Homeschooling with Netflix Printable.

Free Friday Printable (a day early)

The past few days have been a trip, but sometimes that is just how life goes. My poor little Mokey wound up with an upper respiratory infection, and the flu. She has, of course, needed me quite a bit. I had been trying to figure out how to keep up with my day to day life and find time write about our homeschool journey. I guess life had to show me just how much it can throw my way sometimes. I knew this was another task to take on but I wanted to encourage others to give it a try. 

I'm not about to lie, teaching at home can get dicey some days. There are times when one of us is in a bad mood or sick. Sometimes you have to take a breath and take a look at your plans for the day and see what is really important and what could be done later. 

At our home we took the week off. It was a lot to deal with a sick baby, I work full time outside the home, and to just keep up with cooking and cleaning. Boober did some independent work including his Tractor pack which was a HUGE hit with him. He also watched some educational TV including Wild Kratts. We talked about how animals mimic each other in the wild for protection. It wasn't the lesson I had in mind but we were learning just the same! 

I did get a chance to make a count and clip pack for Boober to work on his numbers. I use this with clothes pins. You can also use the dot makers, dot stickers or just circle the correct number if you don't have clothes pins. This is a 12 page pack, it identifies numbers 1-10. I hope you enjoy. To download the pack simply click on the image below.

New Email Subscription Freebie

I have added a new incentive for subscribing to our weekly email newsletter. It is a free Tractor themed Pre-K printable pack. It includes pattern making, matching, coloring and more. I am pleased to start sending out emails to my readers. I am also excited to see how quickly we are taking off in this new direction. Here is a preview of the Tractor pack. You make sign up on our side bar on the right, or there is a tiny tab that pops up on the left of the page as well.

Our week at a glance

Our weekly theme is starting a garden. We will be learning about plants this week, and what plants need to survive. Boober is also practicing writing letter B. We went over letter "B" last month, but I like to take another week to reinforce the previous lesson. If it seems he knows his stuff we simply move on, if not we work at it a little while longer. 

I typically spend one week on a letter. Day one is my introduction day, then reinforcement learning activities follow throughout the week. We do workbook practice, scribble practice, play-dough mats and Do-a-dot letter identifying as examples.

Since Boober seems to have trouble with writing the letter B we are going to review. I made him a short story and a printable to go along with it. I will offer both for free for a little while on the site. Simply print the pages, cut them out, laminate them and staple together or loop on a ring. Then print the practice writing page to go along with the story.

Busy Bee Phonics

Practice Writing Page

Today we are also reading Grace's Garden which we were able to get for free last week on amazon. We will be planting seeds in little paper cups and placing them in our school room in the sunlight to sprout before they are transplanted into our garden.

I hope you enjoy your school week. I can't believe its already Thursday!

Free Prewriting Printable

Here is a free printable I made to get ready for our bird study in two weeks. I am terrible at planning too far ahead. Two weeks is a good span of time for me to create our lesson plans. I usually try to keep things interest led for Boober. I think an interest led method works best for preschool aged learners.

To get this free printable just follow the link below the image.

Prewriting PDF

Free Printable

Here is a free printable created by yours truly. Boober is a little insect obsessed at the moment, so I made him a practice page for Letter S. I'd like to share it with you. This is my first attempt at creating a printable so I hope you all enjoy!

S Traceable

With Love,

Fraggle Mom