Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning® is one of the oldest long-lasting education package providers that are not online. The company started out in 1993, which is pre-history in terms of the internet. This company has been producing educational worksheets for 25 years and continues to supply one of the most comprehensive lists on the internet.
Enchanted learning was founded by Jeananda Col and Mitchell Spector when they decided to solve the problem of computer-accessible educational games and worksheets for their own children. They started out in the days of the CD ROM and created “Busy little brains,” in 1995 they advanced to the internet. The business is a family owned one, and the company expanded its reach in 2014 with extra content and advanced site administration.
The Product
EasyLearning is about simplicity. Creating the most understandable work pages for quick assessment and activity. Since their inception, they have amassed a total of 35,000 pages on their website library and have indexed these by categories and alphabet.
The site might seem an understatement, and the graphics might not seem the most advanced, but the end product is a printable worksheet and online educational sheets for teaching children the basics of just about anything and everything.
The site is free, but if you subscribe, which helps support the continued activity of the site, you will get an ad-free environment and access to more content and printable pages that are exclusive to the site.
The Site
Using a very simple (text standard) GUI, which is great for slow bandwidths, you find the following navigation tabs to choose from:
The top bar holds eight tabs, these are:
- Home
The homepage is the landing page, and pressing this will take you to the landing page.
- Site Index
On this page, you get all the links to the pages including a complete alphabetical list.
- What’s New
Here are the latest site news and updates including new categories and pages.
- Free Sample Pages
The site provides a free sample of pages that can be printed for free.
- Login
The login page for subscribers.
- Subscribe
There are three subscription levels, these are:
1 year Personal $20.00 US dollars
2 years Personal $36.00 US dollars
3 years Personal $48.00 US dollars
1 Year School $125.00 US Dollars
- About Us
This is a sparse page of limited information.
- Contact Us
This page offers a number of solutions and has a lot of linked pages that help solve a problem.
The site navigation is bad, the site does not maintain an overhead menu bar, and some pages don’t have a menu bar, you either press back on your browser or try to find a link. This can be frustrating, especially for the less computer savvy user. This kind of programming was great back in 1995, but today the sites navigation, as well as look and feel, should be much more advanced.
Now let’s take a look at the category links, by clicking on each category you get to a page filled with links to the work pages and printable games and pictures. There are plenty of work pages explaining how to create fun stuff, which is all very educational and creative at the same time.
Group K-3
- Crafts
- K-3 Themes
- Little Explorers
Group Picture Dictionary
- PreK/K Activities
- Rebus Rhymes
- Stories
Group Writing
- Cloze Activities
- Essay Topics
- Newspaper
- Writing Activities
- Parts of Speech
Group Fiction
- The Test of Time
Group iPhone App
- TapQuiz Maps – free iPhone Geography game
Group Biology
- Animal Printouts
- Biology Label Printouts
- Biomes
- Birds
- Butterflies
- Dinosaurs
Group Biology Continued
- Food Chain
- Human Anatomy
- Mammals
- Plants
- Rainforests
- Sharks
- Whales
Group Physical Sciences: K-12
- Astronomy
- The Earth
- Geology
- Hurricanes
- Landforms
- Oceans
- Tsunami
- Volcano
Group Languages
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese (Romaji)
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Swedish
Group Geography/History
- Explorers
- Flags
- Geography
- Inventors
- US History
Group Other Topics
- Arts and Artists
- Calendars
- College Finder
- Crafts
- Graphic Organizers
- Label Me! Printouts
- Math
- Music
- Word Wheels
Index of Pages
Since this site is extensive, I decided to go crazy and list every page that is available. This will show you what can be found on the site and why you MUST subscribe to it. I have included one working link for every letter, so you can see what the fuss is all about.
A
Acrostic Poems
Activity Calendars
Adages
Addition Activities
Adjectives
Adverbs
Africa
African Americans
Alliteration
Alphabet Books to Print
American Sign Language (ASL)
Amphibians
Anagrams
Analogies
Anatomy, Human
Animal Printouts
Antarctica
Antonyms
Apes
Arabic Activities
Arachnids
Arbor Day Crafts
Artist Coloring Pages
Artists
Astronomy Label Me! Printouts
Astronomy
Australia
Awards to Print
B
Banks of Words by Topic
Bats
Bingo
Biology Label Me! Printouts
Biomes
Bird Jokes
Birds
Black History Month
Blends
Book Reports
Bookmarks
Books to Make (K-3)
Botany Dictionary
Brainstorming
Brazil
Budgets
Bulletin Boards
Butterflies
C
Calendars, printable
Canada
Cats
Cells
Census
Chavez, Cesar
Checklists
Checks and Checkbooks
China
Chinese New Year
Christmas
Citing Websites
Classifying and Sorting
Clouds
Cloze Activities
College Profiler — SAT Match
Color Books to Print
Color by Number
Color Mixing
Coloring Pages – Animals
Colors
Columbus Day
Commonly Misused Words
Compare and Contrast
Compound Words
Connect-the-Dots
Consonant Blends
Constitution
Contractions
Counting Activities
Crafts
Creative Writing Topics
Cutting and Tracing
D
Desert Animals
Dewey Decimal
Dictionaries, Science
Dictionary Activities
Dictionary Definition Quizzes
Dictionary, English
Digraphs
Dinosaur Dictionary
Dinosaur Game
Dinosaur Jokes
Dinosaur Questions
Dinosaur Quizzes
Dinosaurs
Dogs
Dolch Words
Domino Games
Dot-to-Dots
Draw and Write
Drawing Activities
English-Dutch Dictionary
E
Earth
Earth Day Crafts
Economics for Kids
Elections (US)
Energy
English Picture Dictionary
English-Dutch Dictionary
English-French Dictionary
English-German Dictionary
English-Italian Dictionary
English-Japanese Dictionary
English-Portuguese Dictionary
English-Spanish Dictionary
English-Swedish Dictionary
ESL Printouts
Essay Topics
Explorers
F
Fact or Opinion
Father’s Day Crafts
Fictional Work: The Test of Time
File Folder Games
Fill-in-the-Blank Activities
Find a Word for Each Letter Puzzles
Find Related Words
Fish
Flag Day
Flags of the World
Flu
Follow the Instructions
Food
Food Chains
Fractions
French Activities
French-English Dictionary
G
Generate Worksheets
Geographic Glossary
Geography
Geography iPhone app – Free Geography Game
Geography K-3
Geography Label Me! Printouts
Geologic Time
Geology
Geology Dictionary
Geology Label Me! Printouts
German Activities
German-English Dictionary
Gift Tags
Glaciers
Grammar
Graphic Organizers
Grassland Animals
Great Wall of China
Groundhog Day
H
Happiness
Hebrew Activities
Holiday Crafts
Home Page
Homework Help
Homophones/Homonyms
HTML Colors
Human Anatomy
Hundred Days
Hurricanes
I
Geography iPhone app – Free Geography Game
Independence Day
Insects
Interactive Activities
Intertidal Animals
Inventors and Inventions
Invertebrates
J
Japan
Jewels and Jewelry
Johnny Appleseed
Jokes
July Fourth
K
Kindergarten Activities
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kwanzaa
L
Landforms
Language Arts
Leap Year
Letter-Flow – Word Puzzles
Letterhead
Library Activities
Lincoln, Abraham
Lists of Words by Topic
Little Explorers Dictionary
Logic Puzzles
Lotto (Bingo) Games
M
Mandela, Nelson
Map-reading Activities
Maps
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Matching Activities
Math
Math (K-2)
Math Dictionary
Measurement
Memory Activities
Metaphors
Meteors
Mexico
Missing Letters in Words
Monthly Activity Calendars
Moon
Mother Goose Rhymes
Mother’s Day Crafts
Music
N
New Year
Newspaper Activities
Nouns
Number of the Day
Numbers (K-2)
Nursery Rhyme Painting
Nursery Rhyme Printouts
Nursery Rhymes
O
Oceans
Olympics
Opposites
P
English-Portuguese Dictionary
Paleontology Dictionary
Palindromes
Pandas
Parts of Speech
Patterns
Perimeter Poems
Phases of Matter
Phonetic Dictionary
Phonics
Pi
Picture Dictionary
Picture Prompts
Planets
Plant Dictionary
Plants
Plurals
Poems and Poetry
Pond Animals
Prefixes and Suffixes
Prepositions
Preschool Activities
President’s Day
Proverbs, Adages
Punctuation
Puzzles, Word
Q
R
Read and Answer Quizzes
Reading Logs
References
Regional US Maps
Related Words
Reptiles
Research Reports (with Rubrics)
Rhymes
Rivers
Rock and Mineral Dictionary
Russia
S
English-Swedish Dictionary
Sample Pages for Prospective Subscribers
SAT Profiler — College Finder
Sayings, Adages
Scavenger Hunts
Science Dictionaries
Search the Site
Senses
Sequencing Cards
Shape Poems
Sharks
Short Answer Quizzes
Similes
Simple Animal Printouts
Solar System
Sorting and Classifying
Spanish Activities
Spanish-English Dictionary
Spelling Activities
Spelling Questions
Spiders
Spring Crafts
St. Patrick’s Day
Stars
States of the USA
Stationery
Stories
Suffixes and Prefixes
Sun
Syllables
Symmetry
Synonyms
T
Teeth
Temperature and Thermometers
Ten Things You Shouldn’t Do
Thanksgiving
The Test of Time: A dictionary work
Themes
Thought Bubble Prompts
Tic Tac Toe
Today’s Number
Today’s Word
Toddler/Preschooler Activities
Tongue Twisters
Tornado
Tracing and Cutting
Truck Game
Tsunami
Tundra Animals
U
US Coins
US Constitution
US Elections
US Flags (Info, Printouts, and Quizzes)
US Geography
US History
US Presidents
US State Facts, Maps, and Symbols
US Symbols
USA
USA Map Quizzes
User’s Guide
V
Venn Diagrams
Verbs
Veteran’s Day
Volcano Glossary
Volcanoes
W
Weather
Web Tips
Whales
Whales: Mystery Connect-the-Dots
What am I?
Wheels, Word
Winter Crafts
Women’s History Month
Word Banks by Topic
Word Families
Word for Each Letter Puzzles
Word Hunt Worksheets
Word Ladder Puzzles
Word of the Day
Word Pieces Puzzles
Word Puzzles
Word Wheels
Wordsearch Puzzles
Write a Question Given the Answer
Write and Draw
Write Definitions
Write Ten Things About…
Write Word by Category
Writing Activities
Writing Letters, Numbers
Writing Reports
Z
Zoom School
Conclusions
This is a must site to enter, their products are amazing, and they have accumulated over 25 years of educational material that is a boon to any home and school. The online picture dictionary is exceptional, and the creativity pages are very well thought out.
My only two criticisms are the navigation and the site interface. The site needs to come up into the 21st Century; it needs a full facelift. The navigation is a part of that GUI, and once they provide such a change, their site will become an exceptional and much more successful option for parents, teachers, and children.
