Free tools for teaching - printable worksheets, classroom games, and on-line worksheet templates with images from

Tools for Educators
Use these free worksheet makers, printable game templates, and applications to make and print exciting materials for your lessons. They are simple, but beautiful, versatile and powerful. I hope your students (and you) enjoy the resources.
2025 Update: all of the makers have been update for better perfomance, easier use, and I've added even more categories and images to help you create the perfect worksheets.

Free Word Search Maker with images for hints or with text hints. You choose! Generate a free printable wordsearch with pictures and choose the text that goes in the puzzle. The maker is fast, versatile and easy to use.

Printable Board Games: make board games with images, images mixed with text, or all text. Use the all text version to create science, social studies, or math board games. There are currently games for 40+ themes but more to come! 3 designs to choose from:
Galactic Challenge, Fantasy Park, Race to the Finish.

Two more boardgame templates:
The Knock Out Race - a racing theme board game
Bounce Around - a conversation game for language classes, parties, warm-ups or ice breakers.

Free Crossword Puzzle Maker with images for hints or with text hints. You choose! Generate a free printable crossword with pictures or choose the text only option to create your puzzle. You can make a printable crossword puzzle in seconds, but it looks great. You can even generate a crossword and word search on the same worksheet!

Bingo Board Maker: make bingo boards with images or all text. Use the all text version to create printable math bingo games on-line. There are currently 3x3, 4x4, or even 5x5 bingo board templates.

Crisscross Bingo is another bingo board creator. It creates bingo boards for use in conversational activities.

Free Maze Maker with content squares to enter text or images in the mazes. Use the text version to create printable math mazes and math games. There are spaces for students to answer questions about the content squares, make sentences, answer math questions, or questions related to any subject in the content squares.

Spelling and Reading Worksheet Wizards: make spelling worksheets where students select the correct spelling of words or have the students write the correct spelling. Have the students read a sentence or short passage and select the correct image.

There are 3 different templates: choose the correct spelling, choose the correct spelling and write about the item, and read a word or sentences and choose the correct image.

Free Writing, Spelling and Tracing Worksheets: Create spelling practice sheets, free writing worksheets and tracing handouts with images of your choice. Students can write one vocabulary word or a few sentences about the picture. You can also create spots where students can draw in their own pictures!

Certificate Templates and Award Certificate Maker: create awards for over 70 different themes in 1000+ different styles. All text is 100% customizable so you can make certificates for any occasion: formal, sports, school, holidays, cute, cool styles and more.

Handout Templates: There are 4 different vocabulary building worksheet templates. A straight vocabulary handout, a picture dictionary maker, a wordbank worksheet template, and spaghetti string worksheets. Each template allows you to choose images and enter text or sentences for your selected items. The templates have slightly different purposes so check out the handouts page for more details on each.

The Dice Maker: Generate printable dice with images or text on each face of the dice. You can print one or two dice at a time and even mix and match text and images. These are great for foreign language teachers.

The Domino Maker: You can make dominoes with text on the left and images on the right. You can print up to 10 per page. Many different vocabulary categories to choose from and eventually over 1500 words that match the vocabulary from MES English.

Free Listening Test Worksheet Makers - choose from 5 different styles to create listening worksheets with images. These are great for language teachers. These are placed on another site in the MES Network and also has several different audio files to match each theme. These are available on 123 Listening. I hope your students enjoy them.