We just added 230 new free printable PDFs to creouts.com/free, so there are now more than 400. Pick one, download the PDF and print it. There is no sign-up. They are free for home, homeschool and classroom use, but not for resale (the short terms explain how).
What is new
- Chemistry: a color periodic table, 12 element spotlights and 12 safe kitchen experiments.
- Geography: world maps to label, latitude and longitude, compass directions, landforms and biomes.
- Critical thinking: ten questions to ask about any claim, fact or opinion, fallacies and truth-teller puzzles.
- Linux and terminal, software basics and computer basics: cheat sheets for spreadsheets, Blender, GIMP, Notion, Obsidian, Pandoc, Vim, HTML and more.
- Math practice: coins, place value, number bonds, hundred charts and flash cards, plus six new harder mazes.
- Car maintenance, plant-based cooking and life admin: checklists, budgets and safety basics.
- In other languages: the practical math and life-admin sheets in German, French and Spanish.
Maps you can label
The world maps are drawn from public-domain Natural Earth data, with no country borders, so the focus stays on continents and oceans. Label the seven continents or the five oceans, then check the answer page. The latitude and longitude set has a find-the-place worksheet with answers.
Critical thinking
Eight common reasoning mistakes, in plain words: attacking the person, twisting words, only two choices, everybody does it, wrong expert, slippery slope, too few examples and lucky socks. The practice sheet gives eight short sayings to match, with answers.
Answers, safety and honesty
- Every puzzle and worksheet has an answer page.
- The chemistry experiments use ordinary kitchen items, and each page lists the safety steps and when a grown-up should help.
- The car and cooking sheets are general basics. Your car's owner's manual comes first.
- German, French and Spanish versions use euro coins. If you spot a wording problem, please tell us.
If the reasoning sheets are your thing, our Detective Logic decks on Boom Learning are full escape rooms where each answer is checked as you play. The free pages are separate practice sheets, not parts of those decks.
Games mentioned
Detective Logic Step by Step Bundle
Eight self-checking logic escape-room decks for ages 7 to 11. The free sheets are practice pages; these are full decks.
See it on Boom LearningDigital download: nothing is shipped.
More field notes
Ice Shards: Rebuild a Shattered Pyramid From Its Pieces
The pyramid has shattered. Fit each shard back into the gaps, the way up it lies, until every brick is the sum of the two below it.
Symbol Pyramids: What Is a Star Worth?
The bottom row is pictures. Every picture hides a number, and the same picture is always the same number. A worked sample, a 20-second video and a pyramid to try yourself, with the one rule you need to read the hidden digits.
Seeing Numbers Without Counting: Subitizing and Ten-Frames
What 'subitizing' means, what the researchers say about it, and five ten-minute games with dice, dominoes and ten-frames.
Escape the Sunken Pyramid: The Story and a Look Inside
Escape the Sunken Pyramid: the story, how a chamber plays and a look at a real page.
The Hundred Gumballs Count-Up: What It Can Do for Players
The Hundred Gumballs Count-Up (Grades 1 and 2): what is in it, what players can get out of it and how to run it.
Snow Owl Ice Camp: A Math Game That Opens in Your Browser, Offline
230 number pyramids, twelve huts and twelve lanterns to relight, as an offline browser game plus a printable PDF. How it works, and what it needs.
Kitchen Chemistry: A Free Periodic Table and Safe Experiments to Try at Home
A free color periodic table, 12 element spotlights and 12 kitchen experiments with safety notes. We walk through the red cabbage color test step by step.
Escape the Mansion After Dark: The Story and a Look Inside
Escape the Mansion After Dark: the story, how a chamber plays and a look at a real page.
The Pi Bakery Mix-Up: What It Can Do for Players
The Pi Bakery Mix-Up (Grades 6 to 8): what is in it, what players can get out of it and how to run it.
Find the Wrong Brick: Proofread a Math Pyramid
The whole pyramid is printed. One brick is wrong. You proofread it. A worked sample, a 20-second video and a pyramid to try yourself, with the one rule you need to read the hidden digits.
The Grand Pyramid Hunt: The Story and a Look Inside
The Grand Pyramid Hunt: the story, how a chamber plays and a look at a real page.
The Lemonade Lockout: What It Can Do for Players
The Lemonade Lockout (Grades 4 and 5): what is in it, what players can get out of it and how to run it.
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