Best 20 Christian Homeschool Curriculum Printables and Supplements
There is a cardboard box on the floor of the hall closet with last year’s papers in it. Worksheets, three unfinished verse pages, a bingo card with a juice ring on it. I said in May I would sort it in June. It is the last week of August, the stationery sale is on at the store by the pharmacy, cardstock is under three dollars, and I am standing in the closet holding a box I still have not opened while my six-year-old asks if we can buy more markers.
I’m Rebecca. Three kids, eight, six and three, and a husband who runs the youth group at our church, so verses live in the walls of this house. My kids go to regular school. I am not the homeschool mom, and I want to be honest about that up front, because half the internet writing about Christian homeschool printables is selling you a whole life. What I actually do is the Bible part at home, evenings and Saturday mornings, on top of what school does not touch. And I help my friend Danielle, who has four kids and does the whole thing herself, and who every August asks me what she should add to the curriculum she already paid for.
So this list is sorted the way we sort it at her kitchen table in August: what fits into a school year that already has a plan, where it goes on the calendar, and what you can skip without losing anything. Sixteen files, verse sheets and bingo sets and cut files, with the duds named alongside the keepers. Heads up: some links below are affiliate links, so if you grab something through one it helps keep PsalmKids going at no extra cost to you. Your curriculum does the teaching. These are the pieces that fill the gaps it left.
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He Gives Victory: The Page That Goes Up in Week Three
Every program my kids touch, school or church, has a week three. The new folders stop being exciting, the handwriting slides, and somebody cries about math. I print this one in August and hold it, and it goes up on the fridge around the third week of September when the grinding starts.
The type is heavy enough to read from across the kitchen, which is the whole test for a sheet you want a kid to catch out of the corner of an eye. I print at full page on the cheap cardstock from the sale, no frame, one strip of tape.
My gripe: to an eight-year-old boy who plays soccer, the word victory means a scoreboard. He read it and asked if it meant God helps you win games. That took a real two-minute conversation before the sheet meant anything, and I would rather have had the conversation on purpose than get ambushed by it. Have it first, then hang it.
He Will Guide Psalm 32 on the Front of an Empty Binder
The last week of August is binders. Empty ones, hopeful ones, the ones that will hold nothing by November. This is the file I print as page one, slid into the clear sleeve on the front cover before anything else goes in.
Danielle prints four, one per kid, each on a different color of cardstock so nobody argues about whose binder is whose on the table. That trick is worth more than the sheet, honestly, but the sheet is what makes the binder feel like it belongs to the year instead of to a subject.
What annoyed me: the lettering is tall and thin. It looks lovely at full page and it turns into gray fuzz the second you shrink it down for a spine label, which is exactly what I tried to do. Print it big or do not print it. There is no small version of this design that survives.
He Gives Rest Matthew 11, and No, This One Is Not for the Kids
I taped this above the printer. That is where I stand at ten at night in late August, feeding cardstock in one sheet at a time because the tray jams, wondering why I signed up to supplement anything.
It is a parent sheet. I tried it in the kids’ room first and it landed flat. My six-year-old looked at it and asked why the paper is tired. Fair question. Rest is not a concept a six-year-old is short of.
So buy it knowing who it is for. The design is quieter than the rest of the set, more white space, less decoration crowding the words, and that is right for what it is. If you are shopping for something to hand a child in a lesson, skip this one and come back for it in October when you are the one who needs it.
The Lord Hears Psalm 34 and a Clipboard by the Back Door
This is the only one on the list that changed how a room works. Clipboard on a nail by the back door, this sheet clipped at the top, lined paper underneath, and the kids write prayer requests on the way past. The eight-year-old writes sentences. The six-year-old writes names. The three-year-old draws something and tells me it is a dog that is sick.
We read them Sunday nights. That is the whole system, and it survived a summer, which nothing else has.
The honest problem is that the file gives you the header and nothing else. You supply the lined paper, the clipboard, the nail. And the border art comes down further than it looks, so when I tried to print the verse and a list area on one page, the bottom half inch of my lines got swallowed. I gave up and made it two pages, which works fine but was not what I planned.
Love Your Enemies in Very Soft Lettering
Most Christian curricula run a character unit somewhere in the fall, and most of them get to this verse. Mine came up in a Sunday school quarter last year and I was not ready for it.
For kids this age, enemy is not a soldier. It is the sister who took the last marker, and the boy at school who says the thing about your shoes every single day. When I said it that way, the six-year-old got it immediately and did not like it at all, which is roughly the correct reaction.
My gripe is with the styling, not the file quality. The lettering is gentle, curly, decorative, and this verse is not gentle. Printed and hung with no teaching around it, it turns into wallpaper inside a week, pretty and ignored. I hang this one only during the week we are actually working on it, then take it down. That is the opposite of how I use the rest of them.
Forgive Them Luke 23: Buy It in August, Print It in March
This is a planning-ahead purchase, and I am putting it on an August list on purpose. By the time Holy Week shows up in the spring, nobody in this house has the energy to go shopping for anything. Danielle hit that wall two years running.
So grab it now, drop the file in the folder where your spring unit lives, and forget it until March. That is the actual use case.
Two warnings. It is heavy for the youngest end. My three-year-old asked who was hurting him, and I answered it, and that was a longer bedtime than I planned for. Nothing wrong with that, but be ready rather than surprised. And the design runs darker in tone than the cheerful ones in this set, so it looks strange hanging next to them on the same wall. It wants to be alone on a door for one week.
Be Not Afraid Luke 1, Which Quietly Works Twice
First week of school, the stomach aches start. My six-year-old gets them, always the night before, always about something he cannot name. This went on the inside of his closet door the last week of August and it stayed up through September.
Then it comes back in December, because it is the angel to Mary, and it slots straight into whatever Advent thing you are already doing. Two seasons out of one file is good value when you are stacking a year’s worth of small purchases.
What I would change: nothing on the sheet tells a kid where the words come from. No reference styling, no hint of the nativity in the art. My eight-year-old had no idea it was Christmas-related until I said so in December, and then she was annoyed we had had it up since August. Also the older phrasing needed translating once. Be not afraid is four words and one of them is a hurdle.
Let Not Your Heart John 14 on a Bedroom Door
My eight-year-old worries at night. Not about anything you can fix, just the general late-evening version of everything, and school starting makes it worse for about two weeks. This one lives on the inside of her door at eye height so it is the last thing she sees.
She has not said anything about it. She also has not taken it down, and in this house that is the review.
The King James phrasing is the catch. Let not your heart be troubled is a mouthful for a kid reading it alone, and she asked what troubled means three separate times before it stuck. The verse is also long, which means the design fills the page with text, which means it goes to mush at anything under full letter size. I tried a half sheet for her nightstand and it was unreadable. Full page or skip it.
Ask and Receive as a Cover for a Notebook a Kid Keeps
Danielle’s oldest is eleven and keeps a prayer notebook. Actually keeps it, writes in it, will not show anyone. Last August we glued a print of this to the front of a ninety-cent composition book from the sale and covered the whole thing in packing tape, and it survived the year in a backpack.
That is the use I would recommend it for. As a wall sheet it is fine and forgettable. As the front of something a kid owns, it earns its place.
The part to think about before you hand it over: this verse promises, and an eleven-year-old who prays for something specific and does not get it will bring that back to you. She did, in February, about her grandfather. The file is not responsible for that and neither am I, but you should choose this one knowing the conversation is coming rather than getting caught flat.
You Are Mine Isaiah 43, With a Name Written Underneath
I print these for the Sunday school room when I fill in. One per kid, their name written under the verse in marker, laminated, and they use it as a placemat at the table and take it home at the end. It costs almost nothing and the four-year-olds treat it like a certificate.
At home the eight-year-old has one taped to her desk. She wrote her own name on it, which was better than my handwriting anyway.
Here is the fiddly part. The layout runs right to the edges of the page, so there is nowhere to put a name without printing over the art. I ended up scaling to ninety percent and letting the margin do the work, which looks slightly off-center if you stare at it. Do one test print before you run twelve. I did not, and I threw away twelve.
Fifty Bingo Cards, for the Day the Co-op Shows Up
Danielle hosts co-op day twice a month and there are fourteen kids in her living room, ages three to twelve. This is the set for that. Fifty distinct cards means nobody shares, nobody sits out, and the wide age range does not matter because looking at a picture of Noah works at four and at eleven.
It filled forty minutes on a rainy Thursday. Forty minutes is a real number when you have fourteen kids and lunch is not for a while.
The cost is not the file, it is the printing. Fifty cards on cardstock is a genuine chunk of a toner cartridge, and you will run it maybe four or five times in a year. She laminated hers, which was another afternoon. And bingo reviews, it does not teach. The first round with a new group was half the room staring at a drawing of Jonah with no idea who he was, so pre-teach the names or the game does nothing but pass time.
The Forty-Card Set, Which Fits an Actual Room
This is the one I would buy for a Sunday school class. Our little-kids room runs twelve to sixteen depending on who is traveling, and forty cards covers that with room for the visitors who show up in September when everybody restarts their church attendance.
Same characters, same format, less printing. I keep mine in a gallon bag in the closet with the markers, and the bag is why they are still usable.
Do not buy this and the fifty set. I nearly did, sitting there in August with a cart open, thinking one is for home and one is for church. They overlap almost completely. Pick by the largest number of kids you will ever have in one room, buy that one, and put the money into cardstock instead, because cardstock is what actually runs out.
The Small Bingo Set That Rides Around in a Bag
The base set is the kitchen table version. Three kids, Friday afternoon, the week’s characters getting reviewed one more time before it all falls out of their heads over the weekend. It also goes in the bag for the orthodontist waiting room, which is a use I did not plan and now rely on.
With my three we burn through the variety fast. By the fourth play they recognize their own card and the game gets short. Danielle’s four rotate more, so it lasts her longer.
The thing I had to fix myself: I wanted calling cards and cut my own from a second print, which took an evening with a paper trimmer and my three-year-old handing me scraps. Not hard, just not something I expected to be doing. And the same warning as the big set applies. It reviews what your curriculum already taught. Handed to a kid cold, it is just pictures.
A Baby Silhouette I Bought for Labels, Not for Lessons
Be clear with yourself about what this is. It is a cut file and clip art, not a lesson, and it teaches nothing. I use it on labels. The nursery bin at church, the front of the folder where the three-year-old’s coloring lives, a sticker on the box in the closet so I might actually open it next June.
It does the job it does. Clean edges, scales down without falling apart, and if you have a cutting machine you can put it on a vinyl label that will not peel off a plastic bin in a week.
If your budget for the year is tight, this is the first thing to cut from the cart. I mean that. Verse sheets and one game beat decoration every single time, and I have watched myself buy the pretty thing instead of the useful thing in August more than once. Also, on dark cardstock the silhouette disappears into the paper, so keep it on light stock or invert it yourself.
The Family Silhouette That Does Not Match Every Family
At home this one works. It went on the cover of our family devotion binder and on the chart on the fridge where we track who read what, and it makes those two things look like they belong to the same thing, which is more than it sounds like.
The file itself is fine. Simple, clear, prints small without turning into a smudge, which is more than I can say for the children set below.
I do not use it in the Sunday school room, and that is deliberate. It shows two parents and children, and there are kids in that room whose houses do not look like that. One of them is in my daughter’s class and I know exactly what her Sundays are like. A picture that quietly tells a seven-year-old her family is the wrong shape is not worth the decoration. Home, yes. Classroom wall, no.
Odd Name, Decent Bulletin Board Filler
The word corporate in the title threw me completely. I assumed it meant business slides and nearly scrolled past. It is a group of children standing together, and corporate here is doing something churchy that the listing never explains.
Where it earns its keep is the back-to-school display in the church hallway, the one somebody has to fill in the last week of August. Silhouettes across the bottom, names above them, done in an evening. I also used it on name tags for the first Sunday back.
The figures are generic on purpose, which is fine at poster size and useless small. On a name tag at two inches wide the kids read as gray blobs and one of the six-year-olds asked why there were mittens on his tag. Print it big or leave it out. And like the other two cut files, this is decoration, so buy it after the things that actually teach, not before.
A Few Last Thoughts
If you already have a curriculum you paid for, the shortest path is three purchases, not sixteen. Pick two or three verse sheets that match units you know are coming, the fall character unit and the spring Easter one, buy the one bingo set sized to the largest room you will ever be in, and stop. Skip the cut files unless you are the person who actually makes covers and labels, and you know if you are. Then go open the box in the closet before you buy anything at all. I finally opened mine on Sunday and found two of the exact verse pages I had just put in a cart, plus a full pack of cardstock I bought last August at the same sale, still sealed.
Danielle asks me every year what to add to a boxed curriculum, and my answer has stopped being a list. The program handles the teaching. What it does not handle is the wall, the door, the front of the binder, the twenty minutes on a Friday when everyone is done. That is the gap these fill, and it is a small gap, which is why the total spend here should be small too. As for whether any of this works if your kids are in regular school like mine, it works better, honestly. Nobody at their school is hanging Isaiah 43 on a door, so when it shows up at home it is the only place it lives, and they notice it more than Danielle’s four notice theirs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a full curriculum or are printables enough?
If you are homeschooling everything, you need a spine, and printables fill gaps around it. If your kids are in school like mine and you are adding the bible part at home, printables alone are genuinely enough.
When is the best time to buy homeschool printables?
Late July through August, when everyone is planning and bundles go on sale. Buying in October because you are behind is how you end up with files you never open.
How do I stop collecting files I never print?
Print the first page of anything you buy the same week you buy it. If you do not print it that week, you were shopping, not planning. That rule has saved me a lot of money.
