Nurtured Neurons is a membership site packed with printable educational activities for early years through Grade 2 – worksheets, crafts, games, and phonics resources – plus a suite of interactive tools that let you build custom worksheets for your exact word lists, number ranges and phonics focus in seconds. Everything is created by Ash Vernon, a former Early Years Teaching Assistant with ten years of classroom experience.

Everything on Nurtured Neurons is created by Ash Vernon – a former Teaching Assistant with ten years of Early Years classroom experience specializing in phonics, early literacy, numeracy and supporting children with additional needs, as well as a degree in Biological Sciences. These aren’t generic filler activities. Every resource is designed with real child development in mind.

The resources are designed for early years through Grade 2 — roughly ages 3 to 8. That covers Pre-K, preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Many activities also work well for older children who need extra support or practice, and for younger children who are developing quickly.

The library covers phonics and early reading, number sense and early math, fine motor skills, handwriting, crafts, cut-and-paste activities, seasonal and holiday themes, and much more. There are also 25+ interactive worksheet maker tools that generate custom PDFs for your specific needs — spelling lists, number bonds, fact families, sight words, roll-and-read, and more.

Absolutely. All Nurtured Neurons resources are licensed for both personal and classroom use. Print as many copies as you need for your students and use them for morning work, literacy centers, math centers, homework, assessments, or interventions – whatever works for your class.

Yes – a significant portion of members are homeschooling parents. The activities are flexible enough to use independently of any specific curriculum and the custom worksheet tools mean you can always match exactly what you’re working on, whether that’s a specific phonics phase, sight word list, or number range.

Free printables are great, but they’re fixed – you get what you get. Nurtured Neurons combines a large ready-to-use library with custom generator tools that create worksheets tailored to your exact needs in seconds. The resources are also created by someone with genuine classroom expertise, not just designed to look cute – though they do look pretty cute too!

New activities and resources are added every week — usually more frequently than that. Members always have something fresh to explore, and the library grows consistently across all subject areas and themes.

Yes. Memberships can be cancelled at any time with no penalty through your personal account page

The library is organized by subject, theme, season, and skill area so you can browse by what you need. There’s also a search function on the site. The tools suite is listed separately in the main menu – if you need a custom worksheet for a specific word list or number range, that’s your quickest route.