Favorites list for kids: Favorite Things List – Printable Activity Sheet for Kids

Favorite Things List – Printable Activity Sheet for Kids

When I first created this free printable, I was looking for a simple way to connect with each of my children and it’s been so much fun looking back at how their favorites change over the years! This favorite things list is the perfect way to connect & learn about your kiddos!

Spending Quality Time
With Your Kids…

As a work from home-homeschool mom, it’s safe to say I spend a lot of time with my children. 

Being with my kids all the time doesn’t mean I’m always getting that quality time in though — because let’s face it, quantity doesn’t always equal quality.

It’s so incredibly important that we spend little moments with each of our children individually from time to time.

Getting to know who they are, what they are passionate about, and just simply enjoying the little moments.

I love my children to the moon and back, but giving them my time for lessons and direction all day long can definitely wear me down. The pure exhaustion and overwhelming nature of motherhood can sometimes steal those quiet personal moments with your kids and it’s a frustrating place to be!

I created this favorite things list to get some of that quality time back!

Not only is this a fun way to connect and get to know your child on a more personal level, it can also be a simple stress reliever for Mom.

Think about it, you get to sit and focus on this amazing little human you’ve been chosen to care for!

Looking for other simple ways to connect with your children one-on-one? Check out how we do quality time in our home!

Connect Using Our
Favorite Things List…

Let’s talk about favorite things for just a moment.

We all have them. 

From drinks to movies, there is always one we prefer over all the others.

My kids and I had a great time coming up with the questions for this list and I hope you enjoy using it as a special way to connect with your kiddo on a brand new level!

Keep in mind, this favorite things list can easily go both ways!

Start by asking your child the questions, then print a second copy for them to ask you!

Who knows, you both might just learn something new about each other along the way!

I did this with my 11-year-old son and it was so much fun! I got to tell him the story behind my favorite song and he told me all the details about his favorite historical figure.

H

ow to Turn Your Favorite Things List
into a Keepsake…

Want to get even more out of this printable? Try some of these extra creative ideas to extend the fun!

Take and print off a picture of your child on the day they complete their survey, paste it on the back with the date, and laminate!

You can even add additional things like their handprint, or something cute they said while you were working on the survey together. Make it personal and have fun with it!

This could be a super fun project!

Hole punch today’s survey and put it in a small 3 ring binder.

Let your child get creative and make a fun binder cover page, adding illustrations to the back of their survey.

Then add in additional things that represent all their favorites! From a fact sheet on their favorite animal to pictures of them playing their favorite game! Turn all their favorites into memories.

You can even turn this project into a family affair by adding dividers for each person’s favorite things list & extras!

Date and save your child’s list in a simple folder, repeating it 1 year later (close to the same date if possible).

Then, take some time to compare the answers to see what has changed or stayed the same.

Repeating this activity year after year is a simple way to see how your children mature and grow over time!

Free Favorite Things List Printable Download

Love This Free Printable Favorite Things List? Share it on social media and bookmark it for later use! You can also check out all of our other kid activities HERE.

Ready to download? If you are ready to connect with your kids on a more personal level, the favorite things list is a wonderful door opener. Check out all the details on how to get yours below!

Meet the Author

Hey guys! I’m Mary, homeschool mom of 3 amazing kiddos.

I’m so excited that you decided to check out my little corner of the world!

If you have been following our journey for any length of time, you already know that I’m obsessed with coffee, organization, and all things simple.

I’m also a huge dog lover and introvert 💗

My homeschool style is very eclectic.

I enjoy a solid mixture of structure and free range. I set goals for myself and my children each week, but I put no pressure on perfection.

We use a wide variety of curriculum in our home.

Some of our current favorites are The Good and the Beautiful, Life of Fred, Beautiful Feet Books, and Lifepac.

While my kids do spend a good amount of time learning at desks, they also spend countless hours exploring their creativity and practicing a little independence.

I love mountains, rainy days, and sitting by the campfire. 

Our family recently relocated to the PNW and we have been enjoying finding new nature spots to explore together 🙌🏼

I can’t wait to connect and share all the things I’ve learned on our new journey! 

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Just a Note…

Thanks for checking out the kid activities portion of the blog! 

Typically summer is the most productive time for my blog. However, our family is currently living in temporary housing and we do not see an end in sight (thank you housing marking 😪) — meaning my workspace & supplies to produce quality content it extremely limited.

I am still working, but it’s nothing like normal.

As always, we appreciate your patience! 

If you enjoyed this article or simply want to see more of our journey, feel free to follow us on social media for more frequent updates.

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This group is open to all homeschool moms.

Whether you are already knee-deep in your homeschool journey or just dipping your toes in — all homeschool moms are welcome!

Looking forward to connecting!

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20 questions to ask your kids

The 2013 version of Tracy Chappell’s annual survey of her daughters’ favourite things.

Anna and Avery talk about a few of their favourite things. Photo: Tracy Chappell

Follow along as Today’s Parent senior editor Tracy Chappell shares her refreshingly positive take on parenting her two young daughters. She’s been blogging her relatable experiences for our publication since 2005.

Last year, a friend sent me this brilliant, yet simple, way to get a snapshot of your child’s interests in just a few random questions. The idea is that you do it each year around their birthday, and eventually make it into a book for them. I will probably never remember to do that, but I love the idea!

We only did it once last year, around the time of Avery’s birthday, so I’m happy that I’ve now at least remembered to do it twice in a row. It’s always enlightening, and a bit hilarious what your kids are presented with such randomness.

Anna: Age seven-and-a-half
Avery: Age five

1. What is your favourite colour?
Anna: Yellow (she’s so over pink)
Avery: Purple

2. What is your favourite toy?
Anna: My new bunny (from our first-ever trip to Build-a-Bear for Avery’s birthday this month. Her name is Vanessa.)
Avery: Barbie and the doll house (This beautiful doll house I bought them after much deliberation sat largely un-played-with for the last two years. Then, our basement flooded, and we had to pull everything out, and now that the dollhouse is dominating our living room, it’s become a favourite thing.)

3. What is your favourite fruit?
Anna: Pineapple
Avery: Watermelon

4. What is your favourite TV show?
Anna: The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog
Avery: Lalaloopsy (I didn’t know this was a show? Clearly there is a lot of unsupervised TV time in my house.)

5. What is your favourite thing to eat for lunch?
Anna: Mini hamburgers (This is our new find for a happy packed lunch for Anna, with little packets of ketchup, of course. )
Avery: Grilled cheese (And I thought it would be soggy, but this is Avery’s favourite packed lunch. Who knew?)

6. What is your favourite outfit?
Anna: My sparkly purple dress
Avery: The dress that is brown with pink flowers (Still not over dresses. In fact, Avery and her new friend have vowed to wear dresses to school every single day.)

7. What is your favourite game?
Anna: Headbanz (Avery just got this for her birthday but, apparently, Anna has played this somewhere around a million times and loves it. I recall playing it this summer and laughing so hard I was crying. Although alcohol was involved — no children.)
Avery: Cut the Rope (She just got it for her birthday — a fun new take on Connect 4.)

8. What is your favourite snack?
Anna: Bear Paws
Avery: Cookies! (Me too!)

9. What is your favourite animal?
Anna: Dog (Anna has always wanted a cat, but her uncle’s awesome dog, Cassie, has converted her to a dog lover.)
Avery: Little baby bunnies (Not that she’s ever really seen one…)

10. What is your favourite song?
Anna: “Trouble” by Taylor Swift
Avery: “Red” by Taylor Swift (No surprises here.)

11. What is your favourite book?
Anna: The Magic Tree House series (And I love that she now reads them all by herself, though now I’ll never know what happens in Camelot!)
Avery: Disney Princess Adventure Stories (I bought this for Avery for her birthday to try to validate her princess adoration with some stories that aren’t about the princesses getting married and living happily ever after.)

Read more: Should little girls play with princess stuff? >

12. Who is your favourite friend to play with?
Anna: Dianne (Anna is bummed that D isn’t in her class this year.)
Avery: Anna (Seriously! This totally shocked me. There’s hope for sister harmony yet.)

13. What is your favourite sport?
Anna: Hockey (Though she says she’s absolutely, positively not playing after this season, which she says every year.)
Avery: Running. Running is really easy. (Maybe we’ll run together soon?)

14. What is your favourite thing to do outside?
Anna: Do things with balls (Like bouncing balls!)
Avery: Jump in the bouncy castle (Sean’s sister gave us a small bouncy castle a few years ago that has pretty much been the central entertainment at our house at any gathering. It is one sturdy castle.)

15. What is your favourite drink?
Anna: Five Alive
Avery: Iced Tea (Last year she said water!)

16. What is your favourite holiday?
Anna: Halloween, of course! (Because Anna is obsessed with candy.)
Avery: Christmas

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night?
Anna: My bunny!
Avery: My kitty! (Also from Build-a-Bear. She invented the name Rien for her)

18. What is your favourite thing to eat for breakfast?
Anna: An everything bagel with cream cheese and jam (eww)
Avery: Smoothies (I’m thrilled that my kids want these every morning now, especially since they don’t like a lot of dairy products.)

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday?
Anna: Something at East Side Mario’s (Which has become our birthday destination.)
Avery: Pizza (Probably at East Side Mario’s.)

20. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Anna: A teacher and a mom
Avery: A bus driver

(Love my kids!)

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List of children – Documentation – Information system “FavorIT”

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An error occurred in the accounting of the contingent. I opened the “List of Children” directory, in which I found lists of other people’s children who were not entered, while the layout had not yet been loaded. How can I delete the data of children in the directory? Children from all schools in Kazakhstan are on the list. Do not touch, do not delete! It’s not a mistake! You need to focus on the School 9 Enrollment Application0014	Sept. 21, 2021, 9:20 a.m.
How to remove a mistakenly loaded child from the system? It is necessary to follow the sequence of deletion: 1) Addresses of students 2) Order for enrollment in school 3) Application for enrollment in school 4) List of children. Next, we update the partition, you may need to clear the cache. We go to the list of the Personal card, where this child should disappear from the list	Sept. 24, 2021, 4:59 p.m.

Favorites of Catherine II and other emperors: portraits of beloved monarchs.

Publications of the Museums section

Ladies and gentlemen who drove our sovereigns crazy have gone down in history. And some of them are in the history of Russian art. Let’s take a look at the most interesting portraits of beloved monarchs and try to guess what their charm was .

Vasily Golitsyn

Unknown artist. Portrait of Vasily Golitsyn. XVII century. State Historical Museum

Favorite of Tsarevna Sofya Alekseevna, regent of the Russian state during the infancy of Ivan V and Peter I. Golitsyn headed the government, led the troops and was known as a lover of European culture. What kind of relationship connected the prince with his patroness is unknown. Alexei Tolstoy in “Peter the Great” paints a convincing picture of ardent carnal passion, but he has no evidence.

The portrait of Golitsyn by an unknown artist is naive in style and proportions – in the 17th century in the Russian kingdom only such primitivist parsins could paint. Above the head of the prince is the coat of arms of his family, in his hands is a visible sign of his political success – the text of “Eternal Peace” with the Commonwealth. On the chest – an award for a campaign against the Crimean Khan in 1687. The artist managed to write out the sable and velvet better than to convey the appearance of Golitsyn – it is unlikely that he was so hunched. His face seems to be attractive, at least he shaved his beard, contrary to custom, leaving his mustache in the Polish manner. His contemporaries condemned him for such smartness.

Maria Cantemir

Ivan Nikitin. Presumably a portrait of Maria Cantemir. 1710s–20s GMZ “New Jerusalem”

Maria was the daughter of the deposed ruler of Moldova, who found refuge at the court of Peter the Great. Her brother Antiochus became one of the first poets of the Russian Empire, and she herself became the favorite of the emperor. In 1722, Maria turned out to be pregnant, and Peter the Great’s attention to her was so great that some courtiers expected him to divorce the rootless Marta Skavronskaya in order to marry a Moldavian “princess”, whose mother, in addition, was from the Byzantine Cantacuzenes. But the newborn died, and Peter lost interest in Mary. Two years later, having learned about his wife’s affair with Willim Mons, the emperor returned to Mary again, but died a few months later. She settled on the estate, lived in abundance, remained unmarried and died at the age of 57.

The surviving portrait depicts either Mary or her sister. It was painted by Ivan Nikitin, the first Russian portrait painter who learned to paint in the European manner. By the way, it was Peter who sent him to study in Italy. The girl in Nikitin’s painting is dressed in a discreet outfit of noble dark colors, adorned with jewels and fine lace, which cost a lot of money in those days. The mantle, trimmed with ermine, indicates her princely dignity.

Ernst Biron

Unknown artist of the 19th century (after an original by Louis Caravaque, 1730). Portrait of Ernst Biron. State Historical Museum

The gloomy favorite of Anna Ioannovna, thanks to which the word “Bironism” appeared in the Russian language, denoting both state violence in half with stupidity, and the dominance of the Germans. Anna’s relationship with Biron lasted for many years – a poor young man became her secretary when she was still the Dowager Duchess of Courland. Having become the All-Russian Empress, Anna took him with her to Petersburg and provided the favorite with the title of her late husband. After the death of the patroness, Biron quarreled with Anna Leopoldovna and was exiled. He died under Catherine the Great, who returned the dukedom to him, at the age of 82.

Painting by an unknown artist (possibly a copy of Caravaque) is the earliest known depiction of Biron. Here, unlike his other portraits, he is without signs of the ducal title (ermine mantle and crown on the pillow). This means that the painting belongs to the period when he was already Anna’s favorite, but had not yet become the Duke of Courland.

Ivan Shuvalov

Fedor Rokotov. Portrait of Ivan Shuvalov. 1760. State Hermitage Museum

Empress Elizabeth Petrovna’s last favorite was 18 years her junior. Shuvalov had a cheerful, kind disposition, he did not pursue honors and money, he did not get into politics, he refused the title of count. He loved art and science – together with Lomonosov he founded Moscow University and the Academy of Arts. After the death of the Empress, he lived abroad and collected art.

The great Russian portraitist Fyodor Rokotov also owes a lot to Shuvalov – at his invitation he came to St. Petersburg, and on the verbal order of the patron he was admitted to the Academy of Arts. Rokotov’s soft painting style suits Shuvalov’s meek character very well. This is an early work of the novice Rokotov, and written not from life, but copied with variations from Toke’s portrait of Shuvalov.

See also:

• Nine faces of Emperor Nicholas I
• Portraits of illegitimate children of Russian emperors
• Valentin Serov and portraits of the Romanovs

Elizaveta Vorontsova

Alexei Antropov. Portrait of Elizabeth Vorontsova. 1762. State Historical Museum

The mistress of Emperor Peter III, who openly expressed her admiration for her, neglecting his wife Catherine the Great, that in St. Petersburg they were quite seriously waiting for a divorce and a new marriage. This, by the way, was one of the reasons for the coup that elevated Catherine II to the throne. Vorontsova was very ugly, unclean, fat, with a broad face and olive skin covered with pockmarks. Why Peter III expressed such a “deplorable taste” is incomprehensible. In the new reign, Vorontsova got married, did not appear at court, and died at 52.

Antropov’s portrait is an example of how art historians date paintings. On Vorontsova’s chest is depicted an imperial portrait studded with diamonds – the sign of the chamber-maid of honor. Peter III granted her this title immediately after her accession to the throne in January 1762. But the ribbon of the Order of St. Catherine, which she received on June 9 of the same year from his hands, is not in the picture. This means that Antropov painted the portrait during these six months of the reign of Peter III. The picture looks unsightly – firstly, it remained unfinished, apparently due to the coup; secondly, it has suffered greatly from time. By the way, Antropov also performed other orders for the emperor – a rare example of Peter III’s interest in a Russian, and not in a foreigner. Apparently, it was Vorontsova who drew the emperor’s attention to this artist.

Platon Zubov

Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder. Portrait of Platon Zubov. 1793. Tretyakov Gallery

Catherine the Great had so many favorites, and all of them are so handsome, that it is, honestly, difficult to choose whose portrait to write about. Take, for example, Platon Zubov, the last favorite of the Empress. She was 60, he was 22 when their relationship started. Together they spent seven years, until her death, she called him “fast” and showered with diamonds. The courtiers hated him and considered mediocrity.

The portrait of the visiting Austrian Lumpy the Elder was created around the fourth year of Zubov’s favour. A slender handsome man in a powdered wig is depicted here as an intellectual and statesman (at a desk with a map of Poland, documents and ink), who thinks about the fate of Russia day and night (dressed in a dressing gown).

Ekaterina Nelidova

Dmitry Levitsky. Portrait of Ekaterina Nelidova. 1793. Russian Museum

Favorite of Emperor Paul I, who, apparently, inherited from his father a love for ugly women: Nelidova was bad-faced and small in stature, although she had excellent posture and a beautiful figure. She served first as a maid of honor to Pavel’s first wife, Grand Duchess Natalya Alekseevna, who died early, then to the second, Empress Maria Feodorovna, with whom she became very friendly. A few years later, Pavel replaced Nelidova with Lopukhina. The former favorite remained an old maid, lived in her old alma mater – the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens, and helped Maria Feodorovna in her charitable deeds.

Levitsky’s portrait is part of the famous Smolyanka series depicting high school girls in theatrical costumes. The 15-year-old future favorite appears here as a soubrette, a flirtatious maid from the Pergolesi opera. She is dressed in a theatrical costume and stands in a dance step from the minuet.

Maria Naryshkina

Salvatore Tonci. Portrait of Maria Naryshkina. 1st half of the 19th century. GMZ “Pavlovsk”

For almost fifteen years, Maria Naryshkina and her children were the second family of Emperor Alexander I. However, the position of the favorite did not prevent her from doing good to other beauties. Her last affair with Prince Grigory Gagarin, from whom, apparently, she gave birth to a boy, led to the final break of the emperor with his beloved.

The portrait by the Italian painter Salvator Tonchi depicts the beautiful Naryshkina according to all the laws of the Empire style that reigned at that time – no ostentatious luxury, gilding, powder.