Clip Art Galleries and various templates, designed as OxygenOffice extras, have been added to the extensions page for Open Office users to download. I downloaded it – and – oh – my! I can’t tell you how relieved and excited I was to find it!

The gallery has blackline maps, historical maps, continents, countries, clip art of every kind, fraction clip art, vegetables, people, photos, anything that you could ask for as a basic clip art library for teaching, it’s there!!!

The gallery extension can be found here.

If you don’t have open office and want to check it out, go here.

In addition to the extension above, you can download an extension for making CAD drawings, a writer’s tool box, a template for writing scripts + many other fun things.

As a homeschool mom just in the throes of historical timeline planning mania, this discovery could not have been made at a better time! Anyone who needs images for teaching, will really appreciate this gallery.

Another great source for cliipart (posted in the comments at open office) is: http://openclipart.org/

THANK YOU TO THE OPEN OFFICE DEVELOPMENT CREW!!!! This Mom sends you a great big kiss!!!
** Addendum 8/24/08 As Rado pointed out – Open Office is free and open source! Definitely a great program!

*addendum: Since adding the link for the gallery, I felt I should also mention two of my other favorite sites:

Really good clipart / worksheet site for those of you who may have not seen it: Scholastic’s Printables

3-D Paper Crafting projects (like making a model of the Syndney Opera House) can be found at: Canon’s Papercraft site.