mythology website

part of the cultural literacy in learning Japanese:

official site of mythology made by Shimane prefecture, http://www.japanesemythology.jp/
<2012 is 1300th anniversary of Kojiki>

practice listening to Japanese

[keep up with live, spoken Japanese] nice short podcasts of interviews on business and other topics: http://www.nhk.or.jp/r-asa/

paper craft (PowerPoint) slides for guidance

[thanks for JFLALC's Watanabe-san]

Free download site for paper crafts using PPT. Lots of stuff for New Year events, Setsubun, and so on.
http://www.pulsedesign.jp/test/ms/pipc/html/officelife/template/kodomo_1.html
All files are set for A4 size as default. Make sure to change Slides Size to Letter Size at Design -> Page Setup, before printing them out.