More Kookaburra Fun...
We've had some kookaburra activities on the site for a while, but there's always room for some more!
Activity Village Blog - What's New?
Adding to Our Dot to Dots Collection
We've just added some new animal and bird dot to dot pages to our collection. Some of them come not only with numbers to join up but with uppercase and lowercase letters tpo - so they are perfect for reinforcing skills as well as just plain fun.
New Learn to Draw Pictures for Ancient Greece
If your children enjoy the Greek myths and finding out more about the gods of Ancient Greece, this new set of learn to draw printables featuring many of the "stars" of the time are sure to prove popular!
Lots of New Activities for Our Japan Topic
If you head to our Japan pages you'll find so many new fun activities to print and enjoy with the kids! Have a look at a number of worksheets, colouring pages, and other printables with a Koi carp kite (koinobori) theme.
Extra Cute Japanese Kokeshi Doll Activities...
We have a page at Activity Village for Children's Day in Japan, celebrated annually on 5th May.
A Reminder to Treat the Earth Well...
It's Earth Day today, 22nd April, and it's one day of the year that we can remind ourselves and our children how precious our planet is, and that we can all work together to save our most important resources.
New Anzac Day Activities
We have received many requests for some Anzac Day activties in recent years, and this year I'm pleased to say that I've got a starter collection up onto the website - if only just in the nick of time!
Activities for the Queen's 90th Birthday
Her Majesty the Queen celebrates her 90th birthday tomorrow - and again on 12th-15th May - and again on 11th June! That's lots of excuses to celebrate with the kids, and we've got lots of activities to help you do just that!
New Rainbow Crafts Added...
I've always loved our rainbow crafts section - I think it has some of Sarah's loveliest craft ideas for children. But this year she has come up with even more lovely ideas!
New St George's Day Fun
We've got some lovely cheerful new mini-bunting to decorate the house or classroom for St George's Day! Also for St George's Day, an excuse to dig out the hama beads and make something fun.
New Passover Section on Activity Village
Sarah and I agree that one of the nicest thing about building Activity Village is learning about new (to us) holidays and celebrations. For some time now we've been wanting to put together a Passover section for the website - and this is the year!
Farm Animal Homes - New Activities
Where does each type of farm animal live? We've matched up the farmer to his farmhouse and all his farm animals to their typical homes with these fun new colouring pages, posters and worksheets.
New Farm Animal Babies - Colouring Pages and Posters
There's nothing more lovely than a field full of new-born lambs on a sunny spring morning - and that's what inspired us to start getting these new farm animal babies printables up on the website.
New Printable Royal Family Mask Collection
We are just days away from the Queen's actual 90th birthday - although we'll be making the most of such a significant landmark birthday and celebrating it again in May and June.
All Sorts of Easter Vocabulary Printables...
...just added to the website, including a variety of flashcards (large, small, with pictures but no words, double-sided), some useful Easter word cards, a word mat, word labelling worksheets and a word scramble too.
Possibly Our Prettiest Puzzles Ever - for Easter!
We've gone pastel for our lastest additions to our Easter puzzles page, and I really do think that we have our cutest (chick match up) and prettiest (spring flower match up) puzzles so far in this collection!
A Selection of New Easter Worksheets...
Take a look at our new counting worksheets, ordinal numbers worksheets and pattern / sequence worksheets, all with pastel Easter illustrations to make them very tempting, just added to the site today.
New Easter Tracing Pages
Trace and colour an egg - and another - and another! In face we have seven new Easter egg tracing pages starting with a very simple outline and ending up with a very pretty egg covered in flowers and dots and lines ...
Our Handwriting Worksheets for Easter
I've just added a complete set of our handwriting worksheets - finger tracing, word tracing and handwriting practice worksheet - for 7 different Easter words: basket, bonnet, bunny, Easter, Easter egg, lamb and rabbit.
Fun New Easter Playdough Mats
Here's something new and fun for Easter this year! Turn the printer on and then get the playdough out - we expect some imaginative and pretty creations using these Easter playdough mats!