Guest Post - Having Fun With Daffodils!
Daffodils are a welcome sign of spring and one of the nation's favourite flowers. Rita and her children enjoy some daffodil activities in this lovely guest post
Activity Village Blog - What's New?
New Printables for the Cambridge Family
We've updated and added some lovely new printables for the Cambridge family.
Our "Kate" was still wedding her wedding dress so we've changed her into a much smarter blue suit and updating all the activities in her section.
Introducing a New Mini Topic for Kites
As we've been working on our new Weather topic, we decided it might be fun to pull together our existing kite content and create some new worksheets and printables to give us a mini topic on Kites.
Welcoming a New Royal Baby!
The big news this week has been the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's third baby - a little boy - on 23rd April.
New Flower Maths Worksheets
These new flower maths worksheets and maths activities are aimed at your younger children and work on counting, ordering, patterns and times tables.
This Week's Colouring Quotes Have Home as the Theme
"Home is where the heart is" and "Welcome to our home" are the two "quotes" I've chosen for this week's colouring quote pages and cards. And this week there's an extra, simpler, colouring page and card too.
New Flower Scissor Activities for Cutting Practice
Get the children's scissors out and have a go at these latest additions to our Flower Scissor Activities collection!
Lovely New Flower Handwriting Worksheets
Who could resist these lovely new flower handwriting worksheets?
Work on Fine Motor Skills with these New Weather Lacing Cards
Lacing cards featuring this cute raindrop, cloud, rainbow, umbrella and snowball are a fun way to extend your weather topic with younger kids and get in some fine motor skills practice at the same time!
A Brand New Bumper Collection of Weather Jigsaws!
We've just added a large new collection of weather themed jigsaws! We've got picture jigsaws which can be adapted to all ages showing the main weather symbols and spelling jigsaws for weather words.
Beginning a Weather Puzzle Collection with these Weather Grid Copies
Have your kids tried one of our grid copy puzzles yet? If not, here's a brand new collection of weather-themed puzzles for them to have a go with. They are fun to do but also involve all sorts of skills to complete.
Have Some Fun With These St George's Day Playdough Mats
Here's a new collection of playdough mats for St George's Day - or for a dragon, knight or fairy tale topic!
Adding to our Collection of Shakespeare Worksheets
With William Shakespeare's birthday coming up (23rd April) we thought it was a good time to add to our collection of Shakespeare Worksheets, and we've got some
Topping Up our Handwriting Worksheets with a New Weather Collection
We've just added a big new collection of handwriting worksheets to the website - three varieties as always for each word, for absolute beginners up to improvers - with weather as the theme.
Guest Post - Beginning Subtraction
Subtraction can sometimes be a little bit scarier than addition for kids to learn, so Shelly has written about some fun ideas to help in this useful guest post.
Two New Earth Day Colouring Pages
This week, instead of two new colouring quote pages, we have one colouring quote that doubles up for Earth Day (featuring one of our favourite quotes from The Lorax by Dr Seuss), and a Happy Earth Day colouring page and card too.
Learning About Anne Frank
Our "Famous Person" this week is Anne Frank.
New Weather Colouring Pages Just Added
We've got a great collection of Weather Colouring Pages on the website, and we've just added some more - as set of "weather symbol" colouring pages
New Bookmarks, Certificates and Other Earth Day Printables
Our newest collection of Earth Day Printables includes quote bookmarks, double-sided postcards, writing paper and fun certificates to reward children's efforts at recyc
All Sorts of New Earth Day Worksheets...
Just added! We've got new story paper, handwriting worksheets, alphabetical order, cloze and more. Explore our new Earth Day Worksheets here.