Activity Village Blog - What's New?

If you know someone who has succumbed to flu or some other ghastly winter bug, why not print out one of these Get Well Soon cards and get the kids to fill it up with pictures or friendly messages - it could hardly fail to cheer up the recipient!

If the kids like dogs, and to tie in with Chinese New Year of the Dog, we've got 2 new word search puzzles, 2 new mazes, a boggler, an alphabet challenge and a match up to choose

We've just added some fun new lacing cards to print out for the kids to lace for Chinese New Year, including some rather lovely, colourful dogs - Year of the Dog is coming up, of course - that are perfect for younger children!

The role that Millicent Fawcett played in history is going to recognised this year, when her statue takes its place outside the Houses of Parliament alongside those of Sir Winston Churchill, Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, amonst others.

We've taken six of our favourite Chinese proverbs (the same proverbs which feature in our copywork worksheets and photographic display posters, here) and prompted children to t

Being kind doesn't really need a reward - but noticing when a child is being kind can encourage them to think of more ways to be kind in the future, and establish a kindness habit.

As always, our acrostic poem printables come in 4 versions so there should be something just perfect for the writing project you have in mind, whether it be an acrostic poem or something else.

We continue to add to our Maths Stage by Stage pages with 4 new sets of "addition within 20" worksheets, designed to introduce a variety of strategies to the kids - counting on, add by making 10, using a number line etc.

We've taken 6 of our favourite Chinese proverbs - ones that we think that will provoke children to think and perhaps serve as a starting point for some interesting discussions - and turned them into photographic posters.