Learning to Compare Numbers
These fun worksheets introduce the concept of comparing groups of objects that are just one apart, working up from comparing 3 with 4, to 4 with 5 and so on.
Activity Village Blog - What's New?
Ten Towers and Ten Frames for Counting Activities - All NEW!
Ten frames and ten towers are useful for all sorts of counting activities, from the youngest child beginning to understand one to one correspondence to the older child grappling with place value and base 10.
15 Sets of New Mix and Match Number Cards
These cards print 8 to a page and have been designed to be quick and easy to slice or cut with scissors. Introduce a new set here and there as you need them and use them for labelling, matching games, memory and so much more.
Colourful Monster Number Posters ...
Brighten up the walls with this set of monster number posters featuring some really gorgeous monsters in bright colours.
Colourful Early Learning Number Playdough Mats for Little Ones
These playdough mats don't take too much printer ink, but they manage to look bright and colourful anyway! Laminate if you want and then get the kids to form the number shapes out of playdough.
Fun New Counting Scene Worksheets
These lovely "scenes" make counting fun! We've provided lots of counting practice with these 7 new worksheets. They cover spring, summer, autumn, winter, under the sea, the classroom and the farmyard.
Guest Post - Two Simple Squirrel Art Project Ideas
Here are two simple squirrel art projects which you can adapt for all ages of children and result in something that the kids will be proud to display! These pages have been used in the squirrel art projects below:
Learn About Mary Seacole and Enjoy Our New Collection of Resources
This week we've been taking a look at the interesting life of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican-born British businesswoman who tended to the sick and wounded in the Crimean war.
Topping Up Our Collection of Back to School Puzzles
These "back to school" and general school themed puzzles are useful to have on hand to welcome kids back into the classroom, and also for early finishers or perhaps rained-off play time.
Guest Post - Using Activity Village Templates in Painting Projects
In this blog post, Shelly gives us some wonderful ideas for using Activity Village templates in art and craft projects and shows how they can give confidence to children and expand the range of paintings they might attempt.
Learn about Florence Nightingale with these New Resources
Today we have been working on a new collection of activities to introduce Florence Nightingale to children of all ages.
Fun Picture Gallery Printables for Grandparents' Day
Still looking forward to Grandparents' Day, we've added these lovely picture gallery printables.
New Drawing and Designing Frames with Grandparents in Mind
Get the kids drawing pictures and designing trophies and T-shirts with their grannies and grandpas in mind! We've put these new printables in our Grandparents' Day section, but why wait until then ...
An Abundance of Lovely New Puzzles for Grandparents' Day
... or any time! There are some really fun Grandparents' Day puzzles in this new collection - including word search, word scramble, boggler puzzle, alphabet challenge and "how many words".
Start the New School Year with our New "All About Me" Printables
We've just added a bumper collection of printables to our newest topic, All About Me.
Useful Number Templates in Various Styles and Sizes
We've got quirky numbers, and school font numbers (both UK and US), and a few alternative numbers too to try to cater for everybody with these new number templates!
New Photographic Posters for Autumn Displays and Conversations
These posters feature some of the best things about autumn - beautiful leaves to kick through, glorious colours, acorns and conkers and blackberries and more!
Get Ready for Harvest Festival with these Lovely Photographic Posters
I haven't entirely given up on summer yet, but we are beginning to look ahead to the autumn now at Activity Village and making a head start on some new posters.
Topping Up Our Grid Copy Puzzles with Animals and Birds...
In fact we've added so many new grid copy puzzles this week that we can't show all on them on the image below!
Guest Post - Out and About with our Scavenger Hunts!
In this guest post, Shelley has some great ideas for going out and about with our scavenger hunts and shows how they can help the children practise their spelling and vocabulary whilst having lots of fun.