New Posters for Ancient Greece and the Greek Myths
More for your Ancient Greece studies or to accompany the Greek myths - a collection of bright and colourful posters aimed at younger children. They are fun for display and make great project covers.
Activity Village Blog - What's New?
New Ancient Greece Colouring Pages
Whether you are having a first look at the stories of Ancient Greece with your younger children, or looking in more detail at the Greek myths with older kids, we have some fun colouring pages for you!
New Farm Animal Dot to Dots
Kids can have some fun with these dot to dot pages featuring some of our popular farm animal illustrations. We've got some with simple numbers from 1 to 10 for younger children.
New Farm Animal Vocabulary Printables
Have some fun with farm animal vocabulary using these brand new, colourful printable activities. We've got various sets of flashcards to print and cut out, matching cards, and a word scramble activity.
New Geese Activities
You might have noticed that we've been filling in some farm yard gaps recently! Have some fun with the kids with these new geese activities, including story paper, tracing page, handwriting worksheet and fun printable posters...
New Donkey Printables
Visit our Donkey page for all sorts of new fun printables celebrating this lovely four-legged creature. Fun for a seaside or farm theme, or to accompany a visit to a donkey sanctuary, perhaps?
Brand New Vesak and Buddhism Themed Activities
One of the most important dates in the Buddhist year is Vesak (or Wesak, or Buddha Day) when the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha are celebrated with many old-established traditions.
More Kookaburra Fun...
We've had some kookaburra activities on the site for a while, but there's always room for some more!
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.