Activity Village Blog - What's New?

Get the kids writing acrostic poems about Spring - and spring flowers like tulips, daffodils and snowdrops, or a spring animal or two!

We were so excited to watch Jenny Jones win Great Britain's first ever snow medal at the Winter Olympics that we couldn't resist celebrating with our own colouring page and poster.

There's been lots of talk recently about how beavers should be re-introduced into the country as they can help to prevent flooding - something that the south of England has been getting a lot of this year!

As part of our Russia topic we thought we would take a look at some traditional stories from Russia, including this delightful traditional fairy tale, The Fire Bird.

Take a trip around some of the world's most well-known and best-loved landmarks with our collection of printable postcards. They print out onto paper and then it's just a question of colouring, writing, folding and gluing.

I've just added to the site a brand new collection of handwriting worksheets based around winter sports. They would be fun to do any time but of course we've created them with the Winter Olympics in mind.

We've got three new "famous people" pages on the site today, and they are all great footballers! If your kids are fans of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and the retired David Beckham, have a good explore below.

Whether you are looking at goldfish for a pet theme or for Chinese New Year (the Chinese regard goldfish as particularly lucky) - you'll want to check out our goldfish topic pages because we've just done a BIG update!

I am honestly in awe of the crafts that Sarah has come up with for our Russian topic.