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In this guest post Sarah talks about ideas for Christmas stained glass crafts with a large group of children. These fun activities will work just as well with a smaller group or as a solo activity, too.
These are our first ever brain teasers, and I don't think they are going to be our last! They were great fun to put together, and we've tried to provide a real challenge here ... not something to be done and crumpled up within moments.
There is so much fun to be had from our collection of Christmas mazes - to which we have just added these 4 new packs of 10 mazes, some easy and some decidedly tricky!
... with these lovely new Christmas colouring pages illustrating each "day" of the Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas. 12 drummers drumming, 11 pipers piping, 10 lords leaping, 9 lading dancing, 8 maids milking - and a cow too ...
We've also been topping up our collection of Christmas colouring cards this week - with two lovely detailed Christmas scenes for older children to colour in for friends and family, a charming boy and girl card, and a set of fun "designy" c
Some of our regular visitors may recognise the lovely "scenes" in this new collection of printable Christmas cards as coming from 3 of our past online advent calendars.
For some time now we have been adding 2 new colouring quotes - a page and a card for each - to the website each week. I've had so many emails asking whether we will be releasing any for Christmas! And the answer is - yes.
With the little robin red-breast often associated with winter and Christmas, we thought it was a good time to update our robins page with these lovely new printables, including greetings card and colouring card, story paper, printable jigsaws and of cou
Put some Christmas music on in the background, bring out the colouring pencils - not forgetting the gold and silver - and sit round the table with some of our lovely Christmas colouring pages. What a simple way to get into the Christmas spirit!
Every Christams we wonder whether it is possible to add more Christmas colouring pages to the website - and then we come up with another idea, and do!
In this festive guest post, Sarah talks about how the Activity Village colouring advent calendar has become a lovely tradition in her home.
I absolutely love these new Christmas stockings from Stasy - they are so versatile!
There are 24 each of these lovely new Christmas quotes bookmarks and lunch box notes. That makes them perfect for slipping into your home made advent calendars! Of course you can enjoy them in lots of other ways. Find them here:
These pretty posters feature some of our favourite Christmas quotes - and lots to think about this Christmas season.
We love a royal wedding here at Activity Village - and now we've got one to look forward to, next May!
We design our jigsaws to be adaptable - and these lovely new winter jigsaws are no exception! First, you can choose between a ready-to-go or a colouring version. Then, choose between a spelling jigsaw or a counting jigsaw.
We've added some really lovely new winter colouring pages to our collection this year - an outdoor winter scene, a cosy indoor winter scene, pretty robins in a winter tree, a gorgous street decorated for winter, Somerset House's winter ice rink
We all know Leonardo da Vinci for his most famous painting - the Mona Lisa. But this week we have been discovering what a talented fellow he really was!
... including a lovely colouring page and poster, story paper and two jigsaws for early learning. Penguins are fun for winter!
New for St Andrew's Day this year we have some fun new colouring pages, colouring bookmarks, colouring cards and story paper - fun for the classroom or home.
Find them here: