Activity Village Blog - What's New?

With Talk Like A Pirate Day on the horizon, we've been looking at our Pirates section and adding some new activities!

This week we've added four new sets to our Picture Comprehension collection, with a distinctly autumnal theme.

Do you have access to conkers? We've got lots of great conker ideas to enjoy with your younger children at home or in your Early Years setting!

Encourage children to do more writing - and use their brains - by making their own word puzzles! Shelly's latest guest blog talks us through how she tackled it...

As we move into autumn, you might notice that plants are being to make seeds, instead of flowers.

Make learning your 2D shapes fun by turning them into apples! This set of double-sided flash cards, which can also be used as a matching activity, will help children learn their rhombuses, trapezia and heptagons in no time! Find them here:

We have lots of fun ideas and activities for an All About Me topic at home or in your EFYS setting here, covering all seven areas of development and including links to printables within Activity Village.

We thought it was about time that we added to our Life Cycle topic, which has been very popular over the last year. So today we have put together a collection of teaching resources on the life cycle of a squirrel.

Here's a fun peacock craft for younger kids to do - it's quick, easy and you will certainly have what you need on hand.