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For those of us who are artistically challenged (me), templates can make crafting with the kids a lot easier! You can use them as a base for collage crafts, as a reverse stencil to paint around, as a colouring-in outline, and in many more ways.
...with these new acrostic poem printables! We now have printables for 6 words: Bonfire, Fireworks, Guy Fawkes, Rocket and Sparkler. Not for the faint-hearted!
I've been making these planner pages since 2012 and every year I get frantic emails about this time (or earlier - sorry!) asking when next year's are coming out. Well, here they are!
All the kids we know love dot to dot puzzles, so we are adding more and more to the website. Here are our three latest pages, for Bonfire Night.
We've just added four new jigsaws to our Bonfire Night collection. They are so quick to make and very easy to store, and a useful addition to your Bonfire Night activities.
Just three new lacing cards for Bonfire Night - but I think they are fun ones, particularly Guy Fawkes hat! The hat is the simplest for younger children because of its easy outline, following by the rocket and then the trickier bonfire.
If you can't - or don't want to - head out into the cold on Bonfire Night, you can bring it indoors with these fun playdough mats, which prompt the kids to get started with some exciting playdough creations.
There were so many possibilities to choose from for these new Diwali tracing pages, and I might have gone a little overboard - I added 21 new pages before I forced myself to stop!
By special request, today we have added more Diwali handwriting worksheets to the website. You will find our normal range - finger tracing, word tracing and then combined handwriting worksheet - for the words diya, rangoli, lights, Diwali and Lakshmi.
The photo below shows just a small selection of the Halloween crafts that we have created for Activity Village over the past few years. If you haven't explored already, why not have a look and find something to do with the kids this Halloween?
I hopnestly can't think of anything I would rather be doing more right now than making a face, horns, ears and arms for the fluffy monster playdough mat in this new collection!
These new Halloween maths worksheets have been a lot of fun to put together, and cover a good amount of ground - simple counting worksheets, subtraction and addition, patterns, ordinal numbers and some tricker maths problems.
Most kids love dot to dot pages, and I hope the kids love this brand new set of 7 Halloween dot to dots.
Our vocabulary printables are proving very popular, so we've put together a set for Diwali, which is coming up very soon!
Just added - these "complete the picture" puzzles for Halloween will keep the kids busy!
Here are five new lacing cards for Halloween. With fairly simple outlines they can all be attempted by your youngest children, by simply punching around the edges and threading a shoe-lace through the holes.
Just added to the website in plenty of time for your Halloween preparations, these new Halloween colouring pages are aimed at the younger age group with simple outlines and plenty of smily faces!
Use the season as an excuse to practise your spellings with these new additions to our autumn worksheets collection.
If we had an animal of the week - which we don't, really - this week's would be the giraffe!
Sarah has done an amazing job of sorting out our African Animals section this week, adding nearly a hundred new printable pages and filling in some gaps!