Animal Topic Planning
We love learning about animals and often include animal studies in our home education. Here is a general plan of how we make sure that we are covering lots of different subject areas when we do an animal topic.
Activity Village Blog - What's New?
New Snake Worksheets
Did you know it's World Snake Day on 16th July?
Guest Post - Jubilee Lettering
With the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee this year we thought it might be fun to create a message to display on our window.
Guest Post - Making Jubilee Luminaries
Shelly and her children make some stunning luminaries to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Adapt for any royal occasion!
New Easter Handwriting Readiness Worksheets
Working on pencil control is fun when the dotted lines you are tracing come with chicks and lambs and bunnies and Easter eggs to entice you from one side to the other!
More Easter Colour by Number Pages
These cute Easter colour by number pages are designed for your youngest children, using only the numbers 1 to 3 or 1 to 4 and therefore only 3 or 4 colours. We think the kids will enjoy colouring in the bunny, chick and lamb.
Adding to our Easter Scrapbook Paper Collection
Bunnies, eggs and oh so pretty designs cover our lastest Easter scrapbook in lovely pastel colours. These Easter scrapbook paper pages are not just perfect for scrapbooks - they are useful for all sorts of craft activities too.
New Subitising Skills Resources
Subitising is the official term for being able to recognise how many objects you see without having to count each one individually.
Guest Post - Creating Stained Class Cross Pictures
These super stained glass cross pictures are the perfect Easter or Sunday School craft, look beautiful on display, and can be adapted for a range of ages.
Palindrome Day is Coming Up...
... and we've got lots of fun ideas and printable activities for you to enjoy with the kids to celebrate this special date!
New Palindrome Resources
We've been learning about palindromes this week, getting ready for Twosday (or Palindrome Day) on Tuesday 22nd February.
New Black History Month Resources
We've added some simple, short biography printables and writing pages to our Black History Month and Famous People collections.
Adding to Our Tigers Section
It's Year of the Tiger from 1st February 2022, so a great excuse to add to our tigers section!
Guest Post - Making Tiger Suncatchers
A suncatcher craft is always popular with children and so effective for display in classroom windows or at home.
New Chinese New Year Coded Messages
Our picture code printables have been so popular that Natalie has made 3 new coded "messages" for Chinese New Year for the kids to decipher.
Guest Post - A New Tiger Craft
With 2022 being the Year of the Tiger we thought it would be fun to try a tiger craft. Here's how we did i
Guest Post - Writing Christmas Acrostic Poems
Here are some good hints and tips for tackling Christmas acrostic poems - a fun poetry activity to try with the kids this year - from Shelly.
New Year Colouring Fun for 2022
I'm a long way off being ready for Christmas, but for some reason I'm already on top of 2022!
An Assortment of New Christmas Worksheets
We've been adding bits and bobs to our collection of Christmas worksheets and there are more coming this week too.
Our 2022 Planner Pages Are Up!
For the 10th (or maybe 11th) year running, we have produced our popular planner pages, ready to print and use to organise your lives!