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Every Spring, before St Patrick's Day arrives, we try to update our Rainbow topic page with something new - and this year we've gone rainbow mad! We've got new rainbow colouring pages, new rainbow printables, new rainbow worksheets...
Encourage creative or descriptive writing and enjoy colouring in with our fun new St Patrick's Day Story Paper pages featuring leprechauns, rainbows, pots of gold, shamrocks and even Saint Patrick himself!<
... and we've had so much fun putting together a brand new collection of printables with our "leaping frog" theme!
On 15th February our American visitors will be having their annual day's holiday on 15th February to celebrate George Washington's birthday, now known as Presidents' Day.
Do you ever use playdough mats with the kids? Sarah made two over the weekend - for Pancake Day - and I think they are great fun! You can see one of them below.
Sarah's just suggested that we might do something for National Libraries Day in the UK, which will be held on Satruday 6th February this year. So here's our new National Libraries Day page!
Our new style picture tracing pages are proving a hit with visitors, so we will be rolling them out across the site by "holiday" and topic this year. Have a look at these new Valentine's Day tracing pages, just added today.
I've just added another lovely story to our collection of traditional stories from China - something new for Chinese New Year, perhaps? This one, The Goddess Who Cast The Bell, is a story told about the great Bell Tower in Beijing.
Our new Chinese New Year lacing cards feature simple illustrations of all the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac (in fact, we've made 13 so that you can choose from a sheep or a goat).
Charles Dickens' birthday on 7th February is such a good excuse to revisit some of your favourite Dickens stories and characters! If you are planning on doing something Dickens-related please have a look at our new "portrait" style co
A traditional Burns Night Supper may be an adult affair, with lots of raucous whisky drinking and dancing, but that doesn't mean that you can't enjoy it with the family too!
Since 2011 there has been an World Championship of Ping Pong, also known as the WCPP.
These lovely bright and cheerful printables are perfect for practising your winter vocabulary, and can be used in so many ways in the classroom or home.
It will soon be another Chinese New Year - or Lunar New Year / Spring Festival - and we wlll be seeing in the Year of the Monkey!
Sometimes it is nice to have a bit of colour and excitement even for simple activities like learning early scissor skills - and these new cutting skills printables should do the trick!
Here's a fun way to combine cutting skills with sticking, matching and colouring - a good all in one activity which also happens to be fun!
I've just added some new printable lacing cards to our Spring Lacing Cards page, including a rather cute lamb and a pretty blue bird who seemed to me to be very spring-like! These will stretch to a range of ages.
In the image below you can see just a small selection of our new goal-setting printables - some of my favourites. Adina, Sarah and I designed them to make planning and dreaming and imagining - and, eventually, goal-setting - fun
There are so many fun ways to use these new Spring writing frames - not least to encourage a little bit of writing from your children!
