Activity Village News

28th November 2008

A Message From Lindsay

As promised, this week we are looking at Advent - with a brand new section devoted to bringing you ideas for home-made advent calendars, and advent printables too. Advent calendars are so exciting for children (of all ages!) and if you have time to make your own you can add some really special touches. You've still got a couple of days to go until December! (We've got some really great ideas for filling up those home-made advent calendars, too!)

Also this week we look forward to New Year 2009 - you'll find lots of new printables on the site. We've got some great new ideas for St Andrew's Day (including a huge stock of notebooking pages for famous Scots!), and some very cute new Christmas and winter colouring pages.

I can't tell you how busy we are at the moment, and how many new activities I have piling up here ready to go online! We are adding new pages each and every day, so please check back often (and tell your friends and family about Activity Village, too!)

What's New At Activity Village?

For UK Visitors - play our Charlie & Lola game and enter our competition for a chance to win a goody bag worth over £100!
Charlie & Lola Game and Competition

We have 6 new Christmas colouring pages (bringing our total Christmas colouring pages to 65!)
Christmas coloring pages

and we have 4 new Winter colouring pages, too.
Winter coloring pages

We have a few more St Andrew's Day crafts, including this cute Paper Cup Scotsman and a fun Soft Toy Nessie, for those of you celebrating Scotland's national holiday on 30th..
St Andrew's Day Crafts

We also have some acrostic poem printables for the classroom or home:
St Andrew's Day and Scottish acrostic poem printables

We've added a really long list of Famous Scots to our Famous People Notebooking pages (perfect for projects at home and at school), including authors, royalty, explorers, inventors, prime ministers, historical heroes and more! (Find a list here)
Famous People Notebooking Pages

Last week we promised you we'd be looking at Advent - and here is a brand new section at Activity Village collecting together our existing Advent Crafts and Advent Printables and adding lots new, including some great new advent calendars you can make (or fold, if you enjoy origami) either with or for the kids, and some fantastic ideas for filling home-made advent calendars. Children love to count down the days to Christmas, and here are plenty of ways to make it more fun!
Advent for kids

We will soon be seeing out 2008 and welcoming in 2009, so we've added a collection of printables for New Year 2009, including goal sheets, acrostic poem printables, writing prompts and more!
New Year printables

And we've added some New Year writing paper for New Year Resolutions, planning and thank you letters.
New Year writing paper

We've got 2009 puzzles to keep the kids busy while waiting for midnight:
New Year puzzles and mazes

And we've got a brand new collection of computer jigsaws for 2009 (which you can download to play later)
New Year Jigsaws

New at AV Baby this week:

Baby Photo Of The Week

Avoiding sleep associations, establishing a good sleep routine, the crying down method, and more...
Baby Sleep

Diary Of A New Mum Week 26
High Chair Hell
In which I assemble - with much difficulty - Jessica-Ann's new high chair, and realise how far we have come in the last 6 months

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A Giggle!

"I've noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse."
Dave Barry

Have You Seen?

Presents to Buy
Kids can plan birthday and Christmas gifts for friends and family. This page is part of our Journals for Kids set of printables.

Something To Think About..

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
Dr. Seuss

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