Activity Village News
19th December 2008
"Christmas
gift suggestions: To your
enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect."
Oren Arnold
A Message From Lindsay
This week we are thrilled to be able to offer you some exclusive puzzles and
printables for the Christmas movie of the year, The Tale of Despereaux, based on
the delightful book by Kate DiCamillo. The film opens on 19th in the UK and I'm
sure you will want to print out the gorgeous finger puppets for your kids to
play with - if not all the printables we have for your here!
The Tale of Despereaux puzzles, printable
crafts, links and more!
If your kids are home for the holidays, you may be looking for ways to keep them
entertained. Well, we have lots of ideas for you below! We have added all sorts
of Christmas activities to the website this week, as well as ideas for Hanukkah,
Kwanzaa, New Year and Chinese New year ...
We will be taking a break from the newsletter next week, and will be back with
you on 2nd January. But we are still adding new printables, crafts, coloring
page and other activities practically every day, so please check back often
during the holidays.
May I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy
New Year, from all of us at Activity Village! And we hope to see you again in 2009...
What's New At Activity Village?
For Christmas:
Don't forget to visit our online advent calendar every day, for new Christmas
printables, puzzles and coloring pages, as well as a great Christmas website
activity every day!
Advent Calendar 2008 (UK and
Europe)
Advent Calendar 2008
(Australasia)
Advent Calendar 2008 (US)
If you haven't got all your cards done yet, we have lots of inspiration for
homemade Christmas cards here.
Homemade Christmas cards
Perhaps your kids prefer colouring? Maybe they can have a go at our latest
Christmas colouring cards, instead. We have 10 new designs (18 in total to choose from).
Christmas Coloring Cards
"Christmas!
The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the
rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and
given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we
had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."
Joan Winmill Brown
Get out some paper cups and other crafty supplies and make this adorable
Christmas nativity scene, complete with Mary and Joseph, the Three Kings, a
Shepherd and an ox! Crafty fun for all ages of kids, and something that you will
be able to bring out year after year...
Handmade Nativity Scene
We have some gorgeous new "wooden spoon" Christmas crafts, too.
Christmas Crafts
We've also added lots of new Christmas origami to Activity Village this week -
to bring the total Christmas origami models you can fold to over 20!
Christmas origami for Kids
Even the youngest children will be able to have a go at our Christmassy
handprint painting ideas!
Christmas crafts
“I will honour
Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
Charles Dickens
If you haven't been opening the advent calendar every day, you will have missed
some of our new Christmas activities. These have just been added to the main
website:
Christmas Dominoes
Younger kids can use these to practise their cutting skills; older children may
like to use them in their Christmas craft projects.
Christmas cutting shapes
Our printable Christmas alphabet tags can be used in all sorts of Christmas
alphabet games and activities.
Christmas Alphabet Tags
Lots more fun new Christmas puzzles have been added:
Christmas Puzzles and Mazes
Here's a fun Pop-up Santa Puppet to print, cut out and assemble.
Santa Pop-up Puppet
For Hanukkah:
Handprint Star of David
We have more Hanukkah crafts about to go up on the website, too, so please come
back in the next few days.
For Kwanzaa:
For those of you celebrating Kwanzaa, we have three new puzzles
(crosswords and word search puzzles) here:
Kwanzaa puzzles
We'll be adding 3 new crafts, too, over the weekend, so please check
back!
For New Year:
We have two new New Year coloring pages.
New Year coloring pages
Once again, there will be New Year crafts coming over the weekend!
For Winter:
Lots of new wintery ideas for handprint painting!
Winter crafts
For Chinese New Year:
We have 5 new puzzles and mazes for the Chinese New Year of the Ox (26th
January)
Year of the Ox puzzles and mazes
We have some fabulous, original Year of the Ox crafts for your Chinese New Year
celebrations!
Year of the Ox Crafts
And we also have some fun new Year of the Ox jigsaws to add to our
collection of Chinese New Year jigsaws.
Year of the Ox jigsaws
"Somehow not only
for
Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you."
EB White
New at AV Baby this week:
Baby Photo Of The Week
Diary of a New Mum Week 29
Non-Bouncing Baby
In which we begin to suspect that Jessica-Ann is a lazy baby!
“It is Christmas in
the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
WT Ellis
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Something To Think About..
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a
happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
Burton Hillis
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