Activity Village News

2nd January 2009

A Message From Lindsay

Happy New Year! Here's wishing all our visitors a peaceful, prosperous and fun-filled 2009!

We are overflowing with ideas for the next few weeks and months and we are putting new activities up on the website as fast as we can. If you have any ideas, feedback, requests or submissions please, as always, get in touch with me by sending an email to editor (at) activityvillage.co.uk. We can't manage everything and sadly we can't please everyone, but we do like to try and it is great to hear from you.

What's New At Activity Village?

If you are fans of The Tale of Despereaux, we've added even more printables and coloring pages for you:
The Tale of Despereaux printables and coloring

And we've added lots more new colouring pages this week, too:

Australia Day colouring pages

Chinese New Year coloring pages

New Year coloring pages

The New Year is a good excuse to get crafty, and we have some great new ideas this year, including textured number collages, handprint posters, memory boxes and more!
New Year Crafts

Have you written your thank you letters yet? If not, why not try our new fold-up designs - they make writing thank you letters more fun!

Australia Day is just around the corner, and we've been updating our Australia Day and Australian-themed pages. We have loads of new printables this week (many featuring Australian animals and birds, as most kids have a real soft spot and interest in them):

Australia-themed notebooking pages

Mini booklets to print, fold and fill with your writings and drawings
Australia-themed mini booklets

Australian animals and birds flashcards

New Kangaroo lacing card

We also have new Australian-themed puzzles to print for the kids to enjoy.
Australia Day Puzzles

We have a huge collection of notebooking pages and our very popular foldable booklets for famous Australians, including lots of prime ministers!
Famous Australians notebooking pages

Don't forget to check out the rest of our Australia Day and Australian-themed activities!
Australia Day

New at AV Baby this week:

Baby Photo Of The Week
Getting Ready For Baby
De-cluttering Before The Baby Comes Home
Maternity And Paternity Leave
Nursery Do's and Don'ts
A Basic Layette

Diary of a New Mum Week 30
The Great Escape
In which the in-laws allow us to escape parenthood for a day - to buy a new car!

Recommended Product

If you have any behavioral issues with your kids, you might want to check out the Better Behavior Wheel, from Robert and Julie Butler. We've been recommending it at Activity Village for over two years now and have had great feedback from purchasers (as well as resorting to it ourselves on occasion!) Available as a digital download, the Better Behavior Wheel allows you to set consequences for undesirable behavior that fit your family - and the unusual and very clever twist of having to spin the wheel to discover your punishment works wonders to take the stress out of the situation for the parent and reinforce the message for the child. This is an excellent product and we recommend it highly.
Product review here
Find out more about the Better Behavior Wheel

A Giggle!

"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."
Phyllis Diller

Reader Tip of the Week

This week's tip comes from Gillian:

Save money on kitchen towel and paper napkins by buying a bundle of wash cloths (flannels) on sale this year. A damp wash cloth can clean up a child in a jiffy, and is much more pleasant to use than a baby wipe or kitchen towel. Buy one color for each child, or buy dark colors for cleaning up after painting and light colors for cleaning up after eating. Whatever you like and suits you! Buy enough so that you can throw them in the wash once a week, and they will last you for years. 

Have You Seen?

A simple pack of cards (or two) can provide hours of fun for the family, and teaching your kids a card game or two is a great idea.
Card Games for Kids

Something To Think About..

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
Kurt Vonnegut
 

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