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
colouring pages for you:
The Tale of Despereaux printables and
colouring
And we've added lots more new colouring pages this week, too:
Australia Day colouring pages
Chinese New Year colouring pages
New Year colouring 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 colour for each child, or buy dark colours for
cleaning up after painting and light colours 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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