Activity Village News
27th March 2009
A Message From Lindsay
Just to let you know that this will be the last newsletter for a few
weeks as we are taking a bit of a break! We'll be back again after the
Easter holidays. But we have loads of new activities today...
Coming up soon:
12th April - Easter
21st April - 500th anniversary of
Henry VIII's accession to the throne
22nd April - Earth Day
23rd April - St George's Day
4th - 8th May -
Teacher Appreciation Week (US)
5th May - Children's Day (Japan)
10th May -
Mother's Day (US)
What's New At Activity Village?
For US visitors, we have 4 more Mother's Day colouring pages...
Mother's Day colouring pages
and 4 new colouring cards.
Mother's Day colouring cards
Japanese Kokeshi dolls are very popular at the moment, and we have some
gorgeous new kokeshi printables, including this kokeshi paper doll to
print, colour and assemble, and some kokeshi doll stationery (notecards,
writing paper and bookmarks) too.
Kokeshi doll printables
We didn't want to leave out the boys, so we've also added a page about
Sumo Wrestling! Find out more about the traditions of sumo wrestling and
then enjoy our colouring pages and sumo wrestler figures to print and
play with!
Sumo Wrestling
We have a new preschool video to watch this week, "Fun With Teddies."
Count the teddies (up to 10), discover some opposites, and see what the
teddies are getting up to!
Fun With Teddies!
We have 2 super new posters to print this week, on an "earth" theme -
good all year round but also in plenty of time for Earth Day on 22nd
April.
Posters to print
We've also updated our Earth Day page and have a cute new card to print
Earth Day for Kids
21st April sees the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the
throne of England, and we have a great new collection of notebooking
pages, writing frames and mini booklets, as well as colouring pages, for
all your projects at home and school. We've started with William the
Conqueror and we're up to the Tudors so far - and we've got more to
come!
British Kings and
Queens - printables and colouring pages
We have a page of Easter egg templates - useful for all your crafty
projects
Easter egg templates
A few new Easter puzzles to print...
Easter puzzles
We have two new printable games for Easter, as well as lots of
suggestions for your Easter egg hunts...
Easter games
Finally, we've also got a new page of Easter videos (from Activity
Village and other providers) which will help you with everything from
putting on an Easter Egg Hunt, dyeing your own Easter eggs, learning to
count, making games and lots more!
Easter videos
You Might Like To Know...
Vertbaudet is on the hunt for budding young eco-designers
Vertbaudet, the leading children’s fashion brand, is running an
international competition to find the very best budding eco-designers
around.
The competition, entitled ‘Vertbaudet Eco-designer’ is calling on
fledgling artists aged 6-12 to design their own textile creation
(T-shirt, dress or bedding set) along the eco theme of ‘Save the
planet’.
The competition is open to entrants from the UK, France, Germany,
Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland, giving it a truly
international feel.
The judging panel, made up of fashion and decor experts, will choose the
best designs from each participating country based on how well they fit
with the theme of nature and creativity.
The chosen outfits and bedding sets will then be produced and sold in
the Spring-Summer 2010 Collection (using organic cotton, of course),
with the winner also receiving a Vertbaudet voucher for £350 and a
Nintendo Wii games console.
The closing date for entries is 28th March 2009. All the information on
how to enter can be found by clicking the ‘Eco-designers’ area at
www.vertbaudet.co.uk.
A Giggle!
"If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps
on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the
grandma."
Theresa Bloomingdale
Have You Seen?
Find a growing collection of Spring printables - including sorting games, lacing
cards, alphabets, scrapbook paper and more!
Spring Printables
Something To Think About..
"Actions speak larger than words, and a smile says, "I like you. You
make me happy. I am glad to see you."
Dale Carnegie
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