Activity Village News

28th April 2009

A Message From Lindsay

Firstly, many apologies to those of you who couldn't access the website over the Easter weekend and for the week or so afterwards. Sadly I came back from holiday to find that the site had gone very slow, and for some people was completely unreachable, and it has been a mystery as to what caused the problem so I can't even now be sure that everything is absolutely OK again! If you are still having problems please let me know as soon as possible (email me on editor @ activityvillage.co.uk) because the more information I have the more likely I am to be able to track the problem down and fix it for once and for all.

If you scroll down to the "What's New" section below, you'll see that this is a bumper newsletter! We've added a staggering number of new printables and activities this week on a huge variety of subjects, so we hope there will be something for everyone!

Coming up soon:

4th - 8th May - Teacher Appreciation Week (US)
5th May - Children's Day (Japan)
10th May - Mother's Day (US)
21st June - Father's Day
1st July - Canada Day
4th July - Fourth of July
July - end of school year (say thank you to your child's teacher!)

I've come across two really super blogs recently where the owners have used Activity Village printables or activities to create some really special cards:

The first uses our monster coloring pages to produce two gorgeous gift tags - perfect for little boys perhaps?
http://chickenicity.blogspot.com/2009/04/eek-two-monsters.html

The second uses our origami bunnies to make a whole community of Easter cards - something to keep on the back burner for next year!
http://lets-explore.net/blog/?p=518

If you use any of our printables or crafts and would like to share the results, we'd love to see them!

What's New At Activity Village?

To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the succession of Henry to the throne of England we've begun to build our "Tudor" resources. So far we have

King Henry VIII - printables, colouring pages, information, activities and links

Tudor colouring pages

I've run out of time for this newsletter, but Sarah and the boys have been working on some fabulous new Tudor crafts and we have more printables and worksheets to come, which I hope to get up on the site in the next few days.

We have 5 really pretty new coloring pages on a Spring theme.
New Spring coloring pages

Our latest preschool video. Can your little one work out who is hiding behind the tractor? Or under the yellow hat? This short video is fun to watch, and will get your child guessing! Use it to increase vocabulary, talk about positioning words (under, behind etc), and develop observation and memory skills - or just for fun!
Who's Hiding?

New for Teacher Appreciation week (or ready in plenty of time for the end of the school year) are 4 super new cards for your child's favourite teacher, which brings our collection to a total of 12 to choose from
Teacher thank you cards to print

We also have new Teacher Appreciation printables - acrostic poem pages, bookmarks (with quotes and blank), writing prompts and a cute little folding notebook to print and fill in.
New "Teacher Appreciation" printables

We have some gorgeous new teacher coloring pages...
Teacher coloring pages

and teacher coloring cards, too
Teacher coloring cards

More Teacher Appreciation ideas

Get ready for Father's Day (21st June) with our new Father's Day cards to print - 7 new designs this year...
Father's Day cards to print

Or print and color your Father's Day card...
Father's Day coloring cards

We have some cute new Father's Day coloring pages, too.
Father's Day coloring pages

We have some new Father's Day printables, including writing prompts and mini booklets to print, fold and fill out (and we have many more planned for the next few weeks...)
Father's Day Printables

We've also updated our Father's Day links and our links to Father's Day coloring pages (outside Activity Village).

A Giggle!

"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."
John J. Plomp

Have You Seen?

We have a growing collection of "recycling crafts" to help you use up your craft cupboard and kitchen junk box supplies! Kids love nothing better than creating something special out of cereal boxes, cardboard tubes and some poster paint, so why not grab some inspiration here...
Recycling Crafts

I've Been Having Some Fun..

Here's a slideshow I made with some of my favourite photos of my kids when they were young, using Animoto - an amazing new (free) online service.

Something To Think About..

"The next time it begins to rain... lie down on your belly, nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall... The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world."
Malcolm Margolin

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