I love choosing the photos for the newsletter but I have to say that
the one above is my all-time favourite! It just puts a smile on my face
every time I see it :)
I'd like to say a HUGE thank you to everybody who applied to the draw
for testers for our new Vocabulary Busters courses - we had a really
wonderful response! Unfortunately that meant that we had a rather large
"hat" to pull names out of, so my apologies to those of you that didn't
win the free course. We have three winners - Sarah in the UK, Tanya in
Australia and Jennifer in the US. I am hugely excited about the courses
and hope to be launching the first in the next couple of weeks.
One thing that has come out of the emails I have received over the
last week is that we need to bring forward our plans for an "English As
A Foreign Language" course, too - so stay tuned!
We've got two very good new articles this week - the top two under
the "Latest Articles" heading in the column on the right. If you have a
moment, take a look. The first was features on Activity Village in its
very early days nearly 9 years ago, and is still as inspiring as it was
then - I was very pleased when I came across it in an old file on my
computer this week! Colleen brings together some classic creative play
ideas which are well worth printing out or jotting down in a notebook to
jog your memory when all else fails!
Finally, for UK viewers I am thrilled to tell you that we have a
fabulous prize up for grabs for fans of Ice Age - Father's Day tickets
to the London premiere of Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs!
This competition is now closed.
Ice Age 3 poster
Jenny sent in this super photo of an Easter work of art, done by her daughter
Julia just before she turned 3. I think they've turned out beautifully! You
don't have to wait for next Easter to try some handprint painting - we have lots
of ideas here: Handprint Craft
Ideas
If your child has made use of our craft ideas or printables, we'd
love to share the results here! Drop me a line by emailing editor-at-activityvillage.co.uk
(replace -at- with @)
What's New At Activity Village?
Please don't forget to check out our Father's Day
activities - we've got some really lovely ideas this year!
If any of your children have a dolls house or enjoy making models of
little houses or rooms, you might like to take a look at our latest
printables (some of which might possibly be of interest to scrapbookers
too) ... Dolls house printables
We've added three new Fourth of July scrapbook paper designs - perfect
for all sorts of crafty projects! Fourth
of July scrapbook paper
We've added a huge set of notebooking pages, mini notebooks and colouring
pages for the US Presidents to our US history printables collection US History Printables
We've continued to add even more to our Dinosaurs
theme page:
Here's a set of dinosaur flashcards with "realistic" images Dinosaur flashcardsNEW!
This set of A3 dinosaur flashcards has realistic images and information -
perfect for display, sorting, memory jogging or even a "top trumps" type of
game! Dinosaur
flashcards - informational
And last but by no means least, a collection of 13 new dinosaur craft ideas!
Sarah and the boys have really excelled themselves and have come up with
some really super and imaginative ideas for kids of all ages... Dinosaur crafts
We've also been continuing to update our popular
colouring Page Database, and the
following pages have been checked, added to and otherwise refreshed:
And here is a poster version. Surround the edges of the poster with
photos of your family, friends, pets, and anything else that makes you
happy! Too
blessed to be stressed poster
