Activity Village Blog

Fun New Bookworm Bookmarks

We love bookmarks at Activity Village! Our children loved using them, and were always excited when a new one appeared - whether for themselves or to colour in and gift to a grandparent or friend.

New Back to School Bookworm Colouring Pages

These bookworms are happy to go back to school (or perhaps to school for the first time) to learn their ABCs and their 123s! There's a teacher bookworm too.

Adding to our Phonics Phase One Collection

Whether you are looking for a little something extra for the classroom or a comprehensive set of printable resources (and ideas and suggestions) to take you through teaching your children to read with phonics at home, our

New Printable Lined Paper

Over the last few weeks we've had a big revamp of our printable lined paper, to make existing designs better and add many more.

Topping Up Our Four Seasons Resources

We've been topping up the resources in our Four Seasons section.

Guest Post - Making a Seasons Poster

When the kids were younger we had a lot of fun making a few different seasons posters so I thought I would explain how we set them up. They were easy, low mess, and a great activity for little kids.

These Fun Monster Colouring Pages - Now Free!

These kooky monster colouring pages have always been amongst our most popular downloads. There are 30 different monsters in total so they are perfect for classes or groups - or just let your children choose the ones that appeal to them.

Guest Post - Our Home Reading Challenge

When we saw the reading challenge at our local library on a recent trip, it inspired us to do our own home reading challenge.

New Elephant Resources

Did you know that 12th August is World Elephant Day? That seems to me like a great excuse to learn something new about elephants, tackle a new elephant craft or perhaps colour in an elephant...

Guest Post - Making Medals

With all our talking / learning about the Olympics we thought it would be fun to make our own medals.

Guest Post - Learning about the Olympics

It seems like with everything going on at the moment there is just not that same level of excitement about the Olympics like there usually is, so I thought it might be fun to spend a little bit of time looking at where the Olympics originated.

Guest Post - Making Clay Imprints from Natural Materials

I must admit that when it comes to art I am a painting/drawing type person, rather than a crafting person.