Activity Village Blog - What's New?

One of our Members emailed me to ask whether we had any activities for Arbor Day - which is celebrated at different times around the world but for many countries and US states on the last Friday of April.

With Mother's Day coming up this Sunday in the UK, we've tried to provide a set of our popular handwriting worksheets for all the variations of "mother" nicknames this year!

...covering counting, patterns, symmetry and alphabetical order. You can find all our African Animal Worksheets here.

We had a special request from an Activity Village Member for these useful "doubles" and "halves" flash cards and thought they were a great idea.

We love dot to dot puzzles! Here is a new collection for spring with rainbow and umbrella, bee and ladybird and snail, spring flowers, bird and butterfly! We've provided a range of challenges. Some have numbers from 1-10.

There is something about spring which just cheers us all up, and the pictures on these spring flash cards and other vocabulary printables have been making me very cheerful this morning!

I've just discovered it is Albert Einstein's birthday, so I'm rather belatedly publishing these new Albert Einstein resources, which have been sitting ready to go up on the website, on the basis that late is better than never - I hope!

We have two sizes of bunting flags - large and small - and 16 petty flowery designs in total, ranging from pastel colours to quite punchy "retro" 1970s style designs! There are two sets to choose from and you can mix and match them too.

I've always enjoyed challenging myself to do the "mental maths" puzzles in the newspaper, so I thought it might be fun to create our own version for children, making sure that we graduated the exercises from easy (adding and subtracting nu