Guest Post - Learning about Vincent
My daughter is currently working on a few art projects and one of them is an Art History project where she has to choose a famous artist whose work she admires and learn about their life and technique.
Guest Posts
Since August 2017 we have featured a weekly guest post, sharing ways in which Activity Village resources can be used for learning at home, crafts with your own children, or group craft activities. There is lots of inspiration here!
Guest Post - Sharpies and Watercolours
We have not used sharpies with watercolour paints before and I recently had one of those moments where you wondered why it took so long to try this combination.
Guest Post - Writing Poems for Remembrance Day
There is a quote often used at this time of year, for Remembrance Day: “If we are to maintain our peace and freedom, we must always remember.” But remembrance and war can
Guest Post - Celebrating Autumn
Autumn is well and truly here so we thought we needed some autumn leaves on our windows. We decided to make them with the bleeding tissue paper method. My kids always love doing this.
Guest Post - Adding to our Bookmark Collection
Over the weekend I decided that we desperately needed some new bookmarks.
Guest Post - Skeleton Fun
I have been wanting to start a body theme with the kids and remembered the cute skeleton colouring picture that we used last year for some Day of the Dead Art.
Guest Post - Learning To Write A Name
Last week Lindsay emailed me and asked if I could test out her new “create your own name finger tracing page” before it went "l
Guest Post - Having Fun With Dotty Art
My son wanted to do some painting but he asked to do something a bit different from “normal painting” – which I must admit stumped me. "Painting that is not normal painting". I had to think about that one for a while!
Guest Post - Autumn Words
Over the weekend my daughter and I had some autumn themed templates out for an art session. My son like the look of the autumn templates and wanted to join in but he was not in an arty mood. So we suggested he
Guest Post - Autumn Tree Maths
I love autumn and there is just something about the change in colour that always makes me think of themed learning activities.
Guest Post - Revising With Maths Cards
After having a bit of a break over the summer I always like to revise a few maths facts before we start learning new concepts.
Guest Post - Mix and Match Maths
I was recently on the site looking for some doubling and halving cards for my son when I ended up in the mix and match number card section and I stumbled upon two different sets which I think work perfectly to