Guest Blog

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Activity Village staff and friends share ideas for how our resources can be used for learning at home, crafts with your own children, or group craft activities. There is lots of inspiration here, so make yourself a big cup of tea, grab a biscuit or two and explore...

Guest Posts at Activity Village

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

Guest Post - Creating and Colouring Mandalas

We recently watched a documentary about the Himalayas and in that documentary they showed some monks working on an incredible mandala. It really was detailed and the colours were exquisite. We naturally wanted to work on our own mandalas.

Guest Post - Butterfly Letters and Words

I thought that the counting petal flowers were really fun and cheerful so I had a look to see if I could find something similar but with letters on them. And I found

Guest Post - Count the Petals

A few weeks ago I stumbled upon this Count the Petals printout and I just loved it. It is exactly the kind of printout I would have used with my daughter when she was younger (she loves flo

Guest Post - Discovering Braille

I have never thought of doing a Braille activity with the kids until I spotted the new Braille pages on the website and it immediately occurred to me that the kids would see it as writing in code. And my kids love writ