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 - 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

Guest Post - Making Flag Dominoes

We often use dominoes as a learning activity so when we started working on our map of Europe and I spotted the European flag matching cards I immediately thought they would be perfect for a set of flag d

Guest Post - Enjoying Cricket World Cup Activities

Both my sons really enjoyed supporting England’s football team in the World Cup last summer (and not just because we did quite well for once!) Major sporting events bring people from different nationalities and cultures together from around the wo

Guest Post - Fun with 3D Nets

During one of our recent audio book listening sessions, the kids wanted to decorate some of the 3D nets (find them here or here).

Guest Post - Making a Royal Crown

My oldest is going through a slight historical British monarchs obsession. She is reading any book she can find about any of the past kings and queens and is constantly talking about some of the more unique

Guest Post - Making a Sunflower Life Cycle Poster and Booklet

We have been spending quite a bit of time in our garden sorting out our little growing areas (we try to grow some vegetables each year as a learning activity) and we naturally started talking about plant life cycles.