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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...
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!
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
I love autumn and there is just something about the change in colour that always makes me think of themed learning activities.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
