Guest Post - Setting Up For Christmas!
My kids are already getting very excited about Christmas so I have been printing out a few goodies and getting some items set up for them.
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 - Wreath Crafts
We had quite a few left over autumn themed images lying around the house and I hate throwing anything away so I suggested to my son that we could make an autumn themed wreath.
Guest Post - Enjoying Day of the Dead Crafts
Last Halloween I took my youngest son to a fancy dress party at the local park. The winner of the fancy dress competition was a little girl dressed in a stunning black, purple and cerise pink frilled dress, with matching flower headband and veil.
Guest Post - Spooky Writing
Both kids have surprisingly been enjoying some spooky writing activities lately. I am not really sure what prompted it, the only thing I can think of was that the spook
Guest Post - Halloween Maths Ideas
We have never done scary witches as such but both my kids loved Winnie the Witch and the witch from Room on the Broom. They always liked a friendly witch, one who would make funny mistakes. So when they were a lot younger we did some “
Guest Post - Doodling with Doodle Pattern Tiles
My kids doodle. They doodle on scraps of paper, in drawing books, on the fog on the car window, in their maths books.
Guest Post - A Crafty Halloween Display
I had this brilliant idea that the kids and I were going to make a spider mobile My idea was to use a paper plate with wool hanging down attached to spiders who were climbing down.
Guest Post - A Monster Drawing and Crafting Session!
My seven-year old has been going through a bit of a drawing phase lately. So much so that we actually moved a little table to just next to my desk so that he can draw and chat while I am working on my computer. He loves it.
Guest Post - Four New Autumn Leaf Craft Ideas
It dawned on me the other day that none of the children's activity groups I run gives me scope to run an autumn themed craft session this year. This is a very sad state of affairs, I love autumn!
Guest Post - Making a Four Seasons Tree
We have made our four season trees a number of times and it is such a fun and easy season craft so I thought I would share what we do.
Guest Post - Learning about the Water Cycle
I loved the look of all the water cycle pages that were recently added especially because a lot of them had different versions for a number of the pages - perfect to do the topic with children who may be at different learning stages (well that was my pl
Guest Post - Dinosaur Art
Dinosaurs are always popular in our house so as soon as I saw the new dinosaur tracing pages and