6th December 2018
This week the newsletter is mostly about the lovely new Christmas activities we've been adding - with a little bit of dinosaur thrown in!
Activity Village Membership ...
There are now very nearly 32,000 printable activities available exclusively to Activity Village Members. We add resources nearly every day so there's always something new to explore!
If you haven't joined up yet, why not become a member now? We can help make your life easier and you'll always have something fun to give the kids!
What's New at Activity Village
Are you following along with our Online Advent Calendar this year? Just look for this image or a link on the website and click through each day until 24th to find lovely Christmas colouring pages, Christmas videos to watch, Christmas music to enjoy and Christmas games to play. Christmas jokes and Christmas quotes too.
Have the kids written their Christmas wish lists yet? Use these for present ideas - or perhaps as worksheets for more general "wishes".
We've just added a collection of Christmas spelling jigsaws and worksheets to introduce and reinforce useful Christmas words.
Learn to sort by size and with these fun new Christmas sorting worksheets and printables.
Shelly and the kids have been making some fabulous Christmas decorations...
We've added more Christmas number puzzles...
... and lots of new Christmas crosswords, word searches and word scrambles ...
... and even more Christmas word puzzles!
Spark some creative writing with these new Christmas writing prompts
New dinosaur grid copy puzzles ...
... and new complete the dinosaur picture puzzles too!
A Little Something ...
“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been;
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been;
Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were,
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair.
In autumns that there were,
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair.
I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see.
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see.
For still there are so many things
That I have never seen:
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green.
That I have never seen:
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green.
I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know.
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know.
But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door.”
Of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door.”
Sung by the aging hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, in Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Coming Up Soon ...
1st December: Advent
2nd - 10th December: Hanukkah
25th December: Christmas
26th December: Kwanzaa
New Year 2019 - Coming Very Soon!
And don't forget you can click through to our Holiday Calendar to explore our resources by upcoming holiday and event. Get your planning done and activities printed out in plenty of time!
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All the best until next time!
Lindsay Small
www.ActivityVillage.co.uk