World Cup For Kids

Soccer fans  can celebrate the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with our brand new page - World Cup for Kids! The jam-packed World Cup month kicks off on 11th June and during the following month through to 11th July we will see 32 teams competing for the title!

We've got lots of ideas for you to use in the classroom and home, including some fabulous colouring pages, printable bookmarks and worksheets. And we have puzzles, games, soccer jokes and football crafts coming soon too!

World Cup For Kids

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Monsters Theme!

Children - boys in particular - enjoy inventing, drawing and playing with "monsters" - especially as monsters break all the rules and have as many eyes and legs and tails and colours as children can imagine! We have some really cute monsters in our new monsters theme, and you will find some imaginative monster craft ideas, cute monster printable games, monster worksheets and story starters ... in sort, lots for monster fans! And of course, monsters are fun at Halloween, too...
Monsters Theme

Farm Animal Room Decorations

Our farm animal room decorations are the perfect room accessories for kids who would like to be down on the farm! Just print, cut out and use to decorate bedrooms and playrooms. We have a farm animal mobile, room signs and door hangers, too.
Farm Animal Room Decorations

Find your way around our huge Themes section!

OK, this is the first post for a very long time! Somehow I have been so busy updating the website that updating the blog has played second fiddle. But I'm trying to turn over a new leaf, and hope that you will follow along.

As the number of pages at Activity Village has grown (we now have over 5,000 pages of activities for kids), finding your way around the site has become increasingly difficult. We aim to try to tame the site a little by creating site maps of the bigger sections, and this site map for the Themes section is the first. We have 39 theme units already, and many more in the pipeline, so please come and explore and find the huge number of activities we have to offer.

Themes section at Activity Village

Site Map of Themes Section

The Tudors - our latest theme!

We have just put the finishing touches on a huge new Tudor theme at Activity Village. Whether you are studying the Tudors at school, doing some extra investigations at home, or just interested in some of the larger-than-life kings and queens of the Tudor dynasty, we are sure you will find something of interest!

We have lots of printables, including writing frames, notebooking pages and our very popular mini booklets, and a large collection of colouring pages relating to Tudor life, fashions and of course the kings and queens themselves. We have a great collection of worksheets, too, to encourage the kids to learn a little bit more (and have fun in the process). You'll also find some really super craft ideas to bring your study of the Tudors to life!

Included in the Tudor theme are some printables and colouring pages for some of our favourite characters from the time - Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and of course William Shakespeare. We'll be looking at Shakespeare a bit more closely in the future...

Tudor Theme

Robots To Color, Print And Make!

Do your kids like robots? With Wall-E proving a huge success at the cinema, many kids are really into robots at the moment so we decided to create a new Robots theme at Activity Village. You will find some very cute robot coloring pages, useful and fun robot printables, and some wonderful robot crafts to get the kids making their own robotic creations!
Robots Theme

New Olympic Crafts for Kids

We've just added four great new Olympic crafts for kids, including an Olympic Rings paper cut, and Olympic medal chart (track how your favourite countries do in the Olympic Games), an Olympic Rings window flag, and a wonderful flag wreath (a fun group project for any international celebration or event). And of course we have been adding Olympic craft ideas for the last few weeks, so if you haven't checked out the page recently, please do so now!
Olympic Crafts for Kids

Lots more ideas for the Olympic Games:

Summer Olympics

Patriotic Crafts And Printables

We've added some fabulous new patriotic craft ideas and printables to the site today, just in time for Canada Day, Fourth of July and the Summer Olympics! You will find something to enjoy whatever your age and whether you are decorating your house, school, classroom - or yourselves!
Patriotic Crafts and Printables

End Of Year Thank Yous for Teachers

If you are searching for ideas for end-of-year thank yous for your family's teachers, take a look at our updated Teacher Appreciation pages. We have some new printable Thank You cards, a great collection of class gift ideas, crafts for your child to make, and more.
Teacher Appreciation

Beijing Olympics mascots - and coloring pages!

Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni !

There has always been a tradition of symbolism in China, and this summer's Olympic mascots are a fascinating example of how that tradition has been put to use which would make an interesting study with your children.

This is from the official site:

"Like the Five Olympic Rings from which they draw their color and inspiration, Fuwa will serve as the Official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, carrying a message of friendship and peace - and good wishes from China - to children all over the world.

Designed to express the playful qualities of five little children who form an intimate circle of friends, Fuwa also embody the natural characteristics of four of China's most popular animals - the Fish, the Panda, the Tibetan Antelope, the Swallow - and the Olympic Flame.

Each of Fuwa has a rhyming two-syllable name - a traditional way of expressing affection for children in China. Beibei is the Fish, Jingjing is the Panda, Huanhuan is the Olympic Flame, Yingying is the Tibetan Antelope and Nini is the Swallow.

When you put their names together - Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni - they say "Welcome to Beijing," offering a warm invitation that reflects the mission of Fuwa as young ambassadors for the Olympic Games." Read more

I have just added a collection of coloring pages for the "fuwa", or mascots, which I think are very cute - I hope you agree!


Olympics Coloring Pages

And of course we have lots of great crafts, coloring pages, worksheets and many more activities for this summer's Olympics at Activity Village:
Summer Olympics

Summer Olympic Games coloring pages

We've added a new collection of Summer Olympic Games coloring pages to the website today.

Olympic coloring pages

We've also added some new Olympic Games worksheets and Olympic printables

Teddy Mascots - a patriotic craft idea!

Sarah, Jack and Sam have had fun this week kitting out the teddies in their house ready for the Olympics - or any patriotic event of holiday, such as Fourth of July or Canada Day. They have used our flag printables and a bit of imagination and I'm sure you will agree that the result is great! Great fun if you want to hold your own Olympic Games, too.
Teddy Mascots

China for Kids

Sarah and Jack have come up with some great crafts for our new China for Kids theme. I haven't got them all up on the site yet, but there's plenty of really good ideas to be getting on with!

China Crafts for Kids

Get Ready For The Summer Olympics!

We are all working hard to bring you a feast of activities to accompany the Summer Olympics in Beijing this year (they begin on 8th August). We have more to do still, but if you visit our Summer Olympics page now you will already find Olympic crafts, Olympic Games Worksheets, Olympic Printables (including some fun medals), and you will also find our new theme "China for Kids" which is packed full of crafts, activities and much more, too!

Groundhog Day - printables, puzzles and jigsaws!

Groundhog Day is a US tradition originating from the German Candlemas day and brought to America by German settlers. On 2nd February, if the groundhog emerges from its winter hibernation and can see its shadow on the ground, it knows that winter will last at least another six weeks. If there is no shadow, there will be an early end to winter.

Find out more about Groundhog Day and have fun with it in your classroom or home using our new Groundhog Day activities:

Groundhog Day printables

Groundhog Day puzzles

Groundhog Day jigsaws

Fun printable toys from a Japanese site..

I have just come across this Japanese page of fun printable toys. You will have to guess at the instructions (unless you can read Japanese!) but there are illustrations which show you how to put the toys together. Click on the links to find the printables themselves - bearing in mind that sometimes you will be taken to the printables, and sometimes to a commercial site selling craft supplies! I particularly liked the pop up racoon and cut puppets and the skittles.

Printable toys

More Ancient Greece for Kids

I've just added even more Ancient Greece coloring pages to the site, as well as a large collection of Ancient Greece printables - writing paper and frames for school, projects and notebooking bedecked with Greek gods, hoplites, olive wreaths and mythological creatures! If you are feeling creative you can color and cut out your very own Ancient Greek coins. You will also find three new word search puzzles - Greek gods, Greek creatures and the Ancient Olympic Games. And, finally, I have added the first of our Greek Myths for Kids - rewritten specially for children - to read online or print for later.

Ancient Greece for Kids

Ancient Greece for Kids

Activity Village is taking a trip to Ancient Greece and we have started off with some Ancient Greek coloring pages (try your hand at some Greek myths, Greek gods and general lifestyle pictures) and some fantastic Ancient Greece crafts to get stuck into with your kids. Tracy and Sarah and their kids have really gone to town with these - please take a look!

Ancient Greece for Kids

More Ancient Egypt - this time some fun crafts

We have added a great collection of Ancient Egypt crafts today, which Tracy did with her girls. It looks like they had lots of fun, and they certainly did a great job! They mummified a fashion doll and then made it its own mummy case, built a pyramid out of sugar lumps, and modelled some fantastic canopic jars.

Ancient Egypt crafts

Sadako Sasaki - a sad but inspiring story..

'I will write "peace" on your wings, and you will fly all over the world'.

Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who lived in Hiroshima, in Japan. In August 1945, When she was two year's old, the atomic bomb was dropped about one mile away from her home. She and her family managed to escape, although her grandmother ran back to fetch something from their house and was never seen again.Sadako had a normal childhood and was a very good runner. Her class, which won the school's relay race, was very proud of her running skills. But it was during a running race that she first fell ill, when she was 11 year's old.


Read Sadako's story, learn about the Children's Peace Monument, and fold your own origami crane.