New "Fold-ups" for thank you letters - a card and an envelope in one!

We introduced some fold-ups just before Christmas and they proved very popular. Combining the letter and the envelope in one makes them fun for kids to print and write - and we are hoping that our latest fold-ups will make writing their thank you letters less of a chore! We've got flowers, butterflies, robots and space ships so far, and will be adding lots more over the next few days.
Fold-up stationery to print

Australia Day colouring pages - Lots NEW!

Australia Day colouring pages - ready for 26th January!
Australia Day colouring pages

Chinese New Year coloring pages - Lots NEW!

We've got some great new Chinese New Year coloring pages for you ...
Chinese New Year Coloring Pages

New Year Crafts To Welcome 2009!

It's nearly time to welcome in the New Year, and we have lots of new craft ideas to get the kids involved, including a memory box, a handprint poster and textured numbers:
New Year Crafts for Kids

More New Year Activities For Kids

Chinese New Year - The Year of the Ox!

26th January will see the start of a new Chinese New Year - The Year of the Ox. We have started getting ready for the new year at Activity Village and you will find all sorts of new activity ideas:

Year of the Ox Puzzles

Year of the Ox Crafts


Year of the Ox Printables

Year of the Ox Jigsaws

Christmas Origami for Kids!

We've added 9 new Christmas origami projects to Activity Village this month! If your children enjoy this paper folding activity, they will find lots to keep them busy here. Hang your origami models on the Christmas tree, use them as place names or to decorate the table, turn them into festive napkin rings, or use them to make handmade Christmas cards!

Christmas Origami for Kids

More Christmas Craft Ideas...

We've turned a wooden spoon into this gorgeous angel, a santa and a reindeer. Our wooden spoon crafts make great puppets - and the angel looks very pretty on top of the tree too!
Christmas Crafts for Kids

Handmade Nativity Scene Craft

Sarah and the boys have had fun making this delightful Nativity Scene, using paper cups, polystyrene balls and other bits and pieces from their craft cupboard.
Handmade Nativity Scene

The Tale of Despereaux - exclusive puzzles and printable crafts!

Have you read the book? Are you going to see the film? We are thrilled to be able to offer you some exclusive printables from the Tale of Despereaux, including some wonderful finger puppets, two colourful bookmarks, puzzles and more!
The Tale of Despereaux Puzzles and Printable Crafts

Christmas Games - some printable, all fun!

We've got some fun new Christmas Games for you this year, including this Christmas Tree Game Board and Cards to print, cut out and play with your children. Other favourites include the Christmas Card Jigsaw Game and Race, Pass The Bauble, and our printable Christmas Boxes.
Christmas Games

Christmas Jigsaws - New Nativity Jigsaws

We have added two new Christmas jigsaws for kids - both on a "nativity" theme and in various different sizes to suit all ages...
Christmas Jigsaws

Hanukkah Activities For Kids

Hanukkah begins on 21st December this year, and we have been adding all sorts of new activities to our Hanukkah pages, including Hanukkah jigsaws, new Hanukkah printables, and some original (and fun) Hanukkah fuse bead patterns!
Hanukkah for Kids

More Christmas Nativity printables!

We've used our charming Nativity Story coloring pages to make a set of printables for you to use this Christmas. You'll find a printable story book (children can read The Christmas story and color in the pictures) as well as printable story pages for them to write their own version. And we've also added a mini, foldable booklet of the coloring pages, too.
The Nativity Story

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer crafts

We've added 3 super new Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer crafts to the website - a wooden spoon Rudolph puppet, a paper plate Rudolph and a paper cup Rudolph! They are all gorgeous and your children may want to make them all...

Find the new Rudolph crafts on our Christmas Crafts page:
Christmas Crafts

Nativity Coloring Pages

We have a new set of 10 Nativity Christmas coloring pages - a super way for children to learn or revisit the Christmas story.
Nativity Coloring Pages

Online Advent Calendar - Brand New!

Who likes Christmas? Please come and check out our brand new online Advent Calendar!

Visit Santa's elves and click on the correct hyperlink for a new fun Christmas printable activity every day until Christmas. We'll have word search puzzles, crafts, recipes, sudoku, jokes, coloring pages, quizzes and much much more for the kids to enjoy!

Don't forget to bookmark the Advent Calendar and come back every day!