Activity Village has a wealth of resources to help you at home with your toddler, in your nursery or kindergarden and in your Early Years classroom. Young children are keen to explore, discover and learn new skills and there are so many ways to encourage them and make the process enjoyable and fun.
School!
School readiness, starting at school and general school resources can be found here.
School plays a huge part in the lives of our children - and our lives too! Whether you are...
Fine Motor Control
Many of our Colouring Pages have been designed specially for younger children. You might also like to explore our Crafts, as many are useful for developing fine motor skills. Other sections that are particularly good for fine motor skills are:
These are one of my favourite activities at Activity Village. Craft and colouring in one! Colour...
Cutting out in all forms helps young children to develop their fine motor skills - and it's...
Playdough mats are a fun way to give children a nudge when playing with playdough, and also...
Fuse beads are not only fun to do, but they provide children an opportunity to be creative while...
Lacing is an excellent activity for developing fine motor skills, improving hand-eye...
Paper dolls are useful and fun on so many levels. You can use them with young children for...
Explore our huge collection of printable jigsaws for kids. We love these little jigsaws, which...
Come and explore our growing collection of fun outline tracing printables for kids. Children can...
Learning to Read and Write
Help children learn the letters and sounds of the alphabet with our extensive activities. Click through below to explore everything from alphabet videos to alphabet lacing cards, alphabet posters, alphabet templates and lots of alphabet tracing pages and fun worksheets! You can also explore all our alphabet activities in "letter of the week" format, where we provide all sorts of topic related ideas too.
Our phonics resources are based largely on the UK Government's Letters and Sounds programme...
Start at the very beginning ... it's a very good place to start! Of course the alphabet is...
Whether you are just starting out with finger tracing, learning first letters, or putting...
Colour
Learn about colour with our fun collection of printables, colouring pages, videos and more. Explore each colour individually or dive in by type of activity!
Colour is the topic, and you'll find lots to enjoy here at Activity Village in this new...
Shape
Introduce children to simple shapes with the help of our fun range of activities!
Learn about circles and squares and triangles and many more interesting shapes with this fun...
Numbers
This is a big subject, and we've got a huge collection of activities to help the kids gets excited by and comfortable with numbers - including some extra-fun and useful number printables and early maths worksheets.
Colour by number pages are a fun way for children to learn their colours and numbers - or just a...
We have two types of counting puzzles here at Activity Village, jumbles where you have to count...
Dot to dot puzzles have always been popular, and we have a growing collection here at Activity...
Our Maths Stage by Stage section is a new venture and is a work in progress. We are starting...
Learning numbers and counting can be all the more fun if it is turned into a game - and we'...
This huge collection of colourful and engaging maths resources and printables aims to provide...
Explore our growing collection of maths worksheets below. We start with Early Years and work up...
Patterns
Introduce children to patterns with our collection of pattern printables and worksheets.
Designed to test children's understanding and recognition of patterns with appealing...
Imaginative Play
Role play printables, puppets, play money, masks, costume ideas and much more!
Put on a play with our finger puppets, change into someone entirely different with our printable...
Use these printable coins and notes in the classroom or home, either in learning activities or...
Puppets allow children to develop creativity to two ways, firstly in the making and then in the...
We have finger puppets on all topics ready to cut out and assemble and tell your own stories. We...
We've got a growing collection of printable masks for children. You'll find some lovely...
We've got many mask crafts that children can enjoy at Activity Village - both masks to make...
We all know that kids love to dress up - whether on a rainy afternoon, with a gang of friends,...
Sorting
Our bright and cheerful sorting printables and games are a fun way to help children learn to sort.
Kids can spend endless hours sorting - sorting cuttons or counters into piles of different...
Communication
Of course all interaction with your children - at home or at school - builds communication skills, and as you explore Activity Village you will find many activities that can inspire conversation. Here are just a few ideas.
Learning about themselves and what makes them unique and special is such a fun way to introduce...
Print and colour these wonderful, I Spy alphabet colouring pages. There's so much detail and...
Put on a play with our finger puppets, change into someone entirely different with our printable...
How do you keep your kids busy on a rainy day? Can you amuse a large group of children? What...
Topics
This is the biggest section of Activity Village, and we have many Early Childhood favourites here to explore - including farmyard and transport, pirates and princesses, every kind of animal and bird you can imagine, and so much more!
Activity Village has thousands of printable activities, puzzles and colouring pages and hundreds...
