Guest Post - Colourful Elephants
This is a lovely, colourful elephant-inspired craft that is perfect for Holi or perhaps while reading Elmer the Patchwork Elephant.
Guest Blog
Activity Village staff and friends share ideas for how our resources can be used for learning at home, crafts with your own children, or group craft activities. There is lots of inspiration here, so make yourself a big cup of tea, grab a biscuit or two and explore...
Guest Post - Making Flower Cards
It's always useful to have a stock of handmade greetings card ready to go, and this idea from Shelly is simple, quick and fun - and perfect for Mother's Day!
Guest Post - Working on Times Tables
Here's a fun idea from Shelly for using a clock face to help children understand their times tables, and then become fluent in them with the help of our flower times table printables!
Guest Post - Three Little Turkeys!
Here's a quick and simple paper turkey craft idea, with three variations so that you can adapt it to suit the ages of your children.
Guest Post - Halloween Hidden Pictures
Are your children spider lovers? Mine aren't but Shelly's son loves them, and that inspired this fabulous art idea which was particularly suitable for Halloween.
Guest Post - Echo Art Animals
This post from Shelly introduces the echo art technique - a simple but really effective technique that you can adapt so that children of all ages can enjoy.
Guest Post - Three Union Jack Crowns
Every royal occasion needs crowns - and these Union flag versions are stunning! To make them Shelly's kids used an interesting tracing technique...
Guest Post - Creating Our Own Word Puzzles
Encourage children to do more writing - and use their brains - by making their own word puzzles! Shelly's latest guest blog talks us through how she tackled it...
Guest Post - Paper Collage Peacocks
Here's a fun peacock craft for younger kids to do - it's quick, easy and you will certainly have what you need on hand.
Guest Post - Backdrops for Dragon Colouring Pages
Shelly and her kids use our dragon colouring pages and dragon templates together with some watercolour painting techniques to create some fabulous dragon artwork!
Guest Post - A Woolly Snail Craft!
These gorgeous, tactile snails are the perfect craft for young restless hands - and I think you will agree that the result is spectacular! Shelly used some of our templates for this quick, easy and very effective craft idea.
Guest Post - Spectacular Elephant Artwork!
Are your children frustrated when they can't draw or paint the picture they imagined? Have a go at Shelly's spectacular elephant craft idea - which of course you can adapt endlessly to suit your child's interests.