Sunday, November 29, 2009

Saturday, November 28, 2009

POKEMON FREE PARTY INVITATIONS

Here are three, free, printable Pokemon party invitations.
To print these Pokemon party invites just click on the invitation you like best to enlarge it (I like the first big Pikachu one!) - then press CONTROL and the letter P on your keyboard to print however many copies you need for the number of guests you plan to invite.

Singing Christmas Songs Coloring Page

Singing Christmas Songs Coloring Page
Singing Christmas Songs Coloring Page

Friday, November 27, 2009

Love the new Christmas Gap ad!



Christmas Doodle Fun!




We are thrilled to bring you our latest publication, Christmas Doodle Fun - Creative Christmas Coloring For Kids! Get out the pencils and crayons and use your imagination this Christmas! Decorate, design and create with our fun doodle pictures for all ages. Use them in the home or classroom, and print as many copies as you like! There's one activity for every day of Advent...

Available as a downloadable pdf file only, there are 30 printable pages featuring 24 original illustrations by Adina, who has been creating some or our most popular recent coloring pages at Activity Village. Some pages invite children to write, too, but it isn't necessary at all! See sample pages below.
Only £2.95* That's 12p a page - and remember, you can print them as many times as you like. You could even print out Christmas Doodle Fun, bind it and give it to your younger family members this Christmas!

* Please note - you can easily pay in your own currency! That's equivalent to about $4.85 or E3.25.

Christmas Doodle Fun - more information, sample pages and Buy button!
Firstly, an apology - and a warning! A few weeks ago I fell ill with the swine flu and (as an asthmatic) almost immediately went down with a severe chest infection, too. I was in bed and completely incapable for the first week, and not much better for the second. I had worried about my children falling ill, but really hadn't thought what would happen if I did. Please, if you are looking after little children, make sure your cupboards are full, your freezer is stocked, and you have contingency plans worked out with family, friends and neighbours. My children are old enough to look after themselves now, and my husband was also able to help, but if the same thing had happened to me 10 year's ago, I simply don't know how I would have coped. Be prepared, just in case!

OK, that's the warning out of the way! As you can imagine with two weeks in bed, I got very behind with everything, and unfortunately this Advent Calendar message is going out much later than I had originally planned. It gives everyone only the weekend to prepare for all the exciting things we have coming up in our Online Advent Calendar - but please do read on, because we have some great things planned!




Online Advent Calendar

Last year's Online Advent Calendar was hugely popular, but we think this year's is even better! Firstly, we are really excited to be providing a Colouring Advent Calendar this year. We've never seen anything like it before, either on the internet or for sale. We will be providing a mini-colouring page every day which we hope you'll put together into a fantastic Advent Calendar Banner (ours looks so pretty!) or Advent Colouring Book during December. Get more details at the link below.



In addition we'll have a special activity every day - sometimes a craft, sometimes a printable, sometimes a cooking activity - and on top of that we will have games to play, activity suggestions, videos to watch, jokes to enjoy, fun facts and more!




Find out how to get ready for the Colouring Advent Calendar here:http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/coloring_advent_calendar.htm



Links to the Online Advent Calendar

Here are the links for the various Online Advent Calendars:

Advent Calendar 2009 - UK and Europe
Advent Calendar 2009 - Australasia
Advent Calendar 2009 - US and Canada

Crafty Bits And Pieces Needed For The First Week

If you'd like to take part in the craft activities in the first week of the online Advent Calendar, you will need to assemble a few bits and pieces:

Red, white and green pipe cleaners; a yogurt pot and a small jar; gold tissue paper; tracing paper, decorations such as sequins and glitter; ribbon or yarn in Christmas colours; metallic pens; glue and double sided tape.

We have one recipe planned on Tuesday 1st December, for which you will need:Plain flour, caster sugar, butter, vanilla extract, salt, icing sugar (confectioners).

We hope you'll join in the fun with the online Advent Calendar, and tell your friends and family about it!

Elephant coloring pages

Elephants are large land mammals in two genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta. Three species of elephant are living today: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant). All other species and genera of Elephantidae are extinct, some since the last ice age: dwarf forms of mammoths may have survived as late as 2,000 BC. Elephants and other Elephantidae were once classified with other thick-skinned animals in a now invalid order, Pachydermata.

Elephants are the largest land animals now living. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kilograms (260 lb). They typically live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. This male weighed about 12,000 kilograms (26,000 lb), with a shoulder height of 4.2 metres (14 ft), a metre (yard) taller than the average male African elephant. The smallest elephants, about the size of a calf or a large pig, were a prehistoric species that lived on the island of Crete during the Pleistocene epoch.

The elephant has appeared in cultures across the world. They are a symbol of wisdom in Asian cultures and are famed for their memory and intelligence, where they are thought to be on par with cetaceans and hominids. Aristotle once said the elephant was "the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind". The word "elephant" has its origins in the Greek ἐλέφας, meaning "ivory" or "elephant".

Here are Elephant coloring pages for free.

Elephant coloring pages
Elephant coloring pages

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Elephant coloring pages

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Elephant coloring pages

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Elephant coloring pages

Elephant coloring pages

Elephant coloring pages

Elephant coloring pages

Elephant coloring pages

Elephant coloring pages
Elephant coloring pages