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Be active in activity village

www.activityvillage.com

They have thousands of colouring pages, kids crafts, educational resources, puzzles, printables of all sorts, worksheets, sudoku for kids and lots more fun, free activities for kids! Please stay a while and explore... we love to help you keep kids busy!

Activity Village offers teachers, parents and children from all over the world well over 10,000 pages of free children's activities - simply look around, enjoy, and print! We cover many popular children's topics, the main holidays of the year and the seasons too.

The Main Navigation bar at the top of every page will take you to our major sections and is a good starting point

The Quick Links menu at top left of every page highlights upcoming holidays and seasons and current events

The "New and Featured" box at left will point you to our latest sections

The Search Box at the top right of every page will jump you to whatever you are looking for - if we have it!

What's New page will give you new of the latest additions to the site.

Here is an example from the site:

On 19th February 2015 we welcome in a new Chinese New Year, the Year of the Goat! For lots of new colouring pages, puzzles, worksheets and other printables, explore here:
Year of the Goat

What Is Chinese New Year?

Chinese New Year is the most important of the Chinese holidays, and is a time of feasting with the family, celebration, fireworks and gift-giving. It is a 15-day holiday, beginning on the first day of a new moon and ending with the full moon on the day of the Lantern Festival.

The Chinese calendar is based on the lunar year, so the date of Chinese New Year changes every year. The Chinese calendar follows a 12-year pattern with each year named after an animal. There are various stories which explain this. The simplest is that Buddha (or the Jade Emperor) invited all of the animals to join him for a New Year celebration, but only 12 animals turned up. To reward the animals that did come, Buddha named a year after each of them in the order that they arrived, starting with the Rat, followed by the Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat (or Sheep), Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig. (Find another version of the story to print, below)

Depending on the year you are born, you are believed to have the various character traits of that year's animal.