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Parties, Summer

Platinum Jubilee Decorations

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is coming up and celebrations are taking place throughout the UK between 2nd to 5th June 2022.  It commemorates her being on the throne for seventy years, which is the longest of any British monarch, and no doubt there’ll  be street parties aplenty.

If you’re looking for printable decorations to make, we’ve collected some below.  Don’t forget you can also make use of printables from the government’s official toolkit.  We hope you have a lovely time.

Oh, and here are some Jubilee party invitations:

If you’re having a street party and want it to look extra pretty, you might like to make some of these cute paper baskets and fill them with treats such as sweets, raisins and peanuts or popcorn.

Oh and don’t forget our free Platinum Jubilee Poster:

Free poster for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, picturing the Queen, the British flag and the crown.
Jubilee Poster

Jubilee Paper Chains

Paper chains can be an especially good way to get the children involved in the Jubilee celebrations.  Just print, cut out and glue the ends together.

Easter, Spring

Easter Cards and Rhymes

If you’ve ever felt that you want to add a bit of verse to your Easter card to let that special someone know how much you care, then this post might help.  We often get asked for Easter poems for cards, so we’ve created a handful below.

Oh, and if you scroll down you’ll see some printable cards as well, interspersed between the rhymes.  We thought they’d be handy for anyone who hasn’t had time to get to the shops and needs something to write in.

Easter Card Rhymes:
Easter Blessings

Gone the winter’s cold and gloom,
Here’s the sun to fill your room,
Here come flowers, here comes spring,
Here come birds that chirp and sing,
Here’s a card to bring good cheer
And Easter blessings to your year!

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Just for You

This Easter card is just for you,
To let you know that all you do
For strangers, friends and family,
Is recognised and loved by me.

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Be Blessed

This time of year
I think of you
And hope for joy
In all you do,
For you deserve
The very best,
Happy Easter, dear,
Be blessed.

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For a Friend

Dearest friend the spring is here,
And Easter Day is drawing near,
Glad the winter months are through,
The sunshine makes me think of you,
For though this Easter we’re apart,
You’re always with me, in my heart.

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Here’s to You

Spring is here,
Easter’s near,
Lots of love
To you my dear.

Winter’s through,
Here’s to you
And your loved ones,
Old and new!

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Time for Joy

Chocolates, flowers,
Egg-shaped things,
Oh what fun each
Easter brings!
Chicks and rabbits,
Cute and small,
How we laugh and
Love them all.
Church bells, singing,
Simnel cake,
Happy feelings
When you wake!
Time to lay
Aside your cares,
Time for joy
And peace and prayers.

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A Magical Time

It’s that magical
Eastery time,
So I thought I would
Send you a rhyme,
To wish you a
Wonderful day,
Full of dreams that
Will take you away
To a daffodil house,
Or a chocolate sea,
Or a chicken who lives
In an Easter egg tree,
For the very best way
To be clever and smart,
Is to always stay young
In your head and your heart.

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Winter

Our Top Picks for January

With Christmas over and the new year at the starting block, we thought we’d list a few of our favourite printables for January. Some are new and some are old favourites but our site is getting so big that we thought a little list might help make sure there’s no mid-winter magic you’ve missed.

1 Christmas Thank You Notes

Christmas Thank You Notes

2 Burns’ Night Printables

3  Tooth Fairy Notes

4 Blank Fairy Notepaper

Blank Fairy Notepaper

5 Spring Colouring

Printable spring colouring pages

Christmas, Winter

Latest Christmas Magic

Are you looking for our latest Christmas printables?  Well, you can find them on the Christmas area of our site, or just click on the links which interest you below.

There are reindeer letters, Santa letters written with Covid in mind, letters for your Christmas Eve box, elf printables and more.

Printable Christmas letters from Santa Claus, Rudolph the Reindeer, the elves and more.
From Rudolph’s writings to Santa’s scribblings, these are the letters we love!
Our favourite Christmas printables
Favourite Xmas printables, old and new
Useful bits and pieces from the Christmas elves
Letters from Rudolph and the reindeer
Two magical letters for you Christmas Eve box, from Santa and Rudolph.

We wish you a truly magical Christmas, and all the best for the new year.

Autumn, Our Favourite Printables

Pretty Jam Labels

Are you making jams, jellies or preserves?  We’ve added these pretty labels to our pantry label range, and you’re welcome to download and print them for free.  We’ve only put the name of the fruit on each label, so that they’ll do for jam or jelly or anything of that kind.  Hope you find them useful, and good luck with your jam-making project! x

Other useful Labels:

Summer

Best of Our Summer Colouring

Ah summer… and colouring.  Two of our favourite things rolled into one!

Our colouring is aimed at children rather than adults, although grown-ups are welcome to it too, of course.  After all, studies have shown that simply colouring in a picture  is good for your mental health – a relaxing pastime no matter what age you are.

Anyway, we’ve put all our summer colouring faves together below so they’re easy to scroll through,  starting with a pirate and a pirate cat:

Or how about some lovely, simple-to-colour summery unicorns?

And here’s the rest:

 

Summer

Fun for the Fourth of July

Hello!  For those of you celebrating the 4th of July this year, we thought we’d create a quick post to show you which printables we’ve got on the site that could come in handy.  Please find them below.

Party Cones

First up are a few party cones, useful as hats or containers for popcorn, candy and snacks.

Snack/Candy Baskets

Next up are our printable paper baskets.  You can put snacks such as  candy, popcorn, chips or cookies in them and they’ll make your party table look gorgeous!

Coloring Pages

Hoping to involve the kids?  Why not print them one of these 4th July coloring pages.  They’ll add that all-the-family vibe to your celebratory decor.

Best of the Rest

And finally, here are the other printable bits and bobs we think could be of use for your Independence Day decorating endeavours.

It’s always nice to make your own decorations for Independence Day and online printables are a fun way to get started.  They’re also great for getting the kids involved.  We hope that whether you’re making paper chains, coloring posters in, crafting baskets or hanging up bunting, you have a lovely time and a magical 4th of July.

 

Popular

Father’s Day Cards

It’s not always easy to make it to the shops, and for that moment, you might find yourself scouring the internet for printable Father’s Day cards.  Well, if that’s what you’re looking for, here are ours.  They’re free, of course – all you need is a printer.

Colouring, Spring

St George’s Day Printables

If you’re looking for things to print out for St George’s Day this year, we’ve gathered all ours together below.  You might also want to check out our general dragon page for further ideas.

First off, here are a couple of St George certificates:

We have some dragon certificates available too, which might come in handy.  Here are a couple of examples – click here to see more:

We’ve also got some knight and dragon-themed colouring:

Looking to decorate your home or classroom?  You might find something useful in our collection of St George’s Day bunting:

You might also like these free printable greetings cards:

St George’s Day Story for Young Children

One of the problems with the St George’s Day story is that like many old tales, it can be viewed as a bit violent and sexist by today’s standards.  While this isn’t such an issue for older children who can understand it’s of its time, it can make it hard to tell to little ones.  With this in mind, we’ve created what we hope is a slightly more child-friendly version of the story.  We haven’t changed the core narrative, but we have retold it by:

  • making it clear that this particular dragon was dangerous and cruel;
  • empowering the princess to take part in deciding her own fate, rather than just being treated as an object for her father to give away as a prize in a male battle;
  • glossing over the violence of the fight between the dragon and George, which in many of the older stories is a bit gory and drawn out.

The PDF of our St George’s Story for Children is free to download and we hope you find it useful.

St George Activity Idea for Older Children:
If you are dealing with older rather than younger children, you could create a great learning activity by telling them a more adult version of the story and asking them how they would change it to tell to a younger child, or to suit a modern audience.

Other Activities:

This St George’s Day word search is another fun printable activity.  Just click/tap it to download the free PDF.

There are two more word searches below which are suitable for St George’s Day.

Easter, Spring

Easter Picks

Ah spring.  (At least if, like us, you’re in the northern hemisphere.)  The lambs, the daffodils, the bluebells, the light.  Goodness, we’ve missed the light.  And of course, Easter around the corner.  It’s always a bit of rush in our house to get everything done, unlike Christmas, which seems to be hanging around from September onwards these days.  We always feel that Easer rather jumps out from around the proverbial corner – and a mad scramble for eggs, decorations and magical Easter Bunny printables is pretty much guaranteed.  Talking of which, our top picks for this year are below…

Easter Bunny Certificates:

We’ve built up quite a few of these over the years, and you can find all of them on this page.  However, our four favourites are a follows:

Easter Bunny Letters and/or Notes

As with the certificates, we’ve created a fair few of these now but these are the ones we like the best.  Hopefully, you’ll like them too:

Easter Bunny Letter: My Secret Chocolate Factory
Easter Bunny Letter: My Secret Chocolate Factory

Easter Decorations:

From the minute the Easter Holidays start it can be great fun to gather up some children and make the house look lovely.   The spring decorations we like most are below, though it’s also worth hunting around the internet for more such things, for as much as we’d love you to stay on this site forever, there are lots of other gorgeous decorative ideas out there.

Easter Bilby Resources:

Okay, so we’re based in the UK, but we love the idea of the Easter Bilby and for any Australians out there, these are the four bilby resources to make sure you don’t miss:

Easter Fairy Newspaper

Our Easter issue of our printable fairy newspaper, The Midnight Messenger is also available as a bit of free magic for your child.  It’s best read in the run-up to Easter and will let your child know all about what’s going in the Easter Bunny’s chocolate factory under the ground.