The 25th of January is just around the corner. Are you getting ready to celebrate one of Scotland’s favourite sons, that wondrous poet and lyricist, Robert Burns?
Then why not hang a few of the bard’s words around your home?
We hope you’ll find our Burns bunting and other printable Burns Night decorations useful – and that you have a great time.
Burns Night Bunting: Wee Beastie
Burns Night Bunting: Red Red Rose
Burns Night Bunting: Poppies and Snow
Burns Supper Decoration: Black and White Bunting
Burns Supper Decoration: Black and White Bunting
Burns Supper Bunting: Robert Burns Portrait
“Address to a Haggis” (Ready to read for Burns Supper)
As our site is getting quite big these days, we thought we’d kick off October by posting a list of our most popular Halloween printables. (They’re all free.) Hope you have fun browsing through them, and that you find something useful for you and your family to enjoy.
These friendly rhymes with a witchy theme are great fun to decorate your home with on Halloween. They all say lovely things and are a novel way to entertain any Halloween visitors you might have, especially children. Just print, cut out and hang them wherever you feel like it – on doors, fridges, walls etc – and make your guests smile. They also make great little give-aways for Halloween party bags.
Whether you’re having a Halloween party or just filling up little bags of sweets for trick and treaters, these spooky bags are lots of fun. There are all sorts of themes, black cat, candy corn, witch on a broomstick, pumpkin patch and lots more.
Don’t forget to check off those Halloween chores! Perhaps this monster chore chart will encourage the children to give you a hand. We have a number of other colourful chore charts too, including a Witchy Chore Chart, which is popular with girls.
Halloween bunting is a nice, easy way to decorate for Halloween, just print it out, fold, then glue or staple over string. It’s a good one for the kids to do with you – we find that ours like this scardy cat bunting best!
Our paper leaves are ever so popular, at Halloween, Thanksgiving, Harvest festival or any other autumnal occasion. To get the best out of making ours, you can check out this “how to” video. It was made a bit quickly as we were short on time that day, but it gives you the general idea.
Paper leaves are a fabulous way to bring the outside inside on Halloween.
We love this stuff – it makes our skin crawl every time! You can use it for anything you like. We use it for wrapping up small presents and (perhaps oddly!) to cover tissue boxes when we’re trying to Halloweenify the house. After all, it’s the little details which make for a great party.
TIP: To get the biggest (highest resolution) image of this craft paper, make sure you click on the picture itself, rather than using the PDF button.
These letters were created as a lighthearted antidote for any children who think there are monsters living in their house, but even if your kids are too old to worry about such things, we’ve found that many still enjoy them. They’re written by the same author as our Santa letters and are an amusing read for all the family.
Halloween Tooth Fairy Certificate: Well for brushing your teeth over Halloween
This one’s a great way to encourage tooth brushing over Halloween. It’s a nice little reward for any child who has made an effort to look after his/her teeth.
TIP: Use the green Editable PDF button underneath the certificate to download a PDF you can type your child’s name straight onto.
Okay, so you weren’t expecting a Father Christmas resource in this list, but think again. Halloween is a great time to remind the children he’s watching between now and Christmas – and with any luck you’ll get a special effort from them on the good behaviour front.
This video is for anyone interested in getting the best out of our free printable letters from Father Christmas this year. It shows you how to present your letter tied with a ribbon, a name tag and with a sprinkling of fairy dust. We hope you enjoy making letters for your little ones and that you have lots of fun at this magical time of year. x
Here are links to the printables that go with this video:
A Letter from Father Christmas: “Father Christmas and the Christmas Tree”
Ah, September! The summer holidays roll to a close and with the start of the new term comes our latestnew Father Christmas letter – completely free for you to print out.
If you’re looking for ways to get your child excited about Christmas early, not to mention a little reminder about how important it is to be good, then this letter is well worth a look. We’ve been told by many parents that they like to read our Santa letters as bedtime stories and we think this one is a particularly nice choice for that, as thoughts of friendly talking Christmas trees are nice to drift off to. It’s a letter suitable for boys and girls and we hope they enjoy it.
For further Father Christmas story-letters, don’t forget to keep an eye on our “New” page, we’ve a couple more on the way.
Well here we are in the midst of summer once more and with the school holidays all but upon us, we thought we’d post up a list of five of our most popular summer printables. Some are brand new and some are old favourites. Hope you enjoy them.
Ok, not strictly a summer resource but these are proving pretty popular for anyone having a Viking birthday party for the kids. Spelling out the birthday boy or girl’s name in real Viking runes and hanging them along the wall adds a great bit of fun to the festivities. (Now all we need is the 3D printer technology to hurry up and become commonplace so we can design you a Viking helmet and a longboat too!)
Great for summer parties of all kinds and a cool way of getting the kids to “help” you. Just print them out, stick the flaps down and fill with goodies for your party guests.
This one is for the end of the summer holidays. In it, Father Christmas thanks your child for being good over the summer and says he hopes he/she will keep it up until Christmas. In our house, a word from Santa brings a smile amid that back to school gloom!
Give the summer holidays a couple of weeks to kick in and then encourage further good behaviour with this summer certificate from Santa. Christmas may seem like a long way off but it’s never a bad thing to let your child know that the elves have their eyes out all year.
Finally, if you browse our party invitations, you’ll find a few that could come in handy for the summer, such as the barbeque, picnic invitation and summer garden party invitation.
As with all our resources, anything which proves particularly popular will go straight to the top of our “add more list”. The best way to let us know if you like something is to share it on Facebook, Twitter etc. We can tell how many shares and/or likes each of our pages receives and every month we have a quick look at the printables people like best and focus our efforts there.
For anyone wondering what other visitors to this site are interested in right now, this week our most popular resources are:
Basically, it’s hot chocolate with a little extra oomph! You make a normal cup of hot cocoa, then add extra chocolate and white marshmallows – which are what give it its name. Some people also add extra milk or cream and just for fun, the whole thing is stirred up with a candy cane. It’s also becoming increasingly common for the raw ingredients for snowman soup to be put together as a gift for people to take home. A snowman soup gift set usually consists of a sachet of hot chocolate; some extra chocolate to stir in, such as buttons or stars or kisses; some white marshmallows; and a candy cane to stir it all up.
If you want the snowman soup poem featured in the video above, click here.
If you want the snowman colouring page featured in the video above, click here.
Snowman Soup Printables
We’ve written a couple of snowman soup poems, both of which are available for you below. We find parents like to print one, roll it up, tie with a ribbon and place it alongside a steaming cup of snowman soup or with a snowman soup gift set. (A snowman soup gift set usually consists of a sachet of hot chocolate, some extra chocolate to stir in such as buttons, stars or kisses, some white marshmallows, and a candy cane to stir it all up.)
Snowman Soup Poem
Santa’s Snowman Soup Poem
Please note that the copyright for all our snowman soup poems belongs to Rooftop Post. They are only for your own personal use and may not be used commercially.
This is just a quick post for all of you who like to keep an eye out for our latest printable resources. Once upon a time when our website was young, witches weren’t particularly popular, but since the advent of Harry Potter, we’ve seen demand for them go up and up. We’ve long had requests to extend our witch-themed printables, but it’s not always easy to know what to make.
Witchy Wall Spell
However, this February, one of our illustrators put together a couple of witchy rhymes to print out for children’s bedroom walls. We’re calling them Witchy Wall Spells, the idea being that you can pop them on a bedroom or playroom wall for a bit of decorative fun. They’re affectionate, gentle and will hopefully bring a smile to any child. So far, we’ve got a witchy wall spell for a boy and a witchy wall spell for a girl, but we hope to add more before the end of this month.
As with all our resources, our witch-themed printables have no religious content in them whatsoever and are intended only for entertainment purposes.
Don’t forget… if you scroll down to the bottom of our newest resources, you can usually find a “Download as PDF” button to make printing easier.
The 25th of January is just around the corner. Are you getting ready to celebrate one of Scotland’s favourite sons, that wondrous poet and lyricist, Robert Burns? 
This is just a quick post for all of you who like to keep an eye out for our latest printable resources. Once upon a time when our website was young, witches weren’t particularly popular, but since the advent of Harry Potter, we’ve seen demand for them go up and up. We’ve long had requests to extend our witch-themed printables, but it’s not always easy to know what to make.