Hello visitor! If you’re a regular looking for the latest kids’ printables we’ve created, they’re listed below.
1. Last Tooth Collection Notes
When it’s time for that very last tooth to be collected, these notes are the ones to use. There’s a version for a boy and one for a girl – they’re lovely way to let the Tooth Fairy say goodbye and wish your child well on the path to growing up completely.
Last Tooth Collection Note (for a girl)
Last Tooth Collection Note (for a boy)
2. Dragon Bravery Certificates
These are a bit of magic for any child who has been brave recently, for example by going to a new school, going to the dentist or achieving anything about which they were nervous. There’s one for a boy and one for a girl.
Dragon Bravery Certificate for a Girl
Dragon Bravery Certificate for a Boy
3. Lost Tooth Found Certificates
It’s so easy to lose a tooth when it first falls out and the last thing you want is a disappointed child worrying that the Tooth Fairy won’t find it! This certificate is a good way to set your child’s mind at ease. There’s one you can add a name and date to and a version you can print without personalisation (just in case you’re in a rush!)
Lost Tooth Found
Lost Tooth Found Certificate (No name needed)
4. Tooth Fairy Certificates for a Swallowed Tooth
You’d be surprised how often this happens. We created these certificates because we had a number of requests from parents whose children had accidentally swallowed a baby tooth. One is ready to personalise but if you’re in a rush and don’t want to bother, there’s also a version which doesn’t need you to add a name. You can just print it as is and pop it straight under your little one’s pillow.
Swallowed Tooth Taken Certificate (No name needed)
Swallowed Tooth Taken
5. Dolphin Chore Chart
Dolphin Chore Chart
A summery addition to our chore charts, great for children who like dolphins.
6. Cute Dragon Envelopes
These cute little dragon envelopes are ready to print and fold.
Pink and Green Dragon Envelope
Blue Dragon Envelope
Orange Dragon Envelope
7. Mermaid Party Invitations
Lots of fun if you’re planning an under the sea party.
Blue Sea Mermaid Party Invitation
Mermaid Invitation
8. One Tooth Left to Lose Certificates
These certificates are a bit unusual in that they’re not to say thank you for a tooth. Instead, they are notes to leave before your child loses his or her last tooth. There’s one for a boy and one for a girl. The idea is that the Tooth Fairy wants to let your child know that he or she has one tooth left and that she is looking forward to a final visit one day soon, to pick it up. It’s a nice way to begin rounding off the visits from the Tooth Fairy, now that your little one is growing up.
Ah, the magic of fairies! Whether it’s a snow fairy flying in and out of the snowflakes on a dark winter’s night or a summer fairy sleeping the afternoon away in the shady petals of a rose, every season has these magical creatures wound up within the stories we tell.
There’s the Tooth Fairy, of course, a fairy of all seasons. Then there’s the Dummy Fairy, who makes just one brief visit in a lifetime. (Or at least that’s the idea… unless there’s a dummy addiction lapse!) Beyond that, most of us have heard of Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies – here at Rooftop Post we particularly love those – and in the midst of our modern times the Birthday Fairy seems to be becoming more and more popular.
Fairies these days come in all shapes and sizes and styles too. Some fairies are funny and some are beautiful. Some are tubby, some are so delicate they look as though the smallest breath of wind would blow them away. We like them all and try to represent as many different types as we can within our resources. So, without further ado, for those of you looking for free printables which encapsulate the magic of fairies, our favourites from this site are below.
Fairy Certificate of Loveliness
Fairy Award for Being Good
Blue Winter Fairy Notepaper
Blue Winter Fairy Envelope
Spring Fairy Paper Doll
Flower Fairy Paper Doll
Letter from the Birthday Fairy (for a girl)
Letter from the Birthday Fairy (for a boy)
Tooth Fairy: Classic Tooth & Money Envelopes
Tooth Fairy: Mini Envelopes
Fairy Certificate of Thoughtfulness
Fairy Certificate of Generosity
Fairy Bookmark
Fairy Friends Bookmark
Fairy Certificate for Kindness to Cats
Fairy Birthday Wishes – A Printable Poem from the Birthday Fairy
Award for Losing Your First Tooth
Super Summer Brushing Certificate (No name needed)
Every so often we like to take a look at our web stats and let you know which pages are currently the most popular. In reverse order here’s the top five this spring:
In fifth place is our babysitting thank you note. Unusual for it to receive quite so many hits but perhaps with the weather getting warmer parents are going out more. Whatever the reason, we’re glad you found it useful.
Who knows why, during the spring, our thoughts turn to mermaids? Yet according to our site’s stats, they do.
Perhaps we tell our children more stories about them at this time of the year. Maybe it’s a time when we find ourselves with out children on the beach, looking out to see and firing up their imaginations with magical mermaid make-believe. Or perhaps there are more children learning to swim at this time of year, ready for the summer holiday. (Unless you’re in the Southern hemisphere, of course.)
Whatever the reason, the hits on our mermaid resources always start to increase around the middle of April and this year, the certificate above is the most popular. Perhaps it’s not that surprising, for with the days getting longer and the sea a little warmer, who wouldn’t want to be a “mermaid friend“?
There’s never a time making a paper doll and her wardrobe isn’t fun and this spring our visitors obviously think so too.
In keeping with the magical resources we provide on this site, out paper dolls are fairies… although you could always chop the wing bits of their clothes if you didn’t want them to be. Yikes! Sounds painful though 🙁
As was true last year, our Tooth Fairy notes page is the most hit upon of printables in spring. Could it be that teeth are falling out more rapidly than usual after all the Easter goodies?!! Goodness, we hope not!
This week we’ve put together two sets of rhyming clues for treasure hunts. One is a pirate theme, the other is for mermaids. They make a great activity for birthday parties or any other family gathering where there are children to entertain.
What You Need:
A printer, obviously, and a pair of scissors. You’ll also have to think of a prize (or “treasure”) you can put at the end of the hunt, with the very last clue. For the pirate treasure hunt, you’ll need an egg to place one of the clues next to, as you’ll see when you read the rhymes.
If you need more help: Scroll down, there are suggestions for hiding each clue lower down.
Just print the clues, cut them out and hide around the house accordingly. (There are PDF buttons underneath each set of clues to make printing extra-easy.)
When planning your treasure hunt, here are some questions to ask yourself and extra ideas for each clue below.
Whole House or Certain Rooms?
If you’re planning this scavenger hunt for a children’s party, you might want to make it clear which rooms they should look in and which are off-limits – just in case you don’t want a million little hands rifling through every cupboard in the house!
Competition or Team Work Game?
You might also want to decide whether your treasure hunt is a competition or not. Does the first person to get to the end get the prize? Or is it about team work? If it’s the former, make it clear that clues must be left where you found them, so that the next player can find them too. If it’s the latter, make sure there’s some “treasure” for everyone at the end.
Tips and Suggestions for Each Verse of Pirate Clues:
Yo ho, me lovelies! Here be a clue: To find the surprise Ye must seek out a shoe!
Just pop the clue into any shoe that the children are likely to find. If you want to make it easier, you could point them to the right room.
Keep on, me hearties! A pirate’s got grit, Ye’ll find the next clue Where ye like to sit.
Place the clue under/on/under the cushion of a chair. It could be a dining chair, armchair, rocking chair and so on.
Well done, me pirates! You’re moving ahead A secret is written Where ye go to bed.
This one’s easy – just hide the clue in a bed. If it’s a party and you don’t want children in every room, make it clear which bedrooms are off-limits.
Now listen up closely Me beauties, me gems, There’s a landlubber watching The next clue’s on them!
You or another adult should hide the next clue about your (or their) person. Perhaps in a pocket or, if you’re joining in the festivities, under the pirate hat you’ve got on!
Not far to the treasure, Me brave sailing folk! The next one’s beside A thing with a yolk.
You’ll need to place the next clue near an egg. Perhaps in the fridge or egg basket? If you don’t have a real egg in the house, you could always draw one, cut it out, pin it to a wall and put the clue beside it.
Fine work buccaneers! Now hark to me fable: There once was a clue Who hid by a table.
Any table will do here – if you’re feeling crafty, tape the clue underneath it rather than leaving it on top.
Well done me shipmates! You’re right on the brink… The last clue is hiding Not far from a sink.
Could be the bathroom or the kitchen – just hide the clue in or near a sink.
Aha so ye found it! I’m piraty-proud, A toast to yer cunning And courage out loud!
The “treasure” should be left with this clue. It can be anything – chocolate, sweets, a toy. Might be a nice touch to make it a piraty gift, arrr! If this treasure hunt wasn’t a competition, make sure there are enough goodies for everyone. You could always include one of ourpirate certificatesat the end for whoever got there first. This one, for anHonorary Pirateone would be a good fit:
Honorary Pirate Certificate (No name needed)
Tips and Suggestions for Each Verse of Mermaid Clues:
Follow the clues For treasures galore! Swim that way dear mermaids, The first’s on a door.
Pick any door in your house and stick/pin the next clue to it. If you want to make it harder, you could choose a less obvious door, such as the door to a wardrobe… or even a cat door!
Hark to me, merfolk, Crustaceans and fish! The next clue is hiding Inside a dish.
Pop the next clue inside a dish, any dish you know the children will find. Might be best not to choose a valuable one though, in case it gets broken.
Well done, now another…. If you’re in a rush I’ll tell you a secret: It’s near a hairbrush.
Hide the clue near a hairbrush. If the children don’t know where to look, you could always point them towards the correct room.
The next place is strange It’s a manmade machine And the clue is not far From its sparkly bright screen.
This “manmade machine” with a “sparkly bright screen” could be a TV, a laptop, a desktop, or even a tablet. (In theory, it could even be a phone but that might be hard for them to guess.) Hide the next clue near whichever device you have in your house – we always use the TV.
Nice work, lovely creatures, But now understand: A grown-up is hiding A clue in their hand!!!
This could be you or one of the other grown-up friends/parents. Give them the clue before the game starts and tell them fold it up small and hide it in a fist. Pick someone who doesn’t mind having their hand prised open by small fingers!
Now you must swim To and fro, here and there, To find a clue waiting Under a chair.
Any chair in the house will do for the next clue. You could hide it under the chair’s cushion, under the chair itself, or tape it to the back of the chair.
The hunt’s nearly over, You’ve swum many knots, Now look in a room Full of saucepans and pots!
Clearly, the next clue needs to be hidden in the kitchen. You can make finding it as easy or as difficult as you like.
Hooray little merfolk, Here is your prize. You are not only pretty But clever and wise!
This is the last clue so some kind of mermaid treasure should be left here. Sweets/candy is probably the most obvious prize – you could also add one of our free mermaid certificates. The one below would be an easy choice because it doesn’t require you to add a child’s name. (Obviously, if it’s a competition you couldn’t add a name in advance because you wouldn’t know which child was going to get to the end first!):
Mermaid Friend (No name needed)
Attribution: All pirate and mermaid rhymes in the clues above were written by Leone Annabella Betts and have been reproduced on this site with her blessing.
Looking for More Pirate Party Ideas?
From around the internet, we like these:
Make a Pirate’s Treasure Map – This is a great idea for a pirate’s party activity. Just watch the BBC (CBeebies) video then get the children at your party making maps of their own.
Make a Pirate Treasure Chest – If you’ve got a bit of preparation time, this print and craft treasure chest from Tim’s Printables might prove useful. You make one for each guest, pop a couple of sweets inside and put it on the party table.
Buccaneer Eye Patches – Authentic looking eye patches to print out from Real Classroom Ideas.
Please note that we’re not responsible for the content on these pages or the upkeep of their websites.
It’s the night before Easter and if you’re still surfing for last-minute printables, you’ve come to the right page! Here’s a list of our most popular – all you need is a printer, possibly a pair of scissors, and the children tucked up in bed.
Oh, and we wish you and yours a very happy Easter! Thank you for visiting our website, we hope you’ll come again. xxxx
This is our newest Easter Bunny letter and it was created this year, so it’s definitely one your child won’t have had before. Just print it and leave it somewhere for him/her to find on Easter Morning.
If you’d rather avoid a long letter or note, let your little one know the Easter Bunny has been with his paw print on a little card. You’ll need to print it and fold it as directed.
This is a nice certificate to leave with the Easter Bunny’s eggs. Just print then write your child’s name and the date on it. (Unless you are the real Easter Bunny, you might need to disguise your handwriting!)
This amusing little note shows the Easter Bunny at his humorous best. It’s ideal for boys or girls and great fun to leave with their Easter eggs to be found on Easter Morning.
As we skip around the internet on our run-up-to-Easter coffee breaks, we can’t help noticing some weird and wonderful Easter eggs. So we thought we’d share them with you.
Knitted Easter Eggs
There seem to be all sorts of knitted Easter eggs around (the picture below shows some from Poland) and when you think about it, they’re probably a great idea. Sure, you could carefully create the gorgeous work-of-art type of knitted egg but you could also knit a more practical variety. Soft, washable, and easy to pack away without breakage to use again next year.
These are just beautiful. As if ordinary eggs weren’t fragile enough, these must be as delicate as you can get.
You can make you’re own – even if they’re not quite as elaborate as those above. Like everything else worth doing, it just takes practice and time.
So how do you make them? Surprisingly, we couldn’t find that many online guides but it’s quite well described on this blog– the pictures help too. (Tip: You may need to use Google Translate if the text doesn’t display in English.) The biggest hurdle is that you’ll need a handheld milling machine of some kind to make the holes in the eggshell. If you’re an ardent crafter whose got one already though, just bleach and blow some eggs then perforate away.
Embroidered Easter Eggs
For anyone handy with a needle and thread, here’s another charming idea. I’m fairy useless at embroidery but these make me wish I wasn’t.
Look carefully and you can see how these are done. Eggs are blown, bleached then embroidered with a needle and colourful thread – often embroidery silks. If you’re a beginner it may be easier to use goose eggs rather than duck or chicken eggs, as they are bigger and their shell is less fragile.
Straw Easter Eggs
Or rather, Easter eggs decorated with bits of straw. Isn’t that clever? And pretty too.
Fabergé Egg
Okay so you can’t craft this one, (or if you can you’re either a wizard or a genius), but we thought we’d mention it regardless. After all, who can think of beautiful eggs without thinking House of Fabergé. This one’s called the Winter Egg and in 1913 it was the most expensive Easter egg ever made.
It’s a good question because around the world in different countries and even within different families in the same country, the answer varies quite a bit.
So, in our ever-growing global village, who is today’s Easter Bunny?
Here’s what we know…
Bunny Basics
Most of us, however, have the following rabbity experiences in common:
1.The Easter Bunny visits every Easter Eve. (That’s the night before Easter rather than the day itself – like Christmas Eve.)
3.The Easter Bunny leaves presents. Usually sweets or chocolate or both.
In some cultures, she also leaves toys, money, flowers and painted eggs.
She doesn’t always leave his gifts in the same place. In some houses he pops sweets into Easter baskets, boxes or bonnets (the ones your children made earlier, unless as in our family, you forgot to organise that one and had to rush out and buy the nearest thing the same night. Easter flower pots were what we had last year.)
Fortunately if you haven’t had time to make a container of any kind, he can also leave treats in a basket he made himself. (Ours will definitely be doing that this time around.)
Occasionally, the Easter Bunny also likes to leave her eggs in an Easter nest.
In other homes, she hides chocolate all around the house/garden so that the children wake up to an Easter egg hunt. (A quick tip here – don’t let your Easter Bunny hide a cream egg anywhere it can be stepped into the carpet. Cleaning up quite such a sticky mess does not put an Easter smile upon your face. We speak from experience!)
4.The Easter Bunny can be male or female. (In our house she’s always been female, as you might have gathered.)
5.The Easter Bunny is magical. Obviously. After all, she gets in without a key and manages to bring treats to all the good boys and girls in the world in one night.
6. Though often depicted as white, the Easter Bunny can be any colour. She sometimes carries an Easter basket full of chocolate or painted eggs. She isn’t generally depicted wearing an Easter Bonnet, which, when you think about it, is a bit of a pity.
Paws for Thought – Bunny Differences
There are of course, some ways in which Easter Bunny traditions differ wildly. Here are a few examples:
In Australia, the Easter Bilby is sometimes the visitor of choice to deliver the children’s Easter eggs. Due to the environmental impact of rabbits and the need to support the endangered (and very cute) bilby, many Australians would like to see it replace the Easter Bunny altogether.
Easter Bilby
In France the magical Flying Bells (les cloches volantes) deliver the eggs instead of a bunny. The idea is that shortly before Easter, all the church bells fly away to Rome and then on their way back, they drop the eggs with which they have been blessed while in the holy city. (We’ve never been in France over Easter but it seems as though if you’re out and about on Easter Eve, it may pay to take an umbrella.)
Easter in France: Flying Bells
If you’re wondering how the Easter Bunny gets around the world on the night before Easter, there are different traditions about that too. Some say that she has a secret network of tunnels running all around the world – even under the oceans. If you like that idea, this free printable letter from her backs it up.
The Easter Bunny on her way around the world through his secret network of tunnels.
There are those who say that like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny travels in a sleigh but instead of reindeer, it is pulled by magical flying hedgehogs.
We’ve also heard tell that he travels on the back of an Easter dragon – which is a rather lovely idea – and on the more outlandish side, that she owns a giant magical flying carrot. And after all, why not? It could be quite useful. No need to stop for snacks if you can simply take a bite out of your vehicle as you glide around the globe.
However she gets around, you can be sure it’s the dead of night and that she doesn’t need a Rudolph-type helper to see in the dark. Not with all those carrots she eats!
We’ve been updating our Tooth Fairy and Birthday Fairy notes this week and we thought you might find it useful to see a quick list of which notes are brand new.
We’ll continue adding notes from both these magical characters whenever we can. If you enjoy a particular note, please consider liking it using the social media buttons (Facebook, Twitter etc) at the bottom of the relevant page. This helps us work out what’s popular and what to make more of. Thanks. x
Beyond uploading new notes, you’ll noticed that we’ve reorganised the Tooth Fairy’s messages into categories. We hope this will make it easier to find the note you need.
As for the Birthday Fairy, she has only just started writing messages for our site. We hope to hear more from her soon. To find out when she writes something new, you can follow us on Facebook or Twitter, join our mailing list or simply keep an eye on our Birthday Fairy note page.
Free colouring pages are scattered throughout our site so it can be hard to spot all the new ones. That’s why this month, we thought we’d post a gallery of the latest colouring we’ve created here, in one place. (We’ll try and do this every couple of months from now on.) The pages below were all uploaded in Janaury 2016. We hope you child enjoys colouring them in.
Dragony Monster
Piraty Things
Monster mix
Pirate at Sunset
Spotty Monster
More Monsters
Easter Bunny
Easter Bunnies
Easter Bunny with Carrot
Cute Monster
Butterflies and Flowers
Hearts Colouring Page
Valentine’s Day Hedgehogs Colouring
Easter Egg to Colour In
Hearts Cupcake Wrappers – Kids’ Colouring
Hearts Frilly Cupcake Wrappers – Kids’ Colouring
Beautiful Unicorn
Pens or Crayons?
There’s always something of a debate as to what children most like to colour in with – pens or crayons. It’s a tough call. When I was little, I prefered crayons, as long as they were pencil crayons. I hated wax. Felt pens used to annoy me because I could never get an even colour onto the paper… I could always see darker bits and make out the pen lines.
With pencil crayons, however, you learn to shade. You learn to press so lightly that you barely see the pencil lines. You learn how to make colour fade or ger darker smoothly. Sure, it takes patience and that may not be for everyone, (I’m not sure my sister ever delighted in these time-consuming things things), but there is a pleasure in learning to colour properly. Even if you’re not the best at drawing, a beautifully shaded colouring page can look gorgeous, and feel very worthwhile.
Having said all that, felt pens can be fun too. Plus, their strong, succulant colours might appeal to some children more than those of pencil crayons. I guess in the end, the best way to make up your mind as to which to buy is to remember what you liked when you were little… then if in doubt, ask your child.
Valentine’s Day is always a difficult one for us because as you’ve probably realised if you’re reading this, our site is geared towards kids’ printables. Generally speaking, we find most people don’t think of it as a celebration for children. Once upon a time, it was deemed to be a day for the lonely-hearted to find the courage to secretly send a card to someone they admired. Over the last couple of decades however, it seems to have morphed into a day which emphasises the celebration of love between couples. Either way, it’s still largely one for the grown-ups.
Having said all this, we do often get requests for something to print out for the children… so perhaps the whole day is becoming something of a family affair. For those of you who have asked, here is a small collection of what we do have in the way of printables suitable for Valentine’s Day. We hope you enjoy them and of course, that your day is filled with love.
Valentine’s Day Hedgehogs Colouring
Hearts Colouring Page
Hearts Cupcake Wrappers – Kids’ Colouring
Hearts Frilly Cupcake Wrappers – Kids’ Colouring
Red Roses and Hearts Cupcake Wrappers
Red Roses and Hearts Frilly Cupcake Wrappers
Hearts Cupcake Wrappers
Hearts Frilly Cupcake Wrappers
Valentine Hearts Cupcake Wrappers
Valentine Hearts Frilly Cupcake Wrappers
Cupcake Wrappers: Hearts
Hearts Printable Party Bag
Heart Patterned Easter Eggs
Four Fold Printable Valentine’s Day Card
Love Heart Table Place Names
Valentine’s Day Table Place Names
Write a Poem for Valentine’s Day:
Poetry is a traditional part of Valentine’s Day and you may want to find one online or write your own inside a card. If you’ve no idea where to start, you could always take look back into history. For example, have you ever heard a rhyme which starts, “Roses are red, violets are blue”? Well, its roots are probably older than you think. It has been traced back to a very long poem called “The Faerie Queene”, which was written by a man named Edmund Spenser and published in England in 1590. Just shy of a couple of hundred years later, a more modern take on the rhyme appeared in a collection of English nursery rhymes called “Gammer Gurton’s Garland“:
The rose is red, the violet’s blue, The honey’s sweet, and so are you. Thou art my love and I am thine; I drew thee to my Valentine: The lot was cast and then I drew, And Fortune said it shou’d be you.
Obviously given its age, the verse above is now in the public domain, so feel free to use it yourself in any way you choose. Or, like so many before you, you could copy the first two lines then write your sweetheart a special version it to keep for their very own. We can’t think of a more romantic gift!
Valentine’s Day is always a difficult one for us because as you’ve probably realised if you’re reading this, our site is geared towards kids’ printables. Generally speaking, we find most people don’t think of it as a celebration for children. Once upon a time, it was deemed to be a day for the lonely-hearted to find the courage to secretly send a card to someone they admired. Over the last couple of decades however, it seems to have morphed into a day which emphasises the celebration of love between couples. Either way, it’s still largely one for the grown-ups.
