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Victory in Europe – VE Day 80 Printables

Can you believe that 2025 is the 80th anniversary of VE Day?!  We hope you’re looking forward to it as much as we are.  In these tumultuous times, it feels more important than ever to come together and celebrate our shared values and the sacrifices which allowed them to flourish.

Hands of different skin tones colouring and cutting out VE Day 80 printables, including Union Jack bunting and a sandwich colouring sheet, on a wooden table with coloured pencils and scissors.

Remembering VE Day – 80 Years On

This year marks a truly significant moment in our history.  On 8th May 1945, Victory in Europe was declared and communities across Britain poured into the streets to celebrate the end of nearly six long years of war.

It’s our honour, in 2025, to remember that momentous day with hope and unity.

Whether you’re marking the occasion at home, in a school, or with your local community, we’ve created a selection of free VE Day printables to help you take part — from bunting and colouring pages to peace-themed decorations and activity sheets.

These resources are designed with children in mind, but they’re also perfect for intergenerational celebrations.  If we were to point you towards our favourite, it’s probably our colourful bunting — it looks fabulous when printed out and hung up.  As always, everything below ready to download and print for free.

Have a wonderful VE Day — let’s celebrate our gratitude for the past and hope for the future by making it an event for everyone to enjoy. x

VE Day Colouring:

VE Day Posters:

 

Colouring, Our Favourite Printables, Popular

Printable Wellbeing Activities for Children

Printable Wellbeing Resources for Kids

At Rooftop Post, we believe that nurturing a child’s emotional wellbeing and mental health is just as important as feeding their imagination and creativity.  With this in mind, we’ve been creating our first printable resources to help children explore their emotions and practice mindfulness in a positive, fun and engaging way.

Why Focus on Wellbeing?

Two children of different ethnic backgrounds sitting at a table, happily colouring in a Feelings Pie Chart worksheet. They are smiling, sharing crayons, and engaging in the activity in a cosy, nurturing home environment.Well, it’s a fast-paced world, right?  And our children face a constant barrage of challenges that can affect their mental and emotional health.  They could be managing school pressures, navigating friendships both on and offline, or just trying to stay confident and hopeful in difficult circumstances.  Whatever the case, we think it’s more important than ever to give today’s children the tools they need to understand and express their feelings.

Interestingly, recent studies show that even simple activities like colouring or journaling can have a really positive impact on emotional regulation and stress relief.  Colouring can enhance mindfulness – the ability to be present in the moment.  Meanwhile, journaling is a great way to process emotions, especially as children grow.  And beyond that, we all know how important it is to take time out to do activities that are pressure-free and enjoyable.  So let’s encourage our little ones – and everyone else – to engage in them.

What’s Available?

So far, we’ve got the following resources ready for you, but we’re busy working on more, so be sure to pop back in a few weeks’ time to discover something new.

Positive Thoughts Colouring Pages:

Featuring uplifting messages like “Gratitude,” “Kindness,” and “Hope,” these pages are designed to encourage children to focus on positive emotions while relaxing through colouring.

 

Feelings Pie Chart Worksheet:

This is a creative way for children to identify and reflect on the emotions they’re experiencing.  The idea is that by colouring in slices of the pie, kids can better understand their feelings and communicate them with trusted adults.  This can be a springboard for talking more about feelings, or just a way of expressing them non-verbally.

Children’s feelings pie chart worksheet with different emotions such as happy, sad, excited, and worried. Kids can colour in the sections that match how they feel.
This fun and simple feelings pie chart helps children express their emotions by colouring in the slices that match how they feel. A great tool for parents to start conversations about feelings.

 

Wellbeing Activity Cards:

Quick, simple prompts that promote mindfulness and self-care. From breathing exercises to “acts of kindness” challenges, these cards are perfect for home or classroom use.

A set of printable stress-busting activity cards for children, featuring simple mindfulness and relaxation exercises such as deep breathing, tracing shapes, guided imagery, and grounding with senses.
Printable activity cards to help children manage stress – a great tool for relaxation and self-regulation.

Printable Wellbeing and Stress-Busting Activity Cards for Children (PDF Download)

How Can These Resources Help?

Each printable has been carefully designed to encourage open conversations about emotions and mental health in an age-appropriate way. They provide a gentle introduction to concepts like gratitude, self-awareness, and emotional resilience, helping children build skills that will benefit them throughout their lives.

Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or caregiver, these resources can support you in fostering a safe and supportive environment where children feel heard, valued, and understood.

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Mother’s Day Colouring

Looking for free printable Mother’s Day colouring pages?

We have some charming pictures for your child to colour below.  They’re carefully designed for all ages to enjoy.  In creating them, we focused on magical creatures and gentle animal scenes –  things we know bring big smiles!

Why bother with printable colouring in our digital world?

Sometimes people wonder whether to bother with printing out colouring pages for children (or indeed adults!) in a world where there are so many activities to do online.

A boy colouring a picture as a present for his mother on Mother's Day.However, colouring with real pens on real paper is more than just a fun activity, it helps children develop their fine motor skills. Colouring on a digital device is not the same – using pencils, crayons, or markers to colour things in on paper requires a different set of motor skills compared to tapping or swiping on a screen. Holding and manipulating these tools can improve hand-eye coordination and develop fine motor skills.

Plus of course, there’s the fact that colouring on paper gives children a rest from all the distractions online.

Time spent colouring on paper is good for adults too.  As we’re all realising, reducing screen time can help alleviate eye strain, promote better sleep patterns, and encourage more physical activity.  If you’re looking for more calming activities to enjoy with your child, you might like our printable wellbeing activities for children – they’re free to download and great for quiet time together.

Another big reason to invite your child to colour in a printable page is that on days such as Mother’s Day, a picture they’ve worked on can make a beautiful gift!  There’s a real sense of accomplishment which comes with being able to give someone something you’ve made look good, too.  So it’s also an excellent way to amplify the joy of giving.  Talking of which, you might find our printable Mother’s Day cards useful – like our colouring, we designed them with young children in mind.

How to Turn Your Child’s Artwork into a Special Gift:

  • Pop it into a frame for a keepsake Mum can hang up.
  • Fold it in half and write a message inside to make a homemade card.
  • Laminate it to use as a placemat for a special breakfast-in-bed tray.
  • Add glitter or stickers to personalise the picture even more!
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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.

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Covid Printables

It’s miserable being in the middle of a pandemic, but we’ve put together these printables which you might find useful while the world tries to cope with the coronavirus crisis.  They’re meant to be light-hearted and to stop children feeling too anxious.

If you want to create your own Tooth Fairy certificate, you can find our blank templates here.

Has your child been feeling anxious about the pandemic?  An award for bravery might help.  It won’t take fear away of course, but it could help your little one feel proud of the way he or she is coping.  A little bit of praise and acknowledgement is something we all need from time to time.

Covid Christmas Letters

Finally, if you want to print a magical Father Christmas letter to say well done for coping so well with Covid restrictions, you can find one here.

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Rainbow Posters

Are you looking to show your support for the NHS or other key workers?  Great!  It’s lovely to see rainbows popping up in windows all over the UK, appreciating just how precious all our health workers are.  Here’s our little contribution – a collection of rainbow posters for children to print and colour in:

By the way, we think it’s really nice of you to think of others during this difficult time.  Your kindness is far more magical than anything we do on this site.

If you have a key worker among your friends or family, why not colour in a poster just for them? We’ve tried to include as many as we could think of, and there’s one you can fill in yourself if we’ve missed someone.

Looking for plain rainbow colouring without any writing? These are two of our favourites?

And here are two final posters which are key to that all-important message to stay home if you can:

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Back to School

It’s that time of year again (where did the holidays go?!) and we’ve collected together all our best free printables for kids going back to school.  First, here’s a bit of colouring in:

Next, here are a few certificates you might find useful:

 

 

Popular, Spring, Summer

Two Riding Certificates

A few people have asked us whether we have any horse riding certificates and up until now we’ve had to say no.  However, we recently created these two which we hope you’ll find useful.

Please Note: To type text onto these certificates, you will need to open them in a good PDF reader such as Adobe’s.  If your browser opens them automatically, you may find you cannot type on them, in which case just find the “download” option and save them to your machine.

Blank Horse Riding Certificate Templates

This riding certificate template is an editable PDF, ready for you to type on.  It’s completely free for personal use, though if you’re using it on other sites or social media, we do ask that you give a shout out or link.  That’s because having lots of people visit our site lets us keep our printables free.

Editable Riding Certificate Template

Or you might prefer the template below.  There’s lots of room on it for you to add the name of your own stables or other organisation, along with the details of whomever it’s for.  Then all you have to do it print it out.

Horse Riding Certificate Template
Editable Horse Riding Certificate Template
Parties, Popular, Spring, Summer, Treasure Hunts

Flamingo Treasure Hunt and Party Printables

Fabulous flamingos are everywhere these days and are increasingly popular with children as well as grown-ups.  With this in mind, we’ve created a rhyming flamingo treasure hunt, fun for all flamingo-loving kids.  It can be used for parties or just as a run-around-the-house game on an ordinary afternoon.

What You Need:

A printer for the clues of course, and some scissors to cut them out.  This is an indoor game and we have tried to make sure that the clues only include objects (such as a book or a chair) that exist in any house.  You’ll also need some “treasure” to leave with the last clue.

Flamingo Treasure Hunt Clues:
Printable flamingo treaure hunt clues - a game for a children's party.
Printable Flamingo Treasure Hunt
GET CLUES AS PDF
A Couple of Tips:

Along with your treasure or prize, you could add a fabulous flamingo certificate for the winner.  Obviously, you won’t know who that is until the game takes place, so just make sure you have a pen handy to add the winning child’s name.

If you’d rather not print any images, the text of our clues is below.  Just highlight, copy and print.

The prettiest birds
To fly through the air
Have left their first clue
Not far from a chair.

Flamingos like bathing
Their feathers so pink,
So look for a clue
Near a bath or a sink.

When flamingos get tired
They rest their soft heads,
They’ve left you a clue
By somebody’s bed!

Flamingos love sunshine
And everything bright!
There might be a clue
Near some sort of light.

The next one is tough,
The flamingos are sure
They’ve hidden it well,
In the dark of a drawer.

Flamingos are fast,
They can fly like a rocket,
They’ve dropped the next clue
Into somebody’s pocket!

My goodness you’re close,
Don’t stop, look, look, look!
The flamingos have slid
The last clue in a book.

You’ve found it, well done,
Give your feathers a shake,
What a splendid flamingo
You’d certainly make!

More Flamingo Printables

If you’re going the whole hog and throwing a flamingo party, you might find the following resources useful.  They’re all free to print out for personal use.  We hope you and the children have lots of fantastic flamingo fun.

Flamingo Scrapbook Paper

Finally, we’ve got a couple of pieces of flamingo themed scrapbooking paper below, which might come in useful if you’re making further flamingo resources of your own.  For example, they  could be helpful if you’re making party place mats.  You could also use them as special  wrapping paper if you’ve got a flamingo fan in the family.

If you’re looking for more treasure hunts, you might like to check out the ones we’ve created for mermaids and pirates.

Pirate and Mermaid Treasure Hunt Clues
Pirate and Mermaid Treasure Hunt Clues

 

 

Christmas, Popular, Winter

Christmas Party Printables

If you’re planning a Christmas party, you might like to browse our latest Christmas party printables.  You’ll find them below, along with a handful of old favourites.  They’re generally designed with children in mind, but there’s no reason they wouldn’t do for older gatherings as well.