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 do 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.
We’ve put all our summer colouring faves together below, so they’re easy for you to scroll through. We hope you enjoy them. x
Summer Bird
Pirate Cat
Cute Winged Unicorn
Mermaid with Dolphins
Mermaid Hugging Fish
Tortoises
Caterpillar Garden Party
Flowers and Bees
Fairy in the Rain
Fairy Flower Tower
Woodland Fairy
Lake Monster
Summer Fruit
Cute Monster
Shipwrecked Pirate
Ladybird on a Leaf Colouring
Bottom from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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:
St George’s Certificate of Bravery
St George’s Certificate of Achievement
We have some dragon certificates available too, which might come in handy. Here are a couple of examples – click here to see more:
Valiant as a Dragon
Strong as a Dragon
We’ve also got some knight and dragon-themed colouring:
St George’s Dragon
George and the Dragon
Fire Breathing Dragon
Dragony Monster
Sky Dragon
Dragon Eggs
Dragon Dinosaur
Dragon Head
Dragon in Flight
Knight
Looking to decorate your home or classroom? You might find something useful in our collection of St George’s Day bunting:
St George’s Day Bunting
St George’s Day Bunting
St George’s Cross Flag
St George’s Cross Flag Colouring
You might also like these free printable greetings cards:
Dragon Greetings Card
St George’s Day Card
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.
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.
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:
Official Visitation Certificate
Good Egg Award
Eggcellent Attitude Award
Ace Egg Hunter
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:
Funny Easter Bunny Note: Well Done for Being Good
I’ve Hidden Easter Eggs Around Your House
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 Egg to Colour In
Yellow Chicks and Eggs Paper Chains
Easter Bunny Paper Chains
Bouncy Easter Bunny Doot Hanger
Easter Fancy Paper Chain
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:
I’ve Left You Easter Eggs!
Egg Hunter Certificate
Official Visitation Certificate
Keep Being Good Until Easter
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.
Happy new year! We hope 2021 brings much joy and magic to you and your little ones.
January is always a quiet month for our site but for those of you who have taken the time to pop by (thanks!), we’ve collected together what we think are the most useful printables for this month. Many are old favourites but there are one or two new resources as well. Just scroll down and you’ll find them below…
Thank You for Babysitting During the Christmas Holidays
Thank You for Babysitting Me
Birthday Award
Thank You for Cooking Christmas Dinner
Fireworks Safety Poster
Snowdrop Party Bag
Fairy in the Rain
Fairy Hearts Notepaper
Winter Fairy Paper Doll
Spring Fairy Paper Doll
January can be a good time to get the family active again after all those Christmas goodies, so these certificates might come in useful too:
5m Mermaid Swimming Certificate
25m Mermaid Swimming Certificate
Learning to Swim (No name needed)
Learning to Swim
Learning to Ride a Bike (Ready to personalise)
Learning to Swim (Ready to Personalise)
Pirate Swimmer Certificate (Ready to personalise)
Fairy Certificate of Achievement
Oh… and don’t forget it’s Burns Night on Jan 25th!
Finally, there’s always time for fairy messages, no matter what the time of year. Whether you’re writing your own or using some of our fairy notes and certificates, here are a few of our favourites:
Green Fairy Envelope
Green Fairy Notepaper
Fairy Certificate of Loveliness
Blank Garden Fairies Notepaper
Fairy Hearts Notepaper
Fairy Hearts Envelope
I Spy a Fairy Notepaper
Brush Two Minutes Twice a Day
Blank Blue Tooth Fairy Certificate
Blank Cartoon Tooth Fairy Award (Stars)
Tiny Tooth Fairy Letter for a Girl – Thanks and Keep Brushing
Tiny Tooth Fairy Letter for a Boy Thanks and Keep Brushing
Blue Winter Fairy Envelope
Blue Winter Fairy Notepaper
And for anyone looking for a relaxing (not to mention decorative!) start to the new year, here’s a bit more printable colouring:
This year, we’ve created a few extra letters from Father Christmas to try and help you spread a bit of magic after such a hard year. They’re all free to print for your personal use. You can find them on the Christmas section of our site. Have a lovely Christmas and a happy new year. x
2020 Free letters from Father Christmas – written with the pandemic in mind
It’s so important to remember those who laid down their lives in the hope of of keeping the rest of us safe, that we might inherit a better world. Of course, we remember them for more than just one day a year, but Remembrance Day is a chance to do so together, and with that in mind, below are the printables we’ve got which we think might be useful for this day.
While Remembrance Sunday is always the second Sunday in November, Remembrance Day in the UK is on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. On that day at 11:00 GMT a two-minute silence is usually observed to commemorate those who died in conflict. Remembrance Day is also called “Armistice Day”.
Looking for some ghosts to print out for Halloween? Here’s our collection. We hope you have fun decorating!
Vampyre Ghost
Bemused Ghost
Printable Ghosts
Crazy-Eyed Ghost
Love-Struck Ghost
Tired Ghost
One great way to use all these different ghost characters is to thread them all along a string. They look great! Oh, and don’t forget that you can also use out blank ghost template to draw your own.
The Midnight Messenger – Fairyland’s Newspaper! (Summer Issue)
Hello dear visitors! By popular demand, we’ve uploaded a summer issue of our Fairyland newspaper, the Midnight Messenger, for you to print for your child. We especially hope it will help entertain those of you still in lockdown around the world or who are having to self-isolate thanks to Covid-19.
In this issue you can find out what’s been happening at Christmas House, where the Easter Bunny has been on holiday and what the Tooth Fairy’s been up to as of late. As always, our thanks to Leone Betts for all her hard work putting it together and for allowing us to make it free on this site.
Are you looking for the previous issue? It’s here.
What is the Midnight Messenger?
The Midnight Messenger is the newspaper which gets delivered all around the magical world – read by everyone from Santa and his elves to the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and every other magical personality you can think of. And this summer, your child can read it too!
We’ve uploaded it as a PDF. Just click here or on the picture below to download or view it. It’s completely free. We hope it makes you and your little ones smile.
P. S.
If you enjoy this resource, please consider telling others. Our site survives because of people like you using it. Thanks x
More About the Midnight Messenger:
For those of you after more information about our Fairyland newspaper, it was first created in 2003 by L A Betts. It was early days for our site and as we didn’t have many visitors back then, after a couple of years we retired it. However, it carried on being delivered every month to magical folk of course, and has often mentioned in our other creations, such as the Father Christmas letters.
The Midnight Messenger is normally in black and white, but special issues like the one for Easter, are in colour. It regularly features news from well-known parts of the magical world, like Father Christmas’s house in the North Pole, and features many familiar characters such as Jack Frost, the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy. But it also features new characters your child won’t have heard of, such as the Worrying Witch, the Fortune-Telling Toad and all sorts of goblins, fairies and elves.
It’s always hard to know what people want more of, but if we sense the Midnight Messenger is popular, we’ll consider adding further issues to our site.
Ah Midsummer! What a wonderful, magical time. It conjures up long light evenings, fairies of the forests and fields, Shakespearean fantasies, and moonlit picnics. We love all these things and more. Whether you’re celebrating the Solstice or having a Midsummer’s Eve Party or just a family celebration on Midsummer’s Day, all our Midsummer printables are on this page.
Summer Bird
Leafy Tree
Blossom and Butterflies
Midsummer Colouring
Summer Solstice Colouring
Unicorn and Princess
Beautiful Unicorn
Bottom from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Longest Day Colouring
Shortest Night Colouring
Having a midsummer party? These decorations might help you make it look lovely:
Fairy Among Flowers on a Summers Night
Sheet of Fairy Among Flowers on a Summers Night
Midsummer Bunting
Purple Flowers Paper Chain
Shakespeare Midsummer Bunting
Sheet of Shakespeare Midsummer Bunting
Floral Printable Basket
Flowery Party Cone
Printable Flowery Paper Basket
Floral Party Cone
Midsummer Night’s Dream Bunting (Large)
Sheet of Midsummer Night’s Dream Bunting
Ladybird on Spring Flowers
Flamingo Sunset Bunting
Midsummer Posters and Cards:
Midsummer Magic
The Sunshine Faery
Midsummer Magic
Sunshine Faery Midsummer’s Eve Card
Fairy in a Field Card
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Greetings Card
We also have a handful of fairy certificates which are especially suitable for the summer months. You should be able to see them below:
Fairy Certificate for Kindness to Cats
Fairy Certificate of Loveliness
Summer Traveller Pirate Certificate (Ready to personalise)
Is it really that time of year again already? Yes, indeed. Spring is in the air and Victory in Europe Day is coming up very soon (9 May) so for those of you looking to decorate, we’ve collected our VE Day printables together in this post. All free, of course!
Triangular UK Flag Bunting
Triangular UK Flag Bunting – 4 to a Page
Large Union Jack Heart
Small Union Jack Hearts
Happy VE Day Colouring
VE Day Bunting Sheet
UK Flag Party Cone
UK Flag Colouring
UK Flag VE Day Colouring
Double-Sided UK Flag Bunting
British Flag Heart Notepaper
Bluebirds Over White Cliffs of Dover Bunting
Double-Sided Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover Bunting
British Bulldog Bunting
British Bulldog Paper Chain Strips
Bluebirds Over Cliffs of Dover Paper Chains
Dove of Peace and British Flag
Bluebirds Over Cliffs of Dover Colouring
We’ll Meet Again Colouring
Winston Churchill VE Day Bunting
Peace dove on a blue background
Peace dove on a red background
VE Day Posters:
Short VE Day Poster – Bluebirds Over Cliffs of Dover
Long VE Day Poster – Bluebirds Over Cliffs of Dover
Planning on serving cupcakes? Your tea table could look extra special with some printable cupcake wrappers: