Best kids' activity packs to download

Get creative with your favourite book characters, from Matilda to Wimpy Kid. There's a Puffin downloadable summer activity pack for every kind of story lover – pick your age, print out, and get started.

Once you've completed all the summer suggestions, try some spring book-ish fun and some autumn and festive kids' book activities too!

Create a treasure box, design clothes, cast spells, build the ultimate fort and colour in your own print with Mini Boden Missions (you can share your creations using #BodenMiniMissions and tag @boden_clothing for the chance to win a £150 voucher).

Our favourite "mission" is the downloadable Mini Boden Make and Discover Activity Book – 13 pages of animal-themed puzzles and crafts for KS1 children.

There's loads packed onto every page of these free non-fiction resources from WHAT ON EARTH BOOKS for primary school aged children who love learning about the natural world.

Colour-in the dinosaurs, bugs, plants and mammals while learning their names and fun facts, then you can stick together the sheets to create a huge, detailed timeline! 

Unique Voice is a Bristol-based social enterprise that specialises in using the arts to develop children’s social and emotional resilience. Art helps children explore issues they find challenging and equips them with the tools to discover their own solutions and the ability to make positive choices.

In response to the pandemic, Unique Voices have created a Stay At Home Activity Pack, free to download, which contains over 20 pages of arts activities to keep little hands and minds busy. The materials needed have been kept to a minimum so you should be able to get stuck in using items you already have at home. 

Celebrate positive news and acts of kindness and teach children how to be mindful in a fun, colourful way using a free Happy News download created by The Happy Newspaper. What good news and brilliant people will your child choose to write about? Who will they send a thank you note to, and what things will they mark down in their gratitude list today?

Rising Stars offers lots more wellbeing, positive resources for children to download, including growth mindset Top Trumps and gratitude walls.

Raid the recycling bin to gather all the materials you'll need to create intricate, inventive art with artist Darrell Wakelam's step-by-step "art jumpstarts".

You could start with an Egg Box Monkey, a Paper Plate Chameleon or a Toilet Roll Seahorse, then assemble a Milk Carton Elephant, a cardboard Treasure Chest or a Biscuit Box Bear. The results are so beautiful, you'll never see "junk modelling" the same way again! Look through the free projects one by one online, or download a free 50-project collection.

The Line is London’s first dedicated public art walk, featuring art by world-famous artists such as Antony Gormley, Laura Ford and Anish Kapoor. Its route runs between Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The O2, following the waterways and the line of the Greenwich Meridian, but you don't have to visit in person to complete the free Make the Line Activity Pack for families.

Produced by or inspired by he artists currently featured on The Line, it's packed with artistic challenges which can be completed with materials you're likely to have at home – no special equipment needed. If you are able to explore The Line in person, download The House of Fairy Tales – Walk The Line booklet for ideas and stories to accompany your visit.