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5 Ways to Make a Children’s Gift Voucher Interesting!

5 Ways to Make a Children’s Gift Voucher Interesting!

By busythings | November 19, 2025

Gift vouchers: easy, versatile, and genuinely useful… if only they didn’t look so boring under the tree! Don’t worry; with a bit of creativity, you can turn that humble gift certificate into a wow-worthy children’s gift that even Santa would be proud to deliver…

4 great activities for fine motor skills

4 great activities for fine motor skills

By busythings | November 18, 2025

With more and more children struggling with pencils and scissors, we’ve pulled together some of our activities you can use to develop your pupils’ fine motor skills.

Cross-curricular Christmas activities for your primary school classroom

Cross-curricular Christmas activities for your primary school classroom

By busythings | November 17, 2025

Looking for cross-curricular festive activities in the run-up to Xmas? This blog showcases some cross-curricular online and offline activities on Busy Things you might like!

10 great classroom activities for Christmas

10 great classroom activities for Christmas

By busythings | November 17, 2025

Looking for new and different classroom activities this year? In our blog, we look at some of our favourites!

Winter’s all wrapped up with Busy Things

Winter’s all wrapped up with Busy Things

By busythings | November 4, 2025

Winter is a fun-packed time of year. In this blog, we provide you with a rundown of the calendar events it includes along with activity recommendations.

Celebrating trees this National Tree Week

Celebrating trees this National Tree Week

By busythings | November 4, 2025

National Tree Week is at the end of the month. It’s a great time to remind everyone how fundamental trees are to our lives. Our blog looks at some of our tree-related activities.

FREE Winter topical pack for schools!

FREE Winter topical pack for schools!

By busythings | November 4, 2025

We’ve lots of fun activities for you to enjoy with your pupils this winter term with our free Winter topical pack. Download yours now!

Exploring the human body with Busy Things

Exploring the human body with Busy Things

By busythings | October 28, 2025

Busy Things has recently created some new and exciting activities to help your 7-11-year-old pupils learn more about the human body, its parts and processes. This blog looks at some of the activities.

K-Pop Demon Hunters Activities: 10 Ways to Harness the Hype!

K-Pop Demon Hunters Activities: 10 Ways to Harness the Hype!

By busythings | October 21, 2025

10 brilliant K-Pop Demon Hunters themed activity ideas to help channel children’s enthusiasm into some creative learning fun!

How to make the most of your school budget for SEND and mainstream pupils

How to make the most of your school budget for SEND and mainstream pupils

By busythings | October 13, 2025

School budgets are under increasing pressure. Balancing what’s needed for SEND and mainstream pupils with what’s affordable seems impossible. Our blog explores.

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