Printable activities for kids
There are many activities you can find online and print for kids to do at home. We've gathered some of our favourites here for you to explore. There's craft, colouring in, and other activities related to popular books, all available via the book's publisher or author/illustrator's website.
We've also added some book-related quizzes for young readers to challenge themselves with.
- Australian Children's Laureate activities to Read, Write, Learn
- The Bad Guys series by Aaron Blabey
- Free Fun Activities from The World of David Walliams
- Fun at home with authors and Illustrators by Booktrust UK
- The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
- Jelly-Boy by Nicole Godwin and Christopher Nielsen (Canberra author)
- Macca the Alpaca by Matt Cosgrove
- Magic Beach, Noni the Poni, and other books by Alison Lester
- Maisy by Lucy Cousins
- Mamie by Tania McCartney (Canberra author)
- Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and other books by Roald Dahl
- Mr Chicken All Over Australia by Leigh Hobbs
- Pig the Pug by Aaron Blabey
- Pigeon Presents activities with Mo Willems
- STEM activities about animals by Philip Bunting
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? and other books by Eric Carle
- Treehouse activity sheets with Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
Quizzes
- Download our picture book quiz (PDF 123kb)
- Download the answers to the picture book quiz (PDF 123kb)
- Download our Anh Do quiz (PDF 121kb)
- Download the answers to the Anh Do quiz (PDF 123kb)