Printable Summer Activities Inspired by French Fairy Tales from the 17th Century

Download the Summer Activities sketches inspired by Old Fairy Tales with activities coming from Madame d’Aulnoy and Mademoiselle de La Force Stories.

They occupied themselves in tending their sheeps, fishing with a line, spreading nets to catch birds, working in a little Garden of their own and employed their delicate hands in cultivating flowers"

The Good Woman -Mademoiselle de La Force-1698

I would recommend that you choose some coated paper or nice quality printing paper (not the classic /cheap regular printing paper) for a better result, and possibly add a plastic or translucid scotch tape to protect the print ink for the jams labels.

Printable Jams labels from the old Fairy Castle

Summer is the season of Jams and confitures of all delicious seasonal fruits. It is also the treat which is the most common in old fairy tales, and it was really special in the XVIIth Century, they appear many times in Madame d’Aulnoy’s Fairy Tales like inthe story Babiole .

So here are some labels ready for you to print and ornate your own jams, confitures and preserves this summer, you will just have to add a nice paper to hide the lid and a piece of string and it will be a perfect gift.