Greenwood Outlaw Activity & Colouring Pack

A greenwood outlaw activity and colouring pack for ages 5–9: six colouring pages from Howard Pyle’s 1883 drawings, a word search, a maze, a code breaker and a design-a-banner page, with an answer key.

What’s inside:

- Six colouring pages from Howard Pyle’s 1883 drawings: the fight on the bridge, across the water, a sorrowful knight, the friar’s song, Robin turns butcher and the last arrow, each with a labelled line about the story

- Word search: find the greenwood words

- Maze: through the greenwood to the archery match

- Code breaker: crack the secret messages

- Design a banner: make your own outlaw banner

- Answer key

- Picture credits

- Credits, licence & sources

Pages: 14 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every statement is labelled History (what records, historians and heritage bodies show), Literature (what a named ballad, play, poem or book says) or Tradition (later beliefs, customs and local stories), and checked against named sources (including A Gest of Robyn Hode and the other ballads in the editions of Francis James Child and Frank Sidgwick, Langland’s Piers Plowman, Howard Pyle’s 1883 book, the Calendar of Patent Rolls (via Reading the Rolls), Historic England, the Derbyshire Historic Environment Record, Nottinghamshire County Council, the RSPB, a historian’s article by Dr Mike Ibeji, and Britannica; checked 30 Oct 2026). The sources are listed on each pack’s credits page. The stories are retold in our own words; the pictures are public domain drawings, prints and photos via Wikimedia Commons. Puzzles, games and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Not endorsed by any of these organisations, and not connected with any film, TV, game, toy or business that uses the name Robin Hood.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind robin-hood.folklore.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.