Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Joyeux Noël! These cute French Christmas cards (cartes de Noël) are ready to print and are a quick and easy activity in the lead-up to the holidays. Pupils can colour their chosen design, fold the card in half and then add their own personal greeting inside. They can then give their Christmas card to a friend, family member, or teacher.
There are 6 festive designs in the set:
Elf (Joyeux Noël et bonne année)
Christmas tree (Bonnes Fêtes)
Gingerbread house (Joyeux Noël)
Penguin in a snow globe (Il neige)
Reindeer (Joyeuses Fêtes)
Christmas garland (Joyeux Noël)
The designs are not editable. They are included in both US letter size and A4. The insides of the cards are blank.
¡Feliz Navidad! These cute Spanish Christmas card templates are ready to print and are a quick and easy activity in the lead-up to the holidays. Pupils can colour their chosen Spanish Christmas card design, fold the card in half and then add their own personal greeting inside. They can then give their Spanish Christmas card to a friend, family member, or teacher.
There are 6 designs in this set, all of which you can see in the preview.
Greetings on the cards include:
Feliz Navidad
Felices fiestas
Feliz Navidad y próspero Año Nuevo
Está nevado
Please note that the text and images are not editable. A4 and US letter size included.
Get to know your class with this no-prep, all about me activity. This foldable printable is ideal for back-to-school or for an ‘about me’ topic and is a fun alternative to a standard worksheet.
Print the template on white paper. There are 4 designs to choose from, each with the same prompts (please note that the templates are not editable).
Pupils will need coloured pencils, a pen and scissors.
Firstly, pupils will colour the top and bottom of the template. They can then fill in the boxes with words and pictures.
The information they’ll need to complete is as follows:
Name
Age
Left/right handed
A place I’d like to visit is
3 words to describe me
Things that make me smile
I want to learn more about
If I were an animal I’d be
Something important to me
Encourage lots of discussions!
When the foldable is closed, it will spell ME. It can then be gently opened to reveal the detail inside.
A picture showing how to fold is included, as well as versions of the templates for both US and UK paper sizes.
Here are some other All About Me resources you might like:
Self portrait all about me
Space themed all about me
Dinosaur themed all about me
Pencil All About Me Craft
These print-and-go Christmas card templates make a quick and easy activity for before the Christmas holidays. Just print the designs on card for children to colour. They can then fold in half and write a festive greeting inside for a friend, family member, or teacher.
There are 6 designs:
Christmas elf with the greeting ‘Merry Christmas and happy new year’
Christmas tree (Merry Christmas)
Gingerbread house (included with both Happy Holidays and Happy Christmas)
Snow globe penguin (Let it Snow)
Reindeer (Christmas wishes)
Christmas garland (Merry and Bright)
Suitable for EYFS and KS1. UK and US paper sizes included.
Also available in my shop:
Dinosaur Christmas cards to print and colour
Happy new year! Welcome 2025 by encouraging your pupils to reflect on the past year, and deciding on goals for the new year. This foldable activity is a great way to start January with positivity and a good mindset. It’s also a fun alternative to a new year worksheet!
This resource contains the following:
A PDF with 3 similar templates, with identical prompts.
A PowerPoint file with 3 blank templates to write your own prompts for students. These can then be printed for students to complete and fold.
A Google Slides link (in the PDF) with 3 blank templates to write your own prompts for pupils. As above, this can then be printed for pupils to use.
A picture to help with folding
The prompts on the pre-written template are:
My best memory of 2024
My proudest moment of 2024
Someone who made me smile in 2024
This year, I’d like to learn more about…
My 2025 goal at home is…
My 2025 goal at school is…
The month I’m most looking forward to in 2025
Something I can do for others in 2025 is…
Pupils colour their template, write/draw their responses in the blank spaces, cut, and fold.
US and UK spelling and paper size included.
The activity
Review the layers of the soil beneath our feet with this differentiated foldable activity. This fun alternative to a worksheet allows pupils to order the layers in the soil profile with either descriptions or name labels. There’s also an option for pupils to write descriptions in the boxes.
The templates
There are 3 template options to choose from in this PDF:
Colour the layers of soil, cut out the names or descriptions of the layers, glue, cut, and fold.
Colour the layers of soil, cut out the pictures of the layers with their descriptions, arrange them on the template, glue, cut, and fold.
Colour the layers of soil, write descriptions for each layer, cut, and fold. No glue is required for this option.
Curriculum links
Lower KS2 Science (Year 3 Rocks and Soils)
‘Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter’.
US and UK paper sizes are included. Please note that this is not an editable resource. Layers of the soil are not presented to scale.
Save time and energy with this quick and easy rocks science display. This ready-to-print set of posters and vocabulary cards is designed to help you make an eye-catching rocks display board for your KS2/year 3 classroom. Just print the pages you want/need and mount if required.
What’s included?
Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic rock definitions with examples. Print landscape.
Rock cycle poster (labeled). Print landscape. You may wish to print this one out on larger paper if available.
Photo posters for 8 different rocks (slate, chalk, flint, sandstone, limestone, pumice, marble, granite). Print landscape.
Display title (over 2 pages). Print landscape, trim and join.
8 extra vocabulary cards (included with and without definitions). These are presented 4 to a page. Print portrait and cut out individually. The words used are mineral, crystal, fossil, geologist, hard, soft, permeable and impermeable.
Is it editable?
The resource is not editable.
Create a beautiful weather display with everything you need to get started.
This 21 page KS1 classroom display pack includes:
Title (over 2 pages to cut and join together)
A4 Weather chart with weather labels (cut out and laminate)
9 bright and colourful A4 photo posters of different weather (sun, rain, wind, snow, hail, frost, mist/fog, clouds, lightning)
5 A4 printables with question prompts for children.
Please note that this PDF resource is not editable.
Introduce the topic of materials and their properties to your KS1 class with this colourful and engaging pack of display materials. This resource is ready to print, with minimal trimming required. Just print the pages you need for science classroom display.
This 20-page science display resource (PDF) includes:
9 A4, full colour photo posters showing examples of everyday materials (glass, wood, metal, fabric, wool, plastic, ceramic, leather and paper).
12 descriptive words to add to your display if required (presented 3 to a page, to be cut out and mounted)
5 A4 posters with simple questions about the use of materials (e.g. Which material would be best for a superhero’s cape?).
Materials title - print over 2 A4 pages and join together.
Please note that this PDF file is not editable.
Start the new year with a fun goal-setting writing craft activity! These disco mirror ball goal spinners are a creative way for pupils to record what they want to achieve, learn, try, or improve in 2025. With options for 4, 5 or 6 goals, you can choose the right fit for your class.
The templates
Choose a template with space for either 4, 5, or 6 goals.
Option 1: Colour the top of the template (the disco ball), write 4 New Year goals on the bottom part, cut and assemble.
Option 2: As above but with 5 goals.
Option 3: As above but with 6 goals.
Why do this activity?
Hands-on and low-prep.
Helps start the new year with a positive and intentional mindset.
A fun alternative to a worksheet.
Ideal for display boards.
Encourages meaningful discussion.
What do you need?
Templates printed on white card (each child will need a top and bottom part).
Coloured pencils (include different shades of the same color).
Scissors.
Metals fasteners
Writing pen/pencil
Are the templates editable?
No, the PDF is not editable. Versions with US and UK spelling are included.
Want a fun and engaging way to teach food chains at KS1? This sequencing science craft activity is hands-on alternative to a food chains worksheet. Children can construct a 4-stage food chains for 3 different habitats - a woodland, ocean/sea and a rainforest.
For each habitat, there are 4 options included:
Template 1: Colour the food chain template and food chain stages, cut and fold.
Template 2: Color the template and food chain stages, arrange the stages in order, glue, cut, and fold.
Template 3: Colour the template, draw/write a 3-stage food chain for that habitat in the boxes, cut, and fold.
Template 4: Colour the template, draw/write a 4-stage food chain for that habitat in the boxes, cut, and fold.
In addition, you’ll find a blank template included that you can use for any habitat.
Once folded, pupils can hide their food chain by bringing the 2 halves of the template together, then gently pull apart to reveal the inside.
There is minimal prep required. Print the designs you plan to use on paper or card. Pupils need coloured pencils and scissors. One template in each habitat set requires glue.
Instructions for how to fold are included (you may wish to make an example beforehand for those who might find folding tricky).
This resource is 20 pages long and contains a version for both UK and US paper sizes.
This KS1 plants science display is designed for you to print, trim and mount with minimum fuss. Depending on the space available, you could use all the pages, or just pick the most relevant for your class.
Here’s what’s included:
‘Plants’ title over 2 pages. Print, trim, and join together.
9 full-page colour photo posters of parts of a plant (flowers, leaves, stem, seeds, roots, fruit, branches, buds, and trunk). These are also included 2-to-a-page.
Poster detailing why plants are important.
2 life cycle posters (tomato and sunflower)
What plants need to grow (over 2 pages). Cut out individual parts and group together.
Deciduous and evergreen trees posters x 2
An ‘our work’ sign for displaying with children’s work.
In total, there are 20 pages to choose from. UK and US paper sizes included (US version uses a different font to that shown in the preview).
Frohe Weihnachten! These cute German Christmas card templates are ready to print and are a quick and easy activity in the lead-up to the holidays. Pupils can colour their chosen German Christmas card design, fold the card in half and then add their own personal greeting inside. They can then give their card to a friend, family member, or teacher.
There are 6 German Christmas card designs in this set, all of which you can see in the preview.
The designs are:
Elf (Frohe Weihnachten und Alles Gute für das Neue Jahr!)
Christmas tree (O Tannenbaum)
Gingerbread house (Fröhliche Weihnachten)
Penguin in a snow globe (Es Schneit!)
Reindeer (Frohes Fest)
Christmas garland (Frohes Fest)
Please note that the text and images are not editable. A4 and US letter size included (cards are half this size when folded).
This fun foldable activity will take pupils through the 6 stages of the human life cycle - baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult, and elderly person. This sequencing resource is designed to help children understand the different stages of human growth and how we all change over time.
It’s a great hands-on alternative to a worksheet and can be used to support lessons on mammal life cycles, growing up, or ourselves.
The activity
Pupils colour the life cycle stages and arrange them in order on their template. They glue them in place before cutting and folding.
There are 3 similar template designs to choose from (one with an easy-cut straight edge), and life cycle stages for a male and a female.
Human life cycle posters
This resource also includes 7 full-page printable posters with details about each human life cycle stage. These could be used to help introduce the activity, or for a classroom display. If you don’t want to print them, their landscape format means they can easily be displayed on a screen.
Also included:
Matching worksheet for students to match the stage to the age.
Some ideas for questions to discuss together during, or after making the foldouts.
A4 and US letter size versions are included.
Please note that this resource is not editable.
Are you looking for a fun alternative to a worksheet to help your pupils review the digestive system and its organs? This differentiated foldable activity is ideal for interactive science notebooks, learning about the stages of digestion, the human body, or even as an assessment.
Science curriculum link: Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans.
This resource has 2 templates with multiple label options:
Colour the big mouth and parts of the digestive system, cut out the labels and match them to the organs, glue, cut, and fold. There are 2 label options (one with just the names of the organs, the other with descriptions).
Colour the big mouth and parts of the digestive system, cut out the stages of digestion and glue them in order onto the template, cut and fold. 2 label options (one with just the names of the organs, the other with descriptions).
There are versions included with US and UK paper sizes and spellings. You’ll also find a picture guide for pupils showing them how to fold.
Please note, this activity covers the parts of the digestive system that food enters: the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, and rectum.
It does not cover the role of the liver, gall bladder, or pancreas.
Review the stages of a frog’s life cycle with this foldable activity. This cut and paste PDF printable is differentiated, with options for both matching and sequencing the life cycle of a frog.
The finished foldout mini-books are ideal for sticking into an interactive science notebook and are a bit different from a standard worksheet. Use to support a lesson on pond life, amphibians, life cycles, frogs, or spring.
This PDF resource contains 5 different templates so that you can differentiate the activity if needed:
Four-part life cycle to colour, cut, sequence the word labels, glue and fold.
Four-part life cycle to colour, cut, sequence the description labels, glue and fold.
Four-part life cycle to colour, cut, sequence the labels (descriptions and pictures), glue and fold.
Six-part life cycle to colour, cut, sequence the word labels, glue and fold.
Six-part life cycle to colour, cut, sequence the description labels, glue and fold.
Instructions and pictures showing how to fold are included. Some children may need extra support with folding.
US and UK paper sizes and spelling are included.
Every child is unique and special. Help build their self-confidence and self-esteem with this foldout activity, where pupils reflect on what makes them proud to be themselves. Use this fun alternative to a worksheet as part of a self-esteem or an upper KS1/lower KS2 PSHE lesson that will leave kids glowing with self-love and confidence.
This printable activity has 14 face templates with different hairstyles (and a girl wearing a hijab). Each is included with and without a rectangle outline to make the activity more accessible for those children who might struggle to cut around the outside of their template.
Pupils start by colouring their template to look like them.
Each template asks children to fill in the following with words and pictures:
-3 positive words that describe me (there is a word bank to help with this one).
-I am good at…
-I feel proud when I…
-I am a good friend because…
These prompts are not editable.
Print the templates you need on paper or card. Make sure you have lots of coloured pencils, particularly in skin tones. Pupils will need scissors but glue/tape are not required.
A folding guide is included. You’ll also find separate files with US and UK paper sizes/spelling.
Teach the stages of fossilisation at KS2 with this folding ammonite craft and sequecing cards. Ammonites were pre-historic sea creatures with tentacles and a spiral shell. Their fossils can be found all over the world in many different types of sedimentary rock!
These activities are designed to complement the KS2 science curriculum and is a fun alternative to a standard fossils worksheet.
How a fossil is formed foldable activity
There are 4 similar templates to choose from for this foldable activity:
Colour the images, cut out and fold
Colour the images, cut out the words and sequence them, glue the words in place, cut and fold.
Colour the images, cut out the words and pictures, sequence, glue, cut and fold.
Larger version of template 3 (over 2 pages).
When closed, you’ll just see the large fossil ammonite but when opened, the fossilisation process will be revealed! You can see a finished example on my Facebook page here.
Instructions for pupils are provided (including a picture showing how to fold) as well as some questions for a whole class discussion. Some suggested answers are provided for this.
US and UK versions are included. Please note this resource is not editable.
How a fossil is formed cards to sequence (with and without descriptions).
Order the stages of fossilisation with this printable sequencing activity. This science resource uses the example of an ammonite (a marine creature with a spiral-shaped shell) to explore 8 steps in the fossilisation process. Laminate to use as a science center again and again.
This resource includes:
Teacher notes
8 fossil sequencing cards (2 to a page) in color without text.
8 fossil sequencing cards (2 to a page) in color with a short description on each card.
8 fossil sequencing cards (2 to a page) in black and white without text.
8 fossil sequencing cards (2 to a page) in color with a short description on each card.
Labels to print and use with the card sets that don’t have text.
8 fossil sequencing cards (4 to a page) in black and white without text.
The PDF is not editable. Uk and US paper sizes included.
Recap vocabulary associated with fossils with this printable word search activity. There are 12 fossil themed words hidden forwards, backwards, vertically and diagonally.
Ideal as a filler for early finishers or as a quick science activity. Answers included so you don’t have to search for them yourself! Extend the activity by asking children to explain how each word is related to the fossil theme.
The 12 words are:
Fossil
Jurassic
Ammonite
Extinct
Cast
Shell
Bone
Dinosaur
Trilobite
Sedimentary
Paleontology
Rock
Help your students practice their classification skills with this free candy dichotomous key activity.
For this activity, pupils will identify the flavors of 9 different sweets using observable features of the wrappers.
What’s included:
Mystery sweets sheet (with and without spaces for the answers)
The dichotomous key with couplets
Answer sheet
2 pages with 4 candies for pupils to write their own key
This is an activity that can be used all year round, or tie into holidays like Valentine’s Day, Halloween or Christmas.
A US and UK version is included.
