Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1
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Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
This ‘Toys’ Worksheet resource includes an engaging doodle sheet designed for EYFS and KS1 learners, featuring a variety of toys like a doll, car, dice, paint, keyboard, balloon, and dinosaur. Children can name and colour these in.
Each of the 10 black-and-white worksheets highlights four toys, providing space for children to label them, helping to develop early literacy and vocabulary skills.
These worksheets are also particularly useful for English language learners, as they support word recognition, spelling, and language development through visual cues and interactive activities.
Perfect for classroom use or home learning, they make learning new words fun and accessible for young learners.
Links Toys with literacy and topics on Oursleves.
Schooldays Supplies Worksheets - included is an engaging doodle sheet designed for EYFS and KS1 learners, featuring a variety of school-related items like a pencil case, school bag, desk, and paints.
Each of the 10 black-and-white worksheets provided, highlights four objects, leaving space for children to label them - helping to develop early literacy and vocabulary skills. Children can colour the pictures.
Perfect for classroom activities or home learning, these worksheets encourage young learners to recognize and name everyday school supplies.
Suitable for English Language Learning with a School topic base.
This train-themed resource includes a variety of activities to support matching, colouring, and pattern for KS1 and EYFS learners.
Page 1: A train engine with 11 colourful carriages, each a different colour pattern. (You could duplicate, cut out and laminate the small cards for matching games).
Page 2: 12 different colour patterned engine cards. Duplicate, cut and match or children can use to build a train with their choice of colour carriages.
Page 3: Black-and-white version of the engine and carriages for children to colour freely or copy colours from previous pages.
You could task the children with making each carriage different using a set number of crayons. Children could share their creations at the end of the session to see if anyone else has an engine or carriage the same as them!
Page 4: Black-and-white version of the engines sheet for children to colour in. Page 5: A train scene colouring page, using an engine and two carriages.
Learning Links: Supports colour recognition, pattern, matching skills, and fine motor control, while engaging young learners in a fun train theme! Links also with Transport and Toys topics.
This resource includes 3 pages of colourful Easter eggs with matching black-and-white pages, each egg featuring a unique design or pattern.
There are 12 eggs on each page.
The eggs have dotted borders for easy cutting, helping develop fine motor skills.
Learning Benefits:
• Cutting Practice – Strengthens scissor skills.
• Matching Activity – Match colour eggs to black-and-white versions or colour black and white sheet to match to its corresponding colour one.
• Creative Colouring – Decorate black-and-white eggs in own choice of colours.
• Pattern Recognition – Identify and compare designs.
Extension:
Duplicate and laminate sheets, then cut out eggs for matching games.
Use eggs to inspire children to design their own or to make Easter cards.
A fun Easter activity perfect for early years and KS1 learners!
A fun, hands-on activity linking to plants, healthy eating, and harvest topics.
Uses Boardmaker symbols to support visual communication and recognition, ideal for SEND and EYFS learners.
Activities:
• Name the fruit and vegetables.
• Cut and match colour symbols to black-and-white versions.
• Colour in the black-and-white sheets.
Supports vocabulary, fine motor skills, and healthy eating awareness, making learning accessible for all.
Boardmaker Licenced
This resource includes four worksheets, each themed around a different season, designed for Early Years Foundation Stage learners.
Each worksheet features:
• Seasonal vocabulary words (e.g., mittens for winter, bee for spring, flower for summer, jumper for autumn)
• Images for children to colour in
• Traceable words to develop early writing and fine motor skills
Ideal for introducing seasons, building vocabulary, and supporting handwriting practice!
This engaging Picture Shape Games resource is designed for KS1 children to develop their understanding of 2D and 3D shapes through four interactive games.
With a focus on hands-on learning, observation, and creativity, the activities help children identify, name, describe and draw shapes while connecting them to the world around them.
The games can be used for shared class or group activities or the worksheets can be used on their own.
There is a Planning Ideas sheet included with the resources, giving suggestions for 4 games and ideas for differentiation.
This KS1 resource focuses on the theme of kindness, encouraging young learners to explore positive behaviors through poetry.
Children will read two acrostic poems titled “Be Kind”, which showcase simple examples of how to be kind in everyday life. After discussing the poems, children will be provided with an easy-to-use template to create their own kindness-themed acrostic poems. This activity promotes creativity, literacy skills, and social-emotional learning by helping children reflect on how to show kindness to others. The template guides them to think of words or phrases for each letter of “KINDNESS,” making the task fun and manageable. The final poems can be decorated and shared to celebrate kindness in the classroom.
This activity for KS1 teachers is designed to develop children’s vocabulary, speaking and listening, phonics, writing, and teamwork skills while linking to the theme of school life.
On Page 1, children engage with a doodle-style colouring sheet featuring over 50 school-related items, such as pencils, backpack, books, ruler and scissors.
They are tasked with finding, naming, and discussing each item before colouring them in, enhancing observation.
Page 2 encourages phonics and alphabetical awareness as children complete a template by finding a school-related word for each letter of the alphabet, such as A for “abacus” and B for “blackboard.”
Finally, Page 3 introduces a competitive element, where children work alone, in pairs, or in groups to generate as many school-related words as possible within a set time limit. Roles like “seekers” and “scribe” promote collaboration, while discussing and categorizing the words afterward strengthens their understanding.
These activities link with English Language Learning: School topics.
This resource focuses on the theme of “Being Kind” for Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, fostering emotional understanding and social development.
The theme is divided into four key areas: Myself, Others, Community, and Family. Children will explore kindness through interactive activities and discussions using six kindness cards for each category.
These cards can be cut out and used to spark conversations and sort examples of kind behaviors.
A planning sheet includes 10 engaging activity ideas, such as categorizing/sorting kindness cards, setting daily kindness challenges, and designing kindness posters to display in the classroom or community.
Writing suggestions might include writing a letter to the community and making a Kindness Jar.
The resource connects to the Word of the Year 2024: Kindness. Activities also align with key topics like “Ourselves,” “Me,” and "Growing Up.
This comprehensive approach encourages children to understand the value of kindness in their relationships with themselves, their families, and the wider community.
Bring the power of kindness and self-care into your classroom with these doodle colouring sheets themed around Be Kind to Yourself.
Featuring inspiring phrases like “Celebrate Being You,” “Shine Like a Star,” “Paint Your Own Picture,” and “Breathe, Relax, and Be Kind to Yourself,” these sheets are perfect for encouraging self-reflection and creativity.
Ideal for mindfulness breaks, art inspiration, or poster-making activities, they provide a meaningful way to engage children while promoting well-being.
Tie them into discussions about the National Word of the Year, Kindness, and help your children embrace positivity and self-compassion.
This resource is designed for EYFS and KS1 to celebrate “Kindness” as voted the Children’s word of the year 2024. It includes engaging activities such as “Kindness Is,” “Kind Hands,” and “Be a Kindness Hero” sheets, combining colouring and writing tasks to promote empathy, positive behavior, and creativity. Perfect for fostering discussions about kindness in the classroom.
This fun Maths resource for EYFS and KS1, includes 4 games, each using 21 maths-themed pictures, covering numbers, clocks, money, and objects e.g. abacus, thermometer and calculator.
Activities focus on counting, recognizing numbers and symbols, comparing measurements, and solving simple problems.
Objectives include:
• To build counting, number recognition, symbol recognition and understanding of size and time.
• To develop fluency in basic arithmetic and reasoning about measures.
A planning sheet is provided which gives 3 ideas for using the resources.
Tips are included in the planning sheet to engage children and there are also differentiation suggestions.
Perfect for individual, group, or whole-class activities, this resource makes learning maths for children fun and interactive!
The Picture Puzzle Games Bundle (1-4) is a fun resource designed for EYFS and KS1, promoting speaking and listening, reading and writing, matching, and thinking skills. Each game includes colour pictures, and hands-on activities that encourage discussion, vocabulary building, and teamwork. Children can work individually, in pairs, or groups to name, describe, and match pictures, form compound words, or draw their own interpretations. The bundle offers teachers flexibility to work through all four games progressively or select individual games to suit their lesson objectives.
This Picture Puzzle Game 4 is a versatile resource designed for EYFS and KS1 children. Also available are games 1,2 and 3.
The game encourages thinking skills, vocabulary building, and matching.
It begins with a colourful discussion sheet featuring 21 pictures, prompting children to name and describe what they see. Pictures can use simple words or phrases, like ‘Treasure Chest’ and ‘Drummer Boy’. Some pictures are more straightforward to make the quiz accessible to all.
The second page challenges children to recall the missing images by writing or drawing their guesses.
On the third page, children match written clues with pictures. They can write the numbers for each word, draw a picture or paste into.
The fourth page includes pictures to cut-out which can then be sorted and pasted onto the number grid or matched to words.
The final page is an answer sheet, listing all 21 picture-related words or phrases.
This resource is ideal for class, group, pair, or individual activities, fostering collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking in a fun and educational way.
This Picture Puzzle Game 3 is a versatile resource designed for EYFS and KS1 children. Also available are Game 1 and Game 2.
The game encourages thinking skills, vocabulary building, and matching.
It begins with a colourful discussion sheet featuring 21 pictures, prompting children to name and describe what they see. Pictures can use compound words or phrases, like combining “cup” and “cake” to form “cupcake”. Some pictures are more straightforward to make the quiz accessible to all.
The second page challenges children to recall the missing images by writing or drawing their guesses.
On the third page, children match written clues with pictures. They can write the numbers for each word, draw a picture or paste into.
The fourth page includes pictures to cut-out which can then be sorted and pasted onto the number grid or matched to words.
The final page is an answer sheet, listing all 21 picture-related words or phrases.
This resource is ideal for class, group, pair, or individual activities, fostering collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking in a fun and educational way.
This Picture Puzzle Game 2 is a versatile resource designed for EYFS and KS1 children. It follows on from Game 1.
The game encourages thinking skills, vocabulary building, and matching.
It begins with a colourful discussion sheet featuring 21 pictures, prompting children to name and describe what they see. Pictures can use compound words or phrases, like combining “tools” and “box” to form “toolbox”. Some pictures are more straightforward to make the quiz accessible to all.
The second page challenges children to recall the missing images by writing or drawing their guesses.
On the third page, children match written clues with pictures. They can write the numbers for each word, draw a picture or paste into.
The fourth page includes pictures to cut-out which can then be sorted and pasted onto the number grid or matched to words.
The final page is an answer sheet, listing all 21 picture-related words or phrases.
This resource is ideal for class, group, pair, or individual activities, fostering collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking in a fun and educational way.
This Picture Puzzle Game 1 is a versatile resource designed for EYFS and KS1.
It encourages the development of thinking skills, vocabulary building, and matching through a creative and interactive activity.
The game begins with a colourful discussion sheet featuring 21 pictures, prompting children to name and describe what they see. Pictures can use compound words or phrases, like combining “cat” and “fish” to form “catfish.”
The second page challenges children to recall and imagine the missing images by writing or drawing their guesses.
On the third page, children match written clues with pictures. They can write the numbers for each word, draw a picture or paste into.
For a hands-on element, the fourth page includes pictures to cut-out which can then be sorted and pasted onto the number grid or matched to words. (Duplicate and laminate for reusable matching games).
The final page serves as an answer sheet, listing all 21 picture-related words or phrases.
This resource is ideal for class, group, pair, or individual activities, fostering collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking in a fun and educational way.
My Groundhog Day Workbook is a resource designed for EYFS and KS1 learners, offering seven worksheets that introduce the tradition of Groundhog Day while developing early literacy, numeracy, and creativity skills.
What’s Inside:
Groundhog’s Big Day Poem: A simple poem to share with the class, with traceable words to support handwriting.
& 3. Writing Frames: A colour and black-and-white frame for children to retell the Groundhog Day story or write their own poem.
Colouring Sheet: Five groundhogs for children to colour.
Counting Activity: A fun sheet where children count and colour groundhogs in groups from 1 to 5.
Flashcards (Colour): 12 colourful groundhog-themed cards to laminate for matching or memory games.
Flashcards (Black & White): The same set in black and white for children to colour, cut, and match themselves.
Objectives and Links:
• Literacy: Develop reading, writing, and storytelling skills through poems, tracing, and creative writing.
• Maths: Build early counting and number recognition skills.
• Expressive Arts: Encourage creativity through colouring and matching activities.
• Cultural Awareness: Introduce children to the tradition of Groundhog Day, exploring its link to seasons and weather. Links to Groundhog Day this February.
These five angel-themed worksheets are perfect for EYFS, KS1, RE lessons, and Sunday school.
The activities include:
Angel Doodle Colouring Sheet
Match the Angel Letters
Colour, Cut Out, and Order Angels from 1 to 6
Colour, Cut Out, and Spell the word “ANGELS”
Additionally, a Write Messages from the Angels worksheet inspires creativity and emotional growth as children craft motivational messages like “You are loved” or “Always be kind.” These activities tie into RE themes and special occasions like Christmas and Valentine’s Day.