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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.

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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.
Easter Bunny Ears to Make and Decorate
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Easter Bunny Ears to Make and Decorate

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A fun activity where children make and decorate their own Easter Bunny Ears. Instructions are included. Children can use their ears for rhymes and songs e.g.’ Hop Little Bunny '. Add to Easter / Spring themed story time sessions.
Easter Eggs to Trace and Colour
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Easter Eggs to Trace and Colour

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This resource is designed for EYFS children to develop their fine motor skills, pattern recognition, and matching abilities through Easter-themed activities. Each of the 5 pages features three pairs of Easter egg characters with different patterns. Children can: Find the matching pairs – Observe the details in each egg’s design. Trace the patterns and lines – Follow the lines to practice pencil control. Colour in the eggs – Use different colours to decorate each pair. Cut out the eggs – Cut along the square outlines. Match and stick the pairs – Encourage discussion on similarities and differences. This activity supports early learning goals in mark-making, visual discrimination, and fine motor development while celebrating Easter in a creative way! Extend the activity by asking children to design their own Easter egg characters.
Counting Fruit and Vegetables
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Counting Fruit and Vegetables

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This PowerPoint supports early learners in recognising fruits and vegetables through real-life images, counting activities, and letter recognition. All the resources you need for a lesson - just add pencils and crayons. The 20-slide presentation highlights initial letters on each page (e.g., ‘L’ for Lemon and ‘P’ for Pineapple) and encourages counting up to 13. Key Features: • 20-slide PowerPoint with images of fruit and vegetables. • Letter & Counting Activities – Identify letters and count items. • Recording Sheet – (Laminate for reuse) - children tick and/or write numbers. • Pair or Individual Work – Encourages collaboration or independent learning. • Colouring Sheet – Labelled images for reading and colouring. • Boardmaker Symbols – Enhances accessibility for SEND learners. Learning Objectives: Name and recognise fruits & vegetables increasing vocabulary. Identify initial letters for literacy/phonics development. Count and record numbers up to 13. Encourage speaking & listening in class or group activities. Support SEND learners with visual aids. This multi-sensory resource engages children through seeing, saying, counting, writing, and colouring. Suitable for EYFS / SEND and KS1 learners. Boardmaker licenced.
Create your own Animal Road Signs
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Create your own Animal Road Signs

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Children can enjoy getting creative and use their imaginations to create new Animal Road Signs. There is a planning sheet included with colour and black and white outline templates.
Patterned Circles Treasure Hunt and other games
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Patterned Circles Treasure Hunt and other games

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For EYFS and KS1 children A fun resource to develop observation, teamwork, and pattern recognition. The resource includes a lesson plan, a reference sheet and colour card circles. Contents: Lesson Plan – With objectives, materials needed, set up, ways to play and extension ideas. Games include Basic Treasure Hunt, Timed Challenge, and Sorting by Criteria (e.g., symmetrical patterns, animals). 10 Colour Card Sheets – Each with 6 patterned circles in colour, outlined with dotted lines for easy cutting. Example Reference Sheet – Displays 6 sample patterns for children to find and mark off. Curriculum Links: Colour & Pattern Recognition Shape & Symmetry Awareness Matching & Sorting Games Art and Design: Elements of Art
Let's Count to 10 in the Woods
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Let's Count to 10 in the Woods

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This PowerPoint and worksheet are designed for EYFS & KS1 to support numbers, counting, reading, handwriting and fine motor skills. The resource includes: A colourful PowerPoint presentation featuring numbers 1 to 10 with a woodland theme. Each slide introduces 2 numbers alongside a short, engaging rhyme and illustrations including animals and plants. A printable worksheet where children read the rhyming lines and trace over the words to reinforce early writing skills. Share the PowerPoint and children can join in with the reading and reciting. Extend by involving children in role play where they take on an object or character in the woods, and perform for another class, or in an assembly.
Pat and her Best Friend Tom Story EYFS KS1
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Pat and her Best Friend Tom Story EYFS KS1

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This heartwarming story is designed for young learners to develop early literacy, comprehension, and creative expression. The story, Pat and Her Best Friend Tom, follows Pat on her sixth birthday as she receives a cuddly toy with big ears and a round face. When her friends ask if Tom is a bear or a rabbit, Pat realises she doesn’t need to know—she loves him just the way he is. This gentle story promotes themes of acceptance, love, and valuing things for who (or what) they are. What’s Included? Front Cover: In black and white for colouring and in colour for display. Story: “Pat and Her Best Friend Tom” – A simple story encouraging kindness and appreciation. Comprehension Worksheet – Five multiple-choice and short-answer questions to check understanding and recall. Draw & Write Activity – Children draw their favourite toy and write a simple sentence about why they love it, fostering creativity and writing confidence. This resource is ideal for EYFS and KS1 classrooms, supporting early reading, comprehension, and personal, social, and emotional development. It encourages children to appreciate differences and embrace love and kindness. The resource links Literacy with the themes of Toys and Diversity.
10 Tracing Bugs and Plants Worksheets
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10 Tracing Bugs and Plants Worksheets

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This set of 10 worksheets supports fine motor development and early pencil control skills. Children trace over yellow guidelines to complete simple insects/animals and plant illustrations before colouring them in. Ideal for EYFS, KS1, and SEND learners, these sheets encourage hand-eye coordination, pre-writing confidence, and creativity. Perfect for independent work, morning activities, homework, or fine motor intervention sessions. Laminate the resources for reuse in the writing corner with dry markers. Links with topics on Animals, Insects, Spring as well as Handwriting.
Patterned Raindrops
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Patterned Raindrops

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This resource links Maths, Art & Design, and Colour Recognition, featuring 10 pages of colour patterned raindrops and a blank 8-raindrop template for creative tasks. Ways to Use: Duplicate, Cut & Match – Print two copies, cut out teardrops, and match identical patterns. Pattern Sequencing & Sorting – Sort by colour/pattern/line or continue a given sequence. Creative Design – Use the blank template for children to create their own patterns. Maths & Symmetry – Explore symmetry, counting, and grouping raindrop patterns e.g. Food, nature, animals, shape and colour.
Spring and Easter Flashcards EYFS & KS1
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Spring and Easter Flashcards EYFS & KS1

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This 10-page resource is designed to engage young learners in seasonal discussions through colourful flashcards. Each page features 8 flashcards in themed sets of 4, such as: Chicks – Exploring new life and baby animals in spring Easter Eggs – Linking to celebrations and traditions Baskets – Symbolizing springtime collections and Easter activities Weather Types – Discussing seasonal changes like rain, sunshine, and clouds Duplicate, cut-out and laminate cards to support matching games, helping children develop speaking, listening, and vocabulary skills. Extension Idea: Make Your Own Spring Flashcard Encourage creativity by having children design their own flashcards. They can draw a spring or Easter-related image, colour it in, and label it. They could turn their flashcards into celebration cards to send.
Baby and Child Picture and Word Matching
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Baby and Child Picture and Word Matching

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This EYFS and KS1 resource supports vocabulary development, reading and writing skills, and topic work related to babies and young children. It features 10 colourful worksheets, each displaying 16 silhouette-style pictures connected to the theme of babies and childhood. Each picture is accompanied by a matching word, helping children to recognize and associate words with images. Ideas for Use: • Cut and Match: Cut out the words and have children match them to the correct pictures. • Word Ordering: Provide the words separately and encourage children to sequence them in the same order as the pictures on the worksheet. • Sentence Building: Use the words to form simple sentences (e.g., “Babies learn how to crawl” or “We push babies in a pram”). (Children can write out words and/or sentences). • Laminated Cards: Cut and laminate the pictures for durability and reuse in matching and sorting games. • Sorting Activities: Encourage children to group pictures by categories such as food, toys, clothes, equipment, and toiletries. • Discussion & Storytelling: Link the resource to topics such as Ourselves, Change, Growing Up and Family, supporting speaking and listening, reading, and early writing. (The provided black and white template can be used for drawing and writing or pasting pictures into). This resource provides a flexible way to explore early years themes while reinforcing key literacy skills.
MFL Home Vocabulary Flashcards
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MFL Home Vocabulary Flashcards

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This 6-page MFL resource consists of colour flashcards featuring home vocabulary, with each page dedicated to a different room or type of furniture / appliance. Every page has 20 images of related items, such as chairs, beds, sofas, tables, kitchen appliances, or study objects, allowing learners to compare and describe them. Each object has another that is similar e.g. 2 different toasters or 2 sorts of clocks. The objectives include expanding vocabulary, improving pronunciation, recognizing similarities between objects, and using descriptive language. This resource helps develop listening, speaking and listening, reinforcing practical communication skills in real-life contexts. Four ideas for using the resource: (Cut out and laminate the Cards for durability and a range of activities). (1) Matching Activity – Students pair similar items and describe their similarities and differences. (2) Descriptive Speaking Task – Learners describe an object’s shape, colour, or function while peers guess what it is. (3) Sorting – Students sort individual cards into sets e.g. all electronic appliances or things you might find in the living room. (4) Writing – Students can list objects or write about the home. The resource is useful too, for EYFS and KS1 children, supporting topic work on Homes.
Colourful Circles
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Colourful Circles

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A freebie resource with a colour, pattern and shape theme. Children can copy the colour patterns or use their own colours to create a new pattern.
Circle Fun Matching Words and Pictures
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Circle Fun Matching Words and Pictures

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Circle Fun is an engaging EYFS and KS1 resource designed to support shape recognition, handwriting, and vocabulary development. This activity set includes five black-and-white worksheets featuring pictures of everyday objects that are circular in shape, such as the sun, a clock, a coin, and a ball. Children can colour in these images, then cut them out and match them to the corresponding words. Additionally, there are five matching worksheets that display circles with the names of the objects inside, allowing children to trace over the words and reinforce early writing skills. By pairing the cut-out pictures with the correct word circles, children develop fine motor skills, shape recognition, and word association. This resource links to maths (2D shapes), literacy (handwriting and vocabulary), and fine motor development, making it a versatile tool for independent and guided learning.
Number Fun Colouring for Mindfulness
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Number Fun Colouring for Mindfulness

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This EYFS and KS1 resource features 10 engaging colouring pages, each linked to themes such as kindness, well-being, mindfulness, and friendship and linking with numbers from 1 to 10. The pages are designed to encourage children to reflect on positive values while colouring in fun, relatable images. Each page features a rhyming message, paired with an illustration that reinforces the theme. Examples of the pages include: One Teddy Bear Hug, So Warm and Snug – This page shows a teddy bear giving a warm, comforting hug, promoting the importance of kindness and emotional warmth. Five Gold Stars – The stars represent friends, sharing their kindness. Eight Clever Cats, Stretch and Move All Day Long – A page showing cats doing yoga poses, promoting physical activity, self-care and well-being. Nine Number Friends, Share and Play – Encourages children to learn about numbers while emphasizing sharing and kindness.
I Know my Colours EYFS and KS1
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I Know my Colours EYFS and KS1

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These worksheets are designed to help young learners develop colour recognition skills and practice reading colour words. Each sheet features a different theme to keep learning fun and varied: Crayons to Colour In – Children match colours to the correct word and colour in the crayons accordingly. Trucks – A transport-themed sheet where children colour trucks using the correct colours based on the labels. Clown with Balloons – A cheerful clown holding balloons, each labelled with a colour word for children to match and colour in. Frogs – A nature-themed worksheet where children colour frogs based on the given colour words. Buttons with Two Colours – A pattern-based activity where children recognize and colour buttons in two different shades, reinforcing colour word recognition. These worksheets support early reading and visual discrimination while encouraging creativity.
Creative Writing 4 Magical Adventures
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Creative Writing 4 Magical Adventures

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“Creative Writing - Magical Adventures” is an engaging literacy resource designed for KS1 teachers to support early reading, storytelling, and creative writing development. This resource encourages children to use their imagination to create their own stories, inspired by four short, exciting adventures: The Magical Adventure The Magic Beans and the Superhero Cow Pirate Pete and the Hidden Treasure The Boy and the Talking Mirror Each story comes with: ✔ A collection of black and white pictures for visual inspiration ✔ The short story text for guided reading and discussion ✔ A story doodle sheet for interactive storytelling How it Works: Children explore the provided stories and images, then use their creativity to craft their own versions of the tales. The picture collections act as prompts, helping children build their own imaginative narratives. Activities Include: Keyword Hunt – Finding and underlining key words in the story text Illustration Time – Drawing a picture of the provided stories or inventing their own Creative Writing – Using the pictures and key words to develop unique stories. Picture Collecting - Finding or drawing picture collections to use for own creative stories. This resource is perfect for enhancing literacy skills, encouraging storytelling, and building confidence in writing.
Toys Exploration and Discussion Resource
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Toys Exploration and Discussion Resource

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This toy-themed resource is designed for EYFS and SEND children, supporting speaking, listening and matching skills. A planning sheet is included with 5 activity ideas together with objectives and assessment opportunities. The resource can be dipped into or used as a lesson or unit of work. The resource consists of six versions of a colourful toy picture sheet (25 toys per page) with jumbled layouts to encourage variety in activities. Teachers can use this resource for discussions, identification games, memory matching, and writing tasks. Activities promote vocabulary development, social interaction, and critical thinking, with options for independent, paired, and group play. Laminated for durability, this versatile resource is perfect for whole-class or small-group learning. Boardmaker licenced.
Geography Grid Work SEND and KS1 Learners
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Geography Grid Work SEND and KS1 Learners

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This grid-based resource is a fun way to introduce SEND and KS1 learners to Geography. It supports geographical vocabulary, spatial awareness, and map-reading skills. Learning Objectives: • Identify geographical features (e.g., mountains, island, desert). • Use grid references (e.g., “The jungle is at 3D”). • Apply compass directions (North, South, East, West). • Expand geographical vocabulary through matching and discussion. • Foster creative thinking with drawing and storytelling. Resource Components: 5x5 Picture Grids – Geographical colour images 5 x5 Word Grids – Corresponding Geographical words (Six Jumbled Versions of Picture and Word grids) Blank Grid Reference Sheet – For recording answers Planning is included with Suggested Activities with objectives: Grid Reference Treasure Hunt Picture to Word Match-Up Compass Direction Challenge Geography Storytelling Mystery Grid Quiz Extensions: Journey Mapping, Weather Report, Travel Planner Perfect for whole-class, group, or independent learning Boardmaker Licenced