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Maths for early years
Outdoor play EYFS
This is a bumper pack enabling you to create or develop your outdoor area to cover the revised 7 areas of Learning.
The pack would be great for nursery settings, school settings and childminders to use to create a stimulating and exciting outdoor area.
The pack includes:
Ideas sheets: A sheet of ideas for each of the revised 7 areas of learning - each sheet has a number of ideas to start you off on your planning for the outdoor area - (you will also be sent the sheets for the current framework of 6 areas).
Planning: Planning sheets for the outdoor area for you to fill in with you planning- included are examples of short term activity plans, medium termweekly plans and long term plans. These are the sheets I have used and can be used as they are or as a starting point for you to create your own sheets for your own setting.
Observations: Observation sheets for the adults to use in the Early Years setting to observe individuals and groups of children.
Box labels: 20 topic box labels
Physical Development
· Tuff spot ideas- A large collection of ideas to use in the tuff spot or in a large tray
· 10 movement and action songs- on decorated A4 cards
· Messy play recipes
· Movement posters
· Movement game
· Target games for use with a beanbag or ball
· Sand area- 12 word cards relating to the sand area- great to discuss and try in the sand
· Water area- 12 word cards relating to the water area
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
· Outdoor rules- A colourful banner to use to create an ‘Outdoor rules’ display
· Outdoor rules
· How many can play- 5 posters showing how many children can play in each area from 2-6 children
· Emotion cards
Communication and Language
· Role play signs
· Face masks- A set of colourful woodland themed face masks- great for role play
· Story telling masks
Puppet show
· Rhyme cards
Literacy
· Alphabet lines
Phoneme display cards- Various colourful phoneme display sets –helicopters, ladybirds and suns. These all have the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds document
· Word wall- The High Frequency Words from the Letters and Sounds document on colourful bricks to create a bright word wall and also on colourful bunches of balloons
· Flower initial sounds game
· Bird letters game
· Name game
· Rhyming game
Expressive Arts and Design
Minibeast rhymes and songs
· Weather songs and rhymes
Colour butterflies
Role play resources
Understanding of the World
Different weather ideas
· Bird spotting
Plus lots more!
Bakery role play pack + Five Currant Buns number rhyme pack
A bumper pack full of posters, signs, flashcards, pictures and writing opportunites to set up a role play area of a Bakery.
The pack is great for use in the EYFS and also within KS1 and KS2 enabling you to print out the resources again and again.
The pack includes:
· A long colourful banner for the Bakery
· Posters for the bakery to add names to which show who the bakers are that day
· A number line to 20 on various bakery products
· A decorated open and closed sign for your bakery
· Opening times posters- one with times already added and one to add your own opening times
· Posters including ‘queue here’ and ‘Beware hot oven’
· Flashcards of different products for sale in the bakery with words and pictures
· Small word and picture signs to add to the products for sale
· Large colour pictures of different products for sale
· Large black and white images- great for art work
· Large lettering ‘Bakery’ decorated with images of bakery goods
· A colourful Gingerbread man alphabet line
· A number line to 100 on colourful cupcakes
· Bread posters showing different breads for sale etc
· Birthday cake posters showing different choices
· Equipment and ingredients posters
· Price cards with space to add the price or write your own price according to the ability and age of the children
· Special offer posters
· Wedding cake posters
· Colour photo posters with images of bakery displays and goods in a bakery
· Hats to make- 3 different colourful designs and a black hat to design your own
· A ‘Remember to wash your hands’ poster
· Name badges- colourful badges to write the staff names on
Opportunities for writing and mark making:
· A birthday cake order form
· Ingredients order form
· A colour and black and white customer order form with all of the bakery goods
· Decorated shopping lists
· Wedding cake order forms
· Decorated phone messages and note paper
· Blank special offer posters for you to write the offers for that day
· Decorated receipts to write
The posters, signs and pictures will create a motivating and colourful role play area in your setting which will encourage the children to further their vocabulary and language and encourage writing for different purposes.
Number fish - colourful display and black and white
A set of number fish from 0-100 supplied in colour and black and white plus mathematical symbols on coloured and black and white fish.
Great for displays, games and flash cards
Money resource pack- games, worksheets,flash cards, display materials
Now updated to show the new £1 coin
The pack includes:
Money maths vocabulary cards
Posters of each of the coins
Coin flash cards
A long display banner 'Money' decorated with pictures of coins
Large outlines of purses and smaller coloured coin pictures for whole class work
A bingo game to print and play to recognise different coins
Word problem cards for displays- there are various difficulties of problems on the cards so you can choose the ones most suitable for your children
Display posters showing different items with different prices and different ways of paying for them
Coin dominoes game
Coin matching cards- match real coins onto the life size pictures on the cards
Various worksheets for adding coins
How much is in each purse- a collection of worksheets for different abilities
Money box activity- count the money in each money box and match to the correct card
Money in your hands activity- count the money held in each hand and match to the correct card
Various worksheets for coin recognition- matching and colouring suitable for younger children
Making 5p and 10p worksheets- various worksheets including colouring the coins to make 5p/10p, add morecoins to make the totals, choosing the coins to pay for different objects
Blank pages showing different objects with price labels- these can be adapted for differing abilities and used for various activities
A coin fan to make so the children can show the different coins
Collecting change board game
Money word problem worksheets
Various activity packs with coins, money holders, items to buy and activity guide including: The sweet shop, The toy shop and Five currant buns
Power Points:
Coin recognition
How much money is in each purse
Giving change
Brown Bear, Brown Bear story resource pack- colours, animals
This pack is designed to be used with the story ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?’ which is a lovely story about colours and is great for use in the Early Years.
Display banner
Story word cards- great to add to a display or use in the writing area
Display border- A themed display border to print out as many times as you need for a display board of any size
Title poster- An A4 sized poster
Picture flashcards- Flashcards with words and pictures
Colour labels- labels of the different colours in the correct coloured text
Colour face masks
Colour puppets- make your own stick puppets of the animals
Large mural- a long colourful mural to print out onto which the animals and children can be added
An A4 word card with pictures- great to use when writing about the story
Speech bubbles worksheets- worksheets with each animal and a speech bubble- great to encourage early writing
Alphabet line- an alphabet line on children
Writing sheets- various sheets with borders to use for writing activities or in the writing area
Initial sound worksheets- write the initial sound of the animals below the pictures, match the initial sound to the correct picture and cut and match the animal to the animal name
My favourite animal worksheet- children can draw and write a sentence about their favourite animal from the book
What do you see, hear worksheet- a worksheet for children to think about the senses and draw or write about what they can see, hear, feel, touch and taste
Matching worksheet- match the animal to the correct colour name
A number line- a number line on animals
Counting cards up to 10
Number worksheets
Sorting pictures- sort the pictures according to the number of legs
Dot to dot worksheets-with numbers to 10, 20 and 30
My number book- make a number book by drawing the correct number of animals on each page
Stick puppets- make your own character stick puppets for retelling the story
Colouring worksheet- read the colour names on the bears and colour them in
Face masks to colour
Colour worksheet- different worksheets for each colour
Tracing pictures- trace over the dotty lines and colour
Cut and make the animals- four puzzles for the children to cut out the animal parts and reassemble to make the animal
Colouring pictures- pictures of the animals to colour
Colour hunt- find and draw some things of different colours
Make a colour wheel
Colour collecting game- collect the pictures of the same colour as your game board
Animal bingo- a colourful game to collect the animals from the story
Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by the authors or publishers of the story, or any related stories or products.
EYFS Shape pack - displays, games, Powerpoints, IWB
The pack includes:
A Powerpoint about different shapes and different objects which are the same shape
A Powerpoint for the children to watch the mouse as he draws the shape for them to guess what he is drawing
A Powerpoint where children can click each brick to reveal part of the hidden shape and guess the shape
A set of colourful posters to print out with fun shapes with faces
Posters with different objects which are the same shape
A set of sorting pictures for children to sort into the same shapes
Colour shape pictures for the children to copy with shapes
A set of worksheets for children to colour each different shape a different colour as shown in the colour key
Playdough mats for children to make different shapes to complete the picture
A game with a die to make- children roll the die and colour in the same shape on their picture
Colour photographs of different objects and shapes in the environment
A game to collect the different shape sprinkles for your cake the first
A game to find all of the shapes on your turtles shell the first
An activity to make shape finder wands for the children to find different shapes in the classroom and outside
A fun 2D and 3D shape poster
Shape fans to make for the children to use and a larger version for an adult to use
Match the different shapes on the butterfly to make them symettrical
Sorting buttons to print out and laminate- these can be sorted by colour, size or shape
Shape resource pack- Maths
The pack includes:
Large display titles: '2D shapes', '3D shapes', 'Shape'
A colourful display border for you to print as many times as you need for all your shape displays
A net of a cube and a cuboid to make
Question cards to encourage the children to think about the properties of shapes and the shapes around them
2 Versions of a shape bingo game- one with simple shapes and the other including shapes with more than 4 sides
Shape clue cards with simple clues describing a 2D or 3D shape
A shape fan to make for the children to use- you can include the shapes you need for the ability of the children you are teaching- these would be great to use with the clue cards
Shape names showing the shape and name below
Large rainbow shapes with the name on them
A shape snap game- this can also be played as a matching pairs game
Word cards to describe shapes- these are great added to a display
Photos of different shaped objects in the environment
Small shapes cards which can be hung in the outside area for the children to search and find
Number Rhyme activity pack 2- four popular counting rhymes- sausages, astronauts, monkeys, ten bed
A fun pack with activities and props for singing four popular number rhymes:
1- Ten fat sausages sizzling in the pan:
Counting book to use when singing the rhyme
Individual number lines to 10 and 20
A collecting sausages game
A sausage number line to 20
Singing props
Colouring picture
Rhyme card
2- Five little monkeys
Counting book to use when singing the rhyme
Individual number lines to 10 and 20
A monkey face mask
A monkey number line to 20
Singing props
A board game with three sets of differentiated addition game cards
Colouring picture
Rhyme card
3- Five little astronauts
Counting book to use when singing the rhyme
Individual number lines to 10 and 20
Missing number cards- 20 different cards to write the number or add the astronaut number card
An astronaut number line to 20
Singing props
A large moon and rocket and space men for display
Rocket pattern matching pairs game
An astronaut face mask
Colouring picture
Rhyme card
4- Ten in the bed
Counting book to use when singing the rhyme
Individual number lines to 10 and 20
Build a bear dice game
A teddy bear number line to 20
Teddy bear colour matching pairs game
Singing props
Colouring picture
Rhyme card
Numicon games and activities- Number shapes, Numeracy
The pack includes:
Bingo game- identify the number shapes 1-10
Matching pairs- Match the number shapes to the number- numbers 1-10 and numbers 10-20
Jigsaw puzzles- Match the four parts of each puzzle with number, Numicon number shape, number tower and objects to count
Loop games- Loop games for numbers to 10, 20 and 30
Board game- Collect the amounts shown and count the number shapes
Carpet game- Choose a card and count the objects on it and then collect the corresponding Numicon number shape
Turtle game- These cards can be used for a matching pairs game to find the same amounts or used to order the number shapes to 10
Number rockets- Make rockets using numbers, Numicon number shapes, counting hands, number towers and counting objects- these make a great display
Number bonds dominoes- Numicon themed number bond domino game
Dominoes- match the Numicon number shapes
Clip cards- Clip the number with a peg which matches the number shape
Please note: These are not official Numicon resources but have been created by ourselves to support the scheme.
Bumper maths resource for Early Years- EYFS, Foundation stage
The pack includes:
An odd and even number line on red and green apples from 0-50
A clothes line number line with numbers on clothes up to 50 - great to use in the outdoor area
A fun number line on cute Gingerbread people
Ladybird spot cards- Large cards with ladybirds with different numbers of spots from 0-10
A 2D shape bingo game
Number bingo with numbers from1-5 on colourful kites
Number bingo with numbers from 1-10 on frogs
A number fan to make and use with the children
A shape fan to make with 2D shapes
A cute owl number line
Rocket cards up to 20 with the number and the corresponding amount of stars in the sky on each card
A spotty bingo game with spots on the ladybirds from 1-5
An A4 counting mat with numbers and stars from 1-10
Numbered footprints- great to use in the outdoor area or taped onto the floor inside for the children to count as they make the steps
Individual number lines- a collection of number lines from 1-10 and 1-20 with different pictures
Bead patterns for the children to copy and continue
Dice games- throw a 1-6 die and colour the correct picture on the sheet or cover the picture on the coloured game card
Further dice games- as above but the children use two dice and add the numbers together
Counting dominoes- large dominoes with pictures and numbers
Tracing worksheets- trace the numbers on each sheet and colour the correct number of objects each time- there are 20 sheets which could be made into number books for the children to complete
Large display numbers up to 10 with the corresponding number of objects on each number- these are provided in colour and also black and white and look great hanging across the classroom
Number bunting up to 100- this looks great in the outside area
Christmas numbers rhymes- 10 packs with rhymes, singing props, games and activities
This great pack contains resources, rhyme cards, worksheets and games for 10 Christmas number rhymes for you to use each Christmas
The pack includes :
1- Five Christmas Trees
Rhyme card, rhyme props including a Christmas tree shop poster, face masks in colour and black and white, a matching pairs game and a counting worksheet.
2- Eight Little Reindeer
Rhyme card, rhyme props, face masks of reindeer and Santa, a number line and a colour number domino game.
3- Five Little Snowmen
Rhyme card, rhyme props, snowmen face masks, missing number activity cards, a board game with differentiated maths questions, a game to build a snowman and a snowman tracing sheet.
4- Five Christmas puddings
Rhyme card, rhyme props including a colourful bakery poster, pudding face masks, a maths Christmas pudding game and a number line.
5- Ten Christmas stockings
Rhyme card, rhyme props, a game to collect ten stockings, a colourful number line and worksheets to decorate and trace patterns on stockings.
6- Five Little Elves
Rhyme card, rhyme props, elf face masks, a colour matching pairs game and a worksheet to trace the elf.
7- Six Little Penguins
Rhyme card, rhyme props, penguin face masks, a game to collect the numbered penguins for your game board and a cute penguin number line.
8- Five Little Snowflakes
Rhyme card, rhyme props, face masks, a number snowflake game and a number line.
9- Ten Warm Mittens
Rhyme card, rhyme props, a matching pairs game, worksheets to trace the patterns on the mittens.
10-Ten Little Icicles
Rhyme card, rhyme props, activity cards to write the missing numbers on the icicles and a size ordering worksheet.
Diwali activities- Maths and Literacy, games
This pack is perfect for teaching your children about the Hindu festival of Diwali.
There are two emergent reader books for different abilities- the easier version has 7 pages and slightly more difficult version has 9 pages.
There are a variety of activities which can be used as Maths and Literacy including:
Cut and paste numbered diya lamps from 1-5 and 1-10.
Roll and colour diya lamp sheets to use with one die for number recognition (or counting if using a dotty die) to 6 and colouring sheets to use for adding the numbers on two dice together.
Missing number cards which can be laminated and used with dry-wipe pens or the students can copy the sequence in their books. There are 20 different cards with numbers up to 20. There are also number cards to 20 on coloured diya lamps which can be placed on the missing numbers on the cards or can be used as a separate center to order the numbers.
Diya lamp size ordering cut and paste sheet.
Write the room- 8 colored Diwali cards to find and write the words and also blank cards to make your own version.
Make the sentences- cut and paste the beginning and end of the sentences to make 4 sentences.
Sentence scramble- coloured cards to make the 4 sentences and four cut and paste sheets to make and write the sentence.
Also included are the following activities:
A Diwali acrostic poem sheet
Comparing celebrations sheet for writing or drawing
Diwali facts sheet- two versions of this
Two Diwali themed word searches
A missing word sheet for Diwali
A set of 6 Rangoli patterns to trace and color
A colorful Rangoli matching pairs game
Four different page borders for writing activities in color and ready to print
Time resource pack- telling the time, games, worksheets
The packi includes:
Display banner- a long colourful banner for your display
Display border- a colourful border to print out as many times as you need for your display boards
Clock posters- A4 posters showing clocks and the times for o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past
Vocabulary cards- decorated cards with vocabulary related to time
Bingo games- Two bingo games- one for o’clock times and the other for half past/ quarter to and quarter past
Teaching posters- A4 and A3 posters to print and laminate to add the times to of an analogue clock and a digital clock
Calendar- A colourful rainbow calendar to make for your class
Make you own clock- cut out the numbers and hand and make your own clock
Posters- a collection of posters about different times eg. There are 60 minutes in an hour
Seasons pack- an A4 poster showing the four seasons, individual posters for each season, a selection of colour photos for each season, a cut and stick worksheet and sorting boards and pictures
Loop cards- various loop card games for different times
Days of the week cards
Months of the year cards
Dominoes- match the analogue clocks to the written times
All about time- a poster with statements about time
Clock poster- a poster with a labelled clock
Question cards- great to add to your display
Posters- a set of posters showing an analogue clock, the time in words and a digital clock for different times
Day and night photographs
A large collection of worksheets and a workbook cover including:
O’clock, half past and quarter to/past
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Problem solving
24 hour clock
Digital clocks
What happens at different times of the day
Order the days and months
My Day
Plus many more!
Bumper number rhyme pack- 30 rhymes with props, display, games, masks
Contains resources for 30 Number rhymes.
The resources in the pack for each rhyme include:
An A4 rhyme card- these can be stored with the resources for each rhyme or put together to make into a number rhyme book
Large coloured and black and white pictures- great to create a large number rhyme display and for art activities
A Powerpoint of the rhyme- this could also be printed out to make into a book
A number rhyme flip-over book in colour and black and white so the children could make their own book to take home
Face masks in colour and black and white to accompany each rhyme
A colouring sheet- great for extra activities or for wet playtimes
A number line- some rhymes have individual number lines to 10 or 20 and some have larger display size numberlines to 20 or 50
An A4 sheet to send home with the children with the rhyme on and black and white pictures so they can sing the rhyme at home with their parent/ carer
Props for each rhyme-great to include in a number rhyme sack with the rhyme cards
A game or activity- each rhyme has a different maths themed game or activity such as number bingo, number snap, missing numbers, number matching pairs, number jigsaws, dice games etc.
Number bunting display -various sets in colour and black and white
Number bunting sets
Three colourful sets of number bunting to hang in your classroom or the outside area-
Just print and display!
Each flag is approximately A4 in size but can be printed smaller
The pack includes:
Set 1
Numbers from 0-100 on colourful star flags
Set 2
Coloured number flags to 50
Set 3
Counting bunting- each flag has a number from 1-20 and the corresponding number of pictures
All of the sets are also included in black and white so they can be coloured in- they contain extra blank flags so that they can be made as a whole class activity with each child decorating their own flag- a great new term activity!
Number Rhyme activity pack 1- three popular counting rhymes- frogs, ducks, space men
A fun pack with activities and props for singing three popular number rhymes:
1- Five little ducks went swimming one day:
Counting book to use when singing the rhyme
Individual number lines to 10 and 20
Missing number cards to laminate and use with dry-wipe pens- 10 different cards
Number bingo
A duck number line to 20
Singing props
2- Five little speckled frogs:
Counting book to use when singing the rhyme
Individual number lines to 10 and 20
A floor game with frog counting cards and instructions for playing
A frog number line to 20
A lily pad target game with numbered lily pads which children can throw beanbags onto
Singing props
3- Five little men in a flying saucer:
Counting book to use when singing the rhyme
Individual number lines to 10 and 20
Missing number cards to laminate and use with dry-wipe pens- 10 different cards
Counting cards- two sets up to 10- count the stars or spacemen and add the number cards
Colouring picture
A spaceman number line to 20
Singing props
Gingerbread Man themed literacy and maths games- CVC, counting, addition, letters and sounds
Gingerbread Man
Maths and Literacy games
A collection of 8 fun games with a cute Gingerbread Man theme for you to print out and play
Literacy games:
1-Match the letters- Turn over two Gingerbread Man cards to match the lower and upper case letters. The game could also be played to match lower case letters together or upper case letters together.
2-Make the CVC word- Find the Gingerbread Man letters you need to make the word on your plate- how many plates can you fill?
3-Gingerbread Man bingo- Find all the Gingerbread Man letters on your bingo board the first to be the winner!
4-Gingerbread Man skittles- Cut out and make these cute Gingerbread Man letter skittles to knock down with a ball- various games can be played to identify letters, find initial sounds, make CVC words etc. Lots of ideas are included on the instruction and ideas card.
Maths games:
1-Make a Gingerbread Man- Roll a die and collect the numbered part of your Gingerbread Man. How many Gingerbread Men can you make?
2-Colour the Gingerbread Man- Roll a die and find the number on your sheet. Can you be the first person to colour all your Gingerbread Men?
3-Add the numbers- Roll two dice and add the numbers together- can you cover all the numbered Gingerbread Men on your board first?
4-Stepping stones- Move your Gingerbread Man across the stepping stones to be the first to reach the other side. If you fall in the water you have to start again!
Each game is supplied with full instructions and further ideas for using the materials.
Each game is supplied in full colour and also in black and white so it can be printed out more economically and also photocopied to be sent home with the children.
Winter resource pack- The Seasons, Christmas- games, display, literacy, numeracy
Winter resource pack
A great pack for you to print out and use year after year.
The pack includes:
Display banner- A long display banner of ‘Winter’ decorated with snowflakes
Large letters- Lower and upper case letters of the alphabet for display or making your own titles- each letter is decorated with small snowflakes
Multicultural alphabet line- A colourful alphabet line of multicultural children all dressed up for the cold winter weather
Photographs- A collection of colour photographs to print out and add to your displays- great for discussion
Display border- A snowflake border to print out and use on your wintery displays
Dress the teddy for winter- A blank teddy with clothes such as jumper, mittens, scarf etc. to put onto the teddy so he dressed for the cold weather
Winter clothes- Winter clothes labels showing the word and picture- these are great for discussion or for your Winter displays
Work borders- Various A4 borders for children to write on or to use as quick borders for work- these are supplied in colour ready for display and also in black and white for the children to colour
Penguin and Igloo alphabet- A cute alphabet set with upper case letters on igloos and lower case letters on cute penguins
Winter village- Create a wintery village display with snow covered houses, church and trees- there is a Christmas version with the houses and church being decorated for Christmas and a Santa and sleigh to include in your display and also a version without decorations. These are both supplied in colour and black and white
Bingo- A winter themed bingo game
Topic words- Words relating to winter on snowflakes- great to add to displays or hang in the windows
Snowy alphabet- An alphabet line with a snowy border around each letter
Counting cards- Cards to count the number of snowflakes from 1-10
Matching pairs- Match the wintery themed pictures
Number lines- Individual number lines from 1-10 and 1-20
Penguin number line- A cute penguin number line to 50
Robin alphabet- A cute robin alphabet line- these look great on the window so it looks like they are sitting on the window ledge
Snowmen odd and even numbers- A number line to 50 with odd and even numbers on snowmen
Winter months- Decorated large labels for the three winter months – the other month labels are included in each of my other seasons packs and also the bumper seasons pack
Maths Games- counting and recognising numbers
The pack includes:
Full instructions for each game plus extra ideas for using the games and resources
Game 1
Ice cream game- counting and recognising numbers to 5- find the ice cream to add to the cones in your shop
Game 2
Ice cream ordering and recognising numbers to 10- this can be used as a game or interactive display
Game 3
Frog on the logs- counting up to 10- add or remove frogs from your log- the first to get 10 is the winner
Game 4
Frog and lilly pad ordering and recognising numbers to 10- matching the dotty frogs to the numbered lilly pads- this can be played as a game or used to make an interactive display
Game 5
Dogs and bones- counting to 10 and beyond- collect the bones foryour dog and place on the cute playing boards