Halloween is a magical time and a great time for creative writing. Here are 5 original short stories designed to spark children’s imaginations at KS1 and Early Years. The Wizard that could not Read The Witch and the Kindness Potion The day the Magic went Bounce Freddy the Proud Frog Beany and the Broomstick The stories are fun and engaging. There is a colouring activity sheet to accompany each of the stories.

This is Set 2 in the collection of KS1 short stories designed to encourage budding little authors. This pack comprises five engaging and imaginative tales: “Saying Goodbye to Grandad”, “The Pig That Really Did Fly”, “The Girl Who Could Not Stop Smiling”, “Father Christmas Says Goodbye”, and “The Cow That Walked on Two Legs”. Each narrative has been written to stimulate children’s curiosity and encourage creative writing. The stories feature a range of characters and situations that children can relate to and learn from. Whether it’s exploring the concept of loss or goodbyes, celebrating uniqueness, or the magic of relentless positivity, each story imparts valuable life lessons in a gentle and fun manner. They offer prompts for children to elaborate, extend, or even create their own stories. There is a colouring sheet for each of the stories with a matching colour picture.

A music resource with an instrument theme. There is a colour poster showing a range of instruments for children to discuss. There is a black and white poster for children to colour in. There are also colour and black and white cut out cards for children to match.

5 free colouring sheets for EYFS and KS1 children.

5 different designs of the traditional story planner or writing support frame for young children helping them to structure / plan their writing. Cut and laminate and add to your writing corner or use as a visual aid or speaking and listening tool.

Here are 5 colour patterns for children to copy. Each page shows a colour pattern and a black and white template to fill in. Children can also make their own design colour patterns.

20 Music Flashcards in both colour and Black and White. Cards are mostly instruments and other items such as speakers, turntable and headphones. Use these as part of your music lessons, for displays, for matching, colouring and naming. Also useful in your music corner or on the music table.

Based on the National Lego Building Day in January, here are 5 different colour designs of borders with a building brick theme. Useful for displays, drawing, designing, writing or adding pictures of childrens work.

This is a monster activity where children create their own monster pictures or make an individual or class collage. It is fun to enlarge the pictures of the monsters and each child choose one - these can be added to make a large scale collage. Page 1 shows all the monsters on one page. This can be used as a worksheet on its own, or children can choose their monster to work on. Page 2 shows an example of a colour collage made from a selection of the monsters. Page 3 shows a collection of coloured eyes that children could copy or add to their monsters. Pages 4 to 15 - here are the black and white monsters with 2 to a page. Links to art and design, colour and Halloween.

This is a good activity linked to Ourselves and Homes and encourages memory and speaking and listening. Children can reflect on their own bedrooms, their colour scheme and what is in their bedrooms / what they would like. There are 10 sheets here to carefully observe and discuss. Sheet 1 is a black and white basic room and each sheet after that adds something such as colour, decorations, pictures, slippers etc. Finally sheet 10 is the finished bedroom. A good activity is to go from sheet 10 backwards and see if children can spot what has been taken away. Children can use the black and white picture to build up / make a bedroom of their own. They can use fabrics, collage materials or paints/felts to decorate the room. Children could go on to write about Laura, whose bedroom this is, what can they tell about Laura just from observation?

Musical Instruments work for KS1 2 Colour posters showing a range of musical instruments for display, discussion or labelling. 1 colouring worksheet showing a range of instruments. There are 7 colouring sheets where children can colour the instrument to make it the same as the image given.

A resource linked to the story of Little Red Writing Hood. There is a colour version and a black and white version for children to colour in themselves. Sheet 1 shows 4 sequencing cards which can be cut out and ordered. There is space for children to write on. Sheet 2 is the same as sheet 1 in black and white. There are then 2 sets of symbol cards in colour and black and white which relates to the story. There are 12 symbol cards in all. *PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols.

Get creative and have fun with food in class using these visual aids. 10 pages of colour cards with 2 cards on each page. Cut out and laminate. Children can use the ideas in the pictures to stimulate their imagination. They can go on to design food characters of their own and either make them with real food or create them in art lessons. Extend by asking children to create stories around the characters they have made linking to literacy.

4 designs of Christmas gift boxes for children to cut out and assemble. They also make lovely tree decorations. Just add string. Print onto thin card or paste onto thin card for best results. Cut off any tabs that the children may not need. Add a chocolate and some tissue and the children have a little gift to take home.

5 pages of story fantasy character cards to engage and stimulate your children’s imaginative and story writing. Each page has 20 different characters on it and these are black and white. There is also a blank template for children that like to draw. They can draw their own characters or copy the ones they are choosing for their stories.

6 examples of how lolly sticks, or popsicle sticks, can be used creatively in the classroom, cross curricular. There are 6 picture examples of ways in which the sticks can be used, linking art and design to topic work e.g. Animals and Transport. There are also links to literacy, reading, story telling, imaginative play and gift making. There is a simple planning sheet that teachers (or children) can use outlining the activity, objectives, resources needed and step by step instructions. The planning could be used as a unit of work or dipped in and out of as required.

Cut and laminate these cards for sorting games and making sets. Instruments can be sorted into: brass woodwind percussion keyboard string There are 24 instrument cards and 5 word cards.

Resources for children learning about musical instruments. The cards can be used as visual aids for singing songs such as I am the music man. These include: Sheet 1 - 12 colour instrument cards to name (duplicate for matching) Sheet 2 - 12 colour instrument cards with space for children to write the words The other sheets show two instruments per page A - a colour and a black and white instrument for children to colour in to make them the same B - black and white instruments - children can colour these and trace over the names of the instruments There are some common instruments such as guitar and drum and some less well known such as accordion and bagpipes

5 Nursery Rhyme Sheets to Read and Write with a Royal / London theme. Sheet 1 is for reading / colouring and sheet 2 is for children to trace over the words / colour in. Rhymes- Old King Cole The Queen of Hearts London’s Burning Oranges and Lemons London Bridge is falling down (2 verses) Links nicely to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations.