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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.
Alphabet Halloween Fonts EYFS and KS1
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Alphabet Halloween Fonts EYFS and KS1

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The “Alphabet Halloween Fonts” resource is an engaging and creative tool designed for KS1 and EYFS children. It features 9 pages, each showcasing the alphabet in a different Halloween-themed font. Page 10 is a template. These letters can be cut out, sorted, or arranged in alphabetical order, making it a fun and interactive way for children to learn. Additionally, the template encourages children to design their own Halloween-themed alphabet, fostering both literacy and creativity during the festive season.
Christmas Connections:Exploring Tradition
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Christmas Connections:Exploring Tradition

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This lesson plan, designed for EYFS and KS1 children, immerses them in the festive spirit by exploring key Christmas traditions. Using a series of 8 colour posters depicting Christmas items like sleigh bells, a Christmas present, and a gingerbread man, children participate in activities designed to enhance their recognition and storytelling skills. The lesson includes matching games to reinforce understanding of holiday symbols, storytelling sessions where children create and narrate their own Christmas tales, and a fun picture hunt that encourages problem-solving and collaboration. Extensions such as crafting, singing, and role-playing further enrich the experience. This lesson helps children grasp the significance of holiday symbols and also fosters creativity, communication, and teamwork.
Halloween Themed Card Games
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Halloween Themed Card Games

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Plan ahead and engage young children in spooky fun with a set of 60 colour Halloween-themed cards, each featuring a variety of themes such as Halloween creatures, witches, spiders and ghosts. These cards, bordered in orange, black, green or purple and featuring dotted outlines for cutting, offer a range of games and activities. Children can cut out the shapes to create personalized Halloween cards, gift tags, or festive decorations. Matching games can be played with duplicate cards to enhance memory and recognition skills. Sort the cards by sensory categories, discussing what they see, hear, smell, or taste during Halloween. Sort by colour borders or themes such as monsters. The cards can also be used to create themed classroom displays or as prompts for storytelling and discussions about Halloween experiences. Interactive games like “Halloween Bingo” or “Halloween Charades” add an extra layer of festive fun. These activities help children engage creatively and meaningfully with the Halloween theme while developing various skills in a playful, seasonal setting.
Christmas Game Cards EYFS and KS1
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Christmas Game Cards EYFS and KS1

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Plan ahead and engage young children in festive learning with a set of 60 colourful Christmas-themed cards, each featuring themes such as Christmas animals, clothes, and seasonal sights, sounds, and smells. These cards, bordered in green or red and featuring dotted outlines for cutting, are versatile tools for a variety of activities. Children can cut out the shapes to create personalized Christmas cards, gift tags, or festive displays or card games. Matching games can be played with duplicate cards, enhancing memory and recognition skills. Sort the cards by sensory categories to discuss and explore what they see, hear, smell, or touch during the holiday season. The cards can also be used to create themed classroom displays or as prompts for storytelling and discussions about personal Christmas experiences. Interactive games like “Christmas Bingo” or “Christmas Charades” add an extra layer of fun.
Colour My Home 10 Worksheets
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Colour My Home 10 Worksheets

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“Colour My Home” is a fun colouring resource designed to help children (and English Language learners) learn about familiar objects found in a typical home and associated vocabulary. This resource is structured into 10 pages, each showcasing 6 different colour objects typically found around the house. Each page features a colour image of the objects alongside a corresponding black-and-white outline for colouring and matching. Cards can be cut out and sorted in different ways e.g. by rooms, colour, inside or outside the house, furniture, electrical items and many more.
Colour My Kitchen Freebie
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Colour My Kitchen Freebie

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2 Worksheets, each with 12 items you might find in the kitchen. Children can name the items and colour them in. Duplicate for a matching game.
Let's Make Faces EYFS and KS1
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Let's Make Faces EYFS and KS1

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Introducing a resource for EYFS and KS1 children to explore emotions and self-expression! This set includes four colour sheets, each featuring six unique faces made from simple circle shapes. Faces displays different facial expressions, hairstyles, hair colours, and head wear. The different faces encourage speaking and listening and the use of descriptive vocabulary. In addition to the colour sheets, a blank template is provided with six empty circles for children to design their own faces. They can select their favourite face / character that they have made and then create a personalized portrait-sized face using paint, collage, or other art materials. For added fun, the faces can be duplicated and cut out to create interactive games. Use them for a matching game where children pair the same faces or those with similar expressions, or play a bingo game where they match faces on their bingo cards with those drawn from a pool.
Transport Alphabet Letters Colouring
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Transport Alphabet Letters Colouring

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This lesson features 26 engaging colouring pages, each representing a different mode of, or connection to transport. From “A” for aeroplane to “Z” for zeppelin, each page is designed to make learning fun and interactive. These themed pages reinforce phonics by associating each letter with a transport-related word, helping children connect letters with their sounds.
Alphabet Animal Adventure EYFS and KS1
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Alphabet Animal Adventure EYFS and KS1

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The Alphabet Animal Adventure is a fun resource designed to make learning the alphabet an enjoyable experience for young children. By combining letter recognition with engaging animal illustrations and interactive colouring activities, this resource supports early literacy development and fosters a love for both letters and animals. Whether used in the classroom or at home, this resource is sure to capture the imaginations of young learners and make the journey through the alphabet an exciting adventure. Use the sheets for sounding out and colouring in, or cut out the letters/characters and use as an animal alphabet display.
Sentence Writing with Tigers KS1
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Sentence Writing with Tigers KS1

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The “Sentence Writing with Tigers” resource for KS1 features seven pictures of tigers, both in colour and black and white, each showing a tiger engaged in an activity they enjoy, such as playing football, baseball, karate, or swimming. Beneath each picture are words that need to be rearranged to form sentences, like “My name is Sam and I am a tiger. I like to play darts.” The last page includes a blank template for children to draw their own tiger and write words in the boxes, which they can then rearrange to create their own sentences. The sheets can be used in guided reading activities and support grammar and punctuation work. This literacy resource helps young children practice sentence construction and boosts their creativity.
EYFS 10 Easy Topic Quizzes with Symbols
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EYFS 10 Easy Topic Quizzes with Symbols

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10 easy quizzes to share with young children, each one with a topic based theme: Pets, Transport, Clothing, Toys, School, Food, Drinks, Musical Instruments, Sports and Home. Share the colour symbols related to each topic and use the question sheet for comprehension questions promoting thinking, speaking and listening skills. Extend by printing off the quiz sheets and children can cut out the pictures, paste into their books and write about them; or cut out the whole collection of pictures for children to sort into topic sets. Duplicate the cards for matching games. Laminate for durability. Boardmaker licenced.
Around the World Alphabet Handwriting Sheets
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Around the World Alphabet Handwriting Sheets

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This resource consists of 26 engaging worksheets designed to introduce learners to the alphabet through an “Adventure Around the World” theme. Each worksheet features a different letter from A to Z, accompanied by a simple, illustration of a global element, such as mountains, a lighthouse, pyramids, the ocean, various animals (like kangaroos and turtles), a windmill, a volcano, a safari, and a rainforest. Children will practice forming both upper and lower case letters, read and write a simple sentence, and enjoy colouring in the pictures. This approach helps reinforce letter recognition, handwriting skills, and reading comprehension while sparking curiosity about the world’s diverse cultures and landscapes. Boardmaker licenced
Let's Label Cross Curricular Topics
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Let's Label Cross Curricular Topics

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A collection of resources in colour and black and white for young children to name and label. Collections include Clothing, Football, Picnic, Tools, Toys and Transport. Boardmaker licenced.
Let's Label the Transport with Symbols
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Let's Label the Transport with Symbols

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This literacy resource for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), Key Stage 1 (KS1) and SEND children, integrates reading, writing, and speaking and listening skills through activities centred around Transport. The first page features an illustration of transport such as a bus, a car, an ambulance and a boat, which children can name and label using the provided word wall. The second page replicates this sheet in black and white for children to colour, reinforcing transport recognition and vocabulary. The third page is the word wall itself, offering a reference for matching words to transport , spelling and writing practice. This resource supports vocabulary development, reading and writing and handwriting skills. Boardmaker licenced.
Let's Make 10 Halloween Cards EYFS
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Let's Make 10 Halloween Cards EYFS

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10 Halloween card ideas for EYFS and KS1 children to make. Each of the 10 pages shows a colour illustration related to Halloween. The templates can be cut out and pasted onto card or printed onto thin card and folded. Alternatively, children could use the ideas for inspiration for drawing their own cards or for making posters.
Feelings Bingo Game Symbol Boards
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Feelings Bingo Game Symbol Boards

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This ‘Feelings’ Bingo Game resource provides a fun and engaging way to spend a wet play indoors or to supplement your topic on Feelings, Emotions, Emotional Regulation, Ourselves and Me. Children will have fun playing a themed Bingo game using symbols associated with Feelings. Make your own game using the plan provided or use the 6 ready made symbol boards and/or the blank template. The resource features: Game Planning Guide: Step-by-step instructions on how to set up and play the Feelings Bingo Game ; Objectives and resources needed. Ready-Made Bingo Boards: Six pre-designed Bingo boards featuring a variety of colour ‘Feelings’ symbols. Each board has a unique arrangement of symbols, ensuring a different experience for each player. Boards are colour coded with different colour borders. Boardmaker licenced
Halloween Bingo Boards with Symbols
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Halloween Bingo Boards with Symbols

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This ‘Halloween’ Bingo Game resource provides a fun and engaging way to spend a wet play indoors or to supplement your topic on Halloween, Celebrations, Special Days and Seasons. Children will have fun playing a themed Bingo game using symbols associated with Halloween. Make your own game using the plan provided or use the 6 ready made symbol boards and/or the blank template. The resource features: Game Planning Guide: Step-by-step instructions on how to set up and play the Halloween Bingo Game ; Objectives and resources needed. Ready-Made Bingo Boards: Six pre-designed Bingo boards featuring a variety of colour ‘Halloween’ symbols. Each board has a unique arrangement of symbols, ensuring a different experience for each player. Boards are colour coded with different colour borders. Boardmaker licenced
School Bingo Game with Symbols
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School Bingo Game with Symbols

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This ‘School’ Bingo Game resource provides a fun and engaging way to spend a wet play indoors or to supplement your topic on School, Back to School, People who Help Us, or Ourselves. Children will have fun playing a themed Bingo game using symbols associated with School. Make your own game using the plan provided or use the 6 ready made symbol boards and/or the blank template. The resource features: Game Planning Guide: Step-by-step instructions on how to set up and play the School Bingo Game ; Objectives and resources needed. Ready-Made Bingo Boards: Six pre-designed Bingo boards featuring a variety of colour ‘School’ symbols. Each board has a unique arrangement of symbols, ensuring a different experience for each player. Boards are colour coded with different colour borders. Boardmaker licenced
Autumn Bingo Game with Symbols
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Autumn Bingo Game with Symbols

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This Autumn Bingo Game resource provides a fun and engaging way to spend a wet play indoors or to supplement your topic on Autumn, Seasons, Weather or Clothes. Children will have fun playing a themed Bingo game using symbols associated with Autumn. Make your own game using the plan provided or use the 6 ready made symbol boards and/or the blank template. The resource features: Game Planning Guide: Step-by-step instructions on how to set up and play the Autumn Bingo Game ; Objectives and resources needed. Ready-Made Bingo Boards: Six pre-designed Bingo boards featuring a variety of colour ‘Autumn’ symbols. Each board has a unique arrangement of symbols, ensuring a different experience for each player. Boards are colour coded with different colour borders. Boardmaker licenced
Holidays Bingo Game with Symbols
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Holidays Bingo Game with Symbols

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This Holidays Bingo Game resource provides a fun and engaging way to spend a wet play indoors or to supplement your topic on Holidays, Seaside, Weather or Seasons. Children will have fun playing a themed Bingo game using symbols associated with going on Holidays. Make your own using the plan provided or use the ready made symbol boards. The resource features: Game Planning Guide: Step-by-step instructions on how to set up and play the Holidays Bingo Game ;objectives and resources needed. Ready-Made Bingo Boards: Six pre-designed Bingo boards featuring a variety of colour ‘Holidays’ symbols. Each board has a unique arrangement of symbols, ensuring a different experience for each player. Boards are colour coded with different colour borders. Boardmaker licenced