Match the words to pictures in this card game of numbers and food. Could you tell a hungry caterpillar story? or could the children write one based on this vocab game?

Read this simple story in Spanish. The illustrations are in clear black lines for good photcopying and colouring in potential.

A set of activities and instructions that last me half a term and which give my upper primary children the language to play a game of guess who in Spanish, that they have made themselves.\nLanguage focus: facial features and colours

Toddler group management will be familiar with the rhyme: clap your hands, 123, put your hands upon your knee. Here is a Spanish version I wrote for a toddler group but use in reception.

Learners use Spanish words for shapes and numbers, and give each other instructions to create the shape using language only (no peeping). Encourage the use of Spanglish - use the Spanish words you can and the English words to supplement.

Give each child a sheet to cut up, and 5 white slips and one yellow slip. Children play in teams, hiding the slips under the people on the cards, telling the team members who has the golden card and why, then trying to remember where each person has hidden the card.

This is a ready made game for learners to use to practice their numbers in Spanish. The children prefer to use bigger cards so I blow the image up to A3 paper.

We learn the language by acting it out, then I give the children the pictures to put in order and plant the seeds. We drill the language and reward good speaking aloud.

The children repeat sentences and guess meaning from pictures. Tutor models sentences without the N and asks which letter is missing. The children write in the letter n on the sheets to complete the words. The children sing a song and invent actions for it, which repeats the same sentences.

3 simple verses with music and words in Spanish and English translation. Good to sing at the beginning of a session. Actions to go with the song are self explanatory.

Blow up the dominoes sheet to A3 paper, and groups of children make domino chains. Then find out about lucky grapes on clock chimes and colour in a sheet about it.

There are 7 different images, all quite small. This is a relaxing reward part of Spanish classes, where the only Spanish the children need to say is the word that appears on the card, and 'Chócola' the word I use for 'snap' in Spanish.

I read the Henré Tullet book to the children, keeping my Spanish comments to 'presiona aquí, rojo, amarillo, azul' and the numbers. Then I got the children to colour in this sheet and cut it out carefully so they have their own Henré Tullet cards to read to me/ each other/ take home.

Children design their own board, then use these cards instead of dice to determine how many spaces they progress and whether they go up or down.

A very simple song using Spanish to play the 'What's the time Mr Wolf?' game. I ask the children to form a line and while they walk forwards I walk backwards in front of them. This keeps the game under control.

I use this resource to get all the children to say 'soy un pollito' etc., as I divide them into 3 teams for points earning purposes. It links nicely with a story on the growstorygrow website (subscription necessary for that), but also works as a nice session that stands on its own.

This gives learners the chance to write a letter at an early stage of their learning, explaining where a friend will be able to find different items in a department store.

Jobs with pictures labelled in English and in Spanish so learners can play pelmanism naming the job in the language they are looking for.

Snakes and ladders numbered board (in Spanish words), word dice alternatives, and serpientes and escaleras to stick to the playing board.

Counting off fingers as members of the family, either give the learners the sheet as it is for them to trace around the letters, or enlarge everything to give them a little book which they can augment with pictures of their family.