Lots of ideas for teaching these words, to follow up with dotted, illustrated words to trace over and take home.

Lots of activities to learn facial features and colours, and some colouring.

Variations on a theme of 2 little dickie birds. I use a different creature each week, but otherwise the rhyme remains the same. Words, creature faces to stick on fingers, and an audio to hear how it sounds roughly.

A simple song, roughly recorded to give you an idea of the tune, and a nice plenary for reception classes as it lends itself to actions:\nJump bunnies, prick up your ears\nSleep bunnies, put down your ears.\nWords and music

A song with actions to say yes and no.

This is a nice craft activity or simply a finger rhyme. There is a lovely version of this song by Grupo Encanto on Cantajuego Volume 4. You can see it on the 2nd half of the video linked above.

Words and music to the popular toddler group song, with a ropey version of myself singing the song to help with pronunciation and tune (I hope)

Count the hands and say what they do - clap, wave, talk etc.\nRead the words that come up and put your hands in if you have that strip. Count how many hands are in.

This turns into a nice book when copied onto both sides of one sheet. We learn that the word for 'this' in Spanish is different for masculine and feminine words. Then we revise recognising masculine and feminine words and get the sentences correct together. In the books it is pencil first, then pen, then test each other on the sentences using the pictures as prompts.

An investigation of Ir and Irse, with examples to match to translations, and a song with dual language lyrics from Spanglish Academy on Youtube.

In a small group work with each child to edit this book so the names are people in their family.

A Spanish take on the spotty dogs game, with pictures to colour, language to learn, and cards to craft.

Words, instructions and cards for children's first Spanish pelmanism game.

Learners study character adjectives, then use a rubrick to write a letter that describes themselves. On reading out the letters other learners must guess who in the class wrote that.

You need 2 dice. Assign frog or ladybird to each child, and pass the dice round the circle to the tune. When the song finishes, the two dice holders throw them and see who gets more 'flies'.

The children can find out what the animals eat, put ears, legs and tails onto shapes (not included) to make horses and sheep, play snap, and sing a memorable song with the opportunity to create actions for it.

The children sort out the animals in carpet time, taking pollitos to sleep in the nido, and perritos to sleep in the cesta.\n\nThe finger book takes a bit of making, but is very popular. The pages need to be stuck on card then holes cut where indicated for your fingers to come through to be the gusanitos that the chicks go hunting. Only for those who do love clarting on!

I designed these activities with old jenga bricks that I painted, and developed them to be used once printed onto card and laminated. The activities teach colours and mucho, poco and todo.

I took in a puppet and commented on its colours and features. Children commented on their own colours and features. Then I provided socks for children to make puppets with Spanish names, and they made little books about their own puppets using the templates in these documents. Of course, the puppets are proud of speaking Spanish, and the puppet who manages to speak exclusively Spanish the longest wins a prize. We use, sí, no, no sé, and gradually introduce more Spanish phrases as puppets are knocked out.

A variety of verbs which can be enacted fit into each consecutive verse of this song. You may add your own verbs. I find sleep and clap work well as the final two verses.