Ideas to explore the topic/theme of birthdays in the Early Years, covers the 7 areas of learning and story suggestions too. Also comes with high quality resources including; Display ‘birthdays’ bunting Birthday cupcakes - one for each month of the year Candles that can be used for display with the birthday cupcakes or as part of an activity Birthday balloons - one for each month Birthday cake playdough mat Cake and candles number cars 1-10 Birthday pairs game Birthday themed photographs Animal balloon modelling picture cards

2D shape cards and 3D shape cards showing shapes in the environment - great for a sorting activity. Shape finder - simply laminate and add a lollipop sticks to encourage children to explore the environment to find 2D shapes around them.

Nature Counting Cards 1-10. Count the natural objects on the card and then match to the correct numeral card.

Pumpkin cards count the pumpkin seeds on the pumpkin and match to the correct numeral (1-10) put the correct number of ‘seeds’ on the pumpkin to match the numeral (1-10) large pumpkin (A4) can be used for lots of different activities (e.g. adding playdough seeds) Spider cards provide pegs for children to add the correct number of legs to match the number on the spiders large spider (A4) can be used for lots of different activities (e.g. group input, in the playdough area) Spider’s web - count out the correct number of spiders to place on the web

An A4 mat for each number 1-10. Each numeral is represented pictorially in different ways (e.g. ten frame, fingers, numicon, dice and dominoes)

A5 preposition cards can be used for displays, adult focus activities or print multiple copies to play games (e.g. pairs/snap). Choose from a set of owl preposition cards, mouse preposition cards or dog preposition cards

A pack full of resources including: Paw print numbers 1-10 Goldilocks topic cards Goldilocks emotions cards Cards relating to ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?’ Cards relating to ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ 2 Teddy Bear Rhyme Cards Bear outline for creating masks Bear colour cards - use on display or print multiple copies to play snap/pairs Bear positional language cards - use on display, or as part of activity Bear number cards - use on display or print multiple copies to play snap/pairs Bears 1-10 number line strips