24 colour cards for your class jobs board to encourage children to be responsible in and around school and have ownership and pride in their surroundings. Cut out and laminate the cards and add to your jobs board. Children can choose a job or share jobs and their names or photos can be placed next to the appropriate cards.

Children will enjoy colouring the picture cards of Santa, Reindeer, Snowmen and Christmas trees to make them the same as the colour versions. Cut and match or sort into sets.

12 pages of tags or labels for Christmas. Pictures are all with a Christmas theme. There are 4 red and 4 green on each page. Children can colour in the centres, cut out, stick on card to make their tags and labels. Extend with matching games and sorting fun.

Here is a novel colour Christmas card for children to make. The templates are included. Add scissors, glue and card to make this original card. page 1 - triangles showing Christmas items/characters to cut out page 2 - shows a wreath that can be used to paste the triangles onto (or you can use either of the colour circles on page 4). page 2 also has 4 stickers that children can choose to cut out and stick one in the centre of the wreath page 3 shows what the wreath looks like with added triangles and the central sticker page 4 - 2 colour circles that can be used as a backing instead of a wreath page 5 shows the triangles in a circular shape which could be cut out like this instead of individual triangles

8 worksheets for Christmas colouring and matching at EYFS. There are 4 where the pictures are Santa and 4 where the pictures are snowmen. Children match the black and white drawings to the colour pictures and then colour them in.

This is a lesson I used based on observing fruits, especially lemons with the children. Links to patterns in nature, fruits, plants, colour and pattern. Sheet 1 gives 8 examples of how 1 ‘slice of fruit’ can be coloured in different ways. Sheet 2 is black and white showing the 8 ‘slices’. Sheet 3 shows 2 large ‘slices’. This activity can be linked to seasons, with children using e.g.Autumn colours or cold colours for winter.

For all those cat lovers, here are some great resource ideas for EYFS and KS1. Links to animals, pets, phonics, number and handwriting. There are 10 activity sheets: Cat and Mouse Maze Write about a pet cat Colour the cat and letter C to make them the same A colour and black and white outline cat themed border 3 cats to count and colour Tilly cat has 10 balls of wool - colour them all differently Sentence writing - write about the 6 cats Counting, colouring and matching cats, numerals and number words Match the cats and colour them the same. Write the letter C for Tom cat

5 pages of Christmas labels for children to colour in, cut out and make. Each pages shows 15 images with a Christmas / Winter theme. Each picture has a Christmas border. Print or paste onto thin card and children can write on the back. There is a blank template at the end for you to use or your children could draw in the boxes. You could also use these as flashcards for children to name, talk about, match and sort. As an extension, make into a Lotto game.

3 sets of colour flashcards - small, medium and large. Each pair of flashcards show snowmens’ faces with different coloured hats. There are 10 colours and 2 of each colour. Print, cut, laminate and use for matching and sorting games.

A colourful fun snap game to make and play with your children at Christmas. There are 10 sheets with 4 pairs of cards on each page. There is also a template included for you or the class to make your own cards to add to the collection. Print onto card and/or laminate for reusable games of pairs, matching and snap. Add to your Christmas displays or use as Christmas gift tags or mini Christmas cards.

10 flashcards of each of the colours: yellow, blue, red and green. Cards show pictures of objects, colour splats and colour words. Children can match the colours, or duplicate and they can also match picture to picture. Children can make sets of each colour.

Here are 2 sets of greeting tags for your children to cut out, write on and add ribbon or tape to attach to gifts or to paste into cards. There are 6 large tag designs and a collection of 10 smaller cards.

6 sets of clothing in 6 different colours. Each page has 6 cards to cut out - 1 colour per page. Children can make sets in different ways e.g. all the blue or brown or all the mittens, socks, hats etc. Some of the colours may be slightly different shades and children find the best match.

Here are 4 printable sheets where children read and write the sentences and words. They can trace within the words and then write the words underneath. There is a picture to match each sentence and word for children to draw a line to.

10 Snowmen Christmas card designs for children to choose from, colour in and make their own cards. Each design shows a colour border, a greeting and a different snowman / snowmen.

10 Christmas tree card designs for children to choose from, colour in and make their own cards. Each design shows a colour border, a greeting and a different Christmas Tree.

These worksheets that can be used alone or alongside colour / shape sorting practical activities. There are 3 worksheets where children can colour in the black and white buttons to make them the same as the colour buttons shown. They can go on to count how many buttons of each colour, size or / and pattern. There are 2 worksheets where all the buttons are black and white and children can colour these by sorting or using their own choices of colour. Links to number, data handling, colour, shape and pattern.

5 colouring sheets for EYFS or KS1. The sheets have a different coloured background and white birds for children to colour in including flamingos and swans.

2 Easter cards to make for young children to celebrate Easter. There are 2 designs of cards with a colour version and a black and white version. Children can colour their own, cut out and make into a card, or use the colour version.