A lesson resource tailored for early learners, focusing on speaking and listening and reading comprehension. The story links to Ourselves, Toys and Feelings. The story revolves around Matthew, a young boy who loses his favourite toy giraffe. He finds it on a park bench, where he had left it, and all ends well. There are 3 simple questions to ask the children and some activity extension ideas including drawing favourite toys, recognising and acting out emotions and a scavenger hunt.

Children will enjoy colouring in these cards and posters connected to Spring and Easter. There are 6 card designs to choose from. These can be coloured in and made into celebration cards for children to send to friends and family. There is a poster in colour and the same one in black and white. Children can colour in the poster and add their own decorations. They can also use the posters for inspiration for making their own posters. You may also want to laminate the finished cards and display them in class to make bunting, making colourful Easter and Spring decorations.

3 brightly coloured posters with an Easter/Spring theme. There are also black and white versions of the 3 posters that children can colour in or paint themselves.

A cross-curricular topic resource based on Vegetables for EYFS and KS1. Start with a Poster: Show the picture of a vegetable shop. Talk about what you see and maybe pretend to buy or sell veggies. You could also let the children draw their own vegetable shop posters. Discuss Canned Vegetables: Show pictures or real cans of three different vegetables. Talk about what’s inside and then colour pictures of the cans. Design Vegetable Cans: Let the children get creative by drawing and decorating their own vegetable can designs. Label and Colour Vegetables: Give the children the worksheet with pictures of six different vegetables to label and colour. Make a Vegetable List: Show the colourful picture with lots of vegetables and ask the children to list all the veggies they see. Create a Colourful Vegetable: Provide simple shapes of vegetables and let the children decorate them to make their own colourful vegetable art/ or use the worksheet provided. If you can, use real vegetables so the children can touch and smell them. This makes learning more fun and sensory.

10 colouring pages showing items and animals related to the Ocean / Sea / Seaside. Children can colour in the pictures - 6 to a page. They can then cut these out and match them to the 10 corresponding colour pages. Children can also cut around the outlines of the animals and objects and make them into a collage scene or stick in books for topic work. Suitable for EYFS and KS1 children.

Enhance your topic resources with this Hats Flashcards resource! This set includes 6 pages of colourful flashcards, each featuring 24 different hats. Suitable for EYFS and KS1, these flashcards can be used for a variety of games and activities. Children can cut, sort, and match the hats, such as organizing by colour (e.g., all red hats), type (e.g., crowns, Christmas hats), and more. Duplicate the flashcards for matching games to reinforce memory and recognition skills. Additionally, a blank template with empty boxes allows children to draw their own hats or stick in their collections, fostering creativity and personal expression. This resource links with topics on clothing, seasons, colours, data handling, and numbers. Cut and laminate so that you can use the resource in different ways and again and again.

4 pages each showing 6 modes of Transport including air, land and sea. There are 4 pages in black and white and the same replicated pages in colour. Children can categorise the forms of transport. They can colour in the pictures and cut them out to match them to the colour versions. You could also laminate the colour sheets and children can use dry markers to trace over the thick border lines of the vehicles. You could also make a Lotto game by duplicating and cutting up the cards and using the colour sheets as game boards.

“In My Ocean” is a topic resource designed for EYFS and KS1 children, linked to the celebration of World Ocean Day in June. The resource includes a detailed planning sheet outlining five activities, each complete with objectives, required materials, step-by-step instructions, and assessment opportunities. Central to the resource is a set of 10 colour posters depicting various sea creatures and a seashell. These posters can be laminated for durability and used in activities such as a school-wide sea creature hunt, where children record their findings on a provided colour or black-and-white sheet. Additionally, there is a labelling sheet available in both color and black-and-white for children to practice writing the names of the sea creatures. Another component is an outline of a bottle, encouraging children to plan what they would include in their Ocean Bottle creation activity. To spark imagination and storytelling skills, the resource includes a delightful story titled “Under the Ocean Adventure,” featuring all the characters from the posters, which children can enjoy before creating their own stories.

A set of resources for EYFS and KS1 linked to topics on Oceans and Seas, Animals, Colour and Pattern, Art and Literacy. There is a colour poster showing 10 cartoon fish and the same poster in black and white for children to colour in. There is then a sheet for each of the fish showing a colour fish and a black and white version. Children can colour in the fish and trace the words underneath. There is an Ideas page with suggestions for using the posters and worksheets, designing a fish and creating an underwater class display.

A set of 5 fun colouring sheets for young children linked to Animals and Pets.

A resource linked to animals and pets for young children. There are 5 worksheets: Colouring Cats sheet. Count how many of each cat or kitten and colour them the same. Colour the cats and write the words. Use letters for children to practice spelling out the words. Children write the sentence ‘I am a cat’ and colour in the cat. A creative writing sheet. Children imagine they have a cat - they write a sentence about it and draw a picture.

A colour matching game for EYFS with a Button theme. There are 3 pages each showing pairs of colour buttons. Children can cut them out and make pairs. Laminate the buttons and they can be re used. There is a black and white sheet included with 12 buttons. Children can use this sheet to colour in pairs of buttons with their chosen colours.

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.

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.

A resource linking topic work on the Farm to literacy. There are 4 black and white sheets for children to name the animals and things you might find on a farm and label them. The same sheets are duplicated in colour. There are 2 sheets asking children to draw or cut and paste animals or things they might find on the farm.

A cross curricular resource consisting of 2 worksheets, 1 in colour and the other, a version in black and white. The resource links Transport themes with counting, reading, close observations skills and colouring. The objective is for children to read and identify transport picture symbols and mark these off on the list. When complete, children can check that they have found all 20 forms of transport. The black and white sheet can be coloured in. Laminate the colour sheet and this can be re-used with dry markers. Boardmaker Licenced.

8 designs to start your children off with their Mother’s Day card making. The designs are in colour and ready to cut out. Each card outline contains the message ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ for children to overwrite. Glue onto folded card and the Mother’s Day cards are all set!

“The School Bus” resource consists of a poem and two engaging worksheets designed for Key Stage 1 children. The poem is divided into two parts: the first part features a black-and-white illustration of a sad bus, symbolizing the end of the school year and the loneliness of summer; the second part showcases a colourful, happy bus filled with children, representing the joy of returning to school. This resource links to a variety of themes such as poems, change, feelings, transportation and the school experience. The first worksheet encourages children to listen to the poem and fill in the missing words, reinforcing their listening and comprehension skills. The second worksheet involves listening to the poem and answering multiple-choice questions, further enhancing their understanding and critical thinking.

Duplicate and print these delightful picture cards to play matching games with your EYFS children coming up to Christmas. Each picture will also make a nice Christmas card image - just cut and paste onto folded card. There are 6 pages with 4 colour cards on each one.

A complete lesson for EYFS or KS1 based on Autumn and animals that are often associated with Autumn. There is a power point to start, with a page on each of the 5 animals represented: red fox, red squirrel, barn owl, hedgehog and badger. Each page shows a photograph of the animal and 6 facts about the animal to discuss. There is then a writing template for each of the animals. Children can recall some of the facts they have heard, write a story or poem about the animal. The final worksheet is a labelling sheet where children match and write the words under the pictures. The can then colour the pictures or they could draw their own.