This resource introduces children to oval shapes and emotions with the “Oval Pals,” a series of 10 oval-shaped characters, each showing a different feeling. Each page features a simple oval character with a different expression, such as happy, sad, surprised, or angry. Beside the character is a blank oval for children to draw their own version or create a new expression. The resource is black and white, making it perfect for colouring and drawing, and supports EYFS and KS1 children.

“10 Triangular Cartoon Shape Characters” is a 10-page black and white resource designed for Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 learners. Each page features a triangular cartoon character, providing a fun and engaging way for children to explore 2D shapes, emotions, and self-expression. The resource encourages children to draw faces on the characters. They can make the characters the same or draw a different expression. This activity supports understanding of shapes, promotes social-emotional learning, and encourages creativity and self-awareness.

A 10-page black and white resource designed for Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 learners. The resource provides a fun and engaging way for children to explore 2D shapes, emotions, and self-expression. Each page features a rectangular cartoon character and one for the children to complete. Children can draw a matching facial expression on each blank character or draw a different face showing different emotions. This activity supports understanding of shapes, promotes social-emotional learning, and encourages creativity and self-awareness.

“10 Circular Cartoon Shape Characters” is a 10-page black and white resource designed for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1) learners. Each page features a circular cartoon character, providing a fun and engaging way for children to explore 2D shapes, emotions, and self-expression. Children can draw different faces / expressions on the character templates on each page to match the cartoon characters or draw a different expression or feeling. This activity supports understanding of shapes, promotes social-emotional learning, and encourages creativity and self-awareness.

A 10-page black and white resource designed for Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 learners. Each page features a hexagon cartoon character with a different facial expression and one for the children to draw a matching (or different) face onto. This activity supports shape recognition, promotes social-emotional learning, and fosters creativity and self-awareness.

“Square Cartoon Shape Characters” is a 10-page black and white resource for EYFS and KS1. Each page has a square cartoon character with a different facial expression and a blank square character for children to draw faces / expressions onto. They can copy the expressions or make the characters different. The resource supports learning of 2D shapes, feelings, and emotions. It’s a fun way to encourage creativity, self-expression, and understanding of shapes.

“9 Family Christmas Cards to Colour and Make” is an engaging resource for children to craft personalised Christmas cards for their loved ones. This resource includes nine card templates designed for specific family members: Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie, Uncle, Brother, Sister, Mum, Dad and one for their teacher. Each card features a fun and festive illustration on the front that children can cut out and colour. Once coloured, the card front can be glued or attached to folded card to complete the design. Children can write inside the card with a message or holiday greetings. This resource encourages creativity, fine motor skills, and personal expression during the holiday season. It’s a fun activity that helps children spread festive cheer in a thoughtful and personal way!

Create a fun Halloween experience for children with these easy ideas! Here are some examples of the 12 playful trick-or-treat ideas for the classroom: Mystery Treat Giver: Children leave small treats for classmates anonymously. Halloween Jokes: Share silly Halloween jokes to make friends smile. Mummy Wrap: Wrap pencils in bandages or string to look like mummies. Pumpkin Trail: Follow a pumpkin trail to a spooky surprise or note. Trick the Teacher: Organize a harmless classroom trick to surprise the teacher. Make the Headteacher Smile: Plan a funny trick to make the Headteacher laugh! Follow-up activity: Children can make their own illustrated cards for a class collection, adding their creative spin to each idea. Fun, simple, and perfect for a spooky classroom atmosphere for EYFS and KS1!

This resource, part of a series about best friends Robby and Looty, teaches children about friendship, being kind and taking responsibility. ‘Robby and Looty Make Amends’ In this short story, Robby and Looty fix their mistake after taking flowers from Mr. White’s garden by planting new ones as a surprise. Target Age Group: For EYFS and KS1 children. Included: An illustrated Short Story: o Simple language with an illustration. o Themes of friendship, kindness, and making amends. A Comprehension Sheet: o Easy questions to reinforce and check understanding. o Develops skills in recalling details and emotional literacy. Links to Ourselves, Friends and Feelings.

This resource is designed for teachers working with EYFS and KS1 to support learning about Ourselves, feelings and self-awareness. It consists of six pages, each featuring three pairs of funny faces for children to colour, cut out, and match. Children can learn to identify facial expressions and link them to feelings such as happiness, sadness, or surprise. The task encourages children to describe the faces they see, promoting language development and emotional literacy. As they match the faces, teachers can prompt discussions about how the expressions relate to their own feelings, helping to build empathy and self-understanding. The resource links to 2D shape and helps develop cutting skills.

This Christmas-themed resource, using the story “Robby and Looty Think Twice,” helps children explore important values such as friendship, kindness, and making the right choices. The story emphasizes thinking before acting, especially when tempted to take something that isn’t theirs, teaching the importance of honesty and empathy during the holiday season. Teachers can use this resource to foster discussions about giving, the true spirit of Christmas, and how friends can support each other in doing the right thing. It ties into personal, social, and emotional learning, encouraging thoughtful decision-making in a festive, relatable context. The resource includes the short story and a comprehension worksheet.

This 2 page resource is designed to support teaching key social-emotional topics such as friendship, feelings, and honesty for young learners. Using the short story of ‘Robby and Looty’, children can begin to understand the importance of making good choices, being honest, and considering how their actions affect others. Key Focus Areas: Friendship: Children learn how Robby and Looty are friends but must make better choices together. Discussions can centre around what makes a good friend and how friends help each other make the right decisions. Feelings: The story explores how Robby and Looty feel before and after taking the apples, helping children recognise feelings like guilt, regret, and relief. Teachers can use this to prompt discussions about how actions impact emotions. Honesty: By returning the stolen apples, Robby and Looty show the importance of being honest and making things right. This opens up conversations on why honesty matters and what children can do if they make a mistake. Worksheet: A simple worksheet with key questions is provided which helps children reflect on and write about the story. Role-Playing: Children can act out situations where honesty is important, learning how to apologise and make amends.

This resource, designed for KS1 and EYFS learners, offers a visual exploration of patterns and colour combinations. Each of the 9 pages features 6 balls, with every ball divided into 3 sections, allowing for creative pattern creation. Page 10 is a blank template that children can use to create their own patterns. Using two or three colours, the sections on each ball are filled to form unique colour combinations and patterns. The resource emphasizes the importance of recognizing and creating patterns, helping children understand sequencing, repetition, and colour relationships. The bright colour palette keeps young learners engaged as they explore different colour combinations on each page. This hands-on tool promotes the development of visual perception, pattern recognition, while providing an introduction to basic mathematical and design concepts. Duplicate, cut out and laminate the balls and children can play maths related games such as matching, finding colour combinations and making sets in different ways.

These three Halloween activities are simple and fun for young children, offering hands-on creative experiences: Halloween Rock/Stone Painting Children paint rocks to look like spooky characters such as ghosts, witches, black cats, monsters, jack-o’-lanterns and spiders. This activity encourages creativity and is easy to set up with paint or markers. Halloween Haunted House Craft Children create their own haunted house. 3 examples are shown. Halloween Tic-Tac-Toe A Halloween-themed version of tic-tac-toe, where children use Halloween cards, counters or plastic figures to play on a grid. It’s a fun, strategic game that can be reused and enjoyed throughout the season.

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.

*Licenced to use, produce and sell resources using Boardmaker symbols. A resource for SEN children, also suitable for EYFS and KS1. Link with your science lessons and/or outdoor learning. There are 3 worksheets where children name and label the pictures and then write a sentence 1.Outdoors 2. Flowers and Plants 3. In the Garden Included is a set of Boardmaker symbols in colour and the same in black and white. Add these to brighten up your displays, for speaking and listening and for use as flashcards. Laminate and use in the outdoor learning space.

An Easter resources where there are 8 colour Bunny flashcards, each showing a bunny doing something different e.g. running, juggling or shopping. These can be cut up and duplicated to make matching games or for display. Children can learn the vocabulary and practice speaking in sentences. The same flashcards are also in black and white for children to colour in. These can be matched to the colour versions, or used for making Easter Cards. There are then, 2 writing sheets differentiated. The first sheets show 6 of the bunnies with a sentence for children to trace over. The second have blank spaces for children to write the ‘doing’ words or a short phrase or sentence about the bunnies. Suitable for EYFS and KS1.

A fun way to incorporate maths with your topic on Animals, Pets and / or clothing. Cut out the 24 colour pictures of socks for children to make into pairs of Pets socks. Children can look out for pattern and colour to help them with their sorting and matching. Once the socks are all paired, children can use the sock template worksheet to create their own Pet sock designs on the white socks and make these into matching pairs. There is a blank sheet that children can paste pairs onto or draw their own socks and designs. For younger children and / or a practical element, ask children to bring in a pair of socks and create a class sorting sock activity! Another idea is to have a box of socks that children rummage through to find matching pairs – use a timer for more fun!

6 decorated Gingerbread men for children to colour in, cut out and hang as decorations. There is also a template Gingerbread man for children to decorate themselves.

An animal topic resource designed for early learners, with 20 big animal outlines for colouring, painting, or collage. Featuring land animals, water animals , and flying animals.