It’s almost 2022 and here is a poster idea for children to talk about, colour in and use as an inspiration to design and make their own poster. There are also 5 ideas for a New Year card for children to colour in, make, or use to help them design their own.

This is a good activity linked to Ourselves and Homes and encourages memory and speaking and listening. Children can reflect on their own bedrooms, their colour scheme and what is in their bedrooms / what they would like. There are 10 sheets here to carefully observe and discuss. Sheet 1 is a black and white basic room and each sheet after that adds something such as colour, decorations, pictures, slippers etc. Finally sheet 10 is the finished bedroom. A good activity is to go from sheet 10 backwards and see if children can spot what has been taken away. Children can use the black and white picture to build up / make a bedroom of their own. They can use fabrics, collage materials or paints/felts to decorate the room. Children could go on to write about Laura, whose bedroom this is, what can they tell about Laura just from observation?

4 sheets of colour flashcards related to making pancakes for EYFS and KS1. Each page shows 6 pictures including ingredients for making pancakes, equipment needed for cooking and preparing, images of pancakes and ideas for decorating your pancakes. Links nicely to pancake day, use as part of your cooking lesson or add to displays. Duplicate the cards for matching games.

An Easter Greeting for children to finish off by colouring the pictures and the background. They can then use this as the front of an Easter card. Stick onto coloured card and write inside.

12 insect round labels both black and white and colour for children to use in their topic on Insects or Minibeasts. Compatable with Avery labels if you want to make them into stickers. Children will love these on their minibeast hunts.

Children can talk about what the children are doing in each picture, colour them in and match them to the colour versions.

22 animal pictures to colour in and write their name and / or a sentence underneath. Children could make these into a little book or you could make a nice display. You could also sort the animal pictures into air, land and sea.

10 vehicles to colour in for your topic on Transport.

8 colouring pages for your dinosaur topic work for EYFS and KS1.

4 pages, each showing 6 toy cards. Children name the toys, trace the letters to make the words and colour the pictures. You could also cut out the pictures, laminate and add to your writing table with dry markers.

There are 12 pages for children linked to their topic on Animals. Children can colour the pictures and use the space underneath to write about the animals, their habitats or a short description. The final sheet shows all 12 of the pictures on one page. Duplicate these and children can colour, cut and match. Examples of animals are elephant, camel, snake, zebra and rhino.

12 colour cartoon vegetable characters to label using the key words provided. There are 6 characters on each of the 2 pages. Page 3 is a colouring and labelling sheet showing 6 vegetables. Links to Food / Plants Topic work.

5 worksheets for children to colour in. There are 2 squares on each page showing a different theme or picture E.g. Easter, Farm animals, In the garden, patterns, transport, cake and food.

There are 12 pages for children linked to their topic on Dinosaurs. Children can colour the pictures and use the space underneath to write about the dinosaurs or make up a short story or sentence. The final sheet shows all 12 of the pictures on one page. Duplicate these and children can colour, cut and match.

3 pages of activities for young children with a red, white and blue colour and pattern theme to tie in with your Jubilee celebrations. Copy and continue the red, white and blue balloon pattern to complete the picture. Colour all the stars using red, white and blue or red and blue. Follow the red arrows with your tracing patterns. Cut these out and laminate and you can add them to the writing corner.

A set of activities based on dragonflies. 8 colour cards to cut and match Colour the cards to make the dragonflies the same Colour the dragonfly by numbers 4 /5/6/7 - 4 large different colour posters of the dragonflies Black and white colouring dragonfly sheet Talk about bugs, colour and pattern.

This resource is great for speaking and listening and thinking about where we live. Children can talk in pairs about the poster and compare it with the places where they live. There are a set of comprehension questions on page 2 such as how many houses are on the square and what sort of houses they are. Link this to houses and homes or where we live. There are cross curricular opportunities such as making a pictogram of the traffic, counting the trees and writing sentences.

Links to World of Work, Occupations, Jobs and People who help us. There are 3 doodle sheets with a focus on tools that are used for different trades or purposes. Sheet 1 is more general, sheet 2 relates to painting and decorating and sheet 3 is to do with car mechanics. Opportunities for speaking and listening, learning new vocabulary and thinking about the jobs people do and the tools they may need.

2 worksheets each showing 6 pictures related to the Bugs and Mini beasts theme. A key word is written for each picture that the children can include it in their sentence writing.

Pairs of pictures cards for children to talk about, cut and pair. 10 children have sad faces and 10 matching pictures have happy faces. Talk about the popular expression - Turn that frown upside down - children can practice making sad faces and then happy faces. They can see the instant effect turning the frown upside down can have.