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.

A simple word search with a TOY theme for EYFS and KS1 children. There are 8 words to find which correspond to the colour pictures around the word search. There is an answer sheet and a blank template for you to fill in other words of your own related to Toys or Ourselves.

A simple word search for Christmas for children at KS1. There are 8 words to find which correspond to the colour pictures around the word search. There is an answer sheet and a blank template for you to fill in other words of your own related to Christmas or Winter. Other similar word search sheets including the farm, toys, Halloween and bugs can be found on this shop too.

Children will enjoy using this colour Bonfire Night poster as a stimulus for their own posters. There is also a page of all the related words shown on the poster that children can colour in and use or add a background to.

3 worksheets in colour and the same worksheets in black and white. Here is an activity where children look at the children in the pictures, decide what they are doing and write a sentence next to the pictures. Children could write key words or phrases if they are not yet up to sentence writing. Links to Ourselves, phonics and spelling, toys and school.

3 writing sheets on the theme of friendship, feelings or ourselves. Sheet 1 - children write about what a good friend is and then their best friend. Sheet 2 is a writing frame for children to write in, share a memory, write a short story or poem Sheet 3 - children draw and write about their friend

Save yourself lots of time looking for a Christmas cards to make. Children will enjoy colouring in this tree outline to make their own cards or using the colour picture.

An activity linked to feelings and ourselves as well as matching and sorting. This is a nice little activity for young children where they sort the animal characters into happy and sad. There are 2 sad and 2 happy cards for each of the 4 characters. Print onto card and laminate for a more durable game / resource.

This links to topics such as Ourselves, All about Me and PSHE. 4 pages of colour cards showing faces with different expressions or feelings. Children can cut these out, talk about them and match them. There are 4 different feeling faces on each page to match. Children can sort the emotions e.g. into happy or sad or angry. Laminate the cards and they can be reused multiple times.

Add these lovely colourful resources to your role play areas or home corner to celebrate National Candy day. There are 3 sheets showing cards with different types of candy, lollies, chocolates and sweets. Duplicate, laminate and play matching games. These cards encourage speaking and listening too.

Here is an example of a Halloween card that is very popular with young children. There are pictures that the children can cut out to recreate the card or make their own.

3 colouring activities for children with a Christmas theme. There is a colour poster for each activity Stockings Santa’s sacks Snowy houses Children use the colour posters to help them colour in the black and white versions. This encourages careful observation and colour awareness / matching. Felt pens work well with this activity. You could also cut out the pictures and make a lovely classroom banner. Print onto card or laminate and use for making sets and counting activities.

3 pages with 6 pictures of different animals. The backgrounds of each animal picture represent their skin / fur / patterns. Children colour in the pictures of the animals taking into account these patterned backgrounds. Enlarge and children could use paint or collage materials - these pictures then make a lovely classroom display.

An activity linked to time - days of the week and monsters or Halloween. The first page is a colour poster showing a monster for each day of the week. Page 2 is the colour poster without the days written so that the children can write these in themselves. Page 3 is the same poster but in black and white. Children can colour the monsters, write the days of the week and even cut and sequence them.

This is a fun activity linked to your topic on Homes and linking to numbers, reading and comprehension. 6 Children live in the street and the children work out from the questions who lives in which number house, the names of the children and the numbers of the houses. Sheet 1 can be filled when all the questions are answered or can be used as a template for the teacher to add his/her own names and numbers. Sheet 2 gives some house numbers and names and the children fill in the missing answers. Sheet 3 asks 10 questions. The teacher could read these out or the children can read them and work out their answers alone or as a pair. Encourages speaking and listening. Answer sheets are included. Sheet 6 is a cutting and matching activity where children match the colour houses with the children that live in them.

A simple Get Well Soon card for young children. There is a black and white version to colour and a colour version. Print onto card, fold in the middle and write a greeting inside.

Introduce your class to using their senses and then share page 1 showing 9 Christmas pictures. Can they decide which of the senses these pictures relate to? Some may be more than 1. Different answers are acceptable and encouraged. There are 16 colour pictures that can be cut out and sorted under the different senses. Alternatively, children can write the word next to each picture and / or a symbol to represent each of the senses. There is a template sheet for children to write a list of Christmas items for each of the senses or to paste the pictures onto. There is a sheet showing symbols for each of the senses. Children can paste a picture, draw a picture or write a word/words for each of the senses.

A different approach to Halloween using the senses. Talk to the class about what they might see, hear, touch or taste at Halloween. Share the poster and discuss each picture and the senses involved. There will be some cross over e.g. you can see, feel and taste a pumpkin. (Bring in smell too). Children can then use the template to write, draw or paste into.

3 activity sheets for children based on Autumn / weather. On each sheet children read the words and match them to the ones that are the same. The fonts are different for each word to make it a bit more difficult. Children could colour and cut out their pumpkins and they could be made into a display. Alternatively, they can cut and match the words and paste into their work books.

4 activity sheets for children based on winter / weather. On each sheet children read the words and match them to the ones that are the same. The fonts are different for each word to make it a bit more difficult. Children could colour and cut out their snowmen and they could be made into a display. Alternatively, they can cut and match the words and paste into their work books.