Links to Birthdays, special days and celebrations, as well as reasons for writing for EYFS and KS1. This resource contains 10 small (different) party invitations for children to cut out and fold. There are also inserts for children to write on and paste into the folded cards. Print out on white card or children can paste onto thin card. Children could make their own envelopes. Add these to your Birthday board or display too.

A resource to encourage children to think about places they could /do visit and talk about them. The cards could be cut out and added to a child’s communication board. Sheet 1 shows 16 places children could visit with words along the side and added above the pictures. Children could colour in the pictures. Sheet 2 shows the same resource but without pictures. Children can draw in their own pictures or write the words. Sheet 3 has no words and is a useful template. This could be used for anything from toys to transport to food. The resource is useful for writing the weekend news too.

A resource to encourage children to think about festivals and celebrations and talk about them. The cards could be cut out and added to a child’s communication board. Sheet 1 shows 16 festivals and celebrations with words along the side and added above the pictures. Children could colour in the pictures. Sheet 2 shows the same resource but without pictures. Children can draw in their own pictures or write the words. Sheet 3 has no words or pictures and is a useful template. This could be used for anything from animals they know to people that help us. Laminate to make a useful writing mat with key words.

This is a hit resource with small children. There are 10 pages of examples of pictures that indicate what an App might be about: Art, health, drawing, computer games, sport, music, history, geography and French. There are 2 of the same ‘app’ per page for younger children to play matching games. There is a blank template at the end for children to use to make their own designs of an App of their choice. This template is also very good for making into subject cards and displaying as a timetable. Something original and different to the norm.

This is a monster activity where children create their own monster pictures or make an individual or class collage. It is fun to enlarge the pictures of the monsters and each child choose one - these can be added to make a large scale collage. Page 1 shows all the monsters on one page. This can be used as a worksheet on its own, or children can choose their monster to work on. Page 2 shows an example of a colour collage made from a selection of the monsters. Page 3 shows a collection of coloured eyes that children could copy or add to their monsters. Pages 4 to 15 - here are the black and white monsters with 2 to a page. Links to art and design, colour and Halloween.

14 pairs of monster cards and a template for you to make some more of your own, or for the children to draw their own monsters. Cut out and laminate the cards for matching games and making pairs. Add to your Halloween or Monster displays too.

A colouring sheet for young children linked to your topic on animals or the Chinese year of the Tiger 2022.

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.