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Pirate Ship role play pack
A fun pack of resources for you to print out and use to create a role play area of a Pirate Ship.
The pack includes:
Large banner for your role play area ‘Pirate ship’
Pirate masks in colour and black and white
Pirate badges
Make a pirate hat
Make an eye patch
A dagger template to make your own pirate dagger
Pirate ship rule posters
A collection of different beards, hats, eye patches and moustaches to make your own pirate masks
Various posters for the role play area
ID cards for the pirates
Colour 'treasure'
Black and white 'treasure'- great to collage
Ships log book cover and pages for the children to fill in
Maps
Treasure book cover and pages for the children to fill in
Pirate jobs check list
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Chinese Restaurant and Takeaway role play pack
Chinese Restaurant and Takeaway
A bumper resource for setting up a colourful role play area of a Chinese restaurant and/or takeaway.
The pack includes:
Banner- A long banner for your restaurant- this is provided in Sasson Primary Infant font and also in Chinese style writing
Posters- Open and closed signs for your restaurant
Opening times- An opening times poster
Food posters- 10 colourful pictures of different foods to buy in the restaurant
Price posters- Each showing a different colourful picture of Chinese food and space to write the price
Menus- Various menus in colour and black and white for your restaurant
Hats- 3 different hats to make for the restaurant staff to wear
Badges- Name badges to make for the staff to wear
Welcome- A long ‘Welcome’ with Chinese style writing
Today’s special- A poster with Chinese style writing to write in that days special meal
Restaurant posters- 'Wait here to be seated' and 'Thank you for your custom'
Poster- A poster for the restaurant Kitchen area
Clock- A themed clock to laminate and either draw the hands on or add clock hands using a split pin
Colour lanterns- Colourful lanterns to hang in the restaurant area- each lantern is a different colour and has colour labels to add if you want to
Number line- A number line to 20 on food bowls
Table numbers- Table numbers up to 10 to display on the restaurant tables with Chinese style writing
Order forms- Printable order forms for the restaurant and takeaway
Colouring mats- Colouring mats to use in the restaurant- these could also be coloured and used as posters in the restaurant
Message pads- Message pads and telephone message pads to make decorated with Chinese lanterns
Takeaway opening poster- a poster showing the opening times of the Chinese Takeaway
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Grapheme display posters- Letters and Sounds
A colourful set of Grapheme posters for you to print and use with your children during literacy or for use on displays.
Great for Early years teachers, nursery teachers, special needs teachers, childminders and parents to use with their children.
This set of grapheme posters has been produced using the graphemes taught in the Letters and Sounds scheme. There are a total of 69 posters to print and use (separate cards for f and ff etc). Each poster has 2 or 3 colourful pictures to represent that sound, and the word with the grapheme highlighted in red.
The posters are organised in files for each of the Letters and Sounds phases in which they are taught making them very easy to access and use.
Each poster is approximately A4 in size although they could be printed larger or smaller by altering print settings before printing.
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Campsite role play pack- Outdoor play
A great pack full of posters, signs, flashcards, pictures and writing opportunities to set up a role play area of a Camp site
The pack is great for use in the EYFS and also within KS1 and KS2 enabling you to print out the resources again and again.
A great pack to incorporate in the outdoor play area and to include in a topic on Holidays.
The pack includes:
· A large colourful display banner
· Large A4 size letters of ‘Campsite’ - a great alternative for the role play area
· Large colour pictures of different things on a campsite such as tents, shop, water tap etc
· Word and picture cards of different camping equipment
· A4 posters with words of different camping equipment
· A display border which can be used in your role play area and on notice boards in your campsite
· A number line to 50 on red and green tents
· An alphabet line on trees- great for your outside area
· Signs for your campsite including toilets, showers, water tap etc
· Posters for your campsite including ‘Keep dogs on leads’, ‘No fires’, ‘Please clear up your rubbish’ etc
· Badges for the campsite staff to wear
· Camping pitch numbers
· Posters about things that are happening on the campsite, woodland walk signs, welcome posters, pitches available signs, picnic spot posters
· Campsite rates posters
Writing resources:
· Booking forms
· Telephone message sheets
· A book cover for telephone booking and pages for the book
· Jobs to do lists
· Postcards to write
· Inspection sheets for the campsite to check the toilets, rubbish on the site, who is on each pitch etc
· A form to fill in naming who is camped in each pitch
· Blank posters to add writing to
· Four blank pages with camping themed borders which can be used in the role play area or as a writing activity
· A kit check form to be used by the campers
· Comments form for the campers to fill in after their stay
The posters, signs and pictures will create a motivating and colourful role play area either inside your classroom or in your outside area which will encourage the children to further their vocabulary and language and encourage writing for different purposes.
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Alphabet tracing worksheets- phonics, Letters and Sounds
A set of alphabet tracing worksheets for you to print and use as many times as you need with your group of children.
Great for Early years teachers, nursery teachers, special needs teachers, childminders and parents to use with their children.
Each letter is on a separate worksheet with a dotty picture to trace, a dotty border and dotty capital and lower case letters to trace.
Great for developing pencil control and teaching the letters of the alphabet and initial sounds. When the children have traced the pictures they can be coloured to create a great learning display.
The worksheets are A4 size however by altering printer settings you will be able to print them out in whatever size you would like so they could even be printed smaller and coloured to create a set of flashcards.
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Phonics fish display
A colourful set of phonics fish-great for displays, flashcards, games etc on CD
This is a great set on CD of colourful fish each with a letter of the alphabet or grapheme as taught in the Letters and Sounds teaching programme.
These would make a great display for your classroom or water area. Alternatively they could be used as flashcards when teaching the sounds.
The fish could also be used for various games such as magnetic fishing games, matching pairs etc.
The fish are also provided in black and white on the CD so they can be coloured by yourself or by the children.
The font used on the fish is Sassoon Primary Infant which is widely used in Primary schools.
The fish are saved as PDF files and can be opened using Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available for free from their website or is probably already on your computer.
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Pizza delivery/ restaurant role play pack
The pack includes:
Large lettering decorated with small pizza pictures spelling 'Pizzas',
A large shop sign advertising pizzas for delivery, eat in or take away,
Badges to make for the pizza shop staff,
Different hats to make for the staff and delivery people,
Pizza delivery signs for putting on the front of delivery bikes/ cars and on the pizza boxes,
Various forms to encourage writing,
Food labels and posters showing different foods available and also different toppings available for the pizzas,
Large colour pictures of the different foods and different slices of pizza,
Large black and white pictures of the different foods available- great for art work,
Various colourful shop signs- open/ closed, opening times, special offers etc,
Menus for the pizza restaurant,
Colour and black and white placemats for the pizza restaurant.
A great pack of resources to create a colourful and stimulating role play area in your classroom or outside area.
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Post Office role play
Included in the pack are:
A large (5 and a hlaf times A4!) post box to print out and put on the wall (or on a box and cut out the post slot),
A 'Post Office sign',
Posters for your post office such as 'Buy your tv licence here',
TV licences, passports, tax disks etc for the children to fill in,
Hats to make for the post master/mistress and post man/woman,
A variety of stamps.
plus lots more!
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Space rocket role play pack
A fun pack of resources for you to print out and use to create a role play area of a Space rocket.
This pack is also included in my bumper Space pack.
The pack includes:
· Large banner for your role play area
· Astronaut masks in colour and black and white
· Alien masks in colour and black and white
· Posters- lots of posters for the role play area including warning signs, today’s captain, today’s astronauts etc.
· Control panel pieces- lots of colourful parts of the rocket control panel- dials, signs, levers etc
· Log book- a log book cover in colour and also in black and white and pages to use in the book for the children to record what they did and saw on the space trip
· Space rocket checklist
· Badges for the space crew to wear
· ID badges for the space crew to fill in and use in their play
· Alien stick puppets to make
· Rocket fuel guage- a large guage to make and warning posters to display when they are low on fuel!
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Initial sounds alphabet dominoes games- 3 sets
Three colourful dominoes games
Each set of dominoes has a different coloured border to help you put them back into the correct set although the sets could be mixed to make different dominoes games or ones with more domino pieces.
One set of dominoes has the letters in alphabetical order and the other two have the letters in a mixed order. Each domino set has a different set of initial sound pictures used on them.
Each domino has the initial letter sound and a coloured picture. The game is played in the conventional way with the children placing a domino piece which has a matching sound or picture next to the one already played.
The domino pieces are sized six to an A4 page but by altering printer settings prior to printing you could print them larger or smaller.
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Buzzy Bee Maths and Literacy games
Buzzy Bee Maths and Literacy games
A collection of 8 fun games for you to print out and play
Literacy games:
1-Find the picture- Turn over the letter card and cover the intial letter sound picture on your bee hive.
2-Rhyming bees- Find the two cards that rhyme- how many pairs can you find?
3-CVC words- Turn over a bee picture card and cover the CVC word on your card- can you find all the words first?
4-Flower garden letters- Move across the flower garden game board and say the sound you land on. The winner is the first person to reach the bee hive. There is also a version of this game to say the initial sound of the picture you land on.
Maths games:
1-Make a bee- Roll a die and collect the numbered part of your bee. Can you complete your bee first?
2-Add the numbers- Roll two dice and add the numbers together. Find the number on your game board and cover the number. The winner is the person who covers all their bees first.
3-Count the bees- Choose a bee card and count how many bees. Cover the number on your bee card. The winner is the person to cover all their numbers first.
4-Race to bee hive- Roll the die and move across the flower garden. Can you reach the bee hive first?
Each game is supplied with full instructions and further ideas for using the materials.
Each game is supplied in full colour and also in black and white so it can be printed out more economically and also photocopied to be sent home with the children.
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Grapheme flash cards display
This set of grapheme flash cards has been produced using the graphemes taught in the Letters and Sounds scheme. There are a total of 69 flash cards to print and make (separate cards for f and ff etc).
The flash cards are organised in files for each of the Letters and Sounds phases in which they are taught making them very easy to access and use.
The flashcards are designed to have a picture on the front which contains the sound and on the back of the card (when assembled) it shows the grapheme.
Each file page has a card with the grapheme and below a card with a coloured picture. To assemble the cards for use as flashcards the grapheme card needs to be glued to the back of the picture so either the grapheme can be shown to the children or the picture can be shown.
The cards could also be used to make an interactive learning display for the children to match the pictures to the grapheme or could be used as flashcards with the grapheme and picture on the same side (as they are shown on the picture). They could also be made into a matching game for the children to play to match grapheme to a picture.
The cards are approximately A5 size, however by altering your printer settings you will be able to print them out in whatever size you would like.
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Christmas alphabet tracing worksheets and colour in flashcards
A set of Christmas themed alphabet tracing worksheets for you to print and use as many times as you need with your group of children.
Great for Early years teachers, nursery teachers, special needs teachers, childminders and parents to use with their children.
Each letter is on a separate worksheet with a dotty picture to trace, a dotty border and dotty capital and lower case letters to trace.
Great for developing pencil control and teaching the letters of the alphabet and initial sounds. When the children have traced the pictures they can be coloured to create a great learning display.
Also included in the pack are worksheets with the same pictures which could be used as colouring sheets or as an alphabet line for your classroom or educational setting or alternatively they could be made into phonics flash cards to bring a touch of Christmas to your phonics lessons! Each of these sheets has the picture, border, letters in lower and upper case and the word.
The worksheets are A4 size however by altering printer settings you will be able to print them out in whatever size you would like.
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Baby Clinic role play -Ourselves
The pack includes:
Large letters to display in your baby clinic saying 'Baby clinic'. Each letter is decorated with small pictures relating to the baby clinic,
Words relating to the baby clinic such as baby, dummy, medicine, scales etc - each word also has the picture of it,
Large (A4 sized) pictures of things found in a baby clinic- these are great for decorating your baby clinic, displays or discussion,
Forms to encourage writing in the role play area- an A5 sized folder to make to keep the baby's records in, height and weight charts, medicine forms etc,
A large sign for the children to write on to show who the doctor and nurse is that day,
Signs to display in the baby clinic such as for toilets, waiting room, office, reception- each is decorated with small pictures,
A large (A3 sized) poster showing items for sale for babies in the clinic shop
The posters, signs and pictures will create a motivating and colourful role play area either inside your classroom or in your outside area which will encourage the children to further their vocabulary and language and encourage writing for different purposes
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Phoneme Bunting display- Letters and Sounds
Phoneme bunting sets
Four colourful sets of Phoneme bunting to hang in your classroom or the outside area-
Just print and display!
Each flag is approximately A4 in size but can be printed smaller
The pack includes:
Set 1
All of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on colourful star flags
Set 2
Bunting flags with phonemes and a picture on each flag
Set 3
To be made double sided or displayed side by side- the flags have the phoneme on one and a picture and word with the phoneme highlighted on the other
Set 4
To be made double sided or displayed side by side- using the phoneme flags from set 3 and the additional flags which have two pictures which contain the phoneme
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Alphabet crayons display
A bright and colourful set of alphabet crayons-great for displays, flashcards, games etc
This is a CD with three great alphabet crayons sets. One has the lower and upper case alphabet, a second has just the lower case letters and a third has just upper case alphabet.
These would make a great display for your classroom. Alternatively they could be used as flashcards when teaching the sounds. The lower case and upper case crayons could also be used to play matching pairs or used to make a display for the children to match the lower case letter to the upper case letter.
The crayons are in files with three crayons on each A4 page. However you could change your printer settings to print the crayons larger or smaller.
The font used on the crayons is Sassoon Primary Infant which is widely used in Primary schools.
The crayons are saved as PDF files and can be opened using Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available for free from their website or is probably already on your computer.
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Multicultural alphabet line display - diversity,
Create a lovely colourful display.
This alphabet line has boys and girls each with different hair colour and skin tone and some wearing glasses to promote a diverse environment for your teaching.
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Picture alphabet line posters
A colourful picture alphabet line for you to print out and use in your educational setting.
Included is a colour alphabet and also a black and white alphabet which you can colour in yourselves or allow the children to colour to create their own alphabet.
Each letter has a selection of pictures with that initial sound. These cards could be used in your writing area, used to create a colourful display, used as flash cards, for games etc.
The letter cards are approximately A5 size however by altering printer settings you will be able to print them out in whatever size you would like.
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Alphabet initial sound bingo games- two different sets- pictures and sounds/letters
Two colourful initial sound bingo games
In the set there are two sets of bingo game cards. Each set has 20 different bingo playing cards so they can be used for a whole class (the cards can be repeated for a larger class) or for group games.
One bingo game has colourful pictures and other set has letters. The bingo games can be played in various ways- by calling a letter and the child covering a picture if it begins with that sound, by calling a letter and covering the letter on their board, by calling a picture and covering the initial sound letter or by calling a picture and covering that picture on their board.
The calling cards can also be used in various ways- to play the bingo games, to play matching games to match pictures, letters or picture and initial sound, for phonics displays and many more ways.
Also included in the pack is an activity sheet with details of these games and others that can be played using this resource.
The bingo boards are approximately A4 size but by altering printer settings prior to printing you could print them larger or smaller.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar story telling pack including calendar, games and activities + life cycle
A huge resources pack for the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Includes:
Colour class calendar to make
Sequencing pictures
Worksheets and activities
Literacy and Numeracy activities
Life cycle display materials and activities
Crafts
Display materials
Photographs for display and discussion
Powerpoints including learning about butterflies, story telling , interactive maths activities and interactive story questions
Plus lots lots more
Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves. It is not associated with, or endorsed by the authors or publishers of the story, or any related stories or products.