This super Christmas advent calendar promotes outdoor play, learning and fun! There are 24 activities leading up to Christmas eve, exciting! As the adult, look through the photos to get ideas for any resources needed, please take care if lighting a small fire with cotton wool (very flammable)Print the pages out, the next page with the activities on is the base, you may wish to stick onto card to make more durable. Then choose the cover. Remember to glue in-between the squares so that your child can open the doors. It may be a good idea to score the squares so the doors can be opened.Below are bigger pictures of the activities and a link to a site which is one of the activities. Enjoy and have fun! P.s. Take pictures along the way and post them to Forest School Villagers on Facebook, we may share them!

This includes a power point, lesson plan and fact finder sheet. This help students to; Engage in an information hunt activity about risk and challenge. Recognise key information about risk and challenge and outline what has been recognised using your factsheet. Compare and contrast the information that has been obtained. Useful for childcare/ childhood qualifications including; Degrees, CACH, Btec and more.

Forest school inspired ppp that could be delivered in settings to encourage practitioners to really use the outdoor area, even on rainy and cold days.

Unit.... Nutrition and Healthy food for childrenFood Hygiene Researched different aspects of food safety and cleaning. Considered safe ways to store different foods. Used your knowledge, produced a guide which would assist practitioners when preparing food, cleaning and keeping food safe. Cut out the questions and answers to stick around the classroom.

These Cootie Catchers are a super fun revision tool. Including a cootie catcher with a range of questions to promote revision and knowledge of the healthy living Unit 9 in Btec level 2 health and social care. Contains pictures. Also another cootie catcher which has extra pictures added, this supports differentiation and provides extra prompts. Select to suit each individual student! Cootie catcher/ chatter box- revision game for Health and social care- sexual practice- external assessment, exam. Btec Health and Social Care

These Cootie Catchers are a super fun revision tool. Including a cootie catcher with a range of questions to promote revision and knowledge of the healthy living Unit 9 in Btec level 2 health and social care (exam/ external assessment). Contains pictures. Also another cootie catcher which has extra pictures added, this supports differentiation and provides extra prompts. Select to suit each individual student! How to play; Once the cootie catcher is made, one player picks an image from healthy eating, water, running or sleeping, which ever they pick from these, the other player spells out, for example; H E A L T H Y E A T I N G, THEN IT WILL LAND SHOWING 4 OF THE 8 IMAGES; These are to represent a colour, for example there is a PINK trainer and a PURPLE bed and Black berries etc. The player then spells out the colour of the image. This will land on 4 of the 8 images again, the player picks an image to open at this point. The question is read out by the other player and an answer is attempted, it can be discussed in pairs if required as it all helps with exam revision. Text books, internet, class notes can assist with the answers and revision. A blank template has been included for students to create their own. There is an answer sheet, in some questions there may be more answers available than are on the answer sheet Good luck and have fun!

NUTRITIONOPOLY! An interactive, engaging game inspired by monopoly, perfect for many Health and social care/ childcare units- ideal for Level 2, unit 6 but would also fit in well to level 3. BTEC, CCLD, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CACHE, AQA, DEGREE, EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES and more. The hearts can be printed out numerous times and the property cards are to be printed out twice- once for each player to keep hold of if they buy a property and printed out together with the question card for each player to read out when it’s their turn. Nutrition Child Nutrition Health Well being Game rules Aim of the game. Race your way around the Nutritionopoly board as your favourite character. Earn points by collecting Hearts, buying property and answering questions. The player with the highest score wins. Contents; Gameboard, 4 character pieces, 22 property cards, 22 question cards with a Learning Point on. Each player chooses a character and places on GO. Each player starts the game with 6 hearts- 5 at 1 point and 1 worth 5 points, totaling 10 points. On your go- roll the dice and move character forward, collecting any coins along the way but not the space where you start. When you land on or pass GO, collect 2 tokens each time. Properties- on your turn you can buy the property that you land on and charge rent for each person that lands on it. If you have a full set then charge double the rent. For each property you land on, find the corresponding question card and complete to either earn extra points or allow other players to. If you go to jail- either use your turns to roll a 6 before being released or pay 3 points to get out sooner

This is a great resources containing a lesson plans and power points to accompany them. Including engaging activities, activities, links to theorists such as Maslow and Vygotsky. Will support CACHE, Early childhood studies(Foundation degree/ HND/ Btec/ BA Honours.

These are booklets to support students when studying about children's speech and language- Understand how to support positive speech, language and communication development for children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties

This is a great resources, a whole Unit called Caring for children- containing a 44 page power point including learning opportunities to support; How knowledge of child development can contribute to the recognition of childrens care needs, child development norms, SMART targets, the role of the practitioner, engaging activities and more. This can be adapted to suit your class/ scheme of work/ plans/ childcare specification!

Teachers, parents, grandparents, adults- this workbook is designed to make learning fun and to help develop skills such as; reading, counting, problem solving, writing, physical skills and more! Encourage your child to be in charge and take the activity the way they want to while offering suggestions and answering questions. They will go on an adventure with the critters to complete activities such as word fun, Sudoku, outdoor fun and a Forest school villagers certificate comes with it all!

This is a Masters level presentation containing 24 slides. This is an editable power point presentation. It explores perceptions of technology, debates, internet safety, developmentally appropriate technology outdoors, Integrating technology into the outdoor elements of the national curriculum (within knowledge and understanding of the world) theorists views, information about devices and how they can be used in the outdoors and a reference list. This could be utilised on CPD training sessions, could assist with assignment study towards a an early years qualification and more. Practitioners could feedback to others in order to develop settings in this area.

Identify components of a balanced diet, giving examples of each This resource has been used to deliver to Health and social care students, Btec Health and socialcare Level 2, Unit 6; The impact of nutrition on health and wellbeing. Included is a power point with Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, thought shower task, link to an activity and a table. By completing the work, students will have answered a criteria for their assignment; 1A.1 Identify components of a balanced diet, giving examples of each.

Caring for children, meeting needs, factors affecting, Maslow's hierarchy, good starting points for discussion or group work.

Portable mud kitchen for outdoor play This resource has been designed to encourage children to be creative, direct their own learning, have fun and spend time using and developing their skills outdoors. The wood cookies are the kitchen cooker hobs! The aim of this resource is to enable your child to create their own unique mud kitchen that can be transported to a setting of your choice, for example; the local park, your garden, back yard, a woodland, forest, river, lake, beach, anywhere you like! All you need to do is find an empty plastic box (cracker box)/ biscuit tin and so on as long as they are approximately the size of a shoe box, can be bigger if needed and have a lid to pop the kitchen equipment in. Your child can have fun choosing which images to use and place onto the box, they can either cut out one of the pre designed kitchens or select images from the other pages. Choosing which images they would like as the hob/ hob buttons etc. Children could search for natural objects such as pine cones to place on and use as their buttons if they wish. It may be a good idea to laminate before sticking or find a see through material that could be stuck around the finished box to protect from the rain and to enable to be wiped clean. Fill the mud kitchen box with equipment such as; small measuring pans, spoons, small bowls, dishes and have fun! This resource could also be use to support the teaching of childcare and development, the students could have a go at creating one to assist them with how a child could learn and develop from this activity- suitable for studying degrees, CACHE, AQA child development.

Health and Social care, unit 2 care values matching game btec Teacher tips; This is a fun, engaging game, simply print out the pages, for each card, the ‘make a match’ writing is on one side and either a picture or writing on the other. Once printed out, fold in half and either glue or laminate. Print out as many sets as you like to suit your students needs. This game will develop their knowledge of care values. An example game could be to work out who has their matching card, could also be played in other ways. Btec level 2, unit 2, Health and social care..

Btec health and social care unit 2 values; Information hunt activity and worksheet. Teachers notes; Ensure each group has access to each piece of information to then arrange and create on their sheets to create an information station, they can add extra pictures/ drawings etc if they wish. Either use a library/ class room etc to hide the information around the room. Cut out each piece that has a border around. The smaller boxes, e.g; duty of care, matches to the writing in green. Students can then arrange once they have found. Students will be; You will be creating your own information stations. In your groups, search and collect clues, signs and more to bring back to your information station. Will support the completion of Learning aims A.1 and 2A.P1