Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Explore the stages of a carrot plant’s life cycle with this differentiated foldable sequencing activity. This cut-and-paste carrot science craft is a fun alternative to a worksheet for both KS1 and KS2. It can be used to introduce the carrot life cycle, or as a review activity.
Children sequence the life cycle stages on their foldout from seed, to mature carrot. They then cut out the template and fold it. Pupils will LOVE opening their foldout to reveal the sequence of the life cycle stages inside!
Use this activity to support a lesson on plant life cycles, autumn, harvest, or even as an Easter science activity.
Benefits of this activity
Low prep
Children learn about the carrot life cycle in a fun and hands-on way, that’s a bit different from a standard science worksheet.
Can be used to introduce the life cycle, or as a review/assessment to check understanding.
Encourages fine motor/scissor skills, hand-eye coordination (folding), following directions, and sequencing.
Differentiated options allow for multiple age ranges or abilities to do the same activity.
Finished foldouts can be inserted into an interactive notebook where they can be referenced by children.
The templates
There are 3 black and white template options to choose from:
Colour the carrot and the 4 life cycle stages, cut out, sequence and fold.
Colour the carrot and the 6 life cycle stages, cut out, sequence and fold.
As above but with a straight cutting edge around the carrot.
Instructions for students are included, as well as US and UK paper sizes.
This resource also contains a printable set of life cycle cards to sequence (6 to a page, colour, and black and white options), a life cycle poster and some fun carrot facts to discuss together.
Explore the stages of an oak tree’s life cycle with this differentiated foldable sequencing activity. This cut-and-paste acorn craft is a fun alternative to a worksheet for fall science. It can be used to introduce the life cycle of oak trees or as a review activity.
Children sequence the life cycle stages on their foldout from acorn to mature tree. They then cut out the template and fold it. Your class will LOVE opening their foldouts to reveal the sequence of the life cycle stages inside!
Benefits of this activity
Low prep
Children learn about the oak tree life cycle in a fun and hands-on way, that’s a bit different from a standard science worksheet.
Can be used to introduce the life cycle, or as a review/assessment to check understanding.
Encourages fine motor/scissor skills, hand-eye coordination (folding), and sequencing.
Differentiated options allow for multiple age ranges or abilities to do the same activity.
Finished foldouts can be inserted into an interactive notebook where they can be referenced by children.
The differentiated templates
Template 1: Color the acorn and 4 life cycle stages, cut out the stages and glue them in order on the template, cut and fold. There are 2 label options ‘acorn, sprout, sapling, mature tree’ or ‘acorn, seedling, sapling, mature tree’.
Template 2: As above but with a straight cutting edge around the acorn.
Template 3: Color the acorn halves and 6 life cycle stages, cut out the stages and glue them in order on the template, cut and fold. Option to sequence words or descriptions for each stage.
Template 4: As above but with a straight cutting edge around the acorn.
Versions with both US and UK spelling/paper sizes are included. The 10 page PDF is not editable.
Help your class discover the life cycle of a dung beetle in a fun way with these differentiated foldable activities. This 17-page PDF resource is a hands-on alternative to a standard science worksheet and can be used to review insect life cycles or introduce the dung beetle life cycle.
Pupils will colour the dung (ball or pile) and the life cycle stages, sequence the stages, glue, and fold.
Use to support learning about insect life cycles, beetles, or metamorphosis. It could also be linked to the Egyptians (scarab beetles are dung beetles).
The templates
Templates 1 and 2: Colour the dung ball or dung pile and 4 life cycle stages, cut out the stages and glue them in order on the template, cut and fold. There are 2 label options - one with names, one with descriptions
Templates 3 and 4: Colour the dung and 6 life cycle stages, cut out the stages and glue them in order on the template, cut and fold. Option to sequence names or descriptions for each stage.
Also included:
Dung beetle facts (you could share these with children as they complete their foldouts).
Sequencing cards - these could be printed, cut out, and used as a small group activity.
Compare and contrast worksheet - ideal for early finishers.
US and UK (A4) paper sizes
This resource is not editable.
Explore the life cycles of woodland wildlife with these foldable sequencing activities. In this science resource, you’ll find life cycle foldouts for a hedgehog, barn owl, oak tree and stag beetle (mammal, bird, plant and insect).
The differentiated templates allow pupils to sequence with 4 or 6 stages. There are also options to use simple words or descriptions of the stages. This makes the activity suitable for upper KS1, as well as KS2.
What you need:
Just print the templates you need on A4 paper. You’ll also need coloured pencils (different shades of brown as useful), as well as scissors and glue.
The finished foldouts can be glued into a notebook, used for display, or taken home to show off to parents!
The templates are not editable. UK and US versions included.
Download these printable award certificates for free!
Motivate and reward your students with these paw-some cat certificates. The cute kitten designs make them pur-fect for Pre-school, early years and KS1 children.
Each certificate has the heading ‘Paw-some work award’. You could give these as prizes or for achievement in a particular subject. They are suitable to use all year round.
These free certificates are provided as a PDF that you can either print and fill in by hand, or use the form field to type the text you want.
Versions for UK (A4) and US paper sizes are included.
Add some sparkle to your Christmas Classroom with this set of 12 festive digital stickers. Each bauble has a positive message for students to help keep them motivated in the lead-up to Christmas.
Digital stickers are image files with a transparent background. You can copy and paste/insert them into documents (e.g. PowerPoint, Google Slides, Word).
Unlike regular stickers, they can be used over and over again!
There are 6 colours in this set (2 stickers in each set). Please note that it is not possible to edit the messages.
I hope you enjoy this festive freebie!
Are you looking for a fun alternative to a worksheet to help your pupils review the digestive system and organs at KS2? This cute poop foldable activity is ideal for interactive science notebooks, science centres, and to support learning about digestion and human body systems.
KS2 science curriculum link: Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans
This resource has 3 similar templates with label options for differentiation:
Children color, match the labels to the pictures, glue, cut, and fold
As above but with a straight cutting edge.
Children color, cut out and sequence the parts of the digestive system, glue, cut, and fold. There are 2 label options - one with just the names of the organs, the other with descriptions.
There are versions included with US and UK paper sizes and spellings. You’ll also find a picture guide for students showing them how to fold.
Please note, this activity covers the parts of the digestive system that food enters: the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, and rectum. It does not cover the role of the liver, gall bladder, or pancreas.
A fun, foldable science craft activity for the life cycle of a butterfly! Use as part of a lesson on minibeasts, insects, growth, life cycles or symmetry. This resource could be used as part of your Big Butterfly Count, 30 Days Wild or National Insect Week activities.
Benefits of this activity:
Low prep
Children learn about the butterfly life cycle in a fun and hands-on way, that’s a bit different from a standard science worksheet.
Can be used to introduce the life cycle, or as a review/assessment to check understanding.
Encourages fine motor/scissor skills, hand-eye coordination (folding), and sequencing.
Differentiated options allow for multiple age ranges or abilities to do the same activity.
Finished foldouts can be inserted into an interactive notebook where they can be referenced by children.
The templates
This resource has 5 similar templates so that you can choose which best suit your pupils.
Designs 1 and 2: Colour, cut and fold (including the the simplest edges for cutting).
Design 3: Create a butterfly wing pattern, colour, cut and fold.
Design 4: Create a butterfly wing pattern, draw the life cycle stages, colour, cut and fold.
Design 5: Create a butterfly wing pattern, sequence the life cycle stages, glue, cut and fold.
Designs 2, 3, 4 or 5 could also be decorated with stickers, sequins, pompoms or other embellishments!
Instructions outlining how to fold are also included.
There are 2 versions of this file in a zip folder - one with US paper size and spelling, the other for the UK/AUS. This resource is not editable.
Set your class a 7-day kindness challenge with this cup of kindness activity.
This activity is a fun addition to a kindness week, month, or lesson, and will get your pupils thinking about why kindness is important, and how to show it to others.
The activity
Print a kindness cup template for each child. Each stripe on their cup represents a day of the week. For each of the next 7 days, they will try to complete an act of kindness. For each one, they can colour in a stripe on their cup (starting at the bottom), and write what they did. By the end of the week, they will have a rainbow-striped cup of kindness, ideal for creating a whole class display.
In addition to the activity template, this resource includes:
Teacher notes
2 optional worksheet printables for children to complete before and after the challenge
Colour and black and white award certificates for children on completion of the challenge (optional).
Both UK and US paper sizes are included.
Set your class the challenge of completing 7 days of kindness! Ideal for a World Kindness Day activity, or for a school kindness week or month.
Print an activity sheet for each child. There are 3 activity templates in this bundle:
Fill a cup of kindness
Fill a bucket of kindness
Create a rainbow of kindness
For each of the next 7 days they will try to complete an act of kindness. For each one, they can colour in a stripe on their bucket/rainbow/cup (starting at the bottom), and write what they did. By the end of the week, they will have a colourful striped picture of kindness, ideal for creating a whole class display.
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Each activity is the same in principle and has the same instructions, hence the steep discount for this bundle.**
In addition to the activity template, this bundle includes:
Teacher notes
2 optional worksheet printables (PDF) for children to complete before and after the challenge
Colour and black and white award certificates for children on completion of the challenge (optional).
US and UK paper sizes are included.
Joyeux Noël! These cute French Christmas cards (cartes de Noël) are ready to print and are a quick and easy activity in the lead-up to the holidays. Pupils can colour their chosen design, fold the card in half and then add their own personal greeting inside. They can then give their Christmas card to a friend, family member, or teacher.
There are 6 festive designs in the set:
Elf (Joyeux Noël et bonne année)
Christmas tree (Bonnes Fêtes)
Gingerbread house (Joyeux Noël)
Penguin in a snow globe (Il neige)
Reindeer (Joyeuses Fêtes)
Christmas garland (Joyeux Noël)
The designs are not editable. They are included in both US letter size and A4. The insides of the cards are blank.
These cute dinosaur themed Christmas card templates are ready to print on A4 card. Colour, fold and add a personal greeting inside. Children can then give thier card to a family member, friend, or loved one. A simple, no prep Christmas activity.
The messages/puns on the front of the cards are:
Ski-rex
Tree-rex
Santasaurus
Have a roarsome Christmas
There are 4 designs in this set. The inside is blank for children to write their own message.
Suitable for pre-school, KS1 or lower KS2 (especially if children have been looking at fossils and pre-historic life during the autumn term)!
These fun foldouts are a memorable way of teaching the planets in our solar system and the phases of the moon. Use as a science centre, for an interactive notebook or to support learning/lessons around space, including World Space Week.
Sequencing the planets
There are 3 similar template options to choose from:
Students colour the template with the planets in order (from nearest to the sun to furthest away). They also colour the 2 halves of the space scene. They then cut out the template and space scene, glue the space scene to the top and bottom of the template, then fold.
The second option is the same, but students will cut out and order the planets before gluing and folding.
For the third option, students match simple facts to each of the planets before cutting and folding.
Phases of the moon
This printable activity has 4 options for you to choose from so that you can best match the needs of your students:
Template 1: Colour the phases of the moon, cut, glue and fold.
Template 2 (print in colour): Identify the phases of the moon, write them on the template, glue, cut and fold.
Template 3: Colour the phases of the moon, sequence them on the template, glue, cut and fold. There are 2 label options for this template - one has the letter ‘b’ on the phases of the moon to show students which part to colour black.
Template 4: Colour the phases of the moon, cut and sequence them, write the names of each stage, glue, cut and fold. The phases of the moon include the letter ‘b’ to show which part to colour black.
4 colourful packs of display materials for KS1 classrooms.
This bundle includes:
Materials Display
9 A4, full colour posters showing examples of everyday materials (glass, wood, metal, fabric, wool, plastic, ceramic, leather and paper).
12 descriptive words to add to your display if required (presented 3 to a page, to be cut out and mounted)
5 A4 posters with simple questions about the use of materials (e.g. Which material would be best for a superhero’s cape?).
Title over 2 A4 pages, to cut out and join together.
Minibeasts Display
‘Minibeasts’ title over 2 pages. Print, trim, and join.
Real photo posters of minibeasts that live in a pond, on plants, and in/on the soil. These are included with and without a coloured background. For posters with a white background, trim, and mount on coloured paper.
Magnfiers with insect examples (x9). Print and cut out individually.
2 life cycle posters (dragonfly and butterfly)
‘Parts of an insect’ and ‘parts of a spider’ posters
‘What is a minibeast’ poster
6 minibeast fact posters (included in 2 sizes)
Plants Display
Title lettering - P,L,A,N,T,S with leaf design. Print onto A4, cut and mount.
9 A4 posters showing photographs of the parts of a plant (leaves, flowers, seeds, stem, roots, trunk, branches, fruit, buds).
Additional display printables - deciduous trees, evergreen trees, why plants are awesome and what do plants need. These are designed either to print on A4 and mount, or to print, cut and mount.
Weather Display
A4 weather chart and weather labels
9 bright and colourful A4 posters of different weather (sun, rain, wind, snow, hail, frost, fog, clouds, hail).
5 A4 printables with question prompts for children.
Title (over 2 pages to trim and join together)
Are you looking for a fun alternative to a worksheet to help your pupils review the digestive system and its organs? This differentiated foldable activity is ideal for interactive science notebooks, learning about the stages of digestion, the human body, or even as an assessment.
Science curriculum link: Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans.
This resource has 2 templates with multiple label options:
Colour the big mouth and parts of the digestive system, cut out the labels and match them to the organs, glue, cut, and fold. There are 2 label options (one with just the names of the organs, the other with descriptions).
Colour the big mouth and parts of the digestive system, cut out the stages of digestion and glue them in order onto the template, cut and fold. 2 label options (one with just the names of the organs, the other with descriptions).
There are versions included with US and UK paper sizes and spellings. You’ll also find a picture guide for pupils showing them how to fold.
Please note, this activity covers the parts of the digestive system that food enters: the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, and rectum.
It does not cover the role of the liver, gall bladder, or pancreas.
¡Feliz Navidad! These cute Spanish Christmas card templates are ready to print and are a quick and easy activity in the lead-up to the holidays. Pupils can colour their chosen Spanish Christmas card design, fold the card in half and then add their own personal greeting inside. They can then give their Spanish Christmas card to a friend, family member, or teacher.
There are 6 designs in this set, all of which you can see in the preview.
Greetings on the cards include:
Feliz Navidad
Felices fiestas
Feliz Navidad y próspero Año Nuevo
Está nevado
Please note that the text and images are not editable. A4 and US letter size included.
A fun, seasonal activity to help children understand the life cycle of a Christmas (coniferous) tree from seed, to sapling, to adult tree and seed cones. This cut and paste activity is a hands-on alternative to a science worksheet, and children love opening their foldout to reveal the life cycle stages inside.
Print the templates you require on paper or card. There are several options to allow you to differentiate for your students or to use with different age groups:
Template 1: Colour the Christmas tree and its life cycle stages, cut out the labels, match them to the pictures, glue, and fold.
Template 2: As above, but with a simpler cutting edge around the Christmas tree.
Template 3: Colour the Christmas tree and its life cycle stages, cut out and sequence the stages, glue, and fold.
Template 4: The same as template 3, but with a simpler (straight) cutting edge.
Template 5: Colour the tree, write the life cycle stages on the lines, cut, and fold.
Template 6: The same as template 5, but with a simpler (straight) cutting edge.
Use this activity for science notebooks, or to support a unit on plants, life cycles, winter nature, or Christmas traditions.
Instructions for pupils, including how to fold are included.
This winter/Christmas themed bundle is a collection of 4 foldout sequencing activities:
Penguin life cycle
Christmas tree life cycle
The steps for making gingerbread.
How to build a snowman.
These are printable activities, with multiple cut and paste template options to allow for differentiation. Instructions for students and picture guides to help with the folding are included.
Here is a breakdown of each foldout:
Penguin life cycle foldout
A fun and simple science activity all about the life cycle of a penguin. This activity could be used to support a lesson on birds, the Antarctic, or penguins.
This resource has 2 similar templates.
Christmas tree life cycle foldout
A fun, seasonal activity to help children understand the life cycle of a Christmas (coniferous) tree from seed, to sapling, to the adult tree and seed cones.
Use this activity for interactive science notebooks, or to support a unit on plants, life cycles, or Christmas traditions/celebrations.
There are 6 similar options to allow you to differentiate for your students or to use with different age groups.
Making gingerbread
This foldable sequencing activity allows students to order the stages of making/baking gingerbread. It is designed to help develop thinking and fine motor skills.
You could add the finish foldouts to interactive notebooks, use this to support learning around The Gingerbread Man story, or as a fun Christmas activity or center.
Students cut out the stages, put them in order on the template, before cutting and folding. They will love bringing the 2 halves of their gingerbread foldout together, then gently pulling it apart to show the stages inside.
There are 3 similar versions included, including one with a straight cutting edge for those children who would struggle to cut around the outside of the gingerbread man.
How to build a snowman
This cut and paste sequencing activity allows students to order the stages of building a snowman.
Students cut out the stages, put them in order on the template, before cutting and folding. They will love bringing the 2 halves of their snowman foldout together, then gently pulling it apart to show the stages inside.
There are 3 similar versions included.
Help your students practice their classification skills with this free candy dichotomous key activity.
For this activity, pupils will identify the flavors of 9 different sweets using observable features of the wrappers.
What’s included:
Mystery sweets sheet (with and without spaces for the answers)
The dichotomous key with couplets
Answer sheet
2 pages with 4 candies for pupils to write their own key
This is an activity that can be used all year round, or tie into holidays like Valentine’s Day, Halloween or Christmas.
A US and UK version is included.
Updated for New Year 2024
Happy new year! Welcome 2024 by encouraging your class to reflect on the past year, and decide on goals or resolutions for the new year. This foldable activity is a great way to start January with positivity and a good mindset (and is a fun alternative to a worksheet).
This resource contains the following:
A PDF with 3 similar templates, with identical prompts. One template has a straight cutting edge.
A PowerPoint file with 3 blank templates to write your own prompts for pupils. These can then be printed for students to complete and fold.
A Google Slides link (in the PDF) with 3 blank templates to write your own prompts for pupils. As above, this can then be printed for students to use.
A picture to help with folding
The prompts on the pre-written template are:
-My best memory of 2023
-My proudest moment of 2023
-Someone who made me smile in 2023
-This year, I’d like to learn more about…
-My 2024 goal at home is…
-My 2024 goal at school is…
-The month I’m most looking forward to in 2024
-Something I can do for others in 2024 is…
Children colour their template, write/draw their responses in the blank spaces, cut, and fold.
US and UK spelling and paper size included.
