Inspired by “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell Bring the classic story Dear Zoo to life in your Early Years classroom with this engaging, hands-on resource pack! Perfect for Reception and EYFS settings, this comprehensive bundle supports literacy, fine motor skills, movement, and early maths through fun, story-linked activities. What’s Included: Animal Movement Cards (8 cards) Encourage gross motor skills and storytelling as children imitate the movements of the story’s animals. Trace and Colour Worksheets (8 A4 sheets) Each sheet features a simple outline of an animal to trace and colour, plus the animal’s name in lowercase for early writing practice. Cut and Paste Activity Children cut out the animals and match them to the correct box with its name — great for developing scissor skills and word recognition. Bingo Game (20 cards) A fun small-group activity! Each bingo card features six different animals from the story. Line Tracing Sheets Help the animals find their way back to their crates by tracing simple paths — perfect for pre-writing skills. Display Labels and Word Cards Adjective cards (for describing animals) Animal picture cards Name and image cards Each set follows a colour-coded border system (e.g. all lion-related labels share the same colour) to support sorting and display organisation. “What Am I?” Guessing Game Children look closely at magnified sections of animal images (textures and patterns) to guess which animal it is — encourages observation and language development. Animal-to-Crate Matching Game Match each animal to its correct crate, reinforcing story recall and vocabulary. Size Comparison Activity (3 differentiated sheets) Support early maths and comparative language with prompts such as “The heaviest animal is the…”. Counting Activity Count the number of legs on each animal, represent it in a ten frame, and write the numeral in the box. Clip Cards (1–10) Strengthen counting and fine motor control with themed clip cards featuring animals from Dear Zoo. and 13. Movement Dice (A4 & A3) Children explore how their bodies move in different ways, becoming more aware of space, speed, and shape. Skills Covered: Story sequencing and recall Early writing and letter recognition Fine and gross motor skills Counting and number representation Descriptive language and comparison Observation and problem-solving Body Awareness Gross M Perfect for: EYFS / Reception classrooms Literacy and story-themed centres Whole-class, small-group, or individual learning A creative and comprehensive way to explore “Dear Zoo” — combining movement, storytelling, literacy, and maths in one delightful pack! Updates: 09/12/2025: The resources Dear Zoo Movement Dice (A4) and Dear Zoo Movement Dice (A3) were added. If you like this pack, check out: Guess the animal - Dear Zoo (Canva template + PDF)

Crack the Code Phonics Activity Worksheet Bring excitement to your phonics lessons and provision with this interactive “Crack the Code” activity, designed to help children practise segmenting, blending, and applying their sound knowledge in a fun, problem-solving way! Pupils use their phonics skills to decode the secret words or sentences, matching graphemes to phonemes to reveal the hidden message. This activity reinforces key reading and spelling patterns while encouraging independent thinking and engagement. Perfect for: Small group phonics sessions Morning challenges or early finishers Home learning activities Revisiting specific sounds or sound families What’s included: A themed “Crack the Code” worksheet differentiated for differing abilities. Clear code key and answer sheet

Inspired by Julia Donaldson´s Superworm, this fun and engaging colouring page will bring the story to life! Perfect for EYFS and KS1, this resource provides a creative follow-up activity for storytime, World Book Day, or a literacy topic based on Julia Donaldson’s much-loved characters. Designed with young learners in mind, the illustration is simple enough for early colourers, while still offering opportunities for creativity and fine motor development. Children can enjoy personalising Superworm and his friends while recalling key parts of the story. Ideal for: Literacy lessons Book-themed activities Calm-down corners Rainy day tasks Home learning packs Features: One A4 printable black-and-white colouring sheet Inspired by the characters and themes of Superworm Suitable for EYFS and KS1 learners This resource is perfect for teachers looking to extend a book-based lesson in a simple, low-prep, and enjoyable way.

Ideal for sentence building, grammar, reading, and early writing skills. This engaging farm-themed sentence snip activity helps children practise building simple sentences by cutting, arranging, and reading farm animal sentences. Perfect for developing early reading, grammar, and sentence structure. Children rearrange the mixed-up words to form correct sentences, supporting their understanding of capital letters, spacing, and full stops in a fun, hands-on way. Includes: Printable farm sentence snip worksheet (PDF) Multiple farm animal themed sentences (6 different animals) Cut-and-build sentence strips Child-friendly, clear layout Ready to print and use Supports development of: Sentence structure Early reading skills Grammar understanding Capital letters and full stops Word order awareness Fine motor skills (cutting and arranging) A fun and effective resource to help young learners build confidence in reading and writing simple sentences through engaging farm-themed activities.

Make storytelling fun, interactive and full of giggles with this engaging World Book Day Silly Story Sentence resource! Perfect for EYFS and KS1, this hands-on activity encourages children to build simple sentences by selecting character, action and setting cards to create their own funny story combinations. Ideal for continuous provision, literacy lessons, small groups or independent learning. Linked to the celebration of World Book Day, this activity supports early writing, sentence structure, reading and oral storytelling skills in a playful, memorable way. How It Works Children use the story-themed sentence mat and select one card from each area Who? Red Riding Hood The Wolf The Wizard The Troll The Dragon The Frog What? is on is up is at is in Where? a tree a ship a bus a car the swings the shop the grass a tent Children then read or write their silly sentence, for example: The Dragon is in a tent. Red Riding Hood is on a bus. The Troll is at the shop. Skills Covered ✔ Sentence structure (who + verb + where) ✔ Capital letters and full stops ✔ Oral storytelling ✔ Reading fluency ✔ Vocabulary development ✔ Imaginative thinking What’s Included Story sentence mat Printable “Who”, “What” and “Where” cards Easy-to-print format Ideal for laminating and reusing Perfect For: EYFS continuous provision KS1 literacy lessons World Book Day activities Small group intervention Early writers Childminders and home learning This simple but powerful resource encourages creativity, laughter and confidence in early writers — while reinforcing key grammar and sentence-building skills. Instant digital download – print and use straight away! Bring storytelling to life this World Book Day and let the silly sentences begin!

This Daffodil Fine Motor Activity is a fun, hands-on resource designed to develop fine motor skills and hand strength in Early Years and KS1 learners. Children place pom poms or loose parts onto the daffodil template using tweezers, helping to build the small muscle control needed for early writing. The resource includes 3 printable PDF daffodil designs, giving children a variety of engaging backgrounds to explore while practising their fine motor control and hand–eye coordination. This activity is perfect for Spring topics, St David’s Day celebrations, or nature-themed learning. It works well in continuous provision as an independent task or as part of a fine motor skills station. Ideal for: • Early Years and KS1 classrooms • Fine motor skill development • Spring and nature topics • St David’s Day activities • Independent provision tasks Simply print and add pom poms, counters or other loose parts to create a simple and engaging classroom activity.

Weather Wheel Craft Activity Make learning about the weather fun and interactive with this Weather Wheel worksheet! Children create their own weather wheel by cutting out an arrow and drawing weather symbols (e.g. sun, rain, cloud, snow) into the four sections. This hands-on activity is perfect for introducing or consolidating learning about daily weather patterns, seasonal changes, and observation skills. What’s included: Printable weather wheel template (with 4 blank sections) Arrow template for cutting and attaching with a split pin Supports EYFS and KS1 learning objectives in understanding the world and seasonal weather. No prep required – just print, cut, and create!

70 Spelling activities to reinforce weekly spelling words. Can be used with EYFS, KS1, KS2, and KS3. Here is a large collection of spelling activities that can be used with a range of ages without much editing. I have tried to make them as interesting as possible by using fancy fonts, colours, images and GiFs. I have attached a few screen shots of some of the activities. The activities work best when shown on an ActivInspire Flipchart because there are GiF images and files attached, however, I have also converted the slides to PDF so all can use them. Some pages require you to add the spelling words, some do not. Please feel free to edit as you wish and suggest ways that this resource can be improved. I hope you enjoy them and get use out of them.

Can your class tap the beat? Use this ready-made KS1 activity and have fun exploring a new way to emphasise learning the pulse in music.

Bring the story of The Squirrels Who Squabbled to life with this 35-page resource pack, perfect for Early Years settings. These engaging worksheets and activities are designed to develop early maths, literacy, communication, and personal, social, and emotional skills while keeping children motivated through story-themed tasks. What’s Included: Literacy & Writing: Describe the squirrel using single words Horizontal lined pages: Why do the animals gather food? Book review writing frame Who would you be – Cyril or Bruce? (lined writing page) Look at pictures and write initial sounds Label a squirrel Speech bubbles: What do the squirrels say? Phonics & Language: Connect rhyming words Feelings cards (6 to discuss emotions and expression) Maths & Counting: Colour in the group with more Count and write the correct number Cut and stick pinecones into 5 frames 10 frames with pinecones Add one more / one less Fill in the missing numbers Cut and stick: sharing pinecones between 2 squirrels Large pinecones (for laminating and reusing in sharing/counting activities) Fine Motor & Creative: Maze activity Cut along dotted lines Squirrel mask (fun craft) Create a friendship poster Friend certificates (one for yourself and one for a friend) Understanding the World: Sort the correct food for the squirrel (cut and stick) Colour in the correct animals that hibernate This set is flexible for independent work, group activities, or themed tuff tray setups. Perfect for embedding learning through play while reinforcing key Early Learning Goals. Ideal for: EYFS, Preschool, Nursery, Reception, KS1 introduction to literacy and maths. #EYFS #EarlyYears #StoryResources #TheSquirrelsWhoSquabbled #SquirrelActivities #Phonics #EarlyMaths #FineMotorSkills #StoryThemedLearning #ClassroomResources #TESResources

Halloween Phonics Activity Sheets Four fun and colourful phonics sheets, full of Halloween words Suitable for EYFS and KS1 Words to complete with phonic sounds Differentiated sheets from single letter to trigraph sounds Colouring and challenge task on each page

Fun With Clothes is a 3-page printable resource for EYFS and KS1 with a playful clothing theme. Page 1: Children name, label, and colour a range of clothing items such as swimwear, boots, a tie, shoes, and a jumper. Page 2: A matching activity where children draw arrows to link each picture to its correct clothing item. Page 3: A “doodle fun” challenge where children colour and then count how many of each clothing item they can find. This activity supports vocabulary building, reading, fine motor skills, and counting, while encouraging observation and creativity.

Tad by Benji Davies – Early Years Maths and Literacy Activity Pack Dive into learning with this engaging resource pack inspired by the charming story Tad by Benji Davies. Follow Tad the tadpole on his journey to becoming a frog, while developing essential early years skills! This pack includes a variety of fun and educational activities such as: Lifecycle cut-and-stick to understand growth stages Ordering by size with hands-on cutting and sticking Positional language exercises to build spatial awareness Short sentence writing to encourage early literacy Counting practice and one less activities Subitising flashcards, snap game, and matching for number recognition Sequencing lifecycle flashcards to support story understanding Perfect for EYFS classrooms or home learning, these activities combine literacy and maths seamlessly through a beloved story theme. If you love this pack, please leave positive feedback and check out my other themed early years resources. #Tad #BenjiDavies #EYFS #EarlyYears #MathsActivities #LiteracyActivities #Lifecycle #Counting #Subitising #EarlyLearning

As Halloween approaches, don’t miss out on this specially created “Spooky Fun for All” collection. This unit of work has been carefully crafted, keeping in mind the diverse needs of our SEND, EYFS, and KS1 students. Within, there are 10 fully inclusive Halloween activities, each accompanied by clear objectives, required resources, easy-to-follow steps, suggested adult input, and tailored differentiation strategies to ensure all learners feel valued and engaged. Activities include matching and making pairs, Halloween card making, Bobbing for Apples, making a hat for a witch, carving a Jack O’ Lantern, working with dough and making a scarecrow. The unit culminates in a celebration Halloween party, providing children with a platform to showcase their creations, participate in newly learned games, and join a parade. Included are two sets of 15 Halloween symbols /visuals: one in color and the other in black and white, all themed around and linked to the activities. There are also 2 sample scary poems and imaginative story/poem starters designed to ignite creative writing. Boarmaker licenced.

Help children practise their long and short ‘oo’ sounds with this fun I Spy phonics activity! Children look carefully at the pictures in the magnifying glass, identify words containing the long ‘oo’ (as in moon) or short ‘oo’ (as in book), and write them down. This resource is ideal for Letters and Sounds Phase 3, EYFS, and Year 1, supporting early reading, blending, and phonics skills. Perfect for whole-class activities, small group work, phonics interventions, or independent practice.

This collection of 25 hands-on activities is designed to support early years maths development at home. Perfect for parents and caregivers, this resource provides engaging, easy-to-follow activities that cover key early maths skills such as counting, number recognition, shapes, measurement, and patterns. What’s Included: ✔ 25 maths activities covering essential early maths skills ✔ Clear, simple instructions for each activity ✔ Differentiated tasks to suit individual learning needs ✔ Activities using everyday household items Lesson Overview / Structure: ★ Hands-on Activities – A wide variety of fun tasks that reinforce counting, number recognition, shapes, measurement, and patterns. ★ Clear Instructions – Each task includes straightforward guidance for parents and children to follow. ★ Differentiated Challenges – Activities can be adapted for different ability levels to ensure engagement and learning for all children. Why it’s Useful: ✔ Engaging and fun for children, making learning maths an enjoyable experience ✔ Easy to use with simple materials found at home ✔ Flexible for independent play or family learning sessions ✔ Builds a strong foundation in core maths skills for early learners Suggested Use Cases: Ideal for EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) children to support their maths development at home. Suitable for individual play, family learning, or as a supplement to classroom activities. Search Tags: EYFS maths | early years maths activities | home learning | number recognition EYFS | shapes and patterns EYFS | counting activities for kids | maths games for young children

Get your pupils into the spooky spirit with these fun and calming bat colouring sheets perfect for Halloween and autumn-themed lessons. This printable resource is ideal for EYFS and KS1 learners, supporting creativity and fine motor skills while fitting seamlessly into seasonal activities. What’s included: 20 unique bat colouring pages Large, clear outlines for younger learners Black-and-white format for easy photocopying Suitable for both classroom and home learning Perfect for: Halloween crafts and displays Early years art lessons Fine motor development activities Morning work, early finishers, or quiet time Whether you’re exploring nocturnal animals, preparing for a Halloween celebration, or just offering a relaxing activity, these bat colouring sheets are a hit with young learners. Format: pdf ready to print Age range: 3–7 (EYFS – KS1) Add this charming bat colouring pack to your seasonal resources and keep your little learners engaged and excited! Please consider leaving a review if you find this resource useful. Thank you for supporting small creators!

Design Your Own Easter Egg – Encourage creativity with this fun activity where children decorate their own Easter egg! They can use crayons, stickers, or even collage materials to make their egg unique. Easter Tracing Activities – Help develop fine motor skills with a range of tracing activities! Children can trace simple Easter-themed shapes, such as eggs, bunnies, and chicks, as well as pre-writing patterns and letter formation practice. Perfect for EYFS learners! This activity pack supports early writing skills, hand-eye coordination, and creativity while keeping learning fun and festive.

Support your child’s number recognition, fine motor skills, and early maths development with this fun, hands-on matching activity. This printable set includes numbers, finger-count tiles, and object tiles to help children recognise and understand numbers 1–10 — perfect for Velcro® busy books, classroom maths areas, or home learning. What’s Included: Page 1: Columns for numbers 1–5 Page 2: Columns for numbers 6–10 Pages 3–4: Cut-out number, finger-count, and object tiles How It Works: Print the pages at home or school Cut out the number tiles (Optional) Laminate for durability Attach Velcro® dots to the tiles and boards Encourage your child to match each number with the correct finger-count and object tiles Perfect for: EYFS maths development Fine motor skill activities Quiet time or independent play Classroom maths areas or home education