Children love completing repeating patterns. This repeating pattern product links to minibeasts. A great activity to cut out the minibeasts and glue them in the correct order.

Science Mini Beasts EYFS some great song ideas and story ideas included

A list of resources to help with a minibeast topic. Includes fiction books, non-fiction books and websites. Suitable for FS and KS1.

A perfect activity/worksheet to be used in early years and KS1. Great outdoor learning task to promote science, forest school and lots more. Ofsted approved and SEN friendly.

Children love investigating their environment and the great outdoors. Why not take your children on a minibeast hunt? This resource is ideal to attach to a clipboard and to go on a minibeast hunt around your setting. Children can use the pictures to help find different minibeasts.

I’ve made up a pack of eight mini beast fans, along with possible questions you can ask the children

Tick sheet to support childrens outdoor nature learning, all about minibeast.

Mini-Beast Addition. Count the spots!

Children have to read the clues to match the pictures up, easy and harder levels for differentiation

A simple sheet which can be given to each child and could be laminated so that they can be re-used. Children are to solve the mathematical problem of recording a way of which mini-beast they see the most of. Encourage children to use a gate when keeping a tally chart. Blank space so children can add their own. On a word document and is easily edited.

These engaging and colorful minibeasts posters are sure to delight your kindergarten, early elementary, pre-primary and first grade learners when working on the interesting minibeasts topic. The repetitive language of ‘I am a’ is sure to capture your learners and allow them to adopt and learn the mini beast names easily. These posters will make a fantastic display on your bulletin boards for this interesting inquiry topic. The posters have also been produced in a black and white set to be used as colouring sheets if you wanted a display made by your students and another activity in the minibeasts topic. Included in this pack: 16 x Color minibeasts posters 16 x Black and white minibeasts posters to colour in

A counting activity linked to your minibeast or animal topic. Children can colour in the minibeasts, count them, cut them out and order them. They can also match the pictures to the 12 number cards.

Become a detective for the day and find some mini beasts outside! This pack contains 7 pages of activities, including a mini beast scavenger hunt, mini beast labelling activity, mini beast independent writing, butterfly symmetry, and mini beast snap! If you like my resources, follow me on Facebook and keep up to date with any new resources I create… https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557434724317

A bright and cheerful sheet to teach doubling and halving.

The pack includes: DISPLAY Display banner Display border Word cards- words on decorated cards relating to the story Animal labels- a set of word cards with the animal names and the sounds and movements they make in the book Large pictures Colour butterflies Word and picture cards- flashcards showing the minibeasts and the name LITERACY Alphabet- an alphabet line on different minibeasts Writing sheets- a set of writing sheets with borders for the children to write on and use in the writing area Acrostic poems- decorated sheets to write acrostic poems about the different minibeasts A4 word card- a picture and word card to use when writing about the minibeasts Writing worksheet- write some sentences about the different pictures on the worksheets My favourite minibeast- draw and write worksheet Word search- 2 different decorated word searches about minibeasts Describing worksheets- think of some words to describe the different minibeasts Worksheets- match the minibeast to the name, write the initial letter sounds NUMERACY Number line- a number line to 100 on different minibeasts Counting book- draw the correct number of minibeasts on each page Counting cards- count the minibeasts Count the spot- count the number of spots on each ladybird and then order the cards Number rhyme packs- rhymes about minibeasts which include rhyme card, face masks and singing props Odd/ Even number line- a number line to 20 on butterflies and caterpillars Order size minibeasts UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD Mini beast sorting- sort different mini beast pictures by number of legs, wings etc Fact cards Colour photos Power Point- a power point with simple facts about different minibeasts Minibeast clues- read the minibeast clues and match to the correct picture GAMES Build a caterpillar- Collect the coloured pieces you need for your caterpillar Picture bingo Colour bingo- collect the different coloured butterflies for your board Matching pairs Dice game- roll the die and colour the numbered minibeast- a game to play with friends or an independent activity ACTIVITIES Stick puppets Face masks Colouring- a collection of colouring worksheets Split pin minibeasts Cut and stick scene- choose some minibeasts to make your own garden scene Decorate the minibeasts Play dough mats- a collection of activity mats to use with play dough Jigsaws- cut out the pieces and reassemble to make the minibeast Tracing picture 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.

Visual language board to support and encourage verbal language. To be used with other resources to complete the instructions.

A simple interactive counting game, designed in Powerpoint to support the development of children’s early counting skills from 1 to 10. This counting game will support children’s one to one number correspondence and number recognition. A variety of mini-beasts are presented on each slide from 1 to 10 for children to count. Children count how many mini-beast and click the matching numeral on the number track to practice their counting skills. Ideal for whole class teaching and learning using the interactive white board. This resource also includes ten-frame templates from 1-10 showing mini-beasts (bees) in various arrangements. These templates can be printed off and laminated for use in independent learning activities. Easily edited to suit your own needs.

**Mini-beast Writing Provision Books ** Mini-Beast Writing Provision Books are an engaging resource designed for children to document their discoveries and creative ideas about the fascinating world of mini-beasts. These books provide structured space for young learners to write information, record observations, and draw pictures of insects, spiders, and other small creatures they encounter. Ideal for both classroom and home use, these books encourage curiosity, literacy, and artistic expression. Each page features sections dedicated to facts, personal notes, and illustrations, making them a versatile tool that supports learning in a fun, hands-on way. These books are great for a supporting and encouraging a variety of independent writing in many areas of the provision including; Mark Making Area Home Corner Investigation Area Exploration Area

The soft shoe shuffle lament of a poor lonely slug in search of some tender loving care even though he admits 'I eat all the lettuces grown by your Dad' in the lyrics. A short but fun song that children will love. Suitable for use with Play Groups, E.Y.F.S and K.S.1. and a great addition to a topic on Mini Beasts. The children will love not only singing the song but could create their own dance to accompany the idiom of the music and have great fun accompanying the song with instruments.

This Minibeasts pack has been created to fit in with the current Early Years curriculum with a range of resources to cover all areas of learning. Display Display banner Display border Large lettering Topic words Photographs Mathematics Number line Number bingo- two bingo games with numbers from 1-5 and 1-10 Counting cards Measuring- order the different length worms Butterfly symmetry Butterfly symmetry matching halves Ladybird spot counting cards Cut and match the spotty ladybirds Spider web counting mats Butterfly cards Colour by numbers Large number cards Cut and stick number worksheets Ladybird adding worksheets Numbered beehives Five Little Spiders number rhyme pack Five Wiggly Worms number rhyme pack One Little Bee number rhyme pack Literacy Draw and write mini beast sheets Decorated writing sheets Acrostic poem worksheets An alphabet line on ladybirds A simple mini beast word mat Upper and lower case letters on bees Cut and stick the initial sound butterflies onto the correct nets Swat the fly game Personal, Social and Emotional Development Various posters to display in your mini beast area Various blank posters for the children to write their own posters for the mini beast area Photos of different mini beast habitats Communication and Language What am I? cards Various rhymes and songs A story telling pack for The Very Hungry Caterpillar Guess the mini beast Physical development A target game Various maze worksheets Trace the patterns on the mini beasts Worksheets to trace the different paths the mini beasts make Move like a mini beast Preposition posters Mini beast cutting skills Lacing pictures Understanding the World Mini beast pictures and sorting cards Posters of mini beasts A mini beast fan to make A Power Point to find out and about different mini beasts Life cycle posters of caterpillars and frogs Lots of small mini beast photo cards Vegetable patch detective cards A photo bingo game Expressive Arts and Design Shadow matching cards Incy Wincy Spider song pack Mini beast stick puppets Mini beast face masks Colouring posters A collection of craft ideas sheets Outline pictures of different mini beasts Colour bugs posters Ideas sheets for making spiders webs with string Observational drawing and recording sheets Complete the pictures

A slow, sweet, simple song to help children be aware of different tempos in music whilst learning a few 'snail facts' as they sing. Children could accompany this song with instruments selecting appropriate rhythmic patterns and then create their own snail music.