A set of 25 Outdoor Learning worksheets for KS1 children.
The worksheets cover Maths, English, Science, Art, PE, Topic activities and can be completed over several outdoor sessions.
Children will enjoy going on shape hunts, creating their own story about a lost suitcase, looking at and drawing the clouds and many more activities.
These worksheets will encourage lots of discussion and are ideal for taking the classroom outside.
“Subtraction Piles” is designed to engage 5-6 year olds in learning basic counting and subtraction skills. Through a hands-on activity, students will practise their subtraction and counting skills using A4 challenge cards. Each card will have a simple subtraction problem (e.g., 5-2) for them to solve by placing the corresponding number of natural items on the card.
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Taking Mathematics Outdoors - Three hands-on outdoor maths adventures for Key Stage 1 children (ages 5 -7), take the classroom outdoors finding different shapes (2D and 3D) and angles in the natural environment.
Kids can observe, identify, and record real-world examples of geometric shapes either in the playgorund or any outdoor area.
Activities Included:
1)2D Shape Hunt: Hunt for circles in flower petals, rectangles in tree trunks, triangles in leaves, and cylinders in branches.
2)3D Shape Hunt: Find cylinders in tree trunks or Cuboids in flower planters.
3)Angles Hunt: Discover different types of angles: Find acute, obtuse, and right angles formed by tree branches and natural patterns.
This resource blends learning Geometry with movement and exploration.
A perfect outdoor math activity for all seasons!
This activity is to be used outside, you first draw in chalk a bean stalk across the play ground, then use the number leaves printed on green A4.
The children will use the number leaves that have numbers 1 to 20 written on them, to put in the correct order along the bean stalk. This is in the theme of jack and the beanstalk topic.
A PowerPoint (created and used for training purposes) with an abundance of fantastic ideas and inspirations for your outdoor area with links to useful resources and websites.
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A bundle of 9 outdoor activities for children, perfect for setting up in your environment. Mud play, scavenger hunts, forest school ethos, campfire building, worksheets and more.
Suitable for a range of ages from early years to primary, also fun, family days out. Outdoor play and learning.
This Under the Sea continuous provision pack offers four weeks of engaging activities, designed for both indoor and outdoor environments. Ideal for EYFS settings, this resource supports children’s development across multiple learning areas with activities centred around a fun, thematic approach.
What’s Included:
✔ Four weeks of structured, detailed activity plans for indoor and outdoor play.
✔ A variety of activity types covering different areas of learning: sensory, maths, creative, physical, and more.
✔ Differentiation suggestions to cater to various abilities and needs.
✔ Clear instructions for setting up activities and creating a rich learning environment.
Lesson Overview / Structure:
★ Indoor Activities:
Water play, sand play, sensory exploration, easel painting, writing, maths, and more.
Encourages creativity, fine motor skills, and cognitive development.
Includes activities like role play, small world play, and construction.
★ Outdoor Activities:
Focuses on gross motor skills, construction, role play, and small world play.
Includes activities to support physical development and literacy.
Features creative tasks and activities to promote social interaction and teamwork.
Why It’s Useful:
✔ Provides a structured, month-long plan for EYFS settings.
✔ Offers both indoor and outdoor activities, ensuring a balanced learning environment.
✔ Differentiated activities to support all learners.
✔ Promotes holistic development, from motor skills to literacy.
✔ Simple setup and adaptable to different learning spaces.
Suggested Use Cases:
Ideal for EYFS settings, continuous provision, and thematic learning based on the sea. Perfect for creating diverse learning environments that support early years development in areas like literacy, maths, creative play, and physical skills.
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This activity develops letter recognition and fine motor skills as your class complete task cards by making letters of the alphabet out of natural materials.Each card comes with visual aids to support learners.
You can give out these cards and ask your class to create the suggested word using the natural material depicted in the card. You can also create your own activities using these cards.
Contents:
A – Z letter art cards
A simple, child-friendly, worksheet that can be put on a clipboard and sent with a group to encourage some child-initiated writing or done with an adult as part of an adult-led activity.
**can be used ALL year round!
It's Winter, NO, that does not mean you should be searching for indoor activities - of course, yes, there needs to be indoor learning but PLEASE, make sure you take your students outside in Winter.
I have compiled 110 task cards and games for Winter Outdoor Learning!
The cards are split - yellow are TASKS and green are GAMES.
You can laminate these and loop them with a key ring hoop for extra durability or you can use a plain old grip.
I have them in a big bin and the children choose one card every week for the following week (just incase prep is needed!)
These task cards cover ALL areas of the curriculum. They include; science, geography, understanding the world, literacy, art and maths.
110 Task Cards - you can choose ONE a day!! :)
Fine Motor skills based task, to build shakers for a garden or for general use withing early outdoor education, relevant to either EYFS learners or learners working at the developmental stage of the students.
This HUGE bundle is packed full of outdoor math goodies from fun investigations to practical games. It covers a huge range of topics and grades.
**Topics covered:
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2-D Shape
Addition and Subtraction
Area and Perimeter
Bar Graphs
Compass Directions
Continuing Patterns
Coordinates
Data Handling
Division
Estimating
Fractions of Numbers
Math investigations
Math Starters
Place Value
Shape, Space, and Measure
Statistics
Symmetry
We hope you find this pack useful and enjoy working outside with your class!
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Perfect for in school activities or home learning too. A fun packed document detailing a range of activities to do in the great outdoors using nature. Clear for children to understand because of colourful visuals and easily adaptable to age ranges. Can link to particular topics. I used these activities during weekly lunch time ‘Nature Detective’ club and they were very popular. Having fun outside is the best way to learn. Enjoy!
These outdoor activities have been created specifically for early years children. If you want to take your nursery, pre-school or foundation stage children outside to learn then these are for you. Every activity has been tried and tested many times with children between two and five years old.
The seasons bring different opportunities for outdoor learning and this collection of activities are designed for the winter months. There are fifteen separate activities so you could do a different one every week throughout the winter.
Each activity sheet includes a description of the activity, a resource list, things to prepare in advance and instructions. Many sessions also have a story linked to the theme of the activity.
There is a separate document with risk assessments for each activity. These can be edited to fit your own setting and delivery of the sessions.
This is a fantastic activity to get your students exploring the smells of nature while thinking about adjectives.
Give each student or pair a tub to take outside. Get them to collect and crush (using a stone or hands) flowers and leaves and put them in the tub to make their very own scent tubs. Once they’ve made their scent tubs, get them to complete the activity sheet where they’ll draw whats in their tub and write adjectives around the outside to describe what they can see and smell.
This resource contains two activity sheets, one with a word bank and one without.
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Equipment needed:**
Tubs
Activity sheets
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This is a bumper pack with loads of resources for Maths games outdoors. The pack would be great for nursery settings, school settings and childminders to use for exciting Maths activities in the outdoor area.
Also great for Maths games in the classroom.
The pack includes:
40 A5 sized task and activity cards - each with the area of maths covered in that activity such as number ordering, shape, size ect, the resources needed for that activity and the activity in detail and questions to further the learning. The cards also have space for you to write further notes such as the stepping stones/ specific learning objectives, focus children for the activity etc
Also in the pack are all the resources you will need to print out and use with activity cards such as:
Large colourful number footprints
Monster number footprints
Dice to make for the games
Ladybirds and spots for a fun game
Frog masks for singing number rhymes
Numbered lily pads
Colourful patterned socks
Number cards
Large coloured number digit cards
colourful numbered snake pieces
Plus lots lots more!
This is a bumper pack on disk with loads of resources for Literacy and phonics games outdoors. The pack would be great for nursery settings, school settings and childminders to use for exciting Literacy activities in the outdoor area.
Also great for Literacy games in the classroom.
The pack includes:
40 A5 sized task/ activity cards - each with the area of Literacy covered in that activity such as alphabetical order, reading cvc words, letter recognition ect, the resources needed for that activity and the activity in detail. The cards also have space for you to write further notes such as the stepping stones/ specific learning objectives, focus children for the activity etc.
Also in the pack are all the resources you will need to print out and use with activity cards such as:
Large CVC dice to make
Letter spinners for playing the games
Large rainbow lower case letters of the alphabet
A large colourful alphabetical order snake to make
Upper and lower case letter socks
CVC cards and pictures
Various letter and phoneme cards
A CVC bingo game
Large colourful human and monster alphabet footprints
Games to play
Plus lots lots more!
Simple, last minute children's outdoor activities
Whether a teacher/ parent or relative, these fun activities will engage your child/ children in outdoor play, minimal resources required as long as you have access to the outdoors!
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