Early years expressive arts and design resources

End-of-year inspirational fun for your class. Contents: a dragon’s menu to complete (with alliteration), a sheet of dragon rhymes to chant, clap, enact, sing and add to, and 6 bright, lively dragon pictures to stimulate ideas for art, writing, drama and more.

Ideal end-of-term fun for classes of all ages, with scope for physical movement and multi-arts development. Once there was a dragon dressed in red. He liked to stay all day in… - but you can guess the last word, and so can the children, although some may prefer to offer alternatives with other rhyming words. Red is just one example of the numerous colours featuring in these crazy dragon verses, which lend themselves to being enacted, and even sung to a made-up tune, as well as chanted and clapped. Follow on with dragon sketches or try my dragon’s menu for easy, crazy writing fun.

This pack is to support teachers in exploring the production ‘Not Now, Bernard’, an adaptation of David McKee’s classic children’s picturebook, for working with children in Early Years - Year 1. It contains practical drama activities that explore themes and ideas in the play.

This pack is to support teachers in exploring the production ‘Seesaw’, for working with children in Early Years - Year 4. It contains interviews with the writer, director, and practical drama activities that explore themes and ideas in the play.

Fun Activities to celebrate the end of the school year no matter where you are! No prep required, simply print and use! Includes 2 Word Searches (one easy and one hard) 2 Word Unscrambles (one easy and one hard) Cut and Use or Paste Tic Tac Toe game made for two players. For a class of 24 only 12 sheets required! Saving paper and ink Answer keys for all pages

2 word unscrambles 2 word searches 1 tic tac toe of suns and palm trees that your students will LOVE playing. This was my students favorite. If you are teaching summer school, these are perfect activities for the first or last day to celebrate summer Can also be using during classtime as motivation for finishing or early finishers

I display the dance studio rules on the door of the dance studio and inside of the dance studio to remind pupils of the expectations within their dance lessons.

This Bundle includes everything you need to produce the Oliver Musical at a saving of 13%

These are good warm up games or class activities. Each game teaches a different drama skills and the games are brightly printed so could be displayed. Please leave a review for others.

This is a good warm up game. It encourages the children to move, follow instructions and use senses.The game is brightly printed and could be displayed. Please leave a review for others and check out my pack of 5 games for £2

Ice Cream Colour Display Coloured ice creams in cones. Each on is on an A4 sheet, print full size or reduce printing to make flashcards.

World Cup 2018 fun activities, Colouring pages to help you join in the fun of the world cup. Just download and print them out.

Seaside literacy activities of all sorts are wrapped up in this exciting bundle, stretching phonics, reading and writing skills, plus developing creative expression, rhyme, rhythm and poetic skills, at KS1 + EY levels. Contents: 3 phonics/reading activities - picture-based; 3 poem/creative writing frames (one with 3 graded versions), 3 seaside rhymes to clap, act, build and even sing; guidance notes as applicable. Great price too!

Scrapbook papers to print and use as backgrounds or for craft and art activities.

Scrapbook papers to print and use as backgrounds or for craft and art activities.

Ice cream colouring page to print and colour. Enjoy.

Interesting ice cream activities and worksheets. Help people with colouring, spelling, letters and cutting, use these sheets and ideas using ice creams as a topic to help build skills and engage with people. Can be fun and help people learn at the same time. Work on letters and writing or cutting and sticking skills as they cut out the ice cream to stick on the cone image. Also mixing colours to help build on knowledge of primary and secondary colours with a ice cream twist.

3 seaside rhymes to clap, act + build, and 3 seaside phonics/reading games - all with attractive, accessible presentation. Embellish seaside topics while developing phonics and reading skills with this rich, all-round bundle!

Many children and adults suffer from stress and anxiety at times. An over busy brain makes it difficult to concentrate on tasks and the feelings associated with anxiety can cause distress and further anxiety. Recent research suggests that activities which focus the mind without being overly taxing can help break the cycle of worry and anxiety and can help calm the busy mind. One such activity is colouring. This resource provides 40 original hand drawn kaleidoscopic images. The repetitive nature of the patterns is intentional, encouraging the individual to settle into a calming routine. Drawings range in complexity, making it a suitable resource for all age groups, including adults. I hope that enjoyment and a sense of calm can be found by using this resource.

This song with sound effects was written for a reception class to perform after their walk into their local town. The children created actions and selected sound sources to accompany the song then composed a piece of music in Rondo form painting a musical picture of their journey. The song would be suitable for the whole of K.S.1 and could be the starting point for many other activities.

A fun song with an echo re-telling the traditional Red Riding Hood Story written for a Year 2 class and their dance/gymnastic/mime assembly. Extension activities include creating music for the main characters in the story and composing using graphic notation and exploring major and minor keys.

Primary and secondary colours introduced in a fun way with stars. Worksheets for your to printout and use to help introduce a group big or small to the idea of colour and understanding that there are primary colours and secondary colours and with mixing primary colours you can make secondary colours. Extra copies created with the different spelling of colour and color. Great for young people of people with learning disabilities.

Worksheets to help introduce people to primary and secondary colours with ways to help people understand mixing primary colours can create secondary colours. Interesting ways of introducing colour and mixing colours in to your session. I have created worksheets you can print out and use, extra copies created with the spelling difference of colour and color. These sheets can help people in the understanding of colours from young people to adults with learning disabilities.

A fun song written for a nursery class to perform at their harvest festival assembly. The children stamped their feet and played claves to accompany the song. The song provided a starting point for many other activities and would be a good resource for the whole of KS1.

A fun harvest song written for a Year 1 class (but suitable for the whole of KS1) when the teacher wanted to explore the processed food angle in a Harvest Assembly. This fun and unusual harvest song explains how we can all enjoy the fruits of the harvest all the year round. The humorous nature of the lyrics and accompaniment fills the children with glee and the song could be the starting point for many related musical activities. Also available from my website.

A fun song written for a Year 1 class (but suitable for K.S.1) linked to their topic on ‘Light and Dark.’ The song explores louds and softs in music leading to the children creating their own Day and Night music and many other musical activities around the topic. Why not create a dance using black and yellow scarves or strips of crepe paper.

A fun song/rap written for a Nursery class to be performed with actions, props, claves and instruments linking with their topic on ‘Chinese New Year’. We performed this at an assembly with a blue cloth river, animal masks and instruments and the parents loved it. It would be suitable for the whole of KS1 and could be a stimulus for a whole host of activities from the use of ordinal numbers, to dance, to mask making as well as all the obvious musical activities.

A fun song written for a Reception class to be performed with actions and instruments to enhance their assembly about ‘Chinese New Year.’ but it would be suitable for the whole of KS1. The actions are contained in the lyrics of the song and tuned percussion were used to create melodic ostinati. The children really loved creating a fan dance to the backing track in between the two verses.

A fun song written for a Year 1 class to add another dimension to their topic on ‘Buildings.’ After learning the song and substituting other number patterns in the chorus as a Maths activity the children selected sound sources to create different building materials and built walls of sound exploring crescendo and diminuendo. Hope you have fun with this song which is also available at www.fun-kee-music.co.uk

A fun song to be performed with sound effects on musical instruments written for a Reception class. Written to conclude the ‘Billy Goats Gruff’ story in Kaye Umansky’s ‘Three Singing Pigs’ book. The song would be a great addition to a topic on Traditional Tales or Animals. Also available from www.fun-kee-music.co.uk

Alphabet worksheets to help with basic language. A to Z of letters with an image starting with that letter, can be used as colouring pages or as a way to help learn basic letters. Two sheet for each letter one with image and letter and the other with image letter and the name of the image. Can be used to help with image recognition and as a fun session on words and images. Great for people with learning disabilities and for young children

Purpose: This activity can be used for Kindgergarten and Primary school level students. Suggestion: The resource can be used as an art lesson or as a fun filler activity based on shapes and colouring. The object is to find the hidden shapes in the larger drawing. Each organic shape has been drawn by hand and has small and large patterns to help with coordination and the ability to discern shapes. Each pattern also has intricate designs that children can colour and decorate as an extension activity. In the past I ask students to coordinate colours with shapes and this has been really helpful in teaching new vocabulary. I also have used this in the unit: Camouflage as an introductory activity.

Unicorn collage sheets. 1 x 1 inch, 1.2 x 1.2 inch, 1.5 x 1.5 inch (25, 30, 38 mm) sized images on three separate sheets. The size of each sheet is US letter (8.5" x 11")/A4. High resolution 300 DPI, JPEG. Ideal for creating collages, scrapbooking, jewelry making, art journaling, card making, paper crafts etc. For personal and commercial use but don’t resell as is. You need to create a new item when using these collage sheets for commercial purposes. If you are interested in my creative work, please visit www.janetsartcorner.com. Find free and premium educational printables at www.educationalprintables.com.

The Russia Football (Soccer) World cup is nearly here. Engage students with the FIFA Russia World Cup with these 5 coloring sheets. Students can decide which country they are supporting and color their pictures to reflect this. Supplied as a PDF file and also as a Word document so that pictures can be extracted and placed into your own documents.

THE GREATEST SHOW! - A PLAY OR CLASS ASSEMBLY! **THIS IS THE CLASS ASSEMBLY THAT CAUGHT THE EYE OF HUGH JACKMAN! HE SENT US A GOOD LUCK MESSAGE! - YOU MAY HAVE SEEN ON THE NEWS! FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW TO SEE MORE OR WATCH US ON THE NEWS ON BBC POINTS WEST 6.6.18 ** https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-44382007 A class assembly/play for reception, KS1 or even KS2! We did this with a Reception class - they were incredible! It ran alongside our ‘Circus’ theme. We focussed lots on The Greatest Showman and the song ‘This is Me’. I’ve included the script, presentation (which includes all music) and some costume letters to be sent home. I added photos of the children to the slide show which made it even better. The slide show has all been set up and timings suited us. We had such great feedback from this production! I hope you enjoy it! (SEE MAIN IMAGE FOR REAL PREVIEW! -The font and pics look a little weird in the TES preview pics? But it’s actually all done in Comic Sans! I did have it all in pre-cursive, but knew that some schools wouldn’t have this font, so changed it all to Comic Sans. Hopefully it should be in that font when you download!)

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Fun Lollipops Clipart for personal and commercial use! This set includes 39 images PNG file 35 color cliparts and 4 black and white cliparts Have fun creating worksheets, classroom bulletin board decoration. Printables

Fun activities for the end of another busy year! Colouring, a word search, outdoor art activity, summer images for inspiration and much more. Bought individually, this would be £43. 66% saving!!

Creative writing is exciting when you’re zooming in on the wonders of nature and writing your chosen words right inside the lively pictures! These 8 inspiring writing-frames feature squirrels, pond life, creepy-crawlies, sunshine and cloud (2 graded sheets for clouds), all with guidance sheets for teachers. Ideal for emergent and newly independent writers. Great bundle price - 50% saving!

Children will learn about the natural world around them as they colour these cheerful pictures, as well as developing pencil control and colour sense. As they bring their pictures to life, they will be inspired to dream and wonder about the creatures and their settings, which in turn will fire creative expression. The three sheets represent a young robin, ducks on a pond and mini-beasts in a meadow.

This is a 10 minute medley that I have edited and produced. It would be great for a school performance or an assembly activity. The songs included (in order) are: The greatest show, Million Dreams, This is Me and Come Alive. There are 3 files to this resource: The Song Sheet the lyrics are in two colours, Black for solo singing parts that can be split to suit your group and Blue for the ensemble parts. The Medley MP3 This is a medley arranged by myself, it is a backing track but the original singers remain for the ensemble parts just to give the kids a bit of help. The Medley with singing MP3 I have recorded the song with vocals to show where the solo parts come in. I performed this medley with KS1 and Lower KS2 children. I split the solo parts into 3-4 lines each child, either alone or in little groups. They had no trouble learning their parts and the added ensemble vocals gave the volume needed for the big chorus parts. Please leave a review and happy singing!

Introduce the colour brown, or zoom in on it for creative writing purposes, with this bright, accessible poem. It’s full of examples of different kinds of brown, found in flora and fauna, foods, and our own features. Its short lines and punchy rhythms make it suitable for clapping and chanting, while inviting further description too. Use as a teaching aid for colour identification, and as a launch pad for creative writing for older children. The accompanying guide provides detailed suggestions for use at both levels.