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Hi, I'm Amelia of young_playtray - I love creating resources for early years and KS1 pupils. I am a huge advocate of learning through play, but when the time calls for a worksheet, let's make it something worthwhile! Happy shopping!

Hi, I'm Amelia of young_playtray - I love creating resources for early years and KS1 pupils. I am a huge advocate of learning through play, but when the time calls for a worksheet, let's make it something worthwhile! Happy shopping!
Halloween Learning Activities 2
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Halloween Learning Activities 2

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Fine motor, phonics and maths! Explore fine motor activities, which can be used as pencil or scissor control, as well as phonic spotting activities, number ordering and emotional identification. Ideal for preschoolers, Reception children or Year 1 children for fine motor intervention!
Halloween Learning Activities
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Halloween Learning Activities

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Best used for Preschoolers or Reception children - this could be set as home learning over the half term break, or something to explore in class. Opportunities to identify shapes, explore numbers, order by size, as well was develop fine motor skills through cutting, sticking or colouring. Each can be used as a worksheet or can be laminated and used as a playdough mat (N/A page 6/7) Pumpkins are personalised ‘George’ but happy to personalise names on request Halloween/ Spooky season/ pumpkins/ spiders/ ghosts and ghouls/ name and number recognition
EYFS All about me pack
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EYFS All about me pack

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Pieces of me - children (or adults) fill in their name, favourite colour, family member etc to create a puzzle 2 - 3. Family drawing opportunity - both with lines, page 2 has sentence starter ‘In my family’ Family portrait photo frame - no lines 5 - 10. What can you see? Phonics assessment - farm, beach, space etc, childre write what they can see/ teachers scribe (or write initial sound) Ideal for Reception starters/ Year 1 pupils returning. All about me / getting to know me/ My family/ Ourselves
Make a Picnic
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Make a Picnic

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Fill the picnic baskets with the correct number of foods. These can be laminated and reused or use as a cut and stick resource - supporting both early maths/ cardinal value and fine motor skills. Can be used in picnic season or to teach the importance of healthy and varied diets.
Initial Sound Animals
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Initial Sound Animals

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Initial Sounds Page 2-8 can be used by laminating the sheets and encouraging your pupils to put a peg on the initial sound. Or, you may want to encourage children to put a circle around the initial sound. For pages 9-15 the space under the image is blank - you may ask pupils to write the initial sound or have a go at writing the whole word. These flashcards follow many popular phonics schemes, such as Jolly Phonics, Letters and Sounds, Read Write Inc etc.
Number formation 0-9
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Number formation 0-9

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2 page number formation sheet (4 worksheets per page) Page 1 is blank traceable numbers Page 2 provides a starting arrow for children to follow
Road Signs Symmetry
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Road Signs Symmetry

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Cut and stick activity - pupils to group signs into symmetrical or not. Supports EYFS maths and Year 1. Supports fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
Beanstalk Phonics - Split Digraphs
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Beanstalk Phonics - Split Digraphs

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P1 - split a-e P2 - split e-e P3 - split i-e P4 - split o-e P5 - split u-e P6-P12 mixed split digraphs. Children can use a counter and move up the beanstalk with each word they read correctly, this can be used as a game or challenge. Supports traditional tales/ Jack and the beanstalk/ growth/ plants/ living and growing/ flowers
Flower Pot Maths
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Flower Pot Maths

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20 pages of flower pot maths. P1 - P5 - Subitising (numerals, dice, playing cards and fingers) P5 - P10 - Single digit addition (numbers adding to 10 or less) P10 - P20 - Addition of number to 20 or less P21 - Example White page with green and yellow border. Perfect for pre-school, Reception or Year 1. Inclusive of different skin tones.
Shell Sums
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Shell Sums

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Summer/ water/ beach themed addition sheets - use loose parts, counters or playdough balls to complete the number sentence. From 1 - 20, inlcuding doubling facts.
Addition - Park the Car
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Addition - Park the Car

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Using counting, subitising and addition to put the numbered cars in the right space. 6 pages - including 2 pages of cars. Page 1 - addition to 10, including 0 Page 2 - addition to 20 Page 3 - Dice subitising Page 4 - Dice addition to 12 Pages 5 & 6 - Numbered cars
Fill the dots - Fine motor
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Fill the dots - Fine motor

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Use stickers, pom-poms, loose parts or colouring to fill the dots. Includes people who help us, vehicles, three billy goats gruff and a rainbow Ideal for traditional tales, transport or careers/ dream jobs
Life Guard Maths - Addition to 20
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Life Guard Maths - Addition to 20

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15 pages of simple addition, answers range from 1-20. Use counters, blocks, loose parts or images to support PCA approach - to stretch and challenge ask children to compare numbers.
Make a shape - loose parts
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Make a shape - loose parts

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Use loose parts like buttons, pom-poms or beads to practice fine motor skills and 2D shape knowledge. Or laminate as use as a playdough mat. Or, use to enhance pencil control/ fine motor opportunities.
Numbers in the Nest Addition
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Numbers in the Nest Addition

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A cut and stick activity to support addition of numbers -0-20. 2 activities per page all addition total to 20 or less. Supports the EYFS (early learning goals) and Year 1 (read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition, subtraction and equals signs)
Phonics - trace, make, find and write
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Phonics - trace, make, find and write

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7 pages per phase/ set of phonics Supports jolly phonics/ Read write inc/ little wondle Children should be encouraged to trace a word, then make that word with phonics stones, play-dough, or letter cubes, then find the image that matches the word, before writing the word 3 times independently. Each phase is a different colour for ease - beginning with simple CVC words, moving onto CVCC and CCVC words, ending with split digraphs.
Butterfly Number Bonds
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Butterfly Number Bonds

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Number bonds to 10 - add the corresponding number to the wings of the butterflies to make 10. 0-10 includes blank butterfly to stretch and challenge by allowing children to create their own number bond.
Easter Egg Doubling
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Easter Egg Doubling

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Easter Doubling - children can use pen dots, counters or balls of play dough to make the doubles. Allows children to complete the number the sentence e.g. “double 5 is…” Includes numbers 1-10
Build a Beanstalk maths sheet
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Build a Beanstalk maths sheet

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Use counting cubes to build a beanstalk to match the number sentence. Or use counting pebbles or stones to create a horizontal beanstalk. Perfect for Reception - all number sentences are 10 or below.
EYFS (preschool) 5 week PE lesson plan
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EYFS (preschool) 5 week PE lesson plan

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Physical Education can be overlooked in preschoolers, however adding a structured PE session can not only be engaging for children, but also develop their school readiness by introducing them to a planned physical developement session. Each lesson plan consists of a warm up game, 3-4 activities and a cool down game. Each lesson plan is themed, for example, wild animals, space and more. These plans also include ‘stretch and challenge’ adaptations more suitable for reception aged children, or children with some athletic background.