Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1
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Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners.
From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
This planet flashcard set is perfect for supporting early years and KS1 learning about space.
The resource includes 18 colourful flashcards featuring the planets in pairs (e.g., two Earth, two Jupiter) across three pages with a white background, and the same cards repeated on three pages with a bold black background.
The planets are shown clearly but are not labelled, allowing children to focus on visual recognition, comparison, and observation.
This also offers a great extension opportunity for more able children to research and name each planet, encouraging reading, enquiry, and science vocabulary.
Two bonus creative pages are included with 12 simple, cartoon-style planet outlines for children to decorate or use for inspiration for inventing their own planets — supporting imagination, design, and early writing skills.
A teacher prompt card is included with suggestions for using the resource.
Whether used in small group games, display work, or creative activities, these flashcards provide a flexible and inspiring way to explore the solar system with young learners.
Under the Sea Doodle Sheets are a fun resource for EYFS and KS1 children.
Each of the 3 black-and-white sheets feature friendly ocean creatures and underwater scenes for children to colour in and add their own details.
Perfect for themed classroom activities around topics on Seas and Oceans, Water and animals.
These sheets can be used during lessons, free play, homework or as calming tasks.
This engaging weather-themed resource supports early literacy, phonics, science, and art through a cross-curricular approach.
The 5 pages, each showing 4 colour weather cards (e.g., snowing, icy, cloudy, spring, and winter) can be cut out, laminated, and used for a range of interactive learning activities.
Children can sort the cards into sets by weather types (hot/cold, wet/dry) or seasons (spring, winter, etc.), encouraging early categorisation skills and discussion of seasonal changes.
The word search included, with weather words, promotes reading and visual scanning skills, while the alphabetical order activity helps children practise early dictionary and alphabet knowledge.
Children can extend their learning by choosing weather words to design their own cards, linking to creativity, handwriting, and phonics as they sound out, spell, and illustrate vocabulary.
This resource also fosters group discussion, descriptive language use, and weather-based art activities such as drawing weather scenes or making matching posters. Perfect for whole-class, small-group, or independent work across EYFS and KS1.
Brighten up your classroom with this set of Flower-Themed Colour Display Number Cards (0–10). Each card features a flower illustration made into a number.
Print, cut, and laminate these cards to use again and again across a range of activities.
Ideal for displays, maths corners, and interactive number games, they support early number recognition while adding a touch of nature and seasonal charm.
Perfect for use with topics on nature, spring, summer, number art, and design projects, these colourful cards also make a good addition to outdoor learning sessions or themed role-play areas.
The June Nature Hunt is a seasonal resource designed for EYFS, SEND, and KS1 learners, featuring three worksheets available in both colour and black and white.
Each worksheet includes symbol-supported checklists to help children identify and mark off common nature items such as a bird, butterfly, snail, flower, and more during a simple outdoor walk.
The activity encourages children to observe their environment, draw their favourite June find, and write a simple phrase or sentence about it, such as “I saw a butterfly.”
This resource supports early literacy skills, observation and seasonal awareness, making it ideal for outdoor learning and cross-curricular exploration.
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This engaging Animals and Their Habitats bundle is designed for EYFS, KS1, and SEND learners, exploring six habitat themes: African, Australian, Caribbean, Desert, Ocean, and Nocturnal animals.
Each themed section includes:
• A simple, illustrated poem featuring six key animals
• A “read, find and write” activity where children identify and label animals from the poem
• A themed word search using the same six animals
The resource is available in both colour and black-and-white versions, with visual symbols to support early reading, SEND, and differentiated learning. Perfect for linking literacy with geography, science, and topic-based learning.
This easy-to-use activity pack helps young learners explore ocean animals while building early literacy and vocabulary skills.
Designed for EYFS, KS1, and SEND children, the pack includes both colour and black-and-white versions for flexible use in class or at home and symbols.
Children are introduced to six ocean animals: seahorse, seal, octopus, turtle, fish, and shark.
The first activity is a simple rhyming poem with the animals hidden in the text -children read and then match and label the animal pictures.
The second sheet is an ocean-themed word search with a clear picture key to help children find and read the animal names.
An answer sheet is included for quick checking.
This resource supports reading, writing, and topic learning about sea life, habitats, and the natural world.
With clear layouts, visual support, and engaging content, it’s ideal for inclusive and cross-curricular learning.
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This resource introduces children to the world of nocturnal animals—creatures that come out at night. Designed for EYFS, KS1 and SEND learners, the resource is available in both colour and black-and-white formats, making it ideal for a range of classroom and home learning settings.
Children will explore six night-time animals: owl, bat, fox, raccoon, hedgehog, and snail. Activities include a simple rhyming poem where the animals are hidden in the text, encouraging reading and animal recognition, followed by a matching task where children label each picture.
A themed word search reinforces animal names, supported by a visual key for early readers or SEND pupils, with a final answer sheet for easy marking or independent checking.
This cross-curricular pack supports literacy, science, and topic work by helping children build reading confidence while learning about animal behaviour and night-time habitats.
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The Australian Animals Activity Pack is a fun resource designed for EYFS, KS1, and SEND learners, available in both colour and black-and-white versions.
It introduces children to six Australian animals through a simple rhyming poem and literacy-based activities.
On the first page, children read the poem, identify the hidden animal names, and label matching symbol-supported pictures.
The second page features a child-friendly word search using the same animals, with a visual key for added support, and the third page is a full answer sheet.
This pack supports reading, writing, and word recognition, while also encouraging children to learn about animals and their habitats, making it perfect for cross-curricular lessons on nature, geography, and literacy.
Boardmaker licenced.
A bundle of 6 cross-curricular board games for EYFS and KS1, each linked to numbers to 20.
Themes include Shopping, Pirates, Jungle, Playtime, Spring, and Feelings.
The games support maths, PSHE, Ourselves, seasons through fun, turn-taking dice games.
Each game includes colourful boards, themed cards to cut and collect, a blank template for creativity and clear instructions.
Some themed champion certificates are included to celebrate learning and participation.
This Jungle Trail Game is a fun and engaging resource for EYFS that supports early learning through play.
The game links an animal theme with key skills including counting, turn-taking, speaking and listening, animal recognition, and matching.
The objective is to be the first to reach the finish while collecting the most jungle animals along the way.
The resource includes 2 colourful jungle trail board games, each featuring 6 different jungle animals to collect, a set of animal game cards in colour (ready to cut out and laminate), and a black-and-white template for children to design their own version.
Easy-to-follow instructions are included, outlining the objective, what you need, how to play, and helpful game tips to support independent and group play.
This Animal True or False Quiz is an engaging resource for KS1 children that promotes critical thinking, literacy, and animal knowledge.
With 10 pages of simple true or false animal statements, children will explore a variety of topics including animal behaviour, baby animals, and animal patterns.
The Planning sheet included, gives ideas of how to use the resource in multiple ways, such as fact-finding activities, where children research the facts, or sorting games where they categorize statements as true or false.
These activities help children develop skills like teamwork, decision-making, writing, and creativity while learning about the animal kingdom.
The resource is designed to align with curriculum objectives by enhancing literacy, research, and animal knowledge in an interactive and enjoyable way.
As an extension, children can create their own animal statements for other children to sort and discuss.
This resource provides hands-on fruit-themed activities designed to support EYFS and KS1 learning objectives.
The resource consists of 2 pages of colour fruit flashcards. There are 12 fruits on each page to cut out. These can be duplicated and laminated for games and activities.
There is a planning page included with 10 suggested activities / ways of using the resource with children.
The activities encourage children to explore and recognise different fruits while developing key skills such as sorting, matching, counting, and language development.
The resource supports science topics on plants and healthy eating by encouraging discussions about where fruits come from, how they grow, and their importance in a balanced diet.
These two engaging food doodle sheets are designed to support creativity, fine motor skills, and early literacy in KS1 children.
Each sheet features a variety of food-themed cartoon characters with playful expressions, inviting children to colour and add their own details or words.
These activities encourage imagination, discussion, and storytelling while reinforcing key vocabulary related to food and meals.
Included is a sheet with suggestions of ways to use the doodle food character sheets in class, linking them to the curriculum.
This resource includes four worksheets, each themed around a different season, designed for Early Years Foundation Stage learners.
Each worksheet features:
• Seasonal vocabulary words (e.g., mittens for winter, bee for spring, flower for summer, jumper for autumn)
• Images for children to colour in
• Traceable words to develop early writing and fine motor skills
Ideal for introducing seasons, building vocabulary, and supporting handwriting practice!
This activity combines art, creativity, and learning through flower-themed tracing and colouring.
There are 4 worksheets with 6 black and white flower pictures on each one.
Perfect for KS1 and EYFS, it supports fine motor skill development while incorporating cross-curricular links to literacy, science, and math. For example, children can create “Story Flowers” by decorating and naming flowers to represent story characters, enhancing language skills. In maths, “Symmetry Flowers” allow exploration of patterns and symmetry as children complete or design symmetrical flower halves.
This science resource is designed for young children to explore and understand the concept of sound through visual activities. The resource includes 3 pages, each featuring 6 colour cards that children can cut out and sort into categories based on the sound’s volume. The cards depict various sounds, helping children distinguish between “loud” and “soft” sounds.
Examples include cards with images of loud sounds such as yelling people and a washing machine, alongside soft sounds like someone asleep and children whispering.
Each page includes a mix of adjectives (e.g., yelling, whispering) and objects (e.g., drill, softball) to help children understand how different sounds can be categorized.
In addition to the colour versions, there are black-and-white versions of the same sheets for children to colour in. This allows them to engage more deeply with the activity and reinforces their understanding of the concepts as they add their own colours to the pictures.
This resource uses symbols and supports SEND children, EYFS and KS1.
Boardmaker licenced.
A resource linked to weather. It can be used over several weeks or a single week.
The resource is a Weather Log designed for whole-school use, with each page featuring two weather logs in different colours and designs to keep the process engaging. There are 8 designs of logs with 2 to a page.
Children can use the sections for each day of the week in a multitude of different ways e.g. noting the date, weather conditions (sunny, rainy, cloudy, etc.), morning or afternoon, temperature, and / or for drawing or pasting symbols.
This allows children to track daily weather effectively.
The logs can be enlarged as required.
The final page is in black and white, encouraging children to personalize it with their own drawings, colours, and symbols, fostering creativity and ownership of their weather tracking.
A topic resource related to Animals and Birds.
Bird Word Search: Engage learners with a fun word search activity where they find the names of 5 birds. An answer sheet is included to help them check their work.
Three Bird Colouring Sheets: Children are provided with a set of birds that they need to colour to match pre-coloured examples.
Bird Matching Activity: Children draw lines connecting three birds to their corresponding images.
Bird Yoga Poses: Introduce children to mindfulness and physical activity with this worksheet showing two yoga poses inspired by birds: the Eagle Pose and the Cow Face Pose with Eagle Arms. The illustrations guide children to mimic these poses, promoting balance and flexibility.
This resource is a bundle of worksheets designed to enhance handwriting and fine motor skills for children in EYFS, SEND and KS1).
The bundle includes 10 themed sets, each containing 4 worksheets.
The themes cover topics: food and drinks, transport, toys, weather, feeling faces, farm, music, flowers and plants, clothes, and the seaside. Each worksheet aims to support the development of motor skills in young learners.