I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and I try to make my resources have real-world applications whenever possible. These resources will not only engage your learners, but they'll save you time, so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
I am passionate about learning that is tailored to children's interests and gives lots of opportunity for children to be creative and critical thinkers. I think it's important that learning materials cater to a variety of learning styles and I try to make my resources have real-world applications whenever possible. These resources will not only engage your learners, but they'll save you time, so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
This collection of 12 Ocean Animals Pattern Block mats and task cards will support your learners as they learn to identify, sort, flip, rotate and turn shapes. Great as part of an ocean life or summer topic, or when learning about 2D shapes.
How challenging is it?
There are three levels of difficulty so you can tailor the activities to your learners:
full-size colour and ink saver version for practising matching
task cards for learners to put the shapes together without a mat (colour and ink saver versions only)
outline version for those that need an extra challenge
Whatâs included?
Mats (colour and ink saver)
shark
whale
seal
octopus
jellyfish
fish
angelfish
lobster
crab
starfish
turtle
seahorse
Task cards (2 per page to cut in half)
Ideas for use:
supplemental materials
morning tables
math centres
stations
early finishers
I hope you enjoy using these pattern block mats with your learners.
If youâre after a star-themed place value maths activity, youâve found it! This activity is a great way for children to practise their understanding of place value by using place value blocks to make each star, then students count the ones, tens, or hundreds to work out the total.
There are 11 different star designs to choose from, plus a page for students to design and make their own star.
Possible ways to use these stars:
at a centre with place value blocks
a station activity with place value blocks
on the wall for students to go and look at (visual activity rather than hands-on)
a Matariki activity
space-themed day
Whatâs included?
12 full-size mats
12 task cards
recording sheet
answer key
Nine cards use ones and tens blocks, and two cards use ones and hundred blocks.
I hope your students enjoy practising their place value skills with these stars!
If youâre looking for a hands-on activity to practise 3D shapes which has a fun spring theme, then youâll love the crafts included in this pack.
There are nets to make:
a birdhouse (the base is a rectangular prism and the roof is a triangular prism)
a cabbage (sphere)
a vegetable garden (cube)
a carrot or umbrella (cones)
a nest (cylinder)
a chick (square-based pyramid)
There is a recording sheet so students can demonstrate their understanding of the properties of 3D shapes.
The students could choose different items to make, make all of them, or work in a small group to make them.
The crafts can be used as a whole class, at stations, a maths centre, and for early finishers.
Visual step-by-step instructions are included.
I hope your students have fun making their 3D spring shapes!
U.K. and U.S. versions are included for spelling differences.
Are you wanting some fun St. Patrickâs Day crafts that will have your students practising 3D shapes at the same time? Then your students will love this pack of seven nets that can be folded into St Patrickâs Day and Irish symbols.
Whatâs Included?
a cabbage (sphere)
a leprechaunâs hat (cylinder)
a leprechaun trap (triangular pyramid)
a pyramid of clovers
two styles of snakes (cones)
a pot of gold (cube)
a leprechaun and Blarney Castle (both rectangular prisms so students can choose one)
visual step-by-step instructions
a recording sheet to identify faces, vertices, and edges
an answer key
Students can choose one or make all seven, or work in a group to make the set.
I hope your students have fun with their St. Patrickâs Day 3D shape crafts!
Your students will love learning to tell the time with this adorable gingerbread craft to bake a gingerbread man after they practise telling the time with worksheets that cover analogue and digital time using hour, half hour, quarter hour, five-minutes, and 1-minute.
Youâll be able to differentiate easily as there is a telling time worksheet about children making gingerbread and baking gingerbread for students learning the hours, half hours, quarter hours, five minute or one minute time.
Whatâs included?
visual instructions to make the craft
craft template in colour and ink saver, with an option for a gingerbread boy or gingerbread girl biscuit to put in the oven
telling time to the hour - 4 worksheets
telling time to the half hour - 4 worksheets
telling time to the quarter hour - 4 worksheets
telling time to the nearest 5-minutes - 1 worksheet
telling time to the minute - 1 worksheet
answer keys
This activity will be ideal for your gingerbread day or week. Add it to your centres, stations, or use it as an early finisher or whole-class activity.
I hope your students enjoy learning to tell the time and making a cute gingerbread craft to go with it.
Hereâs a fun way to practise telling the time which will be great for a New Yearâs activity or a party theme. Children write the digital and analogue times on the clocks on the hat, then colour, cut and make a party hat.
There are lots of options to meet your needs:
two phrases on the hat to choose from â âItâs Party Time!â or âHappy New Year!â
hour and half hour
hour, half, and quarter hour
nearest five minutes
nearest minute
time intervals â Students choose pairs of clocks to color with the same colour, then find the time interval between them to record on the recording sheet.
time intervals â Students read the questions and colour the clocks on the hat to match the answers.
U.K. and U.S. versions
This telling the time craft is easy-prep and will be great addition to your centres or stations, or use it for early finishers or as a whole-class activity.
I hope your students have fun making their party hats while learning how to tell the time.
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This 2025 New Yearâs maths craft is a great way to practise area and perimeter. With lots of options for you, and lots of fun patterns to color, you and your students will both be happy!
Children calculate the area and perimeter of the different patterns that make up the numbers, record their answers on the recording sheet, then colour and cut out the numbers for a class display.
There are lots of options to meet your needs:
square units (area)
centimetres
inches
all the necessary measurements given or can be deduced easily (offers more support)
some measurements missing so students must use other measurements to deduce the missing sides (great for those that need a challenge)
two display phrases to choose from
UK and US versions
Answer key is included.
I hope your students have fun celebrating the new year, and getting in some maths at the same time!
If youâre looking for a way to keep your students engaged during maths at Christmas time, then this Christmas tree rounding craft will hit the spot!
Students complete the rounding exercises and make a 2D or 3D Christmas tree with baubles.
Add this activity to your math practice, centres, stations, fun Fridays, or itâs just as great as a filler!
There are lots of options to cater to your needs:
2D and 3D trees
rounding to the nearest 10
rounding to the nearest 100
rounding to the nearest 10 or 100
rounding to any place (up to four digits)
rounding to one decimal place
rounding to one, two, or three decimal places
Answer keys are included.
I hope your students have fun making their Christmas trees!
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Looking for a fun, hands-on activity to practise area and perimeter this Christmas? Then, your students will enjoy colouring and cutting out presents, calculating their area and perimeter, and then stacking them to make a display for the wall.
Whatâs included?
Three recording sheets (square units, centimeters and inches)
Recording sheet for children that need more of a challenge
Two size options - to give you some idea of the tallest possible height, the smaller size option would reach an approximate height of 57cm/22.5in. The larger size option would reach an approximate height of 1m/3ft.
Presents with grids for square units (area only) and presents with measurements (area and perimeter)
Iâve also included two display phrases to choose from:
Weâve got area and perimeter all wrapped up!
Our area and perimeter skills stack up!
Ideas for use:
whole class
center
station
early finishers
Fun Friday
I hope your students have fun practising their area and perimeter skills, and decorating the classroom at the same time.
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This is such a cute winter craft to make, and itâs going to make learning fact families snow much fun! With this activity, students make a penguin, complete the fact families on the fish, and fill the penguinâs bucket.
There are lots of options to cater to your needs:
Practise addition/subtraction
Practise multiplication/division
Partially-filled or fill-all-gaps
Student choice of fact family
Editable version so you can choose the fact families (text is editable, images/layout arenât)
I hope your students enjoy making their penguins!
If youâre after a fun way to practise measuring at Christmas time, that will have students engaged and decorate your classroom at the same time, then youâll love this Christmas presents measuring craft!
Students make a stack of presents in any height or width they like, and then estimate and measure the height/width of individual presents and the entire stack.
You can choose whether your students use centimetres or inches.
Whatâs included?
Presents in two size options (60cm/22in and 1m/3ft maximum possible height)
Recording sheet with questions about estimation, measuring, and comparing two objects
Editable recording sheet
Two phrases to go with your display
I hope your students love making and measuring their Christmas presents!
There are several maths skills that can incorporate the Matariki whetƫ/stars, so I created this activity for teachers that want to bring Matariki into their maths lesson, or who want to weave maths skills with the environment.
These activities are ideal for year 3-6 students and can be adapted if needed. The questions cover measurement of length using rulers (to the nearest cm, but if you have children that want to measure in mm, thatâs great), positional language, identifying shapes, and locating Matariki whetĆ«/stars using coordinates. There are two options to choose from and the questions are editable, so you can adapt them to your needs.
This activity is ideal for the whole class, small groups, early finishers, and rotating stations.
Youâll receive 2 PDFs and 2 editable PPTX files.
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Hereâs a great way to practice maths skills for Matariki: Children complete fact families or times tables on whetĆ«/stars, cut them out, and make a kete to store them in.
There are lots of options to choose from:
Make a kete with a string handle or paper handle
Addition/Subtraction fact families â partially filled, all gaps, or student choice
Multiplication/Division fact families - partially filled, all gaps, or student choice
Times tables â 1/2/5/10x, 1-4x/5-8x/9-12x, or a mixture
Children complete three stars (1 page), four stars (1 page), or seven stars (2 pages).
This activity is ideal for the whole class, small groups, early finishers, or rotating stations.
I hope your children enjoy working on their fact fluency and making their kete of whetƫ/stars!
You will receive 5 PDF files.
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Children often find it hard to remember the difference between area and perimeter, which affects their ability to do calculations correctly.
So, the more memory aids we can use to help them, the more likely it is that they will remember the difference.
With this activity, children color in the word âAREAâ which covers the area of the rectangle, and they write the word âPERIMETERâ around the perimeter of the rectangle.
Iâve included a full page and half page option.
You may also like an engaging, real-world activity like this one to practise area and perimeter.
This resource is a free download for single-classroom use only. It can not be copied, shared, rewritten, amended, sold or distributed to others.
Are you looking for a fun way to tie in some maths review for Easter? This pack includes 7 fun crafts to make, all with an Easter theme, and each shape is one of the 3D shapes students need to know.
This will be perfect for review, practice, centres, stations, free time, early finishers and math rotations.
Whatâs included?
Nets to make 7 crafts
Easter egg (sphere)
Easter Bunny (rectangular prism)
Carrot (cone)
Chick (square-based pyramid)
Nest (cylinder)
Mini Easter basket (cube)
Box of jellybeans (triangular prism)
Visual step-by-step instructions
Recording sheet of the properties of their 3D crafts covering faces, edges, and vertices/corners
Answer key
U.K and U.S versions
I hope your students enjoy making these for Easter maths practice.
You will receive a PDF file.
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This collection of 10 Fairytale Pattern Block mats and task cards will support your learners as they learn to identify, sort, flip, rotate and turn shapes. Great as part of a castle, medieval, or fairytale theme topic!
How challenging is it?
There are three levels of difficulty so you can tailor the activities to your learners:
full-size colour and ink saver version for practising matching
task cards for learners to put the shapes together without a mat
outline version for those that need an extra challenge
For a STEM challenge, there are also five sheets for students to design and build their own versions.
Develop creativity and problem-solving skills as they draw a design, build it and re-work it until it looks just like they want it to
Whatâs included in the zip file?
Mats (colour and ink saver)
castle
crown
princess hat
jesterâs hat
knightâs helmet
long sword
short sword
drawbridge
shield
goblet
Design sheets
Can you make a castle?
Can you make a crown?
Can you make a princess hat?
Can you make a sword?
Can you make a shield?
Task cards (A5 size)
40 pages included
Ideas for use:
supplemental materials
morning tables
math centres
stations
early finishers
I hope you enjoy using them with your learners.
TIPS FOR PRINTING:
These are optimised to print on 8.5x11 paper.
Please ensure that you select actual size or set scaling to none depending on your print options so that the shapes will match with your classroom set.
You will receive zip files with PDFs.
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All kids would love to design their dream bedroom or dream treehouse, so these area and perimeter practice activities will spark their imagination and creativity! Plus, theyâll get plenty of practice at applying concepts of perimeter and area.
There are two different design options â a dream bedroom and a dream treehouse, so you can choose one or the other, or use both. Each design comes with options for perimeter, area, or perimeter and area. Measurements include centimetres and inches, and area also includes square units.
Students choose the items theyâd like to add to their dream bedroom or treehouse, draw them on the grid, then measure and record the area and/or perimeter.
Recording sheets are included but these are optional as children can easily write their answers in their workbooks if you prefer.
Just print and go!
Whatâs included?
Design a dream bedroom
perimeter (cm and inch)
area (square units, cm, inch)
perimeter and area (cm and inch)
Design a dream treehouse
perimeter (cm and inch)
area (square units, cm, inch)
perimeter and area (cm and inch)
Anchor charts: area (cm and inch), perimeter (cm and inch)
Exit ticket
Teaching points
U.K and U.S versions
28 pages included
Ideas for use:
whole-class activity
maths centre
stations
early finishers
I hope you enjoy using this activity with your learners.
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These digital and printable integer games which are based on the popular game of âBattleshipsâąâ will be a great addition to your programme as a fun way to practise operations with integers.
It takes lots of practice for learners to build confidence working with negative numbers and the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Instructions are included for how to play and there are two versions for each operation, covering positive and negative equations, and negative and negative equations with eight games in total using 1-digit numbers.
You will receive a printable PDF version and a link to the digital Google Slidesâą version.
U.K. and U.S. versions available.
I hope you enjoy using these integer games with your learners.
9 pages and 12 digital slides included
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This fun, hands-on Christmas craft pack ticks a lot of boxes. Your students will love making seven Christmas crafts, which could be turned into ornaments, and thereâs an option to cover geometry maths skills at the same time.
The seven crafts include a Christmas tree (cone), present (cube), bauble (sphere), milk and biscuits (cylinders), Santa hat (pyramid), and gingerbread house (rectangular prism and triangular prism).
To turn the crafts into ornaments add string or ribbon, or use the paper handles included on each page.
To integrate this activity with maths, use the properties of 3D shapes for younger students, and the nets with measurements and recording sheets for finding the surface area of the nets. The net measurements are based on the actual sizes rounded to the nearest inch or cm and range in size from 2-6 inches/4-8cm.
Whatâs included?
U.K and U.S versions (spelling, letter and A4)
Christmas tree
Present
Bauble
Milk and biscuits
Santa hat
Gingerbread house
Example photo page
Properties of 3D shapes worksheet and answer key
Nets with measurements in inches and cm
Recording sheets for finding the surface area of the rectangular prism, triangular prism, cube, and pyramid
3D crafts can be challenging so please consider if your students have the fine motor skills needed before purchasing.
I hope your students enjoy making these Christmas crafts.