Here you'll find a variety of activities designed to spark curiosity, support early development, and make learning fun. From story-inspired worksheets to fine motor tasks, classroom display pieces, and keepsakes like certificates and cards — each resource is made with love, care, and first-hand classroom experience. My aim is always to help teachers, TAs, and parents support children in meaningful and creative ways. I hope you find something here to bring joy and inspiration to your setting!
Here you'll find a variety of activities designed to spark curiosity, support early development, and make learning fun. From story-inspired worksheets to fine motor tasks, classroom display pieces, and keepsakes like certificates and cards — each resource is made with love, care, and first-hand classroom experience. My aim is always to help teachers, TAs, and parents support children in meaningful and creative ways. I hope you find something here to bring joy and inspiration to your setting!
These maths and literacy resources inspired by The Jolly Postman are perfect for early years learners, providing a mix of hands-on and creative activities to develop key skills.
Included Activities
Maths:
Match numbered letters to doors.
Count letters in Santa’s sack.
Compare two sacks to find which has more letters.
Add two amounts of letters together.
Colour letters to create repeating patterns.
Compare two letters to determine which is bigger.
Cut and stick the correct amount of letters.
Literacy:
Write a postcard or a letter to the postman.
Match rhyming words.
Label story characters.
Complete a maze to help the postman get home.
Cut and stick numbered letters in the correct order.
Use the word mat to support writing and vocabulary.
Retell the story in your own words.
Write initial sounds for objects or characters.
Use six letter envelopes in roleplay activities.
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These resources are perfect for blending maths and literacy skills with a fun, story-based theme.**
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These printable maths resources inspired by The Snowman are perfect for early years, offering engaging activities to build essential maths skills.
Included Resources
Subitising Cards: Peg the correct number from 0-10.
Button Counting: Place the correct number of buttons on each snowman.
10-Frame Snowballs: Count snowballs in 10-frames.
Colouring Activities: Colour the correct number of snowmen.
Cut-and-Stick 5-Frames: Add the correct amount of snowballs.
Number Ordering: Arrange numbers 0-5 in the correct order.
Matching Numbers to Quantities: Draw lines to connect snowmen to numbers.
Drawing Snowballs: Draw the correct amount to match a number.
First, Then, Now: Explore amounts of snowballs in simple problem-solving.
Tallest/Shortest Activities: Colour the tallest snowman and the shortest tower of snowballs.
Colour by Numbers: A fun and creative way to reinforce number recognition.
Snowman Song Sheet: A delightful addition to enhance learning through music.
These resources are perfect for developing number sense, fine motor skills, and mathematical thinking, all while celebrating the magic of The Snowman!
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Eleven flashcards with pictures of goats, where children place a peg on the correct number after counting.
Flashcards numbered from 0 to 10, each with goats to help children with number recognition.
A five-frame with five goats for carpet time activities to encourage counting and group interaction.
A colouring activity where children colour in all items that represent the number 3.
Worksheets for ordering numbers from 1 to 5 and from 1 to 10.
A size ordering activity with three goats to arrange from smallest to biggest.
Counting activity where children write the number of goats they count.
A counting and matching exercise where children draw lines to connect the goats to the correct number.
Number identification activity with goats, where children colour the correct number of goats based on a given numeral.
A positional language activity with goats in relation to a bridge.
Repeating pattern activity with colouring to reinforce pattern recognition.
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A song sheet with the lyrics to “5 Little Ducks” so children can sing along and learn.
A cut-and-stick activity where children cut out numbers and place them in the correct order, building counting skills.
An identification and colouring activity where children colour the correct number of ducks to match the given numbers, encouraging number recognition and counting.
A “take one duck away” activity to introduce basic subtraction.
A five-frame and 5 colourful ducks.
Number flashcards from 0 to 5, helping children become familiar with numbers.
Flashcards with three numbers each and a set of ducks; children attach a peg to the correct number, which helps with both counting and fine motor skills.
Five ponds with numbers from 1 to 5; children cut and stick the right number of ducks in each pond.
Duck figures for colouring, cutting, and sticking to lollipop sticks, so children can act out the song with a mother duck and five little ducks.
Count ducks and draw a line to connect to the correct number.
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Matching Sheets (3 sheets): Each sheet is numbered 1-3 with 16 colourful pictures of 1-3 items. Children match items to numbers.
Peg Activity Cards (8 cards): Each card has 1-3 items with three number options at the bottom. Children attach a peg to the correct number.
Math Worksheets (11 sheets): Additional simple math sheets to reinforce number recognition and counting.
These activities help children with counting, number matching, and visual recognition in an engaging, hands-on way.
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Introduce little learners to numbers and counting with engaging, colourful activities inspired by Guess Who by Pam Ayres. This set includes 16 subitising cards where children place pegs on the correct number from three options, a fun dice game where children match rolls to colourful images, and a cut-and-stick activity to match pictures to the right number from two options. Other activities invite children to identify amounts and circle the correct number, use five-frames to match amounts and write the correct number, and colour pictures to represent numbers like 3 and 5.
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These math resources, inspired by the book Crash, Boom! A Math Tale, are perfect for nursery-aged children. The set includes 6 “recreate the model” cards to laminate, 6 “count the blocks and attach a peg” cards to laminate, and 10 simple worksheets. Designed to make early math skills fun and interactive, these activities encourage hands-on learning through play.
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These Big and Small-inspired resources are designed for nursery-aged children to explore size concepts through fun and interactive activities. The set includes 4 worksheets, a cutting and sticking activity, 7 activity cards, and sorting activity cards, all aimed at reinforcing the concepts of “big” and “small.” Perfect for hands-on learning and early development.
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10 resources inspired by the book,** ‘We go together’** by Todd Dunn.
Resources include both, maths and literacy as well as fine motor.
Included is-
Objects that belong together
Following along the lines
Identifying the odd one out
Colouring
Cutting and sticking
Rhyming words
Rhyming pictures
Activities based on the book, Simon’s Sock.
Simon is a sock that never gets chosen to be worn, because he’s not part of a pair.
I have created resources with maths, literacy and PSED.
** Included in this pack is-**
Describing
Cutting and sticking
Colouring
Same and different
Recalling events
Drawing stripes
Positional language
Repeating patterns
Sorting spots/stripes
Friendships
Drawing
Decorating
Discussion cards
Feelings
Activities inspired by the book, ‘All Sorts’.
This is a maths pack of sorting activities is aimed at early years.
Included is-
Sorting items in 2 groups
Sorting flowers
Sorting vehicles
Search and colour
Identifying 4 legged animals
Sorting people
Sort by 3 shapes
Spot the odd one out
Sort by colour
3 oversized card and pictures for sorting
20 pages of resources inspired by the book, Button Box. The story of a child who like to play and sort buttons in his grandma’s box.
Resources are early years based and include, maths, literacy, cutting and sticking as well as 8 flash cards.
Included-
Colouring a rainbow, button pattern
Counting
Indentifying numbers
Colouring
Estimating
Adjectives
Repeating patterns
Order by size
10 frame and buttons
Flash cards
Sorting
Activities inspired by the book, actual size by Steve Jenkins.
Maths resources for children around 4-6 years in age.
Included is cutting and sticking activities, exploring the classroom, home or outdoors as well as measuring with rulers, objects, string and cubes.
Worksheets are in CM and duplicated in Inches, to suit your methods of teaching.
Resources-
Exploring with string
Drawing and labelling
Small, medium and larger ordering
Symmetry
Search and colour in the stick insects
Height
Repeating patterns
Order by height
Weight
Counting
Number recognition
Measure length with string
Comparing length
Measure animals in the book
Comparing hands
29 pages of resources inspired by the book, 'How much does a ladybird weigh?'
A simple book comparing the weight of different animals.
This pack includes, flashcards, colouring, cutting and sticking as well as maths worksheets.
Resources included-
Cut and stick correct amounts
Counting
Number recognition
Adding 2 numbers of the same amount
Number recogntion flashcards
Identifying weights that are the same
Identifying the heaviest animal
Matching animals of similar weights
20 pages of resource based on the story, We’re going on a pumpkin hunt.
Early years worksheets for, literacy, maths, art and fine motor skills.
Included is-
Size
Describing
Short writing pieces
Designing
Positional language
Ordering the obstacles
Counting
Maze
Speech bubbles
Repeating patterns
Feelings
Missing numbers
Encourage child initiated learning with these butterflies.
Once cut and laminated they can be used time and again.
There are green bodies from 1-19, and 38, various coloured wings from 0-20.
They’re ideal for going on the placing and arranging table or in your maths area.
Children identify the number on the body and then look for the numbered wings that are one more or one less.
There is also a fully formed, blank butterfly, for the children to write on with a dry wipe pen, creating their own number problems.
Number bonds from 0-10 with a treasure theme.
In this pack there are 11 treasure chests, from 0-10.
Each treasure chests needs 6 coins.
Each coin has a maths problem on which needs matching up to the correct number chest.
There are 11 chests and 66 golden coins.
Once cut and laminated, can be placed in the maths area for child initiated learning.
Resources based on the book
20 pages of resources, on maths, literacy, PSED, physical and understanding the world.
Included in this pack-
Positional language
Adjectives
Anatomy
Reasoning- for and against
Spiders survival needs
Recalling events
Feelings
Design a web
Counting
Now, then, next, maths
Length
Cutting skills
Fine motor skills
Web maze
Order by size
True/False facts
Maths worksheets inspired by the book, Which one’s round? Which one’s bigger?
A book which tricks you and makes you rethink your answers. Like is a dog really faster than a snail? Can the cat get higher than the mouse?
This pack contains 10 pages of maths sheets covering-
Round objects
Comparing sizes
Measuring length
Fastest animals
Highest animals
Estimating more
Weight and reasoning
Volume and reasoning
Shape searching
Length and reasoning.
This pack is a simple colouring pack, which encourages conversation.
A shape pack inspired by the book, Which one doesn’t belong?
6, black and white, Worksheets where children colour in the shape they think doesn’t belong and then discuss with an adult their reason. Also a cut and stick sorting activity.
As well as the worksheets there are a set of 9 colourful discussion cards where the children can say which shapes they think are the same and which ones are different. Of course there is no wrong answer!