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 EYFS and KS1 resource includes 8 colour thank you card templates (2 per page) and a black-and-white version for children to colour and decorate themselves. (The design is the same and the colours are different).
Perfect for end-of-year activities or special occasions like Father’s Day, the cards give children the chance to personalise their messages and show appreciation to teachers, family members, or friends. Ideal for developing fine motor skills and encouraging thoughtful communication.
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.
Celebrate the end of the school year with this fun and reflective “Class of 2025 Doodle Sheet”, designed especially for young children.
This black-and-white printable worksheet features cheerful cartoon children in graduation outfits, holding scrolls and wearing graduation hats — perfect for colouring in!
Children can reflect on their own experience by adding drawings, stickers, or thoughts about their time in school or class.
The second half of the activity invites children to get creative and design their own “Class of 2025” doodle, making it a personal and imaginative keepsake. Ideal for EYFS and KS1 as a meaningful end-of-year activity, transition task, or class celebration.
These Rise and Shine Feelings Worksheets for KS1 begin with a class or group discussion using a colour picture to prompt conversation.
Teachers ask simple, reflective questions such as “How do you feel today?” and “What made you smile this morning?” to encourage children to think about their emotions and share their thoughts in a safe, supportive environment.
After the discussion, children move on to individual work.
Sheet 1 invites them to read and answer questions about their own feelings, promoting self-awareness and emotional expression.
Sheet 2 allows children to draw a feelings face, tick how they feel today, and write a short sentence about why.
These worksheets link closely to the PSHE themes of Me, Ourselves, and Feelings, helping children to develop emotional literacy and empathy as part of their daily routine.
This Key Stage 1 resource, Design a Shop Front, encourages creativity and topic-based learning through role play, art, and design.
It includes 8 colourful examples of different shop fronts — shoes, bakery, toys, make-up, butcher, florist, baby, and fruit & veg — presented two per page.
These provide visual inspiration and vocabulary support.
A final page offers two black-and-white shop front outlines for children to colour and design their own shops, supporting fine motor skills, imaginative thinking, and links to communities and buildings, money, shopping and jobs.
Enlarge and laminate shop fronts for a display or to add to role play areas.
5 Worksheets for children to support their fine motor control and pencil skills.
Each page has a Toys theme.
Children trace the toys, colour them in and label them.
Suitable for EYFS, KS1 and Send children.
This Back-to-School* freebie* resource for KS1 includes two pages to support personal, social, and emotional development.
Page 1 is a full-colour version showing cheerful pictures of children in a school setting, while Page 2 is a black-and-white template for children to personalise.
Both pages feature shapes, thought bubbles, and speech bubbles where children can write or draw their feelings, thoughts, and ideas about returning to school.
Ideal for lessons on change, Ourselves, and school life, this activity encourages reflection, discussion, and creative expression.
Suggested uses:
Circle Time Discussion – Use the colour page to spark a group conversation about feelings on returning to school and / or change.
Individual Reflection – Children use the black-and-white template to draw or write their own thoughts and goals.
Display Activity – Create a classroom wall display showing each child’s personalised page to celebrate their return and individuality.
The June Sorting Cards: Plants and Animals resource is designed for EYFS, SEND, and KS1, featuring symbol-supported materials ideal for early learners.
It includes 9 colour and 9 black-and-white cards for each category—plants and animals—along with sorting headers in both colour and black and white.
Children sort the cards into groups, supporting early science understanding and categorisation skills.
The resource links to maths (sorting, grouping, comparing), science (living things, nature), and topics on animals and plants.
Visual symbols are used throughout to aid recognition and accessibility.
Suitable for individual work, small groups, or classroom displays.
Copy, cut and laminate the cards for games and displays.
Created using Boardmaker symbols under licence.
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.
Boardmaker licenced.
This 6-page printable resource is designed to support Key Stage 1 and EYFS children in developing their geographical knowledge through the engaging theme of world foods.
Each page features a popular dish linked to a specific country: Guacamole (Mexico), Pizza (Italy), Hot Dog (USA), Sushi (Japan), Baguette (France), and Fish and Chips (Great Britain).
The name of the food is clearly written, a colour picture for reference, and a black-and-white version for children to colour in.
This cross-curricular resource builds connections between geography and cultural awareness while supporting early reading, discussion, and fine motor skills.
There is an activity sheet included for teachers with suggestions for using the resource.
Bring numbers to life with this engaging Grizzly Bear Footprint Hunt and Worksheets pack – perfect for EYFS and KS1 learners!
Packed with playful, purposeful activities, this resource helps children build number recognition, sequencing, colour awareness, and early literacy skills through a fun Grizzly Bear theme.
With 10 footprint circles, large and small, (1–10) and versatile worksheets, children can colour, cut out, match, order, and hunt for footprints indoors or outside.
Whether used for individual tasks, group games, displays, or cross-curricular extensions, this resource supports hands-on, active learning and easily adapts to a range of abilities and learning styles.
Ideal for maths corners, number hunts, and topic-linked projects – a great addition to any Animal or Bear topic!
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 engaging resource introduces children to six animals found in the Caribbean, through literacy and word recognition activities.
Designed to support reading, writing, and topic work around holidays, animals, and the wider world, the pack includes:
Page 1 – A simple rhyming poem with six Caribbean animals hidden in the text. Children read the poem, find the animals, and label matching symbol-supported pictures.
Page 2 – A child-friendly word search using the same six animals, with a picture and word key for support.
Page 3 – An answer sheet for easy checking or self-marking.
Ideal for cross-curricular learning, this resource supports early reading, vocabulary building, and global awareness. It’s also adaptable for SEND learners with symbol support, clear layouts, and both colour and black-and-white options.
Boardmaker licenced.
This bundle includes four themed sets of dot-to-dot worksheets: A Day at the Farm, A Day at the Zoo, A Day at the Beach, and A Day at the Park.
Each worksheet features four topic-related pictures for children to complete by joining the dots, followed by space to label each one.
Designed for EYFS and KS1, the main focus is on developing handwriting and pencil control skills, while also supporting early literacy and topic vocabulary.
With cross-curricular links to geography, science, and Ourselves, these worksheets are perfect for reinforcing learning through fine motor practice and real-world themes.
This resource, A Day at the Zoo, features four worksheets designed for EYFS and KS1 learners.
Each page includes four zoo-themed dot-to-dot pictures such as a tiger, monkey and an elephant for children to join up and then label.
The activity encourages fine motor development, pencil control, and handwriting practice.
As children complete the images and write the labels, they build confidence in mark-making while also exploring familiar topics, such as animals, the Zoo and days out.
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.
My Spring Game is a bright and engaging resource for EYFS and KS1, designed to support learning about the seasons and weather while building early maths skills such as number recognition to 20.
The resource includes 2 colourful spring-themed game boards, a blank board for children to design their own, and a set of Spring cards to cut out and collect as they play.
Using dice, children take turns to move around the board, practising cooperative play and turn-taking. The pack also includes clear instructions with learning objectives, how to play, what you need, and game tips.
A Spring Champion certificate is included to celebrate each child’s achievement and learning.
Freebie tracing resource for children to help support fine motor control. There are two pages showing dotted lines of various fruit including plum, grapes, strawberry, orange, banana and watermelon. Children can read the words, trace the outlines and then colour the pictures.
My Playtime Game is a fun and interactive resource for EYFS and KS1, designed to support number recognition up to 20 while encouraging cooperative play and language development.
The pack includes 2 colourful Playtime-themed game boards, a blank template for children to design their own game, and a set of Playtime cards to cut out, collect and match along the Playtime trail.
Players move around the board using dice, practising turn-taking and teamwork.
Clear instructions outline learning objectives, how to play, what you need, and game tips.
A Playtime Champion certificate is included to celebrate children’s participation and progress in a playful learning environment.
This symbol-supported collection explores four journey themes: Going on a Journey, A Trip to the Zoo, Going to the Park, and My Train Journey.
Each themed pack includes 5 worksheets designed to support EYFS, KS1 and SEND children across a range of skills.
Activities in each pack include:
• Tracing and describing journeys
• Sorting key objects or sights
• Sequencing steps of the journey
• Word searches to reinforce topic vocabulary