Thirty practical invitations for exploring number composition, comparison, pattern, shape, spatial reasoning and measure. Offer real objects alongside a card and follow the child’s ideas. Five cards focus on number and composition; the other twenty-five broaden the maths available in autumn provision.

Using the cards

Choose one or two cards to place with suitable materials. Read the prompt aloud when helpful. “Wonder” offers an optional question; model the vocabulary naturally through talk, gestures or signs. Children can show their thinking by moving objects, pointing, describing, drawing or directing an adult. They do not need to read, record an answer or complete every card.

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Twenty-four invitations for making temporary arrangements with autumn materials, plus six reusable action cards. Children place, move, combine and take apart loose pieces without glue. Enjoy the choosing and changing as much as the picture or arrangement that emerges.

Offer an invitation

Place one card beside a small choice of suitable materials and a clear working space. The card sits beside the play; it is not a mat to fill or a picture to cover. Read the invitation aloud if useful, then allow time to explore. The illustrations offer a possible starting idea. Welcome abstract arrangements, stories, experiments and ideas that grow beyond the prompt.

The smaller “You could…” line is optional support if a child wants a way in. “Words to share” gives adults useful vocabulary to model through conversation, gestures or signs. Neither is a checklist. Children can point, choose, move pieces, direct a partner or watch before joining in; they do not need to read the cards or produce a finished picture.

Use the action cards freely

ARRANGE IT • CHANGE IT • ADD TO IT • TAKE SOMETHING AWAY • PHOTOGRAPH IT • START AGAIN

Choose any action card beside an invitation, or use the action cards alone. They are choices, not a sequence to complete. Ask before changing or dismantling a child’s arrangement. Offer a photograph if the child wants a memory, with adult help as needed. Agree when to leave work in place and when to gather pieces for another day. Photographing and starting again are always optional.

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Twenty-four invitations to design, build and adapt with autumn materials, plus four reusable process cards. The pictures suggest materials and actions. Welcome children’s own buildings, solutions and stories; there is no finished model they need to copy.

Using the challenges

Place one or two cards with a choice of suitable materials. Read the invitation aloud when useful. “Wonder” is an optional question to share when it fits the play; model the vocabulary through talk, gestures or signs. Children can build, point, explain, direct a partner or photograph an idea. They do not need to read the cards or record an answer.

Use toy animals, model trees and a pretend harvest. Offer blocks, short smooth sticks, bark, leaves, wood slices, cardboard, cloth, trays and suitable joining materials. Introduce an extra material or a changed problem when it helps the child pursue an idea. Keep familiar construction resources available alongside the autumn additions.

Plan it then try it

PLAN IT → BUILD IT → TEST IT → CHANGE IT

Display the four process cards together or choose the one that helps now. Planning can be talking, drawing, pointing or arranging materials. Agree what the building needs to do, try it gently, notice what happens and change a part. Children may move back and forth between the steps; this is a way to support play, not a fixed sequence to complete.

Adapt to the children

Primarily for Preschool and Reception. For toddlers, offer large lightweight pieces, one simple action and close adult support. Use fewer materials, wider stable bases and easy-to-grip joins where useful. Provide reachable floor or table space. Watching, choosing materials or directing an adult are valid ways to take part. Extend by changing a material, size or purpose, rather than always building higher.

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Eight movable woodland animals for small-world play, with optional name cards and folded supports. Use them alongside blocks, fabric, checked natural materials and animal figures you already have. Children can move, combine and reinterpret the pieces freely.

Approximate longest animal dimensions: hedgehog and mouse 6–7 cm; squirrel, owl and rabbit 8 cm; fox, badger and deer 9–10 cm. These are play sizes, not a true-to-life scale comparison. Illustrations show a grey squirrel, tawny owl and roe deer doe; names on the pieces remain simple.

Choose how to use them

Use flat on a tray or floor, place in suitable card holders, or secure to blocks. Keep any animal names separate so the figures stay open to imaginative use. Optional name cards are on page 4. Add only a few animals at first and follow the children’s stories.

Optional folded supports

Print page 5 on firm, foldable card, or use it as a template. Print it twice for eight identical supports. Make one first with your chosen card and check that it stands well before making the rest.

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Fifteen movable pieces to enrich your small-world provision: four trees, a log, a stump, two bushes, fungi, a leaf pile, stones, an empty nest, a burrow entrance, a tree hollow and a fallen branch. Use a few at a time alongside blocks, fabric, bark, checked natural materials and your woodland animals.

Trees are approximately 15–16 cm tall; most other pieces are approximately 6–10 cm across their longest dimension. These are practical play sizes, not a true-to-life scale. Use the 5 cm check line on page 7 to check the print size.

Page 8 includes optional cut, fold and stick supports.

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Eight woodland-find props and ten optional habitat signs to add to small-world play, with two blank signs for children’s own places. Use them with the animal figures and environment pieces, or with blocks, fabric and resources you already have. Offer a few pieces and follow the children’s stories.

The find props are approximately 6–7 cm across their longest dimension, including a little cutting margin. Signs measure 8 × 4 cm. These are useful play sizes rather than a true-to-life scale. The check line on page 5 should measure 5 cm.

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Eight habitat invitations and seven build-a-habitat cards to support children’s small-world ideas. Each has a new illustration and a few words to share. A blank invitation on the final sheet gives space for children’s own questions, drawings or dictated ideas.

Place one card beside a small choice of materials, or offer it when it connects with the children’s play. Read the prompt aloud if useful and allow time for children to notice, choose and try. The cards can be used in any order. Children can adapt the idea, choose another animal or follow a different story.

Offer materials that can change

Use blocks, short smooth logs, bark, suitable wood slices, fabric, trays and checked natural materials. Add your woodland animal figures or the printable pieces from Sections 1–3. Blue fabric can suggest water without needing a real water tray. Keep the space flexible so children can move, combine and add materials.

The pictures suggest possibilities, not models to reproduce. Animals in the illustrations can stand for the figures used in play. These invitations are for pretend small worlds, not instructions for housing or feeding real wildlife. Empty spaces can become homes for different characters; there is no fixed animal-to-habitat match.

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Twelve story starters and six reusable prompts for imaginative small-world play. Each offers a possible moment in a story. Children can choose the characters, decide what happened and take the play in their own direction. Use the cards with your woodland figures, loose parts and movable environment pieces.

The starters include a disappearance, a coming storm, someone lost, an animal needing help, approaching winter, an unusual find, a new arrival, a blocked path, too little food, a new home, an overnight change and a hidden sound. The reusable prompts ask what happens next, who comes along, where they will go, what has changed, who could help and what they might need.

Offer one idea and follow the play

Place a card near a small choice of figures and materials, or introduce it when it connects with a child’s story. Read the short line aloud if useful, then pause. Children might act, make sounds, move a figure, point or tell you an idea. They do not need to read the card, answer a question or complete a story.

The pictures are possible starting points. Children can choose different animals, invent another explanation or ignore the suggestion. For “Something has disappeared”, the missing thing is theirs to decide. For the hidden sound, leave its source open. These are pretend story situations; use animal figures and suitable props.

Keep the conversation responsive

Notice what the child has already introduced: “The mouse stopped at the path.” You could echo an idea or add a few words that help them express it. Offer one reusable prompt when helpful, then allow time. Avoid running through all six questions. A repeated action or a very short episode can be a worthwhile story in its own right.

Use the reusable cards with any starter, with a child’s existing story or on their own. They are choices, not a sequence. Follow children’s feelings and interests; choose a gentler starter or change the wording if loss, storms or needing a new home feels uncomfortable. Children can stop, change or return to a story whenever they wish.

Make room for different ways to join in

Offer fewer figures, larger lightweight pieces and a reachable play space where helpful. Children can select a character, use gesture or their usual communication supports, direct a partner or watch first. If a child wants a record, an adult can write down their words or help them photograph the play. Recording is optional.

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Seven illustrated invitations and six movable track strips support spatial language, investigation and storytelling in small-world play. Offer them with animal figures, blocks, logs, fabric and woodland pieces. Children can move, combine and reinterpret the materials freely.

Choose the pages you need

Pages 2–5  |  Beside, beneath, behind, between, inside, above and through; plus one optional blank card.
Pages 6–7  |  Fox, deer, rabbit, badger, squirrel and bird track strips.

Use position words within play

Offer one card when it connects with the play. Read the invitation if helpful, then give children time to move a figure, point, gesture or explain. The image shows one example; children can choose other animals, materials and arrangements. There is no need to copy the model or work through all seven cards.

Describe what is happening: “Your mouse is beneath the bark.” You can connect beneath with under and beside with next to. For between, show two reference objects. For behind, look from the child’s viewpoint and notice what is hidden. Above does not have to mean touching or resting on something.

Let children direct a partner or adult if moving the pieces is difficult. Use larger figures, fewer objects or a reachable play surface as needed. Children can respond with their usual communication supports. Change one position at a time if helpful; reading and spoken answers are not required.

Let tracks become part of the story

Lay one strip beside a log, lead it towards a tree or let children build a route with several strips. They might follow it with a figure, choose who made it or decide where it leads. Ask “Where might these go?” when it helps the play. The animal names are preparation labels outside the cut lines, so the strips can remain unlabelled.

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Autumn themed subitising posters which may also be used as mats. Each poster (1-6) displays the numeral on a central tree. Surrounding the tree are sycamore seeds, conkers, a hedgehog with dots and a dice which each subitise the number in different ways. In the top left corner we have also featured an autumn leaf with the number written in word form.

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This hedgehog subitising (subitizing) game encourages children to spot the hedgehogs with the appropriate number of dots (in different formations). ‘How quickly can we match all of the hedgehogs to the correct piles of cosy leaves?’

You may want to add an element of challenge with a timer, e.g. ‘Can we get all of the hedgehogs to their safe hiding spots before the timer runs out?’ (We would advise beginning without a timer and then only adding this element to progress the game once children are becoming confident. Start with a time which is definitely achievable.)

Choose the appropriate pack for your child(ren): Subitising to 3, 5 or 10. Other 2 packs available here.

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This hedgehog subitising (subitizing) game encourages children to spot the hedgehogs with the appropriate number of dots (in different formations). ‘How quickly can we match all of the hedgehogs to the correct piles of cosy leaves?’

You may want to add an element of challenge with a timer, e.g. ‘Can we get all of the hedgehogs to their safe hiding spots before the timer runs out?’ (We would advise beginning without a timer and then only adding this element to progress the game once children are becoming confident. Start with a time which is definitely achievable.)

Choose the appropriate pack for your child(ren): Subitising to 3, 5 or 10. Other 2 packs available here.

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This hedgehog subitising (subitizing) game encourages children to spot the hedgehogs with the appropriate number of dots (in different formations). ‘How quickly can we match all of the hedgehogs to the correct piles of cosy leaves?’

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Choose the appropriate pack for your child(ren): Subitising to 3, 5 or 10. Other 2 packs available here.

Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY. ‍ ‍

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These cards are to be cut and folded along the middle and then laminated to make a longer lasting resource.

The children are to be encouraged to say how many conkers there are straight away with no counting. They could use these independently and self-check or the cards could be held up by an adult as part of a group activity.

Print and use the cards appropriate for your children. 22 cards within pack for subitising numbers 1-6. Blank cards at the end to make your own if required.

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These cards are to be cut and folded along the middle and then laminated to make a longer lasting resource.

The children are to be encouraged to say how many conkers there are straight away with no counting. They could use these independently and self-check or the cards could be held up by an adult as part of a group activity.

Print and use the cards appropriate for your children. 22 cards within pack for subitising numbers 1-6. Blank card at the end to make your own if required.

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The children are to be encouraged to say how many conkers there are straight away with no counting. They are intended to be held up by an adult as part of a group or class activity.

Print and use the cards appropriate for your children. 22 cards within pack for subitising numbers 1-6. Blank card template at the end to make your own if required.

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Can you place pom poms or other loose parts on the multicoloured circles? Great for fine motor control and developing a pincer grip. Why not also introduce tools such as tweezers? Have fun!

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These cards are intended to be used as a stimulus for making numbers with natural materials in the outdoor area.

It is not intended for these representations to be copied exactly; any combination of natural resources will do!

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This mat is intended to be used as a stimulus for making numbers with natural materials in the outdoor area.

It is not intended for these representations to be copied exactly; any combination of natural resources will do!

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Have great fun with your children whilst all acting out Autumn sights with this set of 8 Autumn Activity Challenge cards. Perhaps children could stand in a circle around the pile of cards and take turns to pick one for everyone to do. Cards could equally be shrunk down and placed on a key ring to take out on adventures or featured on an indoor or outdoor display board and referred to with everyone carrying out the activity on floor space in front. Once the children get to know the cards they will be able to relate the action to the picture without necessarily needing the card read to them...For example an adult may be able to simply hold up a card and everyone will be able to do the activity together! For those children who are exceptionally engaged, these cards explored in sequence could even be set to music as a dance performance! Great for physical development, descriptive language, understanding the world and turn taking.

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Download this one stop 'Farm Shop' role play pack. Ideal role play area for the Autumn Harvest term. Pack includes banner, menu with prices, blank proforma menu for children to fill in, picture cards of various things to be sold in the role-play shop (to ideally cut out and laminate), food signs, open/closed signs, advert posters, shopping list templates, opening times poster (including days of the week) and product price signs (pre-written versions and those to be filled in by children).

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How many acorns does your squirrel need to store away for Winter? Fun number recognition and counting activity combined with a little messy play! Why not also use whatever art and craft materials you have on hand to also create little acorn hats to place on the tops of the finger print acorns? (E.g. scrunched up pieces of tissue paper, crepe paper/card/coloured paper cut to the right shape, or simply draw little hats once the prints are dry.)

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Numbers 0-20 (and corresponding number of spots for 1:1 correspondence counting) on hedgehogs. Create a hedgehog number line, or place appropriate number hedgehogs for your child(ren) in a tuff spot along with Autumn themed loose parts. Can children count out the correct number of loose parts to give their hedgehog? Or play an ordering game…Can you place the hedgehogs in the right order? Or perhaps play which hedgehog is missing? After placing the hedgehogs in order, take one away. Can your child(ren) work out which one is missing?

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Numbers 0-20 on squirrels. Create a squirrel number line, or place appropriate number squirrels for your child(ren) in a tuff spot along with acorns. Can children count out the correct number of acorns to give their squirrel? Or play an ordering game…Can you place the squirrels in the right order? Or perhaps play which squirrel is missing? After placing the squirrels in order, take one away. Can your child(ren) work out which one is missing?

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Autumn themed check lists. What will you find on your Autumn walk? Your children will love to use this as part of an out and about hunt activity searching for the various natural Autumn sights. (Versions with and without words provided.)

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1-10 Pumpkin themed number recognition counting puzzles. Match the number to the correct quantity of seeds. Practise counting objects which cannot be moved. Use as a table or floor activity or part of an interactive display board. Left uncut, can be used as flashcards, for number ordering games or tuff spot counting loose part activities!

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Can you make the correct number of acorns for your playdough mat?…Or place the right number of loose part objects on the acorns for your hungry squirrel? Can you make the shape of the number?…Or mould the shape of the squirrel? Great for motor skills, creativity (making simple representations of objects), number recognition and 1:1 correspondence counting!

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Set of 10 Autumn Leaf puzzles in various Autumn colours each with 2 parts. Ideal for our youngest children in order for them to begin to spot similarities and differences, recognise colours and solve problems involving observational skills.

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Can you make the correct number of wiggly worms for your hedgehog to eat? Great for motor skills, creativity (making simple representations of objects), number recognition and 1:1 correspondence counting!

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Have great fun with your children collecting Autumn objects. Why not use these challenge cards whilst out and about in the Autumn? Can you find the right number of Autumn items?

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Can you match the badger with the right number of worms it needs to eat? Badger cards numbered 1-20 with corresponding worm counting mats. Alternatively, laminate the worm mats and challenge children to count the worms and write the corresponding number in the central square with a whiteboard pen.

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Includes two versions of ‘5’ formation. Primarily designed for use as a mat to be laminated and used time and time again with whiteboard pens for children to practise their number formation, this resource has many uses. It could be used by a child once and taken home as a consolidation of their learning. It could be used as part of a Autumn and/or Maths display. Place it in a learning area where children may be writing numbers as a reminder of how to form numbers. Or alternatively use it as a counting playdough/loose parts mat.

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Use these fine motor leaves once for pencil control practise or laminate and encourage children to take it in turns with whiteboard pens to practise making the different shapes.

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Can you match the rake with the right number of leaves? Rake cards numbered 1-20 with corresponding leaf counting mats. Alternatively, laminate the autumn leaf mats and challenge children to count the leaves and write the corresponding number in the central square with a whiteboard pen.

Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.

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Autumn themed ‘Big’ and ‘Small’ concept colouring sheets. Ideal for provoking communication and language alongside physical development.

Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.

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How many acorns does your squirrel need to store away for Winter? Fun number recognition and counting activity combined with a little messy play! Why not also use whatever art and craft materials you have on hand to also create little acorn hats to place on the tops of the finger print acorns? (E.g. scrunched up pieces of tissue paper, crepe paper/card/coloured paper cut to the right shape, or simply draw little hats once the prints are dry.)

Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.

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Numbers 0-100 on a pumpkin background. Print one number to a page for use as a large number line display or four to a page for a set of flashcards or smaller display.

Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.

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Cut along the vertical lines on these Autumn themed number slice picture puzzles and allow your children to order the numbers to reveal the complete picture once again. Fun activity for number recognition and ordering skills. Also great for fine motor! Cut and stick use once activity or laminate to use time and time again.

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Cut along the vertical lines on this Autumn themed number slice puzzle and allow your children to order the numbers to reveal the complete picture once again. Fun activity for number recognition and ordering skills. Also great for fine motor! Cut and stick use once activity or laminate for repeated use.

Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.

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Autumn themed size ordering pictures. Intended to be cut out (and ideally laminated) for use by children in repeatable size ordering activities. If you have access to a fuzzy felt board, why not stick velcro tabs on the back so that children can move them around on the board? Alternatively use them as a cut and stick activity (to also strengthen fine motor skills) for the children to take home and discuss with their families using words such as ‘small, smaller, smallest, big, bigger, biggest’.

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Can you make the correct number of acorns for your playdough mat?…Or place the right number of loose part objects on the acorns for your hungry squirrel? Can you make the shape of the number?…Or mould the shape of the squirrel? Great for motor skills, creativity (making simple representations of objects), number recognition and 1:1 correspondence counting!

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Count the Autumn objects from 1 to 20. Print one or two numbers to a page for use as part of a display or eight to a page for a set of flashcards.

Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.

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Autumn Counting sheets which can be used in all the same ways as the full colour posters, with the added bonus that children may colour them. Perhaps your child may like to create their own number line display for their bedroom or play room wall?

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Ideal as part of an 'Autumn' topic. These Autumn themed Snap cards (1-10) can be printed, cut out and laminated to consolidate children's recognition of numbers and Autumn themed objects! Also why not use them to create addition and/or subtraction number sentences?...E.g. place the cards on the floor '4 (bats)' + '1 (fox)' = how many objects all together? (Children can use 1:1 correspondence counting to physically count all of the objects.) For a more robust design, try backing them on card. (Word cards available to help with children's subject knowledge).

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Display this poster in your setting to encourage children to look closely and pay attention to details. Whilst children will benefit from looking at this poster independently, you may choose to ask them open and closed questions about what they can see, how many, the colours, if they were there, what they might be able to hear, feel, smell, etc. Adaptable for all ages, including those very young to begin to categorise and label the world around them developing understanding before speech. In addition as challenges, older children may like to create their own maths problems, write their own word cards for the picture or even make up their own stories based on it (oral, drawings or written). Look out for more 'What can you see?' pictures.

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Fun and original game we’ve invented called ‘Squirrel Dash!’ Great for working on addition to 10 and number recognition. Who will gather 10 acorns and make it to the tree first?

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Simple, original and fun Autumn Leaf Fall Game. Help children to consolidate number recognition and also learn about subtraction whilst engaging in this fun Autumn themed game. Instructions included on front page. As an extension to this game, use a normal 1-6 dice and print (and laminate) more sheets per child.

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Autumn themed 100 square. Use as part of a display or give to individual children during activities. Also available in A3 size.

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Numbers 0-50 on a textured autumnal leaves background. Print one number to a page for use as a large number line display or four to a page for a set of flashcards or smaller display.

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Wellies Pictogram Chart pictures designed for children to not only think about their favourite colour, but also realise that others may not have the same favourite. In addition, children begin to learn about simple graphs and charts. Ideal for use in a classroom, preschool, nursery or childminder setting. Children do not have to complete the activity at the same time, but a chart can be added to a display and individual children can add their own favourites at appropriate times.

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