Numbers 1-10 (and corresponding number of spots/buttons for 1:1 correspondence counting) on gingerbread men.

Ideas…

• Create a gingerbread number line.

• Place appropriate number gingerbread men for your child(ren) in a tuff spot along with Christmas themed loose parts. Can children count out the correct number of loose parts to give their gingerbread man?

• Play an ordering game…Can you place the gingerbread men in the right order? Or perhaps play which gingerbread man is missing? After placing the gingerbread men in order, take one away. Can your child(ren) work out which one is missing?

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Christmas themed challenge cards for children to use with building blocks such as Duplo and Lego. Children to look closely at the pattern/shapes/colours on the cards and attempt to copy them with the blocks.

Ideal for observation skills, problem solving, consolidating colour knowledge, fine motor control development and communication and language e.g. describing patterns/colours and discussing similarities and differences.

3 x Christmas building block challenge cards included in this sample pack.

Pack of 14 x 'Christmas building block challenge cards’ available to Premium members here.

Have fun!

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Whole year and month by month calendars with space for children to add their own drawings and/or art and craft designs.

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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A selection of 5 Christmas/Holiday themed activity pages. An additional front cover page is also included. 20 PAGE BOOKLET AVAILABLE for Premium members 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 card templates (9 different designs) have basic outlines of festive shapes to be used as a starting point for an art activity.

The cards could be coloured, painted, or collaged to create an individual card design to be given to a child’s loved one.

Designs: Gingerbread Man, Christmas Tree, Candle, Bauble, Christmas Jumper, Santa/Father Christmas Hat and Beard, Rudolf Reindeer, Robin, Snowman

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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As an extension to our ‘Present Shape Match Cards’, these cards allow children to not only use their observational skills to match the present with its contents, but also write a label for what they think is inside. (Smaller A5 cards also available.)

20 A4 cards/posters are included in the pack; a toy poster with label, plus a wrapped present child activity card to match with each. 10 presents in total. All are intended to be laminated for multiple uses.

Ideas…

• Place the 10 poster cards on display for your child(ren) to see. Give your child/each child one of the 10 activity cards. Encourage them to look at the posters and decide which one they think is inside their wrapped present. Encourage them to experiment with writing the label underneath.

• Alternatively challenge your child(ren) to imagine what they think is inside a present by giving them an activity card without letting them see the posters. This allows for a more open ended problem solving task, plus gives more freedom for children to practice the phonics skills they have at their disposal, by allowing them to sound out the word they have in mind without seeing the written answer.

• For additional differentiation/variation, we have created the poster cards in such a way that you may decide to separate the image and the label to make 2 separate cards out of each poster. This will enable you to allow your child(ren) to only see one or the other if you wish. For example, you may prefer to let them see the images to give them ideas for what may be inside their present, but would like to allow them to use their phonics skills to write the label independently.

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A selection of 10 Christmas Card Templates. These cards lend themselves to either being used as part of a focused adult led activity or left out as a more child led invitation to play.

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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Christmas Nativity themed vertical border paper. A variety of options including 2 types of lined and a blank sheet. Each of these are available within the pack in both full colour and black and white versions for colouring in.

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'Santa’s Workshop' role play pack.

Pack includes:

• banner

• windows

• character masks

• present props

• various signs

• A4 sized elves

• gift tags, present request forms and a name list scroll for mark making and emergent writing.

Perhaps the name list could be displayed in the role-play area and every child who enters writes their own name on the list (at varying levels).

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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'Santa Express' role play pack.

Pack includes:

• banner

• train tickets (colour, black and white for colouring and blank for emergent writing)

• train windows (one blank for children to design their own)

• Christmas wish list templates (colour plus black and white)

• Christmas food order forms (colour plus black and white)

• ‘North Pole’ and ‘Santa’s Workshop’ signs (colour plus black and white)

• luggage tags for mark making

• posters (1 blank template for children to think of their own)

• 2 x mark making activity sheets

• role play prop cards

• masks

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

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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Once laminated this ‘Design a Christmas Jumper Multimat’ is ideal to be used as a reusable playdough or loose parts mat. Alternatively, use in conjunction with whiteboard pens. Without lamination the sheet could also be used with mark making tools or art and craft cut and stick materials.

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These ‘Christmas Jumper’ Picture Snap cards can be printed, cut out and laminated as a fun game to consolidate children's recognition of and descriptive language surrounding Christmas jumper colours and designs. Each card is made with a backing tab for folding before lamination to provide a more robust final product.

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Encourage your children to colour the objects and count them as they go (1 to 20). Ideal sheets to practise 1:1 correspondence counting (where children place their fingers on the objects as they count them). Also great for learning written numbers and knowledge of items within a particular topic. Children may even enjoy using these as posters to create a themed number line on their bedroom or playroom wall!

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A selection of 10 Happy Holiday Card Templates. These cards lend themselves to either being used as part of a focused adult led activity or left out as a more child led invitation to play.

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Once laminated this ‘Star of Bethlehem Multimat’ is ideal to be used as a reusable playdough or loose parts mat. Alternatively, use in conjunction with whiteboard pens. Without lamination this sheet could also be used with mark making tools or art and craft materials such as collage.

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