**Note: This page is for educational inspiration and is not officially affiliated with any single founding organisation for Siblings Day. Due to its grassroots origins and varied observance, there isn't one official website to credit beyond the general understanding of its purpose.
Saturday 10th April 2027
Understanding Siblings Day in EYFS & KS1
Let's celebrate our brothers, sisters, and special family friends! 💖👫 Siblings Day is a special day celebrated every year on April 10th in many places. This day was first thought of by a lady named Claudia Evart, who wanted to remember her own brother and sister. It became a day to celebrate the wonderful connection between brothers and sisters! Even though it's not a big official holiday everywhere, it's a lovely time for people to remember to appreciate, honour, and spend time with their siblings. It reminds us of the unique and important bonds we share with our family.
For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides a wonderfully personal and empathetic theme for exploring families, relationships, kindness and friendship, emotions and feelings, and personal, social & emotional development (PSED). It's about helping children understand the special roles siblings play (whether by birth or through close bonds), fostering positive family relationships, and encouraging acts of kindness within the family unit and beyond. This day offers fantastic planning ideas and inspiration for engaging activities that truly resonate with young minds, making learning about family love and friendship both essential and heartwarming!
Why Is Learning About Siblings Day Important for Young Children?
Integrating Siblings Day and lessons about family bonds and kindness into your practice with young children (aged 0-7) helps nurture healthy family relationships, develops social-emotional skills, and promotes empathy.
Celebrates Family Diversity: Acknowledges various family structures, including those with and without biological siblings, and highlights the importance of chosen "sibling-like" bonds.
Fosters Positive Relationships: Encourages appreciation, respect, and kindness among siblings and close friends.
Develops Empathy & Understanding: Helps children understand the dynamics of sibling relationships (sharing, playing, sometimes disagreeing, and reconciling).
Enhances Emotional Literacy: Provides opportunities to discuss feelings like love, jealousy, joy, and resolution within family contexts.
Promotes Communication: Encourages children to talk about their families and the special people in their lives.
Reinforces Kindness: Directs focus on specific acts of kindness and appreciation towards family members and friends.
Engaging Sibling & Family Activities for Siblings Day (0-7 Year Olds)
Let's hug our siblings (or special friends!) and celebrate for Siblings Day with these planning ideas and activities perfect for EYFS and KS1 children. The focus is on family, friendship, and kindness! Many of these early years and year 1 activities can be supported by our dedicated 'Families' and 'Kindness and Friendship' resources, as well as broader 'Emotions and Feelings' and 'All About Me' themed materials.
Here's some inspiration for celebrating Siblings Day in your setting: (Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity and safety concerning any materials given and activity undertaken.)
Celebrate Families & Siblings:
Discuss different types of families and who lives in each child's home. Emphasise that "siblings" can be brothers, sisters, or even very close friends who are like family.
Use 'Families - Topic Display Banners' to decorate your space.
Have children create their own 'Families - 'My Family' Picture Frame Booklet' or 'My Family' Booklet'.
Engage with 'Families - 'Family' Themed Colouring Sheets', 'Families - Posters', 'Families - Make A Family Member - Playdough Mat', and 'Families - Draw A Family Member'.
Encourage drawing and writing about family members with 'Families - 'My Family' Writing/Drawing Sheets’.
Kindness and Friendship:
Focus on what makes a good sibling or a good friend. Use 'Kindness And Friendship - ‘What Makes A Good Friend’ Mark Making'.
Encourage children to perform 'Acts Of Kindness' Activity And Display' and record them on 'Acts Of Kindness' Mark Making/Drawing/Writing A4 Sheet'.
Have children make cards for their siblings or special friends using 'Friendship' Card Templates’ and 'Thank-You For Being My Friend!' Cards'.
Celebrate kindness with 'Kindness And Friendship - Display Certificates/Notes' and 'Kind To Me' Display Certificates/Notes'.
Reinforce positive social interactions with 'Be The Reason Someone Smiles Poster'.
Link to collaborative play activities like 'Outdoor Picnic Area - 'At Our Picnic We...' Display’.
Emotional Understanding:
Discuss the range of emotions experienced in sibling relationships (e.g., happiness when playing together, sadness when disagreeing, joy when sharing).
Use 'Emotions - 'Why Is Teddy Sad?' Activity Pack' and 'Emotions - 'Why Is Teddy Happy?' Activity Pack' to explore feelings.
Introduce resources that encourage connection, like 'Let's Connect - With Each Other - Activity Prompt Poster' and 'Let's Connect - With Each Other - Activity Prompt Cards'.
Discuss worries and coping mechanisms using 'When I Feel Worried - Prompt Templates' and 'Mental Health - 'Healthy Minds' Poster' (from Mental Health resources).
All About Me & Our Place in the Family:
Have children talk about themselves and their family members (linking to 'All About Me').
Use 'Transitions - 'This Is Me' Sheets - Black And White' for self-reflection.
Creative & Play-based Activities:
Integrate general creative resources, such as 'Hearts Counting Puzzle/Activity/Game' and 'Colour Mixing Experiment Sheets/Display'.
Set up a "home corner" where children can role-play family scenarios using 'Houses And Homes - Home Corner Mark Making Pack'.
Explore More:
You may like to explore additional pages covering relevant and/or connected themes such as ‘All About Me’, ‘Birthdays’, ‘Emotions and Feelings’, ‘Families’, ‘Food’, ‘Handwashing and Hygiene’, ‘Holidays, Vacations and Travel’, ‘Houses and Homes’, ‘The Human Body’, ‘Kindness and Friendship’, ‘Mental Health’, and ‘The Little Red Hen’.
These activities offer great inspiration for making Siblings Day a memorable and impactful experience in your early years and Key Stage One setting, fostering family bonds, kindness, empathy, and positive social-emotional development.
To explore ideas surrounding additional early years events, please visit our 'Special Dates Calendar' page.
Printable resources to support teaching & learning surrounding: ‘Siblings Day’
Free ‘Sibling’, ‘Family’ & ‘Kindness’ related EYFS & KS1 resources:
These sheets are designed to encourage children to think about their families. The sheets can be used as simply a prompt for discussion or as a stimulus for children to draw and write about their own family.
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As well as part of an ‘All About Me’ topic to be completed at any time, these sheets are ideal for use during transitions. There are two sheets. The first is ideal to be completed by an adult alongside a child and the second by the child.
If you have a child who is moving to another setting or transitioning to school, you may like to fill this in with them to pass on to the next teacher/practitioner.
Equally, if you are a reception teacher about to receive a new cohort, you may like to send this home in advance of your new children starting with you.
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The bubbles on this ‘Healthy Minds’ poster all outline an aspect of how to look after your mental health. We hope it helps!
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It can often be difficult for children (and anyone) to deal with feelings of worry and anxiety. Once these feelings become overwhelmingly strong, it can be difficult to get passed them.
These 2 sheets are designed for children and adults to discuss what helps a particular child to feel happy when they are worried. This could be things like cuddling a particular soft toy, colouring, playing Lego, reading a book, etc. Once strategies have been decided, the child could make marks in the box(es) that will remind them of this strategy when they need to use it. Alternatively, adults may create picture prompts to place in the box(es).
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Pack of 'Home Corner' mark making/writing/drawing template sheets. Various designs included.
Have fun!
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Why not set up an invitation to play using these heart puzzles? Select those appropriate for your children (1-20 available) and allow them to match the number with the corresponding number of hearts.
Each pair has a different way of connecting as a puzzle for the children to match and so even if they haven’t learnt what the number looks like yet, but are beginning to say the numbers in order, this can be a fun way to introduce them to new challenges.
Once the puzzles are complete, why not line the numbers up in order and count together?
If your children would enjoy a further game, leave out a number and see if they can spot which one is missing from the sequence.
Puzzles could also be used as a fine motor control/counting activity if left uncut. Children could be given an appropriate number for their learning and encouraged to place objects on the hearts, counting as they go.
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Colour mixing experiment sheets with a heart theme. For example, paint the first heart white and the second red. Then mix the two colours together and paint the bottom heart in the resulting pink colour. You may want to repeat this for a few different mixtures and make a ‘Colour Mixing’ display.
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Following a discussion about things that make someone a good friend, children can draw and/or write their thoughts and experiences about a particular friend on these sheets.
Alternatively the sheets could be made available for children to use when they feel someone has been particularly kind to them!
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Banner for an ‘Acts of Kindness’ Display together with note sheets for recording the children’s kind deeds which can then be added to the display.
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‘Sibling’, ‘Family’ & ‘Kindness’ related EYFS & KS1 resources:
Pack of display banners:
- My Family
- Our Families
- Families
- My Family and Me
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These sheets are designed to encourage children to think about their families. The insert photo frame sheet can be printed multiple times in order for children to draw the number of family members required.
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Pack of 6 different colouring sheets.
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Pack of display posters depicting a handful of the many different forms families take. 5 posters included. Useful teaching prompts for communication and language; personal, social and emotional development and understanding the world. Cover topics such as ‘All About Me’, ‘Ourselves’ and ‘My Family’, whilst considering diversity and inclusion.
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These sheets are designed to encourage children to think about their family members. Children may be encouraged to think about one family member and consider their appearance. Prompts on the poster/mat/sheet include 'What is their hair like?', 'Are they smiling?', 'Do they wear glasses?' and 'Don't forget their nose!'
This printable was primarily designed as a playdough mat, but could be used as an individual mark making sheet, a poster prompt or laminated to be used with whiteboard pens multiple times.
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These sheets are designed to encourage children to think about their family members. Children may be encouraged to think about one family member and consider their appearance. Prompts on the poster/mat/sheet include 'What is their hair like?', 'Are they smiling?', 'Do they wear glasses?' and 'Don't forget their nose!'
This printable could be used as an individual mark making sheet, a poster prompt or laminated to be used with whiteboard pens multiple times.
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Primarily a drawing activity, this 'My Family' booklet can be given to individual children in order for them to think about who is in their family. Print those pages to the booklet appropriate for you children/purpose. Pages include a space for children to draw themselves, their family group and also an extra page for individual family members. This last page can be left out or printed multiple times for various family members. Front page includes a space for the child's name.
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These sheets are designed to encourage children to think about their families. The sheets can be used as simply a prompt for discussion or as a stimulus for children to draw and write about their own family.
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 sheets are designed to encourage children to think about their families. The sheets can be used as simply a prompt for discussion or as a stimulus for children to draw and write about their own family.
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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We created this ‘Why is Teddy sad?’ pack in order for you to be able to explore with children how sometimes something may feel wrong inside when there are no obvious cuts, bruises, etc.
As well as investigating the feeling of ‘sadness’ by talking about what might cause us to feel sad and what it actually feels like, this pack could also be a doorway to talking about mental health. It also aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
Keywords: feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, autism, autistic, mental health, wellness, colouring page/pages/sheet/sheets, empathy, role play, role-play, mindfulness
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We created this ‘Why is Teddy happy?’ pack in conjunction with our ‘Why is Teddy sad?’ pack in order for you to be able to explore emotions, empathy and mental health with children.
As well as investigating the feeling of ‘happiness’ by talking about what might cause us to feel happy and what it actually feels like, this pack could also be a doorway to talking about mental health. In addition, it aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
Keywords: feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, autism, autistic, mental health, wellness, colouring page/pages/sheet/sheets, empathy, role play, role-play, mindfulness
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PLAY - CONNECT - TALK
On this poster are ideas for fun activities that could be undertaken 1:1 with a child in the hopes of fostering a connection that could lead to talk.
A relaxed, fun situation is conducive to conversation which, as well as developing talking skills, will provide an opportunity for the child to express their feelings about themselves and others.
We hope this helps!
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PLAY - CONNECT - TALK
These prompt cards are ideas for fun activities that could be undertaken 1:1 with a child in the hopes of fostering a connection that could lead to talk.
A relaxed, fun situation is conducive to conversation which, as well as developing talking skills, will provide an opportunity for the child to express their feelings about themselves and others.
We hope this helps!
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This poster gives 20 fun activity ideas to show kindness.
We hope this helps!
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These activity cards outline 20 fun activity ideas to show kindness.
We hope this helps!
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Heart themed ‘Kindness’ certificates/notes. These certificate and note sheets are intended either for use by an adult/teacher or by a child.
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Following a discussion about things that make someone a good friend, children can draw and write about their thoughts and experiences on these sheets.
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Following a discussion about things that make someone a good friend, children can draw and/or write their thoughts and experiences about a particular friend on these sheets.
Alternatively the sheets could be made available for children to use when they feel someone has been particularly kind to them!
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This activity is intended to encourage the children to really think about their friend’s likes.
Each of these cards has the same message across the front but is accompanied by a different image. The children must think about which card they think their friend will like best before colouring it for them. 15 templates included.
N.B. The final page has a card with no image for the children to draw their own.
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A selection of 8 ‘Thank-you for being kind!’ cards. Children may design, decorate and colour one of these cards and give it to someone when they would like to show their appreciation for someone’s kindness.
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Banner for an ‘Acts of Kindness’ Display together with note sheets for recording the children’s kind deeds which can then be added to the display.
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Following a discussion about kind deeds children can draw and write about their experiences on these sheets.
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Heart and Star shaped ‘Kind to me’ certificates/notes. Children may be encouraged to think (for example on a Friday) about who has been kind to them during that week. Children can then draw or write about how that person was kind to them and can give the certificate they have made to that person. This can either then be taken home by the child who did the act of kindness or put on the wall as part of a setting/class display.
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This mat is designed to encourage creativity whilst also engaging children in thinking about size. Ideal for use after a trip to the beach.
Who will share this shell?
Two printable sheets provided for a variety of purposes…mark making and drawing, playdough or even small world role-play!
How many creatures can share your shell? What are they each like? Do they work together to help each other?
Great for use alongside reading ‘Sharing a Shell’!
Keywords: shells, share, sharing, fit, capacity, size, big, bigger, biggest, small, smaller, smallest, counting, count, one to one correspondence, shape, natural, playdough, prompt, activities, activity, mat, maths, mathematics, math, numeracy, creative, creativity, role play
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Sunday 25th April 2027: 🐧❄️ For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, World Penguin Day provides a fantastic and engaging theme for exploring animals (birds, polar animals, ocean life), habitats, conservation, life cycles,…
Friday 23rd April 2027: 🎭🖋️ For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, Shakespeare Day provides a fantastic and inspiring theme for exploring history (people from the past), storytelling, language and vocabulary, creative arts…
Thursday 22nd April 2027: 🌍💚 Earth Day is a special day celebrated every year on April 22nd. It was started by a man named Senator Gaylord Nelson in the United States in 1970, because he wanted everyone to learn about how important it is to protect…
Saturday 10th April 2027: 💖👫 Siblings Day is a special day celebrated every year on April 10th in many places. This day was first thought of by a lady named Claudia Evart, who wanted to remember her own brother and sister. It became a day to celebrate the…
Friday 9th April 2027: ✨🦄 National Unicorn Day is a special day celebrated every year on April 9th. This day is all about celebrating the amazing, magical creature that is the unicorn! Unicorns are symbols of purity, innocence, magic, and enchantment, and they…
Wednesday 7th April 2027: 🍎💪 World Health Day is a special day celebrated every year on April 7th. It's organised by the World Health Organization (WHO), which is a big group from the United Nations that helps with health all over the world. This day celebrates…
Friday 2nd April 2027: 📖✨ International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated every year on April 2nd. This special day is chosen because it's the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, a very famous writer of fairy tales. It was started in 1967 by a group called…
Thursday 1st April 2027: Let's have some giggles and harmless fun with jokes for April Fools’ Day! 😂🗓️ April Fools’ Day is observed annually on April 1st. Its origins are uncertain, with various theories suggesting…
1st - 30th April 2027: ❤️ World Autism Acceptance Month is celebrated every year in April, with a special focus on World Autism Awareness Day on April 2nd. World Autism Awareness Day was first started by the United Nations (UN) in 2007. Over time, the name evolved…
1st April - 1st May 2027: 🐾❤️ National Pet Month is a special time celebrated every year in the UK from the1st of April to the 1st of May. It's organised by the National Pet Month charity. The main idea of this month is to teach everyone how to be a responsible pet owner and…
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This page is for educational purposes only and is intended to support early years and primary practitioners with ideas and resources related to 'Siblings Day'. This day is an annual observance celebrating the bond between siblings and is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by any single founding organisation that governs its celebration globally. It was conceived by Claudia Evart to honour her siblings. We do not claim any rights to specific trademarks or official materials associated with this informal observance. The activities provided aim to encourage appreciation, kindness, and positive relationships within families and among friends.
Thursday 29th April 2027: 💃🕺 International Dance Day is a day celebrated every year on April 29th. It was started in 1982 by a group called the Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), which works closely with UNESCO. This day is chosen…