**Note: This page is for educational inspiration. 'Teddy Bear Day' is a widely celebrated, informal holiday with various proposed dates throughout the year (e.g., September 9th, October 27th, November 14th) and no single official founding body or website. It originated from the story of President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and a bear cub, leading to the creation of the toy. For historical information on the teddy bear, you can explore museum websites or historical societies focusing on toys and culture.
Wednesday 9th September 2026
Understanding Teddy Bear Day in EYFS & KS1
Hugs for Teddies! Teddy Bear Day is a charming and informal celebration that takes place on September 9th. It's a day to celebrate the beloved teddy bear, a timeless companion for children worldwide. The teddy bear's origin traces back to 1902, when President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub during a hunting trip, inspiring a political cartoonist and, subsequently, toy makers.
For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, Teddy Bear Day provides a wonderfully comforting and relatable theme for exploring comfort, companionship, pretend play, and safety. It's about cherishing a special toy, encouraging imaginative scenarios, and learning about care and responsibility in a gentle way. This day offers fantastic planning ideas and inspiration for engaging activities that truly resonate with young minds, making learning about social-emotional bonds and safety both endearing and practical.
Why Is Teaching About Teddies & Comfort Important for Young Children?
Integrating themes around teddy bears and comfort into your practice with young children (aged 0-7) develops their social-emotional development, imaginative play, and understanding of care. Teddy bears often serve as transitional objects, offering comfort and security as children navigate new experiences and emotions.
Emotional Security: Teddy bears provide a sense of comfort and familiarity, especially important for young children managing anxieties or transitions.
Imaginative Play: Teddies are central to imaginative scenarios, promoting creativity, storytelling, and role-playing, which are vital for cognitive development.
Empathy and Caregiving: Children often mimic caregiving roles with their teddies (feeding, comforting, bandaging), developing empathy and understanding of others' needs.
Language and Communication: Talking about teddies, their adventures, or their "feelings" (e.g., 'Emotions - 'Why is Teddy sad?' Activity Pack', 'Emotions - 'Why is Teddy happy?' Activity Pack') encourages communication and emotional literacy.
Safety Awareness: Teddies can be used to model and teach important safety lessons in a non-threatening way.
Personal Connection: Most children have a favourite soft toy, making this a highly personal and engaging topic.
Engaging Teddy Bear & Comfort Activities for Teddy Bear Day (0-7 Year Olds)
Make Teddy Bear Day a truly warm and fuzzy experience with these planning ideas and activities perfect for EYFS and KS1 children. The focus is on cuddles, creativity, and caring! Many of these early years and year 1 activities can be supported by the extensive range of printable resources we have available.
Here's some inspiration for bringing the joy of teddies into 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.)
Teddy Bears' Picnic: Organise a class Teddy Bears' Picnic! Use our 'Teddy Bears' Picnic - Role-Play Pack' and 'Teddy Bears' Picnic' Banner' to set the scene. Children can bring their own teddies. Use 'Teddy Bears' Picnic Basket - Drawing/Art & Craft/Playdough Mat (Free Sample)' and 'Teddy Bears' Picnic Basket - Drawing/Art & Craft/Playdough Mat' to prepare. Discuss 'Who's Coming to the Picnic?' and create an 'Our Favourite/Favorite Sandwiches - Pictogram'. Engage with 'My Tasty Sandwich - Writing/Drawing/Mark Making'.
Poorly Teddy Hospital: Set up a pretend "Teddy Hospital" or "Veterinary Surgery" to care for poorly teddies. Use our 'Poorly Teddy Posters’ . Encourage children to think 'What Happened to Teddy? - Critical Thinking'.
Teddy Bear Art & Craft: Provide materials for children to draw, paint, or decorate pictures of their teddies. Use our 'Teddy Bears' Picnic - Colouring Sheets' and 'Teddy Bears' Picnic - Illustration Activity'. Our 'Draw the Rest of Teddy' resource is a fun creative challenge. Make and wear 'Bear Ears ' or 'Teddy Bears' Picnic Masks'.
Teddy Bear Safety Lessons: Use teddies to model important safety rules. Our 'Teddy Bike Safety Poster’ and 'Teddy Scooter Safety Poster’ are perfect for this.
Teddy Bear Numeracy: Integrate maths by counting teddies, picnic items, or parts of a teddy. Our 'Teddy Bears' Picnic Playdough Mats - Number Challenge' are great for counting and playdough fun. You can also play 'Teddy Bears' Picnic - Colour Match Game'.
"My Teddy" Mark Making & Writing: Encourage children to describe or write about their teddy using our 'My Teddy - Writing/Drawing/Mark Making' sheets.
Traditional Tale Link: Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Connect to the classic story with our 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Masks - Colouring (Free Sample)', 'A4 'Today' Weather Calendar - Goldilocks Theme (Free Sample)', and 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' Banner & Key Phrases (Free Sample)'.
Teddy Bear Rhymes & Songs: Sing "Round and Round the Garden" using our 'Round and Round the Garden - Words/Lyrics Poster' and 'Round and Round the Garden - Words/Lyrics Small Sheets'. Use 'Round and Round the Garden - Lollipop Puppets Set' for engagement.
Display: Create a charming display with 'Teddy Bears' Picnic - Bunting' and a 'Teddy Bears' Picnic - C & L Poster' showcasing children's work and photos of their teddies.
Puppet Play: Use our 'Teddy Bears' Picnic - Lollipop Puppets' for storytelling and role-play.
These activities offer great inspiration for making Teddy Bear Day a memorable and impactful experience in your early years and Key Stage One setting, fostering social-emotional development, imaginative play, and a sense of care.
To explore ideas surrounding additional early years events, please visit our 'Special Dates Calendar' page.
Printable resources to support teaching & learning surrounding: ‘Teddy Bear Day’
Perfect for ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ role-play. Plus your children will love to colour the masks themselves!
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What will the bears take on their picnic?
These sheets can be used in the following ways:
Group Prompts to inspire discussion / communication and language skills and subsequent children’s art & craft work.
Printed for individual artwork use.
Laminated to be used repeatedly with whiteboard pens or as playdough mats.
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Perfect for ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ role-play.
Here’s how to create them:
Prepare a loop of paper to fit the child’s head.
Cut out the desired ears and stick to the paper loop.
Wear the bear ears to the picnic!
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These number challenge mats can be laminated to be used repeatedly with whiteboard pens or playdough.
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This ‘Today’ Small A4 Weather Calendar is ideal for use in a compact space such as within a home setting. More themes and sizes AVAILABLE HERE.
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Everything you need to set up a ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ role-play area!
Pack includes:
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‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ banner
Name badges
Teddy Bear Ears (full colour)
Teddy Bear Masks (colouring)
Sandwich Prop Cards
‘Welcome! Picnic this way’ Sign
‘Don’t be late!’ Sign - Space to draw hands on clock
Emergent writing/Mark making/Drawing Prompts - ‘Who’s coming?’ - ‘What will the bears take on their picnic?’ - ‘Shopping List’
Food Menu/Option Posters
Food Prop Cards
Bunting
‘Drink some water!’ - Jug Capacity Posters
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What will the bears take on their picnic?
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Group Prompts to inspire discussion / communication and language skills and subsequent children’s art & craft work.
Printed for individual artwork use.
Laminated to be used repeatedly with whiteboard pens or as playdough/play dough mats.
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Perfect for ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ role-play.
Here’s how to create them:
Prepare a loop of paper to fit the child’s head.
Colour and cut out the desired ears and stick to the paper loop.
Wear the bear ears to the picnic!
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Perfect for ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ role-play.
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These number challenge mats can be laminated to be used repeatedly with whiteboard pens or play dough.
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Perfect for ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ role-play.
Here’s how to create them:
Prepare a loop of paper to fit the child’s head.
Cut out the desired ears and stick to the paper loop.
Wear the bear ears to the picnic!
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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Perfect for ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ role-play. Plus your children will love to colour and personalise the masks themselves!
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Pack of 4 differentiated mark making stimulus sheets to encourage children to make marks, draw and/or write about a teddy bear who is attending the picnic. Sheets are designed to help children to develop their imaginations and create their own characters.
Sheets begin as a basic blank sheet with the title ‘Who’s coming to the picnic?’ to encourage imagination, discussion/communication skills and mark making.
The last sheet includes all additional prompts below:
Name:
What do they like to eat?
What do they like to drink?
What do they do for fun?
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‘Our Favourite/Favorite Sandwiches’ Pictogram Chart is designed for children to not only think about their favourite sandwich, 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 necessarily 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.
Simply place the large sandwich images in a horizontal line to form the base of the chart and children can add their own favourite smaller sandwich above to create the vertical lines of a chart.
The lengths of the lines can be compared and number of sandwiches on each can be counted to find totals. Questions such as ‘How many children like ham and cheese?’ may be asked. To really extend mathematical thinking, questions such as ‘How many more children like salad than the jam?’ could be delved into.
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Pack of differentiated mark making stimulus sheets to encourage children to make marks, draw and/or write about their teddy bear.
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Pack of differentiated mark making stimulus sheets to encourage children to make marks, draw and/or write about either:
Their favourite sandwich from memory,
A sandwich they have just created or
A sandwich they would like to make as part of a design process.
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What will your teddy bear look like?
Challenge your children to finish these teddy bear designs. 8 inspirational prompts to choose from.
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This colour matching set may be used in many different ways. Here are a few examples…
You may like to cut out and laminate the mats and separate cards to create an invitation to play for your child(ren). Children will naturally want to match the objects and colours, for example placing the blue cup card onto the corresponding blue cup on the teddy bear mat.
Play games with the children, perhaps putting things in the wrong place yourself, saying ‘Oh silly me! That’s not a green cup, it’s a red cup!’ all the while reinforcing the names of the colours.
As a cut and stick activity for individual use.
Give a specific colour mat to your child and encourage them to find the colour cards to match with the mat.
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Why not colour in the alphabet letters, cut them out and play a game placing them in order?
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Perfect for ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ small world role-play.
Includes various key images relating to a ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ designed to be adhered to lollipop sticks to encourage small world role play. Have fun!
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Pack includes 7 ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ themed colouring pages.
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Each sheet comprises a sentence with a ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ theme underneath a large box intended for mark making. Children can be encouraged to listen to the sentence and then draw a picture illustrating it.
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11 Poorly Teddy Posters included. Ideal for using as part of a medical/doctors and nurses display or activities such as role-play or emergent writing.
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11 Poorly Teddy A4 Critical Thinking Sheets included.
Encourage children to look carefully at the picture of teddy provided in the corner. What do you think is wrong with him? What do you think might have happened to him to make him poorly? Children can then draw and/or write their ideas in the space provided. You may even like to role play scenarios that the children come up with.
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11 Poorly Teddy A5 Posters/Cards included. Ideal for using as part of a medical/doctors and nurses display or activities such as role-play or emergent writing.
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11 Poorly Teddy Posters included. Ideal for using as part of a medical/doctors and nurses display or activities such as role-play or emergent writing.
Also perfect for matching game activity. For example the 11 Poorly Teddy posters may be laid out in front of children. An adult can then select a label and read it to them. Children can listen carefully and select the correct poorly teddy picture to match with the illness/injury they have heard.
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11 Poorly Teddy A5 Posters/Cards included. Ideal for using as part of a medical/doctors and nurses display or activities such as role-play or emergent writing.
Also perfect for matching game activity. For example the 11 Poorly Teddy posters may be laid out in front of children. An adult can then select a label and read it to them. Children can listen carefully and select the correct poorly teddy picture to match with the illness/injury they have heard.
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11 Poorly Teddy A4 Posters included. Ideal for using as part of a medical/doctors and nurses display or activities such as role-play or emergent writing.
Also perfect for a listening/problem solving/matching game activity. For example the 11 Poorly Teddy posters may be laid out in front of children. An adult can then select a description and read it to them. Children can listen carefully and select the correct poorly teddy picture to match with the illness/injury description they have heard.
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11 Poorly Teddy A5 Posters included. Ideal for using as part of a medical/doctors and nurses display or activities such as role-play or emergent writing.
Also perfect for a listening/problem solving/matching game activity. For example the 11 Poorly Teddy posters may be laid out in front of children. An adult can then select a description and read it to them. Children can listen carefully and select the correct poorly teddy picture to match with the illness/injury description they have heard.
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11 Poorly Teddy A4 Colouring Posters included. Ideal for using as part of a medical/doctors and nurses display or activities such as role-play or emergent writing.
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‘Round And Round The Garden’ Nursery Rhyme Poster. Useful for displays and reading or musical activities. Younger children will love to explore the rhythm and rhyme of this nursery rhyme and join in with words and actions, especially with the aid of visual stimulus. Perhaps with older children you might like to identify all of the Phase 2 or 3 sounds or high frequency words? Want to incorporate music? How about clapping or using percussion instruments to feel the ‘beat’? Have fun!
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‘Round And Round The Garden’ Nursery Rhyme Individual Handout. Why not send these home for children to enjoy sharing with their families? Small enough to fit in children’s bags and won’t waste too much printer ink, but will still encourage communication and language development at home. Children may also enjoy sharing what they have learnt at school/your setting regarding the rhyme, whether it be actions, new key words or letters and sounds or simply being able to recite the whole rhyme rhythmically. It also may encourage children to share with their families insights into their day e.g. ‘We played a game where our teacher pretended to be a nursery rhyme character and we had to guess which one she was’, or ‘We all took turns using puppets to act it out!
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‘Round And Round The Garden’ Nursery Rhyme Garden Poster with Lollipop Teddy Bear Puppets. The garden is on an A4 sheet. Why not place this on a wall and encourage children to take it in turns to move the teddy bear puppets around the garden and then make the puppets tickle each other at the end? Have fun!
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This pack includes colouring versions of the following Nursery Rhyme Lyric/Word posters:
Once I Caught a Fish Alive
Incy Wincy/Itsy Bitsy Spider
Round and Round the Garden
Hickory Dickory Dock
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Hey Diddle Diddle
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