**Note: This page is for educational inspiration and is not officially affiliated with Tree Dressing Day. Tree Dressing Day is an annual UK observance, typically held on the first weekend of December, though it can be celebrated at any time. It was initiated by Common Ground in 1990, alongside Apple Day, to celebrate trees and their importance in our lives and landscapes. It encourages communities to honour trees through art, ritual, and celebration. For official information and to learn more about this celebration, please consult the Common Ground website (www.commonground.org.uk/tree-dressing-day).
Saturday 5th - Sunday 6th December 2026
Understanding Tree Dressing Day in EYFS & KS1
Let's celebrate our leafy friends! 🌳✨ Tree Dressing Day is an annual UK observance, typically held on the first weekend of December, though its spirit can be embraced at any time. Initiated by the charity Common Ground in 1990 (the same organisation behind Apple Day), it is a celebration dedicated to trees and their vital importance in our lives and landscapes. It encourages communities to honour trees through a blend of art, ritual, and celebration, highlighting their beauty, ecological value, and the deep cultural connections we have with them. People often decorate trees with natural materials, ribbons, or lights, giving thanks for what trees provide.
For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides a wonderfully creative and nature-focused theme for exploring nature, seasons (winter/autumn), environmental awareness, art, and community. It's about fostering a connection with the natural world, understanding the role trees play, and expressing appreciation through hands-on activities. This day offers fantastic planning ideas and inspiration for engaging activities that truly resonate with young minds, making learning about ecology and creative expression both meaningful and beautiful.
Why Is Teaching About Trees & Nature Important for Young Children?
Integrating lessons about trees and nature into your practice with young children (aged 0-7) can help in fostering their understanding of the natural world, promoting environmental stewardship, and supporting holistic development.
Environmental Awareness: Helps children understand the vital role trees play in our ecosystem (producing oxygen, providing habitat, preventing erosion).
Connection to Nature: Fosters a love and appreciation for the natural world, encouraging outdoor exploration and imaginative play.
Seasonal Changes: Trees visibly change with the seasons, offering a tangible way to teach children about autumn/fall and winter, and the cycle of life.
Sensory Exploration: Engaging with trees (touching bark, smelling leaves, listening to rustling) provides rich sensory experiences.
Creativity & Art: Trees provide natural inspiration and materials for art and craft activities, encouraging imaginative and expressive design.
Physical Development: Outdoor exploration around trees encourages climbing, balancing, and running, supporting gross motor skills.
Engaging Tree Dressing Day Activities for Tree Dressing Day (0-7 Year Olds)
Make Tree Dressing Day a truly magical and nature-filled experience with these planning ideas and activities perfect for EYFS and KS1 children. The focus is on appreciating trees, decorating them with care, and celebrating their importance! Many of these early years and year 1 activities can be supported by adapting some of our festive-themed printable resources to a broader "tree decoration" context.
Here's some inspiration for celebrating trees 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.)
Decorate a Tree: Find a tree in your outdoor area or a local park (with permission!) and encourage children to decorate it with natural materials they find (leaves, pinecones, berries, ribbons, yarn, or handmade decorations). Emphasise the respectful treatment of the tree.
Handmade Tree Decorations: Create decorations that can be hung on a tree. Fingerpainting on a tree shaped cut-out for example.
Tree Art & Craft: Provide paper and art supplies for children to draw or paint their favourite trees. Use our 'Christmas Cut, Stick And Decorate Tree Activity’ and 'Christmas Design Sheets' as templates for designing general tree decorations or abstract tree art.
Tree Rubbings: Use paper and crayons to make bark rubbings from different trees, observing their unique textures.
Tree Story Time: Read books about trees, forests, or the changing seasons. Discuss what trees provide for us (shade, fruit, wood, homes for animals).
Sensory Tree Exploration: Blindfold children (or have them close their eyes) and guide them to feel different trees, describing the bark, branches, and leaves.
Building with Natural Materials: Provide sticks, twigs, leaves, and other natural "loose parts" for children to build their own miniature trees or tree houses.
Thank You Notes for Trees: Encourage children to draw or write short "thank you" notes to trees for all they do. These could be tied gently to a tree with biodegradable string.
Sing Tree Songs: Sing songs about trees, nature, or growing.
These activities offer great inspiration for making Tree Dressing Day a memorable and impactful experience in your early years and Key Stage One setting, fostering environmental awareness, creativity, sensory exploration, and a deep connection to the natural world.
To explore ideas surrounding additional early years events, please visit our 'Special Dates Calendar' page.
Printable resources to support teaching & learning surrounding: ‘Tree Dressing Day’
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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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
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Pack contains two separate addition mats. Print off (and ideally laminate) your preferred mat.
Mats are perfect for exploring addition of two quantities. Can be used as a teacher/adult demonstration tool and/or independent activity.
Place loose parts or playdough as decorations/baubles on each tree. Count the decorations/baubles and write the corresponding numbers in the boxes below. Count the total number of decorations/baubles altogether and write the answer in the final box.
Once children become confident with the idea, an adult may for example write numbers in the first two boxes and encourage children to place the correct number of decorations/baubles on each Christmas tree and find the final number independently.
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 1-10 (and corresponding number of spots/baubles for 1:1 correspondence counting) on Christmas trees.
Ideas…
Create a Christmas tree number line.
Place appropriate number Christmas trees 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 place on their Christmas tree?
Play an ordering game…Can you place the Christmas trees in the right order? Or perhaps play which Christmas tree is missing? After placing the Christmas trees in order, take one away. Can your child(ren) work out which one is missing?
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 1-10 (and corresponding number of spots/baubles for 1:1 correspondence counting) on Christmas trees. Full colour version available here.
Ideas…
Create a Christmas tree number line.
Place appropriate number Christmas trees 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 place on their Christmas tree?
Play an ordering game…Can you place the Christmas trees in the right order? Or perhaps play which Christmas tree is missing? After placing the Christmas trees in order, take one away. Can your child(ren) work out which one is missing?
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 these ‘Christmas Tree Multimats’ are ideal to be used as reusable playdough or loose part mats. Alternatively, use them in conjunction with whiteboard pens. Without lamination these sheets could also be used with mark making tools or art and craft cut and stick materials.
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How will you use this finger painting fairy lights activity? Perhaps children could cut and stick their designs onto the front of Christmas cards for their families…or they could be featured on Holiday/Winter/Christmas display boards (or even be the borders).
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A set of versatile A4 black and white Christmas trees with numbers 1-20 at their base. One blank template included without a number. Ideal for finger painting! Ask children to create the correct number of fairy lights on their tree with their fingers. As with our Christmas tree Playdough/Loose Part Mats, these black and white mats could also be used in this fashion. Or perhaps challenge the children to create their own loose parts artwork using the blank template?
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Decorations to cut out and stick on a tree outline. Different sized decorations for different cutting abilities.
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A set of versatile A4 Christmas trees with numbers 1-20 at their base. Perhaps use loose parts or playdough and challenge your children to place the correct number of Christmas tree decorations on their tree? Or practice learning how to roll sphere shapes out of playdough to decorate your trees with the right number of baubles?
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Large A4 blank Christmas Bauble, Tree and Stocking templates ideal for collage, playdough, painting or loose parts decorating art work.
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Additional ‘Christmas’ printable resources for EYFS & KS1
Please visit our ‘Christmas’ page to browse our entire collection of educational materials on this theme.
Pack includes:
(Number in brackets shows how many A4 pages)
• Themed bunting (12)
• Blank bunting (1)
• Christmas posters (2)
• Themed colouring placemats (6)
• Blank placemat (1)
• Themed targets for beanbag throwing game (4)
• Colouring ‘Christmas’ cards (10)
• Colouring party tickets (1)
• Blank party tickets (1)
• Paper Chains (2)
• Christmas colouring masks (6)
• Themed party invitation writing templates (3)
• Themed party time drawing sheet (1)
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Christmas 'Pantomime Theatre' role play pack.
Pack includes:
Banners x 2
Hi my name is…how can I help you? Name badges
Usher badges
Ticket templates
Open/Closed signs
Timetable for opening times (including blank clock face for children to draw on their own hands)
Various signs, e.g. box office, exit, stage door, actors this way
Seat number signs
Name writing activity - Character image posters with writing ‘Played by…’ with space for children to write their name underneath. Blank version also available for additional characters.
Pantomime call out posters, e.g. ‘He’s behind you!’ and ‘Oh no it isn’t!’
Pantomime advert posters - full colour, colouring in and design your own versions: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood.
Mark making border sheets
Character masks x 14
Mark making ‘Starring…’ sheets
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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?
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 1-10 (and corresponding number of spots/buttons for 1:1 correspondence counting) on gingerbread men. Full colour version available here.
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?
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 themed subitising posters which may also be used as mats.
Each poster (1-6) displays the numeral on a central Christmas jumper. Surrounding the jumper are stockings, a gingerbread man, a Christmas tree and a dice which each subitise the number in different ways.
In the top left corner we have also featured a Christmas present with the number written in word form.
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'Christmas Post Office' role play pack.
Pack includes:
banner
post box prop/display image across 2 A4 pages
name badges
opening times sign (with clock template to draw hands)
open and closed signs
various mark making sheets: ‘Special delivery instructions’ and ‘Sorry, you were out’ notes
1st and 2nd class stamp sheets (full colour & colouring versions)
various small signs & labels for items available for purchase with space for price tags
A4 sized posters/signs for display
Post office word mat & word cards
General post office mark making sheets
‘Design a stamp’ sheets
Have fun!
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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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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, consolidating colour knowledge, fine motor control development and communication and language e.g. describing patterns/colours and discussing similarities and differences.
Gingerbread Man, Christmas Tree, Candle, Snowman, Snowflake, Stocking, Sleigh, Snowball, Jumper, Holly, Cracker, Bell, Bauble, Rudolph’s Red Nose
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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Pack contains two separate addition mats. Print off (and ideally laminate) your preferred mat.
Mats are perfect for exploring addition of two quantities. Can be used as a teacher/adult demonstration tool and/or independent activity.
Place loose parts or playdough as buttons on each gingerbread man. Count the buttons and write the corresponding numbers in the boxes below. Count the total number of buttons altogether and write the answer in the final box.
Once children become confident with the idea, an adult may for example write numbers in the first two boxes and encourage children to place the correct number of buttons on each gingerbread man and find the final number independently.
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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Pack contains two separate addition mats. Print off (and ideally laminate) your preferred mat.
Mats are perfect for exploring addition of two quantities. Can be used as a teacher/adult demonstration tool and/or independent activity.
Place loose parts or playdough as decorations/baubles on each tree. Count the decorations/baubles and write the corresponding numbers in the boxes below. Count the total number of decorations/baubles altogether and write the answer in the final box.
Once children become confident with the idea, an adult may for example write numbers in the first two boxes and encourage children to place the correct number of decorations/baubles on each Christmas tree and find the final number independently.
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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Alphabet puzzle game. 26 puzzles, one for each letter of the alphabet for children to match upper and lower case partners.
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 detailed 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, 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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Five different child-sized Christmas masks for party / role-play.
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A selection of 20 Christmas/Holiday themed activity pages. An additional front cover page is also included.
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This story frame is designed for the names of the children and adults in your setting to be added to create a personalised story. This story could then be laminated to give to the children as a seasonal gift or just be read to the group and enjoyed!
To accommodate different sizes of settings, the number of names that can be added is variable but add names in wherever works for your setting! For smaller settings you can always repeat names.
Please note that due to the editable nature of this resource, it is only available in word docx file format.
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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This story frame is designed for the names of the children and adults in your setting to be added to create a personalised story. This story could then be laminated to give to the children as a seasonal gift or just be read to the group and enjoyed!
To accommodate different sizes of settings, the number of names that can be added is variable but add names in wherever works for your setting! For smaller settings you can always repeat names.
Please note that due to the editable nature of this resource, it is only available in word docx file format.
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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Five different blank child-sized Christmas masks for party / role-play. Can be coloured or decorated as required.
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 name-writing exercise in a Christmas Ticket theme.
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Ideal labels for your Christmas gifts! 2 pages ready to print onto sticker sheets from your printer. Choose the page you would like to make into stickers. The first page says ‘Happy Christmas!’ and the second says ‘Happy Christmas! Love from…’ with a space to enter the sender’s name.
This sticker sheet pack is compatible with Avery Label Sizes:
J8160 - Inkjet
L7160 - Laserjet
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Ideal labels for your Holiday gifts! 2 pages ready to print onto sticker sheets from your printer. Choose the page you would like to make into stickers. The first page says ‘Enjoy the holidays!’ and the second says ‘Enjoy the holidays! Love from…’ with a space to enter the sender’s name.
This sticker sheet pack is compatible with Avery Label Sizes:
J8160 - Inkjet
L7160 - Laserjet
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These templates (9 designs included) have basic outlines of festive shapes to be used as a starting point for an art activity.
The outlines can be coloured, painted, or collaged to create an individual poster design to be given to a child’s loved one.
Equally, the entire poster (or elements from within it) could be cut and glued onto a folded piece of A3 card in order to make a large greetings card.
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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These templates (9 designs included) have detailed outlines of festive shapes to be used as a starting point for an art activity.
The outlines can be coloured, painted, or collaged to create an individual poster design to be given to a child’s loved one.
Equally, the entire poster (or elements from within it) could be cut and glued onto a folded piece of A3 card in order to make a large greetings card.
Designs: Gingerbread Man, Christmas Tree, Candle, Bauble, Christmas Jumper, Santa/Father Christmas, 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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These sheets are for creating acrostic poems. This pack is for the word ‘Christmas’. Each line has a letter from this word.
Children to think of words (or a sentence) to add that begin with each letter. Great activity to think about initial sounds. Adults can scribe children’s ideas for them where necessary.
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 letter to Father Christmas is a great opportunity to learn about letter writing whilst having festive fun! 4 writing/mark making frames included.
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 letter to Santa is a great opportunity to learn about letter writing whilst having festive fun! 4 writing/mark making frames included.
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 1-10 (and corresponding number of spots/baubles for 1:1 correspondence counting) on Christmas trees.
Ideas…
Create a Christmas tree number line.
Place appropriate number Christmas trees 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 place on their Christmas tree?
Play an ordering game…Can you place the Christmas trees in the right order? Or perhaps play which Christmas tree is missing? After placing the Christmas trees in order, take one away. Can your child(ren) work out which one is missing?
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 1-10 (and corresponding number of spots/baubles for 1:1 correspondence counting) on Christmas trees. Full colour version available here.
Ideas…
Create a Christmas tree number line.
Place appropriate number Christmas trees 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 place on their Christmas tree?
Play an ordering game…Can you place the Christmas trees in the right order? Or perhaps play which Christmas tree is missing? After placing the Christmas trees in order, take one away. Can your child(ren) work out which one is missing?
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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