FREE Early Years & Key Stage One: 2025 Calendar Art & Craft Templates Pack - Year Overview page & Month by MOnth Sheets
Start the new year right with our wonderful FREE New Year 2025: Calendar Templates! This engaging printable resource is perfect for EYFS and KS1 children, providing a fun and creative way to learn about the concept of time, while creating a useful and personal calendar for the year ahead.
Ideal for Preschool, Nursery, School, or for Parents and Childminders at home, these templates are a fantastic tool for developing an understanding of months, weeks, and days, all while practicing valuable creative and fine motor skills.
This fantastic FREE pack features:
Both a 'Year Overview' page and 'Month by Month' sheets. The pack provides a comprehensive set of templates for the entire year of 2025.
Space for children's creativity: The calendars have designated space for children to add their own drawings and/or art and craft designs, making each calendar a unique piece of art.
(Note: Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity suggested on this page and safety concerning any materials given and activity undertaken.)
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Our FREE New Year 2025: Calendar Templates are incredibly versatile and can be used in a multitude of ways across various early years and KS1 environments:
Focused 'Time' Activity:
Use the 'Month by Month' sheets to discuss the different months of the year, their names, and the number of days in each.
Talk about special events that happen in each month, such as birthdays or holidays.
Art and Craft Activity:
Encourage children to use the blank spaces to draw or create a collage to represent each month. For example, they could draw snowflakes for January and flowers for May. This helps to reinforce the concept of seasons and monthly changes.
Fine Motor Skills Development:
The acts of colouring, drawing, cutting, and sticking all help to strengthen hand muscles, improve pencil grip, and enhance hand-eye coordination.
Display and Gift:
The completed calendars can be a lovely and practical display in the classroom.
They also make a wonderful, thoughtful gift for children to give to their families, reinforcing the value of giving and sharing.
Differentiated Learning:
Younger children can focus on the 'Year Overview' sheet, perhaps simply making a handprint in paint (a wonderful sentimental keepsake of the year to give as a gift to family) or drawing a picture.
Older children can work on the 'Month by Month' sheets, writing a key word or two for each month and drawing more detailed pictures.
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EYFS Framework:
Mathematics (Shape, Space and Measure): Children learn about the concept of time and use vocabulary related to the days, weeks, and months.
Expressive Arts and Design: Children explore and use a range of media and materials, developing their own ideas and expressing creativity through their calendar designs.
Physical Development (Fine Motor Skills): The acts of drawing, colouring, and decorating the calendars help to develop precise hand movements and dexterity.
Communication and Language: Children can talk about the different months and the events that happen in them, broadening their vocabulary.
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KS1 Curriculum:
Mathematics (Measurement): Children learn to tell the time and use calendars to name and order the months of the year.
Art and Design: Children use drawing, painting, and other materials to develop and share their ideas and experiences.
PSHE: Supports discussions around personal history and future plans within a calendar year.
Download our FREE New Year 2025: Calendar Templates today and add a vibrant, educational, and creative touch to your learning as you welcome the new year!
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