Getting to Know Me — Adult Prompt Posters

Notice a child’s choices, gestures and interests through everyday play. For babies, use the prompts to support responsive adult observation and familiar relationships.

Adult support · Follow each child’s communication

Daily Routines as Learning Opportunities — Babies

Reflect on feeding, changing, settling and everyday transitions. The guidance supports adults’ pace, presence and responsiveness in the familiar routines of a baby’s day.

Adult guidance · Babies, birth–18 months

Supporting Babies at Home

Guidance for parents, carers and practitioners about shared routines, comforting and communication. Support continuity between home and the setting without adding targets or pressure.

Adult guidance · Babies, birth–18 months

Families — Display & Conversation Posters

Use family images alongside familiar photographs to reflect the people who matter to children. For babies, this is adult preparation of an inclusive display; conversation and comparison are options for older children.

Baby use: adult display preparation · Older children: supported conversation

Home Corner Dramatic Role-Play Pack

Room signs, phone prompts, word cards, pretend food and list templates for familiar home play. Choose the props that help children's own ideas develop.

Bedroom Role-Play Pack

Use bedtime and household routines as a starting point for pretend play, with room for children to develop their own roles and stories.

Kitchen Role-Play Pack

Support pretend cooking, shared meals and family conversation. Adults can model useful words without requiring children to read the props.

Living Room Role-Play Pack

Bring familiar experiences into play through home roles, conversations and shared events. Offer a few relevant props and follow children's ideas.

Home Office Role-Play Pack

Make space for pretend work, phone calls, notes and messages. Model purposeful marks when the play creates a reason to record something.

Small World — Homes, Shelters & Spaces

Illustrated invitations for making homes, shelters, entrances and boundaries with blocks, fabric and familiar figures. Leave room to change the design.

Small World — Build, Change & Imagine

Build and adapt imaginary places with blocks, fabric and movable materials. Add figures when children want to give their construction characters and a story.

Bathroom Word Cards & Mat

Introduce bathroom vocabulary through shared talk and familiar routines. Keep selected words near play or drawing when they help children communicate an idea.

Bedroom Word Cards & Mat

Name and discuss familiar bedroom objects, then use chosen pictures or words as a reference during home play and mark making.

Kitchen Word Cards & Mat

Share kitchen vocabulary during pretend cooking and food preparation. Children can use the pictures and words when they want to label or explain something.

Types of Homes — Word Mat & Cards

Look at different homes, including flats, cottages, caravans and castles. Talk about familiar features and differences without assuming every home is the same.

Parts of a House Poster

Explore words for features such as roofs, doors and windows. Compare the illustration with buildings children know and the homes they construct in play.

Houses & Homes Colouring Sheets

Offer a home-themed picture as one choice for colouring and conversation. Check the resource preview to choose the pictures that suit your purpose.

My Family Picture-Frame Booklet

Make a small collection of drawings and words about familiar people. Children can choose who to include and talk about relationships that matter to them.

My Home Designs Booklet

Choose from the design pages to draw and explain an imagined home. Children can revisit an idea after building with blocks or other materials.

Construction Site Role-Play Pack

Add a construction-site context to home-building play, with useful signs, vocabulary and opportunities for children to plan and negotiate together.

Junk Modelling Design Sheets

Draw or annotate an idea before trying it with real materials, then revisit the plan as the model changes. Select a sheet relevant to the child's own project.

Junk Modelling Challenge Cards

Choose a construction prompt as a starting point for making with reusable materials. Let children try, join, test and change their ideas.

A4 challenge cards · All Access

Can You Build…? Challenge Cards

Use a building invitation when it connects with children's interests. Discuss what a construction needs to do, then try and adapt different approaches.

A4 challenge cards · All Access

Objects, Materials & Properties — Year 1

Notice what familiar objects and building materials are made from. Compare simple properties using real examples before recording or explaining findings.

Which Material Works Best? — Year 2

Compare possible materials for a useful job, such as a model window or keeping a toy dry. Explain choices using observations from a practical investigation.

House Number Cards — 0–20

Choose a useful number range for ordering, missing-number questions or matching numerals with counted objects. The colouring edition is an optional alternative.

Colouring edition · All Access

Household Objects — Two-Piece Puzzles

Match two parts of familiar furniture and household-object pictures. Begin with a few contrasting objects and talk about what makes a pair.

Colouring edition · All Access

Household Objects — Counting Posters

Choose a small, useful range for counting groups of household objects. Colour posters cover 0–20; the colouring edition covers 1–20.

1–20 colouring edition · All Access

House Number Playdough Mats

Make a missing house numeral with playdough. Model a familiar number shape and select mats that connect with the child's current interest in numbers.

My Home Drawing & Writing Sheets

Draw, make marks or write about a familiar or imagined home. Children can dictate an explanation or add words when those help share their ideas.

Houses & Homes Drawing & Writing Sheets

Offer a home-themed layout when children want to record or explain an idea from their experiences, stories or pretend play.

Household Objects Checklist

Notice familiar objects at home or in pretend play. Adults can help identify pictures while children record their observations with marks or ticks.

Maps, Plans & Routes

Make purposeful plans and routes for small-world homes, buildings or familiar journeys. Draw, explain and change a representation as the play develops.

Everyday Writing — Lists

Find real reasons for a list: pretend shopping, building materials or things a character needs. Children can draw, dictate, make marks or write.

Everyday Writing — Signs

Create signs that help someone find a place, understand a space or follow an idea in play. Discuss the message before choosing pictures, marks or words.

Everyday Writing — Labels

Give a model, room or collection a useful label. Use familiar vocabulary and let children decide what they want other people to notice.

Household Objects — Word Slice Puzzles

Assemble household-object words using selected Phase 2 and 3 graphemes. Choose words with correspondences children have been taught and blend the complete word together.

Houses & Homes Display Banner

Introduce a display or temporary play area with a Houses and Homes banner. Make children's own observations and creations the main content around it.

Home & Room Banners

Choose a Home, Bathroom, Bedroom, Kitchen, Living Room or Home Office banner to identify a pretend-play space. Add only the labels that serve the play.

Bathroom banner · All Access

Bedroom banner · All Access

Kitchen banner · All Access

Living Room banner · All Access

Home Office banner · All Access

House Alphabet Cards — A5

Select familiar letters for names, matching or taught letter-and-sound games. Lower-case, upper-case and colouring editions are available together here.

Upper-case cards · All Access

Lower-case colouring cards · All Access

Upper-case colouring cards · All Access

Household Objects Border Sheets

Offer horizontal or vertical border paper for a picture, label, message or explanation that children want to make.

Vertical border sheets · All Access

Household Objects Clip Art

For adults preparing their own visual supports, displays or activity materials. Choose relevant household images and follow the pack's terms of use.

Construction & Building

Browse further construction challenges, role-play resources, materials investigations and professional planning.

Home Corner

Explore familiar home routines, household vocabulary and purposeful pretend play in the wider home-corner collection.

Families

Find further ways to represent and talk about the people and relationships that matter to children.

The Three Little Pigs

Connect homes and building with storytelling, repeated language, character play and ideas about materials.

Goldilocks & the Three Bears

Explore a story set in a home, with familiar objects, characters and opportunities for imaginative retelling.

Small-World Play & Provision

Discover further resources for making places, moving characters and developing stories through play.