Storybooks
ANIMALS - Decorate an Elephant Mask
Two elephant mask templates included within this pack. One plain and one patchwork. Ideal for art and craft and role play!
You may like to read ‘Elmer (the patchwork elephant)’ alongside this resource.
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ANIMALS - Decorate the Elephants
Two elephant decoration sheets included within this pack. One plain which includes a single elephant and another which includes two. Ideal for imaginative art and craft! What colours and patterns will your unique looking elephant be?
You may like to read ‘Elmer (the patchwork elephant)’ alongside this resource.
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ALL ABOUT ME - Decorate a 'Patchwork Person'
Pack includes 11 different ‘Patchwork Person’ templates. Great to support teaching and learning surrounding individuality and diversity.
You may like to read ‘Elmer (the patchwork elephant)’ alongside this resource.
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ZOO - What Animal did the Zoo Send You?
'What animal did the zoo send you?’ Writing/Drawing/Mark Making Sheets.
Great for use alongside reading ‘Dear Zoo’!
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POST OFFICE - Role-Play Pack
'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
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ZOO - Animal Movement/Activity Challenge
Have great fun with your children whilst all pretending to be zoo animals with this set of 8 Zoo Activity Challenge cards!
Perhaps children could stand in a circle around the pile of cards and take turns to pick one for everyone to do? Cards could equally be shrunk down and placed on a key ring to take out on adventures or featured on an indoor or outdoor display board and referred to with everyone carrying out the activity on floor space in front. Once the children get to know the cards they will be able to relate the action to the picture without necessarily needing the card read to them...For example an adult may be able to simply hold up a card and everyone will be able to do the activity together! For those children who are exceptionally engaged, these cards explored in sequence could even be set to music as a dance performance!
Great for physical development, descriptive language, understanding the world and turn taking.
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BOOKS - 'Animals in the House' Sheet
Versatile ‘How many animals can you fit in the house?’ sheet/mat. Great for use alongside reading ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’!
Here are some ideas:
Place small world animals into the house. Practice 1:1 correspondence counting.
Laminate and use as a playdough mat. Have fun creating playdough animals.
Draw/make marks to represent animals inside the house.
Have fun!
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PETS - 'My Pet Spider Can' drawing/writing/mark making sheets
Pack of sheets of varying layouts which are designed to provoke discussion and inspire mark making/drawing. Children may like to write/draw about what they think a real pet spider could do or a fictitious, even fantastical one! What can your pet spider do?
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PETS - 'My Pet Can' drawing/writing/mark making sheets
Pack of sheets of varying layouts which are designed to provoke discussion and inspire mark making/drawing. Children may like to write/draw about a real pet they have or a fictitious, even fantastical one! What can your pet do?
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FARM - Animal Noises (Phase 1 Phonics/Letters and Sounds)
Posters to help children to vocalise the sounds that animals make. Encourage the children to make the noises both loudly and quietly.
Perfect for use alongside reading ‘Farmyard Hullabaloo’, ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ or ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’!
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FARM - Animal Noises Thunderstorm Game (Phase 1 Phonics/Letters and Sounds)
A thunderstorm! Quick get round the farm on your tractor and check on all the animals. They must be a bit frightened; they’re making a lot of noise!
The aim of this game is to encourage the link between images and specific repeatable sounds (Phase 1 Phonics/Letters & Sounds).
• Choose a game piece (either the tractors supplied or use counters/small world characters of your own)
• Roll the dice (choose dice with numbers appropriate for your children)
• Move your game piece along the board
• Make the right noise for the square you land on
• First to the finish is the winner!
(You may like to discuss the pictures with the children before playing the game and assign a sound to each image.)
Perfect for use alongside reading ‘Farmyard Hullabaloo’, ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ or ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’!
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FARM - Animal Sounds Mat (Phase 1 Phonics/Letters and Sounds)
Point to an animal and make its sound!
Phase 1 Phonics/Letters & Sounds Mat designed to…encourage children to identify sounds in the world around them, vocalise them and recreate that sound in response to a particular image in preparation for relating letters to sounds in phase 2.
You may like to use this game/activity mat in conjunction with our ‘Farm Animal Thunderstorm Sounds Game’.
Perfect for use alongside reading ‘Farmyard Hullabaloo’, ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ or ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’!
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FARM ANIMAL - Lollipop Puppets
Farm animal lollipop puppet set. Perfect for small world role-play surrounding farmyard animals and their babies/young.
Includes piglet, lamb, duckling, calf, puppy, duck, chick, rooster, hen, gosling, goose, kid, sheep, goat, foal (horse), donkey, foal (donkey), cow, dog, pig, horse and cat. Also included as extras that may be useful in the re-telling of some stories: fox, owl and ladybird.
Perfect for use alongside reading ‘Farmyard Hullabaloo’, ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ or ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’!
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FARM ANIMAL - Lollipop Puppets (Colouring)
Farm animal lollipop puppet set (colouring version). Perfect for small world role-play surrounding farmyard animals and their babies/young.
Includes piglet, lamb, duckling, calf, puppy, duck, chick, rooster, hen, gosling, goose, kid, sheep, goat, foal (horse), donkey, foal (donkey), cow, dog, pig, horse and cat. Also included as extras that may be useful in the re-telling of some stories: fox, owl and ladybird.
Perfect for use alongside reading ‘Farmyard Hullabaloo’, ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ or ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’!
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FOREST SCHOOL - 'My Outdoor Art' Frame
Versatile ‘My Outdoor Art’ frames. Here are some ideas:
Create artwork in your outdoor area/garden/local park/forest/beach using natural loose parts such as pebbles, twigs, shells, leaves, etc. Take a photo and place the photo in this frame for display.
Collect natural loose parts from the outdoors and use them to create a collage within this frame.
Take these sheets outside attached to a clipboard, find a calm spot and make marks/drawings to reflect what you can see, hear, smell, etc.
Have fun!
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'Create a Mandala' activity card within this mindfulness pack
Use natural items to make a mandala; repeating patterns in concentric circles.
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AUTUMN - Natural Items Pictures/Artwork
These cards/mats are intended to inspire children to use natural, autumnal items to create pictures.
It is not intended for these representations to be copied exactly; any combination of natural resources will do!
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BEACH - Natural Loose Parts Pictures
These cards/mats are intended to inspire children to use natural, beach items to create pictures.
It is not intended for these representations to be copied exactly; any combination of natural resources will do!
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OUTDOOR MATHS - 'Shape' Natural Items Artwork
These cards are intended to be used as a stimulus for making shapes with natural materials in the outdoor area.
Extensions could include asking what other shapes the children could make or what other materials could they use.
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TIGER - Activity Pack
The pages of this pack give some general information about tigers and some fun and engaging activities to foster and develop children’s interest in them.
Pack includes:
• Fact posters x3 (Could be used as stimuli for a lesson input)
• Number slice activity (1-10) (Can be pre-cut for a pure number ordering activity or left to be cut by child to add scissor practice)
• Number slice activity - colouring version (1-10) (As above but to be coloured before cutting)
• Description sheet (Can be used as an independent writing activity or with an adult scribing the ideas of a younger child)
• A4 poster
• A4 poster - colouring version
• ‘Body Parts’ x3 (fully labelled, initial sounds only, blank)
• Draw and write sheets x3 (blank sheet, wide lines and narrow lines)
• 1x 4-piece puzzle
• Multimats x4 (for Colouring/Art & Craft/Loose Parts/Playdough)
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BARN OWL - Activity Pack
The pages of this pack give some general information about barn owls and some fun and engaging activities to foster and develop children’s interest in them.
Pack includes:
• Fact posters x3 (Could be used as stimuli for a lesson input)
• Number slice activity (1-10) (Can be pre-cut for a pure number ordering activity or left to be cut by child to add scissor practice)
• Number slice activity - colouring version (1-10) (As above but to be coloured before cutting)
• Description sheet (Can be used as an independent writing activity or with an adult scribing the ideas of a younger child)
• A4 poster
• A4 poster - colouring version
• ‘Body Parts’ x3 (fully labelled, initial sounds only, blank)
• Draw and write sheets x3 (blank sheet, wide lines and narrow lines)
• 1x 4-piece puzzle
• Multimats x2 (for Colouring/Art & Craft/Loose Parts/Playdough)
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'Mummy Owl and Owlets' Pencil Control Sheets/Mats
These ‘Mummy Owl and Owlets‘ pencil control sheets/mats are perfect for the development of fine motor control using mark making tools or even just a tracing finger! Smooth and spiky patterns included.
Ideal for both individual use to ‘take home’ or laminated for multiple uses with whiteboard pens.
You may like to read ‘Owl Babies’ alongside this resource.
Keywords: mark making, make marks, activities, activity, woodlands, trees, forest, animal, dotted line, pencil control, fine motor, owl, barn owl, owlets, owl babies, finger tracing, smooth/curved lines, spiky/pointy lines
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'Mummy Owl and Owlets' Pencil Control Mats
These ‘Mummy Owl and Owlets’ pencil control mats are perfect for the development of fine motor control using mark making tools or even just a tracing finger! Smooth and spiky patterns included.
Ideal for multiple uses with whiteboard pens/a tracing finger once laminated. Mats could also be used with playdough or loose parts!
You may like to read ‘Owl Babies’ alongside this resource.
Keywords: mark making, make marks, activities, activity, woodlands, trees, forest, animal, dotted line, pencil control, fine motor, owl, barn owl, owlets, owl babies, finger tracing, smooth/curved lines, spiky/pointy lines
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WOODLAND BIRDS - Egg Match Puzzles (including owl)
This matching puzzle has a different connection for each set to allow the children to self-correct.
The intention of the resource is not necessarily for children to learn the different egg types. It is more to become aware that eggs from different birds can look very different.
10 puzzles included: pigeon, nightingale, tree sparrow, robin, buzzard, magpie, blackbird, blue tit, barn owl & swallow.
Perfect for use alongside reading ‘Owl Babies’!
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'Mummy Owl and Owlets' Letters and Sounds Dice Game - Phase 2 and 3 Phonics
Help your Mummy Owl to get home to her owl babies/owlets after a busy night hunting for food with this fun and engaging Letters and Sounds game.
Two different boards to choose from - one for Phase 2 Sounds and another for Phase 3 Sounds. Dice required.
Children choose a Mummy Owl to place at the start, roll the dice and move the appropriate number of sound squares towards their baby owls. When they land on a sound square they can practise saying the sound. Have fun!
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BEACH - Who will Share this Shell?
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, 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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BEACH - Can you Share the Shells Fairly?
This mat is designed to engage children in learning about the concept of sharing quantities equally. How to use…
Adult or child can choose a number to write in the top right corner.
Then child to count that number of shells for the top box.
Finally, the child can investigate if the shells can be shared out fairly into the two bottom boxes.
Great for use alongside reading ‘Sharing a Shell’!
Keywords: shells, sharing, dividing, equally, fairly, natural, loose part, items, materials, prompt, activities, activity, mat, maths, mathematics, math, numeracy, half, halving, double, doubling
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BEACH - Mindfulness Colouring
16 colouring pages include: crab, hermit carb, limpets and barnacles, sea slater, mermaid’s purse, anemone, seagull, seaweed, periwinkle, shells, rockpool, blenny/shanny fish, whelk, fossils and starfish.
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BEACH - How Many Shells Can You Fit? (Rockpool)
This mat is designed to engage children in thinking about size. Ideal for use after a trip to the beach.
How many shells can you fit into the rockpool? Does it matter what type of shells they are? How many big shells can you fit? How many smaller ones? Does it matter what shape the shells are?
Great for use alongside reading ‘Sharing a Shell’!
Keywords: shells, fit, size, big, bigger, biggest, small, smaller, smallest, counting, count, one to one correspondence, shape, natural, loose part, items, materials, prompt, activities, activity, mat, maths, mathematics, math, numeracy
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Rock Pool Playdough Mat - Make Starfish
Challenge your children to create the right number of starfish for their rockpool using playdough. Laminate the sheet first for multiple uses. Choose a number you think is appropriate for your child to practise and write into the bottom box with a whiteboard pen.
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BEACH - Rockpool Wildlife Fact Cards
Ten rockpool wildlife fact cards which include engaging images and interesting facts to inspire your rockpool investigations.
Keywords: rockpool, fact card, hermit crab, shell, animal, barnacle, limpet, protect, predator, water, sea slater, tide, seaweed, whelk, sea snail, starfish, mussel, clam, shellfish, edible crab, , common blenny, fish, beadlet anemone, tentacles, shrimps, bladder wrack seaweed.
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BEACH - Mindfulness Scavenger Hunt Sheets (Free Sample)
These checklists are to promote mindfulness and awareness of surroundings when in a beach setting. This activity is intended to help children engage their senses to better notice and appreciate the environment around them.
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'Follow the Snail's Trail' Pencil Control Sheets/Mats
These ‘Follow the Snail’s Trail’ pencil control sheets/mats are perfect for the development of fine motor control using mark making tools or even just a tracing finger! Smooth and spiky patterns included.
Ideal for both individual use to ‘take home’ or laminated for multiple uses with whiteboard pens.
You may like to read ‘The Snail and the Whale’ alongside this resource.
Keywords: mark making, make marks, activities, activity, beach animal, dotted line, pencil control, fine motor, whelk, snail, finger tracing, smooth/curved lines, spiky/pointy lines
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'Follow the Snail's Trail' Pencil Control Mats
These ‘Follow the Snail’s Trail’ pencil control mats are perfect for the development of fine motor control using mark making tools or even just a tracing finger! Smooth and spiky patterns included.
Ideal for multiple uses with whiteboard pens/a tracing finger once laminated. Mats could also be used with playdough or loose parts!
You may like to read ‘The Snail and the Whale’ alongside this resource.
Keywords: mark making, make marks, activities, activity, beach animal, dotted line, pencil control, fine motor, whelk, snail, finger tracing, smooth/curved lines, spiky/pointy lines
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STEM - Investigate Minibeasts - Support Pack
This STEM ‘Investigate Minibeasts - Support Pack’ includes a variety of resources to help inspire and engage adults and children alike.
Materials within the pack encourage open ended exploration of the challenge ‘Can you investigate minibeasts?’
STEM learning brings together Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Skills such as critical thinking, creativity, teamwork, communication, initiative, inquiry and problem solving are all developed within STEM learning.
We hope you find this pack useful and you all have fun!
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Design/Make a 'Deep-Sea Creature'
Pack includes 3 inspirational sheets.
Design a deep-sea creature (full colour)
Ideal for re-use. Laminate to be used by many children in conjunction with whiteboard pens or as a loose parts or playdough mat.
Design a deep-sea creature (black and white)
Perfect sheet for individual mark making/art and craft/collage.
Make a deep-sea creature
Ideal prompt for junk modelling or playdough.
Each sheet/prompt contains some helpful questions to encourage creativity:
• Does it have big eyes or small eyes?
• Does it have lots of teeth or hardly any?
• Is the creature’s body long and thin or big and round?
Great for use alongside reading ‘Commotion in the Ocean’!
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'Farm' related teaching and learning printable resources
CLICK HERE to visit our ‘On the Farm’ topic page.
Printable resources include: word mats/cards, banners, farm animals and the young/babies counting, puzzles, I spy activities, follow the lines pencil control, animal body part posters, multimats, playdough mats, loose part activities, art and craft, fine motor control, phase 1, 2 and 3 letters and sounds, animal colouring, number slice puzzles, pictogram, size ordering, matching and memory games, fact cards, picture snap, farm trip pack and more!
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'Bird' related teaching and learning printable resources
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'Life Cycle' related teaching and learning printable resources
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Printable ‘Life Cycle’ teaching and learning resources include: cyclic puzzles, frog, chicken, caterpillar/butterfly, ant/bean life cycle display packs, posters, cut and stick activities, banners, cards, playdough mats and more!!
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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Minibeast' related teaching and learning printable resources
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Printable ‘Minibeast’ teaching and learning resources include: banners, counting activities, puzzles, posters, colouring sheets/pages, I Spy count and choose peg activities, insect body part posters, magnifying glass counting, phase 2 and 3 keywords, fine motor pencil control sheets/mats, drawing, alphabet cards, mark making, checklists, minibeast hunt prompts, doubling/doubles, pictogram, picture snap, word mat/cards, multimats, size ordering tally charts, art and craft, playdough/loose part mats, border sheets, ‘My Favourite Minibeast’ mark making, reward chart, fact cards/posters, life cycles and more!
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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Transition' related teaching and learning printable resources
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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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'All About Me' related teaching and learning printable resources
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'Colour' related teaching and learning printable resources
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Printable ‘Colour/Color’ teaching and learning resources include: scavenger hunts/colour walk checklists, activity/movement challenge cards, fans, tally charts, matching games, snap cards, posters, sorting activities, ‘Favourite Colours/Favorite Colors’ pictogram, ‘Well done!’ certificates, reward charts, self-registration interactive displays, group/nursery room charts, building block pattern challenges, puzzles, science experiments, dual-language posters and more!
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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
HUMOUR - Joke Cards
Learning to understand humour is a part of early years communication and language development. Children will really enjoy beginning to understand these jokes and perhaps even use them as a basis to think up their own! Have fun!
Great for use alongside reading ‘Elmer’!
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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.
HUMOUR - Joke Illustration Sheets
Learning to understand humour is a part of early years communication and language development. We have put together a set of basic jokes for children to enjoy beginning to understand and draw their own pictures for. Illustrating the jokes will deepen their understanding. Have fun!
Great for use alongside reading ‘Elmer’!
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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.
'Woodland' related teaching and learning printable resources
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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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Forest' related teaching and learning printable resources
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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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Phase 1 Phonics/Letters and Sounds' teaching and learning printable resources
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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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Ocean' related teaching and learning printable resources
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'Under the Sea' related teaching and learning printable resources
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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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Beach' related teaching and learning printable resources
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Printable ‘Beach’ teaching and learning resources include: scavenger hunts/checklists, mindfulness activity cards, cockle shell age poster, senses booklets and prompts, colouring pages, drawing/writing/mark making sheets, shell multimats, playdough/ loose part mats, art and craft activities, templates, pattern cards, natural loose part art prompts/posters, shapes, pre-writing, rockpool fact cards, symmetry, activity/movement challenges, display lettering, sand play and more!
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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Seaside' related teaching and learning printable resources
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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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Zoo' related teaching and learning printable resources
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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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Pet' related teaching and learning printable resources
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A Collection of Wild/Zoo 'Animal Masks'
Six animal masks included in this pack: rhino, chimp, lion, snake, elephant and wolf. Ideal for role play!
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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.
A Collection of Wild/Zoo 'Animal Masks' (Colouring)
Six animal masks included in this pack: rhino, chimp, lion, snake, elephant and wolf. Ideal for art and craft and role play!
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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.
'Kindness and Friendship' related teaching and learning printable resources
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LET'S SHOW KINDNESS - Activity Prompt Cards
These activity cards outline 20 fun activity ideas to show kindness.
We hope this helps!
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'Space' related teaching and learning printable resources
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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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Positional Language' related teaching and learning printable resources
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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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
'Timetables and Routines' related teaching and learning printable resources
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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 OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.