Draw a crown with some prewriting lines. Little ones can work on those fine motor skills by adding jewels along the lines of the crown.

A simple counting activity for preschoolers. Count out the amount of buttons each beefeater needs by recognising the numeral on his hat!

Mark making is not only a pre requisite to writing, it is also a really important physical and sensory experience for little ones. Initially, young children take pleasure in the physical experience of mark making and this later develops into them realising they can control the marks created. Print off a Union Jack and tape it to the bottom of a shallow tray, add salt on top and watch as your little one enjys making marks and revealing parts of the flag. Great for hand dominance, physical experience, creativity and fine motor.

Compound words are two or more words that have been grouped together to create a new word that has a different individual meaning. Cut out some mitten shapes and write Christmas themed compound words on pairs of mittens. Can children match the mittens to make the compound word? Great fine motor activity if you include links/string/paperclips to link the pairs. Children could even use their newly found compiound words to write a creative festive story!

Writing on building blocks can be great fun. How about creating some addition pyramid Christmas trees? Pass children the bottom layer of the tree and see if they can add the two numbers next to each other together to build the tree to the top. For more challenge use higher numbers on the initial base layer.

Mark making is not only a pre requisite to writing, it is also a really important physical and sensory experience for little ones. Initially, young children take pleasure in the physical experience of mark making and this later develops into them realising they can control the marks they create. This frozen snow tray is a great festive mark making activity. Add a wintery themed piece of paper to the bottom of a tray, sprinkle some fake snow (or make your own with 2.5 cups of baking powder to 0.5 cups of white hair conditioner) on top.

Subitising is the process of immediately recognising how many items are ina small group. Place the correct number of snowballs (mini marhsmallows) on the dots in the snowglobe. Subitising is important as it helps develop number sense and composition of number. This activity also works on developing the cardinal principal which is knowing that the last number said when counting a group of objects/images is te total amount in the group. This helps children link numbers and amounts and also to eventually be able to count out numbers from a larger amount.

A super fun and easy snacktivity that children can enjoy.

A wonderfully easy set up that keeps little hands busy. Poke the qtips through the star, thread the bauble and squish the tree!

A super fun and easy snacktivity that children can enjoy.

A very quick and simple fine motor and hand eye coordination pumpkin themed activity using elastic bands to support hand strength and dexterity.

Such a fun and spooky play activity. Fill some surgical gloves with water and food colouring. Add some spooky items to the glove too if you want. Then tie up and place in the freezer. Make sure you freeze it so the fingers are straight or they will break easily once frozen. Once frozen, remove the outer glove with a knife and children can have lots of fun exploring, chiseling and melting the hands. You could even introduce counting in 5s when exploring this activity.

This craft activity is a lovely spring themed table centre piece. Upturn the plastic egg and glue the pieces together. Then add some soil and seeds. Watch over the coming weeks as the flowers bloom!

By mastering number bonds early on, children build the foundations needed for subsequent learning and are better equipped to develop mental strategies and mathematical fluency.

Peg the ears onto the bunnies, can we help each of the bunnies to make 10? Also great for fine motor and understanding fact families. An activity designed to build strong number sense in a fun and visual way. 

Map common word parts onto one half of the egg. For example, ug, at, ed, it etc. Then on the other half of the egg add letters that will allow them to form words that include those word parts. An easy Easter themed activity designed to support the process of forming letter-sound connection allowing instant recognition and fluency in reading.

Can you decode the multipliaction questions and answer them? A great London themed fun coding and multiplication activity available as a free download in printables.

Can you create a numicon crown for the Queen? Can you calculate the total number created by the pieces used in your crown? What is the largest number crown you can make?

Pyramid spellings are a great way for children to build the word up bit by bit and it's so visual. Children start with the star letter at the top of the tree, then add the next layer underneath adn so on until they finally spell the complete word at the bottom of the Christmas tree!

Wrap some 3D shaped items and write the corresponding shape names to gift tags. Can children match the correct present to the correct gift tag? You could make this a more challenging activity by adding the properties of each shape to the gift tags.

Create some flap up baubles with multiplication questions on theme and the concealed answers underneath.

Reveal the number bonds and complete th Christmas tree by using a pipette to add some water to the tray. Firstly, fold kitchen towel over, writing the first number of the addition sentence on top and concealing the corresponding number underneath. Secure to the tray with double sided tape in the shape of a Christmas tree. Let children use a pipette to drop water onto each piece of kitchen towel to magically reveal the concealed number underneath. This could easily be adapted for number bonds to 5/10 or number recognition.

Multiply the numbers on the snowflakes and add your answers to the edges of the flake.

These are perfect to use for so many festive themed learning activities. Using them for some part part whole work can be super fun. The part whole model is a simple pictorial representation of a problem that helps learners see the relationships between numbers. Simply draw around the coins to create the part whole model diagrams, add numbers to the coins and ask children to complete the models.

Lolly sticks, glue and decorations!

Can you add two wings to each of the bats to create bats that equal 20? This could easily be adapted for other number bonds including fives and tens. This is also a great one for fine motor.

Using golf tees to hammer into a pumpkin can be great for fine motor, gross motor, crossing the midline, hand eye coordination and hand strength. 

Create small pumpkins from playdough and then enjoy smashing the pumpkins as you read the sight words. This could easily be adapted for any phase of sight words or indeed letter, number, name recognition. A wonderful gross motor fun activity.

A yummy start to a Spring themed breakfast!

A tray of soil and some cut out carrots is all you need! Write some numbers on the carrots and burry them in the soil. This is a great sensory learning activity to support children in ordering numbers, looking at missing numbers, one more and less than, bridging through ten, place value and skip counting.

Match the correct chick to the correct shell whilst practicing the ch digraph. A lovely spring phonics activity.

Read the multiplication question, find the answer on the bone and feed the correct bone to the corgi! A great, hands on timestables activity!

Print off some small images of the Union Jack and cut each one in half. Write on number bonds and children can match them like a puzzle.

Can children fill the crackers with numicon to make ten?

Draw a Christmas tree on some card or paper. Colour in some baubles on the tree and then pass your little one some buttons. Can they match the coloured buttons to the baubles on the tree? Great for colour recognition, fine motor and language development.

A festive spelling activity. Can children peg the stockings up to spell the tricky words? Great fun, good for fine motor and the practical task of physically pegging the spellings will certainly help cement those words into the long term memory.

A super fun and easy snacktivity that children can enjoy.

A super fun and easy snacktivity that children can enjoy.

Can you cut down the Christmas tree? This is a fun and festive way to practise scissor skills and helps to strengthen hand muscles, supports bilateral coordination, supports visual motor skills and visual perception skills.

Can you add a red breast to all the robins that add up to 10?

Using chalk pens on the skin of the pumpkin can be a wonderful way to incorporate learning with some pumpkin fun.

A fine motor spooky themed activity. Rescuing spiders with tweezers to support concentration, hand eye coordination, dexterity and problem solving.

This could not be a more simple and effective toddler spooky activity. Blob some white paint onto black card, provide the child with a straw and allow them to blow the paint. Add some goggly eyes to turn their masterpiece into ghosts.

Add a small drop of food colouring to the bottom of each plastic egg. Then fill each egg with bicarbonate of soda. Children can then use a pipette to add some drops of vinegar to each egg. Watch with amazement as the eggs fizz and the colour spills out of each one.

Creating some DIY tactile number boards can be a fun number sense Spring time activity. This can be great for perceptual subitising, number correspondence, fine motor and developing early number sense.