Laminate the game board and laminate & cut out the beetle body parts.
To play the game:
Roll a dice and add the corresponding body parts to your Beetle.
The first player to complete their Beetle wins.
Colour and low-ink, black & white versions.
Silly Soup Rhyme Interactive PowerPoint:
Click on the rhyming words to add them to the silly soup pot.
includes 15 sounds each with 3 rhyming words:
at, an, ap, ig, in, ip, en, ed, og, ot, op, ox, un, ar, ock
PDF Printable, to create rhyming-words activity: includes Silly Soup pot, 45 picture cards and matching word cards
Number Bonds to 10 Powerpoint - 11 pages:
Balance the scales with the correct Numicon - children click on the Numicon, if they choose correctly a reward sound plays and the Numicon moves to the scales; if they choose incorrectly a buzz sound plays and the Numicon wiggles but stays where it is.
The last page allows the children to practice making number bonds on their own by moving any of the Numicon on and off the scales.
Printable scales to laminate and use with real Numicon.
Maths mosaic puzzles for KS1 include adding and subtracting to 10 and 20, and simple multiplications.
Solve the sums and colour in the blocks to complete the puzzles.
4 christmas designs - xmas tree, reindeer, present and xmas pudding.
3 Christmas Dice Games for EYFS - Santa, Snowman and Reindeer
Roll a dice and add or draw the corresponding parts to your character.
Two versions of each game:
one for children to draw their own character parts - these can be laminated for drawing on with white board markers;
and a simpler version where parts are printed and laminated for children to add to their character.
The first player to complete their character wins.
Interactive ‘Equivalent Fractions’ Pairs Game for the Whiteboard - children click on the cards to reveal a fraction and try to find the matching equivalent fraction.
2 levels - includes halfs, quarters, thirds, fifths, sixths, eights and tenths
Print & cut-out pairs game in colour.
Print & colour pairs game in black-and-white.
Robot Ten Frames lesson starter for ActivInspire or Powerpoint - click through the presentation to count from 1 to 10 or 1 to 20.
Printable Robot Frames and number cards for number matching and counting activities.
Roll a dice and add or draw the corresponding parts to your snowman.
one for children to draw their own snowman parts - can be laminated for drawing on with white board markers;
and a simpler version where parts are printed and laminated for children to add to their snowman.
The first player to complete their snowman wins.
Roll a dice and add or draw the corresponding parts to your reindeer.
one for children to draw their own reindeer parts - can be laminated for drawing on with white board markers;
and a simpler version where parts are printed and laminated for children to add to their reindeer.
The first player to complete their reindeer wins.
Tangrams Shape Matching Activity - 7 simple geometric shapes that can be assembled hundreds of different ways.
Cut out and laminate the tangram pieces and give to children along with a table mat or set of cards. Children move the shapes around to create the pictures on the mat or cards. Children can also use the shapes to create their own pictures or combine multiple sets to create bigger pictures.
20 Puzzles in 3 different formats
Table Mats - 4 pages with 5 puzzles per page and 1 page of tangram pieces to cut out
Cards - 20 cards with individual puzzles and 1 page of tangram pieces to cut out
Mini tangram - 4 cards with 5 puzzle pictures per card and 4 cards of mini tangram pieces to cut out
All in both colour and black & white
horse camel aeroplane house
dog fish duck boat
rocket swan rabbit cat
heart top giraffe butterfly
turtle cockerel pyramid bat
A collection of 65 games to get children thinking strategically.
Each game is complete on one A4 page, including instructions. All you need to play is a selection of counters.
INK SAVING - All but one game are in black and white, designed to save ink. Can be printed on coloured card or paper and laminated.
Includes some familiar games like solitaire, battleships, mancala, several variants of tic-tac-toe as well as lots of other, less familiar games.
Also includes Manifest, a number game that teaches place value.
Missing Vowels Activity:
Makes 30 cards (6 for each vowel)
Each card features a CVC word with a missing vowel sound,
with the animal holding the word being a visual clue to the missing sound.
Includes a sheet of letter tiles.
Can also be laminated to write on with a white-board pen.
Maths Resources Pack:
Hundred Square and Times Tables Square - designed to be laminated as double-sided with a blank square on the back for number pattern activities. Laminated squares can be written on with a white board pen.
Hundred Square Challenge cards - for practising number bonds to 10.
Hundred Square worksheet - for learning to +1, -1, +10 and -10 using a hundred square.
Times Table Challenge Cards for practicing times tables.
Times Table Wheels worksheet for assessment - ‘How Many Times Tables do you Know?’
Roll a dice and add or draw the corresponding parts to your Santa
one for children to draw their own Santa parts - can be laminated for drawing on with white board markers;
and a simpler version where parts are printed and laminated for children to add to their Santa.
The first player to complete their Santa wins.
Traffic Lights is a variant of noughts and crosses that requires a little more thinking.
The object is to get a line of three green counters.
On each turn, you may do ONE of the following:
Put a red counter in an empty square.
Replace a red counter with a yellow one.
Replace a yellow counter with a green one.
Printable pdf version in colour and black & white.
Interactive versions of the game to be demonstrated on the white board.
Interactive Animated Powerpoint -
equivalences for all coins up to £2
counting in pennies for prices up to 10p, introducing 10s and 5s for prices up to 20p - click on the coins in the purse to add them to the till
calculating change from 10p, 20p and 50p - click on the till to return change to the purse
price labels are text boxes so are easily edited
6 Simple Board Games for Early Years Maths:
Build a Reindeer & Build a Snowman
Roll the dice and race to build your character. Develop number and pattern recognition.
Autumn Tortoise Strategy Game
Snail Race Strategy Game
Cookie Jar Strategy Game
Sweet Shop Strategy Game
Four games where the object is to take turns removing items and try to be the last player to remove an item.
Develop counting and critical thinking skills.