Early years activities

Find out the importance of mark making in Early Years to support child development. See how children can learn through play!

Matthew 👨‍🏫 Early Years Lead 👨‍🏫 on Instagram: "🐙 Repeating Patterns 🐙 Practical fun for one of my baseline activities today! I saw this octopus tuff tray on Pinterest and thought it was great for looking at repeated patterns. In all honesty, the children were obsessed and couldn’t wait for their turn to have a go! Using the coloured Multilink cubes, the children had to continue a pattern with 2 and 3 colours, create their own pattern and correct a mistake I’d made in one of mine…

At 'Little Owls Resources' we have created these Challenge cards for children to use with building blocks/bricks. Children look closely at the pattern on the cards and attempt to copy them with the blocks. Ideal for observational skills, consolidating colour knowledge, fine motor control development and communication and language e.g. describing patterns/colours and discussing similarities and differences. Have fun!

Kristina | Pre-K Teacher | 🇨🇦 | ❓Mark Making 🌟 Mark making experiences will contribute towards supporting children’s eventual early writing activities, as mark making... | Instagram

Development of fine motor skills using tweezers

Do you study dinosaurs with your students? I am blown away by the level of engagement when studying dinosaurs! My 3 year old son is absolutely OBSESSED with dinosaurs right now. He plays with dinosaurs, wants a dinosaur birthday party, makes dino sounds… If you can think it, he probably does it!

Fireworks painting activity - great new year's or other celebrations activity.

Shape Detective Activity for preschool or kindergarten. Kids love using the shaped "magnifying glasses" to find shapes in everyday objects around them!

EYFS small world Jungle animals Rumble in the jungle Early years enhancement

Nursery - vocabulary naming/recall, initial sound generation, initial sound matching, rhyme judgement, rhyme generation

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Bring in the spring with these fun math activities! Your preschooler is going to love learning all about numbers, counting, even addition with these 25 Spring Math Activities For Preschoolers. Let's go! It'll be fun

Ice cream math activity perfect for your summer activities for preschoolers and kindergarten kids. Free printable number cones available, too.

Rhyme time

KCS Early Years on Instagram: "Check out these sensory egg shakers made by @mama.on.a.budget🐣🎵 What an amazing and simple idea!! 😊👏 #earlyyears #earlyyearscrafts #earlyyearsideas #eyfs #easter"