ichild have a wide selection of children’s activities that can be downloaded. Here are just a sample of the ones with a spring/summer theme:-
Missing numbers
This sheet has 16 rabbit outlines – some are numbered and a few have numbers missing meaning that children could be encouraged to count out loud and say the missing numbers.As a parent or early years educator I would, personally, write in the number after the child had told me what it should be and then ask him to try to copy it underneath mine.
It could then be taken one step further by asking the child to colour No.3 in red, No.6 in blue and so on learning colour recognition as well as number.
Add the lambs
This is the ideal next step from missing numbers( early years practitioners could actually write this on their observation form to impress Ofsted) children can now begin to do some basic addition ( maths early learning goal)
Big and small
This will help children with the concept of different sizes( maths development).
There are 2 different downloads:- one of flowers and bees
and the other buckets and spades. Both give good clear examples of big and small (bigger/est, smaller/est)plus the bucket and spade could also be used to demonstrate in front of and behind learning placement and the flower and bees mention making honey (understanding the world). Children could then be asked to draw a line between the pictures (introducing hand to eye co-ordination).
Hanging parrot craft
This effective printout explains simply how to make this. Children can colour and decorate their own parrot or use the one that is already coloured,
because the materials needed are items that most people will already have there is no added cost to this
Summer lollipop stick craft
has several ideas for using lollipop sticks for art and craft activities.
ichild also have word search and crossword puzzles
for slightly older children ( ideal for child minders for after school children or during the school holidays).
Visit ichild at www.ichild.co.uk
Many of the activities can be downloaded for free, or for a reasonable fee you can upgrade to access even more resources. I know that if the activities from ichild had been available when I was working as a busy child minder I would have found them invaluable.
As always comments/questions are welcome and please share this post on social media.
Until next time
Karen
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There are some lovely ideas here that would be perfect for my little one. I’ve got lots of lollipop sticks in our craft box needing used up and now I have some inspiration! #thesatsesh.
Looks like a great site for teaching resources for young learners. Thanks for sharing! #thesatsesh
I love your blogs. My son would love this!!! Thanks for sharing.
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I love these ideas. I’m sure my daughter would too. I’m trying to get into the habit of using more educational resources as we prepare for her starting school in September so these seem great. x #FamilyFunLinky
Dropping by again from #globalblogging 😊
Ooh, I’ll investigate some of these. The Big One will love them. And one day maybe the Little One will show sufficient attention to try focusing on this sort of thing. Will certainly try before he hits school in Sept!
Lovely ideas here thank you x #itsok
There are some lovely activities on here and I’m sure my girls would love them. Thanks for sharing #triumphanttales
Such great ideas, they will definitely come in use for me in some years to come. Thanks for sharing with #itsok
Such great ideas thanks for sharing #fortheloveofblog
Love the parrot printout. I must bookmark that for school. Thank you for sharing on #PointShoot 📸
Love these ideas. I organise crafts for a local playgroup and think it would be great to do something a bit more educational so thanks for sharing #coolmumclub
Great to help mums of young children keep learning over the summer months!
I love the simplicity of these – my girls would love them. Must sort out a printer! Once the office is finished soon, that’s definitely on the agenda…
Thanks for linking to #coolmumclub
Oooh my eldest would probably love these – thanks for the ‘heads up’. #thesatsesh xx
What a fabulous set of print outs – I need to check the site out and see what there is for my daughter to do at home! Sim x #PoCoLo
You have highlighted some great printouts and I think they would be great for school holiday tasks. Thanks for linking up with #globalblogging
I’ve never heard of this but it sounds fantastic, ill definitely be checking this one out.
Thank you for joining the #FamilyFunLinky x
Some fab activities good read Thank you for linking to #Thatfridaylinky please come back next week
This does look like a great site. Really must check it out. Thank you for sharing this with #TriumphantTales, I hope you can join me again on Tuesday 🙂
These are all so great, perfect for my toddler! Thanks for sharing with #fortheloveofBLOG
Great activities! Thanks for linking up to #ablogginggoodtime
The rabbits look great – so many things to do with just one sheet. Thanks for sharing with #PoCoLo