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Mischief Mouse's collection of craft activities for preschool and early years.
Printable resources to help support play - colouring, mark making, labelling, promoting, engaging and extending..
Magical Mammoth's recipes to play with and recipes to eat ..
Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
Calculator Caterpillar's range of activity ideas to support math, reasoning and problem solving.
Hope Hedgehog invites visitors to take a look through some articles of interest ...
Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.
  Outline templates
    Outline templates to explore play and support preschool planning

Welcome to Mischief's themed outline template sheets ..
All about me - templates and outlines
blue Face outline
blue Bath tub and plug outline template
blue Plaster outline - bandaid, first aid care
 - a nice resource to accompany Laura's star story book amazon link
blue Socks - a pair of outlines  
  
Outline template - face
Bath outline
Plasters - outlines for health and care






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Transport outline templates
blue Car outline
blue Aeroplane
blue Ferry
blue Horse drawn - caravan
blue Caravan outline - horse drawn
blue Ambulance outline
blue Rocket space shuttle outline
                                             
 

Car template outline
Aeroplane outline template
Ferry shaped outline template
Horse drawn
Horse drawn caravan outline template
Ambulance outline
Rocket space shuttle outline template


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Animal outline templates - mini beasts - birds - aquatic - reptiles - insects
blue Butterfly outline
blue Beetle outline
blue Goldfish outline
blue Mouse outline
blue Reindeer caribou outline
blue Turtle outline

Butterfly - mini beasts outline template
Beetle outline template
Goldfish outline template
Mouse and tail outline
Caribou reindeer outline template
Turtle outline template



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Food items  - fruit  - vegetables - grocery
blue Bread slice - toast  - sandwich outline
blue Blackberry
blue Strawberry outline template
blue Icecream outline
blue Apple, stalk and leaf
blue  Yule or Christmas pudding outline    

Bread slice template for sandwich, collage and food activities
Blackberry outline template - fruit for growing
Strawberry template outline
Flavours and icecream - cone template to explore colour and shape
Apple template - stalk and leaf outlines
Yuletide Christmas biscuit pudding outline



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Plants - trees - flowers - leaves
blue Clover shammrock leaves
blue Holly leaf and large berry   
blue Horse chesnut leaves
 
Clover  shamrock leaves - templates for size comparrison
Holly leaf template and large berry outline
Horse chestnut leaves






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Tools and objects - outline resources to help support open ended and focussed play
blue Bird feeder outline
blue Wheelbarrow outline
blue Plantpot outlines
blue Bucket outline template
blue Spade outline
  
Bird feeding outline for collage activities
Wheel barrow template outline
Plant pot outlines templates - soil collage and growing
Bucket template - fill, collage, measure
Spade outline for lifting, digging and moving ..
 



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 Magic, myth and fairy tales ..
blue Wizard ot witches hat
blue Scroll outline
blue Fairy  
  Wand
    

Magic hat - witch wizard outline
Scroll template - outline for text







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Outline template set titles available in the store
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Using outline templates ..
 Please feel free to use the templates to support idea generation in preschool planning meetings and to prompt home and setting play.

Wherever possible provide resources that enable children's own inventions, designs and to lead their own learning and development.

Explore shiny, soft, smooth, rough, hard, reflective, noisy, quiet, wet and dry through materials and mediums, loose and fixed.
 
Explore scissors, mark making, connection and science, knowledge and understanding.

Snip, glue, move, build and develop symbolic and representational models that extend to support other areas of play.

Please enjoy
red pencil  Other possible uses:
blue dot  Laminate and add to dough play
blue dot  Laminate and use as table mats
blue dot  Laminate and use as named resources that support a sense of belonging.
blue dot  Add text and other images and use for notice board information.
blue dot  Add text and other images and label play areas / themes for play.
blue dot  Use as flyers to advertise a learning focus, request resources, invite support / participation and  promote events.
blue dot  Lay in the bottom of tins and colour fill with rolling, paint covered balls - cut and display?
blue dot  Capture the bubbles blown in a paint coloured soap mix.
blue dot  Capture the swirls and patterning made by water insoluble marbelling inks
blue dot  Terms of use:
blue   Please do not use these free outlines to gain financially - commercially or personally.
blue   If you are a charity please always get in touch
blue   Images are not to be uploaded to other websites or included in resources that are hosted on other servers/websites.

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