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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.
  Cut and paste activity sheets
Focussed sheets for scissor, ripping and cutting skills.
Use the following preschool printables to promote, advertise and support themes in the child led learning of your setting.
Inky Bear activity sheets
Cut and paste images to build pictures, tell stories, count, number, exploring cause and effect..
Astronaut stars Rabbit carrots Build dragonfly  Muddy paws   Dragoon coins Monkey bananas
Astronaut cut and paste stars - activity sheet
Carrot digging - dig them up or help the rabbits plant them ...
Build a dragonfly - body and wings 1 to 4
Muddy pawprints ..
Dragon coins - cut out and add to the treasure chest gold ..
How many bananas does monkey want to hold
blackberry Blackberry picking sheets ..
The learning these sheets support include;
Harvest themes, fruit, colour - black & purple, number, quantity, same, noticing differences, growing, plants, the outdoor environment, fine motor skill and hand eye coordination.
Holisitc activities involving the five senses - taste, touch, sight, hearing, smell could include ..

--- Hanging blackberry images on paper trailing bramble branches and displaying them for children's play.
--- Float fresh and frozen blackberries in bowls of cold and warm water to dip, collect and squish.
--- Present fresh blackberries to squash onto paper and to explore the designs this produces.

    use zip lock bags with a paper insert or cover berries with plastic food wrap to protect against staining.
--- Provide blackberry puree to drizzle over small sweet biscuits, icecream balls, halved grapes & melon slices.
  Blackberry bramble page - blackbery picking forum thread
 Activity sheet 1, blackberry activity sheet, blackberry themed number lines
Blackberry cut 'N' paste sheet
Blackberries printable sheet for preschool children's role play
Number lines for numeracy

 Cutting lines - cut, snip and paste sets:
 These sheets are great for children's self elected scissor play, dexterity and fine motor muscle control.


   Duck's grass     Bee stripes        Lion's mane      Kitten's scarf    Squirrel's tail       Fish fins
Duck's pond grass snip sheet
Bumble bee stripes - fold in half and snip
Lion's mane snip sheet
Kitten scarf snip sheet
Squirrels tail snip activity sheet
Fish has a beautiful frilled fin tail ..
Snowman themed resource links
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nowperson collage, cut and paste sheets
Collage and colour fill the snowperson and snowballs, adding texture to complete wintery cold landscapes .. This collection has a coordinating set of activity ideas that featured as Silkysteps free 2009 Yule resource title - Snowman's carrot nose and his friend Rabbit
 Snowman activity sheet, snowball collage sheet
Snowperson base sheet for collage, colour, cut anad paste activities
Snowperson cut N paste - collaged snowball sheet
Activity sheet  add ons ..
Add resources, snipped, frayed, folded or torn to these activity sheet characters and scenarios..
    Mouse's tail      Flower stalks    Pig's curly tail     Kite string               
Add a tail for mouse ...
Add stalks to the flower heads and leaves ..
Add pink curly wire stems or paper curls for pig's tail
Add a length of kite string to help fly it in the sky




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