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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.
Activities for math - Calculator caterpillar's activity ideas to support children's numeracy, reasoning and problem solving play.
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.

Inky Bear - mark making printable sheets for cut 'n' paste, collage, communication and language ..   Cut, paste and mark making activity sheets  practice printouts to support preschool & nursery aged children's scissor cutting skills, mark making and pre-writing dexterity - early hand  development   Placed in role play areas as aided tabletop activites alongside blank pages to enage children's interest and encourage their participation.

Use the following preschool printables to promote, advertise and support your setting's child initiated learning.
 
Road safety activity sheets
These sheets help children & adults to explore some of the issues surrounding safety on and near roads

Hand holding
Joining up the hands 
 When to walk - red and green lights

Holding hands to be safe around roads
join up the hands and see whose hands children hold


 Astronaut stars
Rabbit carrots
Build dragonfly  
 Muddy paws   
 Dragon 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 and counting sheets ..
Use to promote number recognition, counting out, collage and mathmatical language.
Other blackberry themes ideas: Blackberry bramble page - blackberry picking forum thread
blackberry   Activity sheet 1blackberry blackberry counter sheetblackberry blackberry number lines

Blackberry cut 'N' paste sheet
Blackberries printable sheet for preschool children's role play
Number lines for numeracy






Cutting lines and collaging pictures

These following printables are great for supporting children's scissor control and creative expression. Include collage pieces, glue and blank paper for children to build, adapt and develop their own ideas.



Duck's grass 
Bee stripes  
Lion's mane  
Kitten's scarf
Squirrel's tail 
Fish fins
  Mouse's tail
  Flower stalks
  Pig's curly tail
  Kite string     
  Snowman activity sheet ---- 2009 resource
  snowball collage sheet

Duck's pond grass snip sheet
Bumble bee stripes - fold in half and snip
Lion's mane snip sheet
Add a tail for mouse ...
Snowperson base sheet for collage, colour, cut anad paste activities
Snowperson cut N paste - collaged snowball sheet
Kitten scarf snip sheet
Squirrels tail snip activity sheet
Fish has a beautiful frilled fin tail ..
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

  Dolphin puppet activity sheet  dolphin number & paint activity page
  Paper lantern template

Dolphin activity sheet
Paper lantern template










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