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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.
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Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.

Errol Eagle - theatre role play, protector of the stage, rhythm and rhyme ..  Number rhymes
Activity printables
, counting songs and poems for preschool nursery
      
5 sandy seashells counting rhyme
  written and illustrated by Ruth Grimes copyright © 2015

5 sandy seashells, lying on the shore
empty on the inside, near a seaweed floor.
Along came ..
insert name  with a bucket and a spade,
collected a seashell for the castle they'd made.

5 sandy seashells lying on the shore number rhyme and children's name activity

audio track of the 5 sandy seashells number rhyme read aloud
 





This coastal, beach themed number rhyme helps children to learn the name of their peers and number sequence through role play. It's a gentle activity that's supportive of children's transitional times, during the start of a new term or for those who are newly registered.

Use it as a large or small group game to encourage participation, turn taking, recieving. giving back and positioning.

 5
sandy seashells number rhyme card
  print to use in your setting and to share with parents.



   Colour sandcastle or outline sandcastle background sheet
   illustrated watercolour seashells or outline shells, bucket and spade
  illustrated seaweed and sand picture or outline seaweed printable  
Colour sandcastle for shell decoration
Colour sandcastle for shell decoration
Colour sandcastle for shell decoration
Colour sandcastle for shell decoration
Colour sandcastle for shell decoration
Colour sandcastle for shell decoration




Early years printables


     limpet - razor shell - mussel - periwinkle - cockle

  More shells ..   conch - whelk - scallopcowrie


  Seaside beach themed storytime books
   Sally and the limpet  by Simon James
    Grandma's beach
 On the beach
  Plastic seashells - good for when the origin of real shells can't be confirmed.
  What lives in a shell storybook

Sally and the limpet story book
Grandma's beach - make a seaside wherever you want .. Explore the treasure to be found on a beach
Plastic seashells - alternative resource
What lives in a shell? preschool story book
Beach themed links

Activity ideas on silkysteps

   Parrot Squawk and the Monkey Pirates island playdough story
   5 tubs of icecream on a seaside cart - number rhyme
   Things to do over the summer holidays - a list of summertime activities
  Ocean floor adventures playdough activity

More information and resources on other website s

   Buying ethical, handpicked seashells - contact your shop to ask  about how their shells are harvested.
   Most common seashells found on the UK coastline  
   Tongue twister - she sells seashealls, on the sea shore - on wikipedia
 Nursery rhyme on wikipedia
 Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
 With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.




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