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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
      
b  e  d letter formation hand rhyme 
 
The letters b and d and the direction of their loop can be difficult for young children to remember. This interactive rhyme with its removable pieces can be made into a wall display or presented as a table top activity that helps to embed this literacy based understanding in a way that supports all learning styles.

b e d poster rhyme for helping children's letter b and d recognition  ..


bed for baby hand rhyme

to make a bed for baby
first we'll need a
b
e goes in the middle …
and we finish with a
d


bed for baby poster

 tracing sheet for letter b

tracing sheet for letter d


Baby wrapped for bed images

Baby images wrapped for bed




rhyme for the confusing letters b and d
tracing sheet for letter b
tracing sheet for the letter d


Resource ideas
Use b and d letter moulds in sand and playdough to familiarise and reinforce children's knowledge of the direction each letter takes.

blue letter moulds for the sand tray

Lower case letter moulds

And explore letter formation through word stories ..
blue Letter themed story book suggestions






Return to Errol Eagle's selection of printablerole play and rhyming resources