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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.

Errol Eagle - theatre role play, protector of the stage, rhythm and rhyme ..  Number rhymes
Activity printables
, counting songs and poems for preschool nursery
      
over and under bears
Over under bear preschool activity

Use this rhyme and the bear printables in planning activities that explore positional language,  children's problem solving, mathmatical and movement skills.

over, under, up and down
forwards, backwards, round and round
to the side, in front, behind,
in and out, it's time to find ..
here and there, above, below
now all (
e.g. 3 ) bears,  through you go ..


  Rhyme sheet  
  Table top bear direction word slips
  Bear outline template for collage
  Bear finger puppets for role play - colour finger puppets and outline

 

 
Over and under bears rhyme for preschool math, language and physical activity
Over under table slips
Bear outline template for mark making and collage activities

Colour bear finger puppet wraps
Outline bear finger puppet wraps


leafy branch
 Blank and suggested word sheet 1 and sheet 2 to support children's positional language and awareness of spatial relationships

Blank boxes for own wording
Basic positional language to look at spatial relationships
More basic positional and spatial words to support children's problem solving language


small bear This rhyme will fit nicely with any outdoor or indoor bear searches
  activity ideas on the forum

use the rhyme and printables to ...
  march to
  for whole body action
  with the finger puppet printables to act out the words
  as a fridge or wall display resource - attach for children to initiate an activity
  as a parent partnership resource - print a quantity and distribute for everyone to enjoy at home

Counting bears for mathmatical role play


   Bear counters - use as table top activity alongside bear figures, junk modelling boxes, bricks - smooth & interlocking and mark making tools
Links are to amazon.co.uk

O
ther resoure and activity ideas

  Spatial concepts on meddybemps.co.uk

Traditional rhymes
  Pop goes the weasel - swap out the Eagle for the people
  Here we go round the mulberry bush  - this is the way we jump up & down, crabs walk on the sand, squirrels leap through the trees, I climb over my bed, hide under the sheet, hoover the floor ... 
  In and out the dusky bluebells
  Round and round the garden like a teddy bear - on amazon.co.uk
  Incy wincey spider
Hickory dickory dock


leafy branch

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