Printables

We offer a wide range of printable resources that are perfect for promoting sensory, creative, and open-ended play at home. Our resources are designed to be easy to use and adaptable for different age groups and interests.

Easter Printables

Feed the bunny printable
Feed the bunny

Kids love posting activities! We’ve kept this one totally open ended so that you can decide how best to use it with your child.

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Easter egg hunt
Easter egg hunt

An Easter scavenger hunt to do around your house. Fold up the clues and hide them inside a plastic egg (with a chocolate if you like!). Solve each clue to lead you to the next.

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Easter egg letter match
Easter egg letter match

Print these eggs, cut them in half and then hide them around the garden or in a sensory tray. Match the upper case letters to the lowercase letters.

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Easter bunny box
Easter bunny box

Make your own mini bunny baskets. These are easy to put together and perfect for collecting a few chocolate eggs or flowers from the garden.

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Nature bunny
Nature bunny

Gather leaves and flowers on a walk and make a nature crown for the bunny. We've included two options- one where you just need to add the crown and one where you create more of the bunny yourself.

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Easter bunny headband
Easter headband

To go with your bunny baskets we also have these cute bunt and chick headbands to wear whilst doing your Easter Egg hunt.

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Easter placemat
Easter placemats

Print these placemats and have them for colouring in whilst sat at the table for Easter lunch!

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Cutting exercise for children
Easter scissor skills

More Easter scissor skills activities to go alongside our scissor skill Easter eggs.

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Templates for developing scissor skills
Easter scissor skills

Kids just love cutting things up! These Easter eggs are great for practising scissor skills. If you’re child is having trouble using a pair of scissors draw a smiley face on their thumb. They should always be able to see the smiley face whilst cutting.

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PlayTRAY and more

Feed the birds printable template
Feed the Birds

In this activity they can practice their scooping and pouring skills to feed the hungry birds! Cut out the printable birds and attach them to a similar sized container with tape (we used jam-jars). Then place them in a tray with some bird feed that they can use to feed the birds.

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Printable sails
Ice Boats

To make ice boats freeze water in a muffin tray, cover in cling-film and create a slit in each one to slide a popsicle stick in. The cling-film holds the popsicle stick in place whilst the water freezes.

Whilst the water is freezing cut out and laminate the sails. Use a craft knife to cut two slits- one at the top and one at the bottom. Also prepare a tray of water.

Once frozen remove the cling-film from the muffin tray, slip on the sails and remove the boats out from the muffin tray. You are now ready to play!

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Under the sea printable
Under the Sea Hunt

Cut out these animals and hide them in a tray of rice or other sensory material. Use the reference sheet to identify the living things and tick them off when you find them. You could also hide these around the garden or home.

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Catch the fish printable template
Catch the Fish

Cut out the fish (there are three versions: numbered, dots and blank). Add paperclips to the ends of the fish. Now make a fishing rod using a piece of dowel, a stick or even a wooden spoon. Tie a piece of string to it and attach a magnet to the end of the string to catch the fish!

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Minibeast pre-writing flash cards
'In the Garden' Pre-Writing Cards

Pre-writing shapes and lines are an important pre-requisite to letter formation and useful to practice in playful, non-pressured ways.

There are many different mediums for mark making other than pen and paper that kids will enjoy. Some ideas include dying a tray of salt with a drop food colouring, using coloured rice or oats, or squirting some hair gel into a Ziploc bag before sealing.

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Vegetable patch printable
Vegetable Garden Small World

Create your own small world vegetable patch! We made ours in some chocolate cloud dough. Alternatives could be coffee beans or black beans, coco-pops or you could even use real soil! Encourage your child to create their own vegetable patch or set up the vegetable signs and use it as a sorting activity.

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Plant diary and watering chart
Plant Diary

We’ve created this plant observational diary so your little one can record changes as their plant/s grows. If you have older kids this is a great opportunity to encourage some writing too! 

You’ll also find a watering chart so you can keep track of when you water your plant. This can be laminated and then you can use a dry-wipe pen to tick it off each day.

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Net to create your own space rocket
Space Rocket

By popular request we've added our space rocket to download again this month! This is one that needs adult support to make, but great to be used for small world play afterwards.

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Animal graphics that can be used to create a 3 part puzzle
Animal Building Puzzle

Here’s a fun matching puzzle for little ones. Print these animal pictures and glue them onto a toilet roll. Cut along the lines so that you have three pieces. Mix them all up and challenge your child to re- build the animals.

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FREE PlayTRAY Inserts on Twinkl

We've teamed up with Twinkl to create fun and engaging inserts for the PlayTRAY. There are plenty to choose from including small world inserts, colour wheels, mark making inserts and more, and they are FREE.

Other Printables

Heart templates
Heart Pattern Matching

Print these hearts, cut them in half and you have a pattern and colour matching game. You could hide these around the house or garden for added fun!

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Pre-writing flash cards
Pre-writing Flash Cards

Giving children early experiences of forming pre-writing shapes will help them later on when they are ready to tackle letter and number formation. These flashcards can be used to support children as they practice these shapes and lines.

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Arctic backdrop printable
Arctic Small World Backdrop

Try an arctic backdrop for enhancing your small world set ups. We made this particular scene using a cardboard box. To make the icebergs, cut out circles of cardboard that get increasingly smaller. Glue them together and invite the kids to paint them white.

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Feed the penguin printable
Feed the Penguin Phonics

This DIY game is perfect for practicing letter sounds and words!

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Penguin Ice Rink

This is such a fun activity for kids! If you don't have the PlayTRAY, any smooth surface will work to skate your penguins. To make the skating penguins snap some lolly/ popsicle sticks in half, stick them to the base of a mini muffin tin with a bit of blue-tack and fill up the holes with water. You might want to add a tiny bit of food colouring too if you like.

Put them in the freezer overnight. Once they are frozen and you are ready to play, pop them out of the tin. You should now be able to peel the blue tack from the bottom so that they glide smoothly across your tray. Then stick the penguins to the lolly/ popsicle stick with a piece of tape.

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Winter village printable template
Winter Village

These printables make the cutest little winter town scene for your little one to enjoy some small world play! The houses are fairly simple to make; just fold the roof at the half way point and glue the tabs together on the side. To make the mountains, fold the tab at the bottom and glue it onto the base (second printable). The 3-D trees are made by putting four of the cut-out trees together. Simply fold them in half using a ruler so that the green is facing inwards. Add glue to the back and stick each quarter together.

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Flower outlines to create water blossoms
Water Blossom

Take advantage of our flower outlines to create blooming blossoms in water. We coloured them in with felt tip pens and folded in the petals. We then placed them in our PlayTRAY lid in water and the petals gently unfolded as they soak up the water.

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Autumn Leaf Match

Match these autumn-themed upper and lower case alphabet cards together to complete the picture. Why not hide them in some sensory materials such a popping corn or chickpeas for them to find and match?

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autumn-egg-box
Autumn Nature Hunt

Go on an autumn egg box scavenger hunt! Print and stick the autumn printable into the lid of your eggbox. Match objects they collect to the pictures and place in the correct place in the eggbox.

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Autumn Leaf Sewing Cards

Use a hole punch around the edge of these printable autumn leaves to create holes. Take some wool/yarn and thread it through the holes. This is a simple activity to help develop fine motor skills.

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Autumn Stick Fairies

These cute little fairies are available in colour or b&w to decorate how you like. We turned ours into Autumn Fairies using leaves and other natural resources collected on a walk.

To give this a go, spread some PVA glue onto the fairy and decorate. Leave it to dry before cutting out and mounting onto a stick with a piece of tape. You could also try this with petals.

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Recipe card for Pumpkin Pie Spice Cloud Dough
Pumpkin Pie Spice Cloud Dough Recipe

Here is the recipe for Pumpkin Pie Spice Cloud Dough! This smells amazing thanks to all the lovely spices we add to our regular cloud dough recipe! Pumpkin pie spice seems quite hard to get hold of in the UK so we made our own. I don't think getting the ratios exact are so important. Cloud dough is powdery but thanks to the oil you can also mould it. Mine love it, usually for some cooking/baking pretend play. It's guaranteed to keep them all busy and it keeps really will in the PlayTRAY for another day. If you think your little one might like a cheeky taste, you can bake the flour in the oven first for 10 mins at 350F/180C to kill any bugs that there may be.

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