Rabbits
Home Learning Area
We trust that the majority of the resources you need to complete these activities will be available in your homes or in most shops. Of course, almost anything can be purchased online too, but we would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to support local shops where you can. It is often possible to use alternatives to the specified resources in these activities that will work just as well.
The below websites are very useful for finding educational resources, such as worksheets or templates.
BBC Bitesize – Pre-school – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zks4kmn
Twinkl – https://www.twinkl.co.uk/
- Make a den (from sheets and blankets)
- Make a treasure box containing different items your child likes
- Play a sock pairing game
- Dressing up
- Ask your child to tell you a story about something that has happened
- Play ‘find my expression’ using paper plates or emoji images.
- Pass the ice cream – make cones out of paper and put a lightweight ball in the top. Encourage your child to share their ice cream with you, friends or siblings.
- Ball games (turn taking with throwing and catching)
- Ask your child to find the letters in their name
- Make a Bingo game using my favourite activities, animals, objects etc
- Use sock puppets or toy people when telling a story/when your child tells you a story
- Let your child cook with you and talk about what you are doing
- Use new words when you talk to your child to describe what you are doing
- Play a listening game like ‘Simon Says’
- Make up silly sentences where each word begins with the same sound/letter as your child’s name
- Play spot the difference games.
- When tidying up, give simple instructions, such as “Please put the shoes in the basket.”, “Please put the bricks in the box.”
- Talk to your child about the things you have done or places you have visited
- Play a memory game, e.g. what’s under the cup
- Make a DIY telephone using cups and string and talk to each other on it.
- Play ball games (throwing, catching, kicking)
- Give your child long ribbons to wave around
- Dress up dolls and teddies (fiddly so uses fine motor skills)
- Let your child help get meals ready, including using a knife
- Use scissors to cut dough or cooked spaghetti
- Do an obstacle course in the garden
- Draw self-portraits after looking in a mirror
- Animal yoga (get into positions that look like animals)
- Dinosaur workout – lots of sessions/ideas online
- Roll back and forth on a ball, to help strengthen their core
- Let your child turn the pages of the book
- Use toys/props to help tell a story
- Let your child tell you the story if they know it well
- Do mark making (drawing and painting) and ask what they are drawing.
- Help your child to write a shopping list
- When you are out and about, read the signs that you see.
- Let your child do overwriting or join the dots to write letters.
- Play pretend shops and ask your child what letter the items begin with
- Encourage your child to find objects that begin with the same letter as their name does
- Make a letter hunt for your child to find objects in the room that begin with a certain letter.
- Make skittles using plastic bottles and count how many your child knocks down
- Sing counting rhymes, such as ‘Once I caught a fish alive’.
- Let your child sort objects into categories, such as spotted, striped, big, small.
- Let your child sort objects into colour groups
- Make a train shed with numbers on and match numbered trains to this.
- Go on a shape hunt
- Go on a number hunt
- Play shape pattern games
- Tell me the time and talk about what happens at certain times of day
- Shape stamping (cut out shapes in potatoes or ends of toilet rolls)
- Let your child taste food from other countries
- Explore using bubbles, streamers or windmills when it is windy
- Let your child use toy cars, buses or trains to make up stories about going to the shops
- Let your child press buttons on torches or remote controls to learn what happens
- Go for a walk to different places and discover what you might find there
- Explore the elements – mud, rain, snow, grass etc
- Help your child to plant some seeds for the garden
- When you arrive somewhere with a doorbell, let your child press the button!
- Talk to your child about animals and what food products we get from them
- Go on a scavenger hunt and talk about all the bugs you find
- Explore the different sounds we can make when using spoons, pots, pans and bowls
- Create a nature collage with leaves, sticks etc.
- Help your child to mix colours together and create new ones
- Draw a funny face
- Shape sticking – use stickers or cut out shapes
- Ice cube painting – freeze paint the night before in ice cube trays and then paint with it.
- Sing your child’s favourite songs with them
- Dancing, and you should copy their dance moves!
- Make up a rhyme with your child
- Cling film painting – cover a window with cling film and let your child paint it!
Educational Framework
The EYFS is a statutory framework of education that all early years settings must deliver and it informs our everyday practice. The Development Matters document acts as a guide for nursery practitioners to help them understand how children should develop and identify when any child is exceeding or not meeting these developmental goals. However, it is very important to remember that the Development Matters framework is not a tick list and that all children develop at different rates.
Link to Early Years Foundation Stage document – Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage for group and school providers (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Development Matters in the EYFS – Development Matters – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Birth to 5 Matters – Birthto5Matters-download.pdf
