Printable Resources

I have added some resources that I have made so it saves time if you are wanting to try some of the activity ideas I have shared.

If there are any particular types of activity or resource you would like to see, please let me know!

Halloween Craft Ideas

Haunted House Handprint

This activity is super fun and easy.

Simply draw around your hand either on black paper or white paper and colour it in.

Next decorate your hand to make it look like a haunted castle by adding windows, a door and other halloween things.

Halloween Pompom Pals

I love these pompom pals, especially frankenstein!

Check out my Tik Tok account to see how these are made.

Thrifted Painting Activity

You may have seen the Tik Tok trend of ghost painting.

You buy items such as pictures or ornaments from Charity shops and paint them up for halloween!

Halloween Windows

Print this free printable to create these spooky halloweeen windows.

Once coloured in, simply cover with a clear sheet pf plastic, leaving a gap to pour in your spooky glitters and other scary things, then seal with tape and shake!

Surprise Pumpkin Bunting

These pumpikns are super easy to make adn add some magic to your halloween decorations.

Print or draw some spooky things and cut around them.

Next, draw some pumpkins and give them some colour with crayons.

Then stick your spooky pictures onto the back of the pumpkins.

Once you have strung them all up, use a torch to see what each pumpkin is hiding.

Mini Cauldrons

These mini cauldrons are simple but fun to make.

Just wash out and paint a rounded yogurt pot. Then fill with some toy stuffing. You can use felt pens to colour it green.

Add some craft bits such as eyes and glitter to the cauldron.

To make it light up, put a fake plastic tea light under the toy stuffing.

English activities

Animal pairs game

This image shows the cut out pictures that you use to make up words.

This image shows how to use the resource.

You can alter the activity to suit your child's developmental level and ability.

You could ask you child to match the picture pairs to the right word.

this picture shows how you can write the word that the pictures make up such as a picture saying monday with the word day crossed out and the picture of a key, make the word monkey when put together.

For a more challenging task, ask your child to write the words under the cards and make the correct animal.

What am I?

This matching game can be used as pairs, turn over each animal and description and pick up one of each to see if they match. Or as a simple read the text and match the animal to it game.

Story Maker

This is an activity which really helped my daughter to be imaginative and make up her own stories. She struggles with processing and communicating her thoughts and ideas.

This activity allows your child to choose who, what, where and when happens in their story but with a bit of guidance from the story maker.

they can add their own detail such as describe what things looked like or what colours they were.

You can extend the activity by asking your child to write down their story or just tell it to you. You can also scribe for your child as they verbalise their story to you.

This is a different story maker to the one you can print which shows how we coloured in the pictures and you can change what is in your story.

I would love to hear how these activities went and how you got on with them.

The Enormous Pumpkin Story

As my daughter learns actively, I thought I would make my own story that she could take part in.

Your child can read the story whilst your play the characters, or you can read if you have a younger child.

Print off the story and characters and have fun!

Listen and Colour Activity

This activity develops listening skills and following directions through colouring what the text directs you to do.

Image shows the activity that is printed.

Contraction Words Activity

This activity develops fine motor skills as your child picks up an egg half and a fun way to learn words that are contracted- shortened.

Simply write the contracted words with their pair on paper, cut out and place them under the egg halves. Then your child chooses two egg halves to see if they get a pair.

this image shows you how to play the game.

Synonyms Pairs Activity

I have so many of these plastic eggs so I thought they could be a handy way to make home learning more fun.

This game allows your child to expand their vocabulary.

Put a word in each egg and see if your child can open two eggs and see if they match.

What Am I?

This guessing game is great for auditory memory and developing cognitive processing skills and communication.

Just print the cards which each have an animal or object on them and either you or your child read out the description to see if the other person can guess what you are describing.

These are the cards that you print off showing the animal or object and then the description you match it to.

Who, What, Where?

This resource allows your child to build sentences by matching the who, what and where part of the sentence to the correct picture.

The Barrier Game

The barrier game develops communication and listening skills.

You and your child start with a blank scene, you can choose from under the sea, farm and school. You then put the printed objects on your scene without your child seeing, hence the term 'barrier'. You then need to explain to your child where each object is on your scene and they have to recreate your picture on their own scene.

At the end of the game you will see how well you communicated and your child listened by how similar your scenes now look.

Then swap and let your child communicate their scene whilst you listen.

Listen and Colour

These fun colouring pictures help to develop your childs listening and auditory processing skills. Read out each instruction whilst your child follows them and see what their picture looks like at the end.

Pencil Control Activity Sheets

These activities will help your child to practise their pencil control and co ordination skills as well as listening, colour recognition and number recognition.

Story Telling Game

Print or tell a short story to your child and provide them with pictures/ scenes from the story. As you tell it, see if they can hand you the correct picture to match the part of the story you are telling. This allows you to see how well they are listening and devleop their listening and concentration skills.

Maths resources

Roll and Draw:

This is one of Isabelle's favourite games. You just print the pictures, roll and draw over the picture. This is great for fine motor skills, pencil control, maths skills and concentration.

Times Tables Pairs

Number grids

These number grids are a great way to develop working memory, problem solving and sequencing.

Memory Frame Game

This is like the number grid game but with pictures instead. Simply print off the grids, give your child the cut out images and a grid to look at for a shorgt time, then take the grid away and see if they can out their images on their grid in the correct order.

More Maths Ideas

This activity resource is available to print free from Twinkl. This is great for problem solving, cognition and concentration skills.

The above activities I have made by printing images of coins and then making matching games with them or see how much is in the jar game. Colour by numbers and times tables are also online to print which are a creative way to learn maths and numbers.

Draw or print lots of coins on a piece of paper. Ask your chil to draw around specific coins and see which ones they recognise.

Shape Robots

Print off two sets of the shapes. Make a robot with the shapes on a piece of paper, then see if your child can recreate the same robot with their shapes.

Listen and Colour

Take turns to add patterns and colours to the unicorn and monster.

Once one person has coloured their pictures, describe how you have done this to your child and see if they can make their shapes look like yours by listening and colouring.

This is a great activity for listening, communication and cognition skills as well as pencil control and mark making.

The Clock Card Game (Clock Solitaire)

This game is great for developing number recognition, time, number matching, shape matching and so much more!

Toadstool Totals Game

This simple game will help your child practise their addition skills.

Print the free printable and cut out the toadstools and their stalk.

Then match the sum on the stalk to the right number of spots on the toadstool head.

Ladybird Spot Game

This is a great activity for maths skills and fine motor skills to be developed.

You simply draw a ladybird on some thick card and push small holes through with a pen to make the ladybird spots.

Then you colour the ends of cotton buds with black pen and cut these ends off.

The cotton bud ends can then be pushed into the holes to make the ladybird spots.

Helpful Resources

And so it begins....

I thought it would be helpful to provide a resource which could help your child better understand what happens when they have their period.

This is something I have recently dealt with. My eleven year old autistic daughter just had her first period. It was quite a shock for her and myself as I thought (hoped!) she would be nearer a teen before she started.

She did amazingly well and I found talking it through with her really helped to reassure her that everything she felt was all normal and nothing to be scared about.

Make your own worksheets

I wanted to share this website that I found where not only can you print activity and worksheets free, you can make your own!

I made an animal word scramble, a wordsearch featuring my daughter's favourite youtubers, and a compound matching word worksheet. This enabled me to make resources that contain my daughter's interests and are relevant to her.

https://www.kiddoworksheets.com/worksheet-generator-word-scramble/

Pinterest is one of the great ways to get inspiration for activities or you can print them straight from there.

These are some of the examples of things I have recently created after seeing them on pinterest and wanting to give them a go with my daughter.

She loves these types of puzzles and games, and they are a great way to fill in those rainy days when your kids get bored too!

Plastic Pocket Resources

Plastic pockets are quite a useful resource for learning activities and games. They are reusable and can make some fun learning ideas....

There are ideas to develop maths skills, mark making, fine motor, cognition, working memory, colour matching and more.

Arts and Crafts

Crazy hair craft

Print off these different faces and see what hairy designs you can come up with!

We used bird seed, crayon shavings and string.

Build a pizza

Print off a pizza base, toppings and even an order form!

Build different pizzas and see if your child can follow instructions/ what you order.

Lolly stick tree decoration

You will need:

Lolly sticks

wool or thread

glue

craft accessories to decorate.

Tape two lolly sticks together and then begin to wrap coloured wool or thread around to create Father Christmas body.

I used white stuffing for the beard and back card to add eyes.

Cardboard tube dinosaurs!

These cardboard dinosaurs are each made from one tube. Just cut lines at each end to bend to make a neck and legs or stick on legs like with the T.Rex.

Decorate using the left over card and googly eyes!

Loads of skills developed during this activity including painting, cutting, sticking, imagination and concentration.

Woollen gonks

These are super cute gonks and simple to make and all you need is wool, a cardboard tube and some time.

Word document shows you the instructions which you can print free. Video also available on my Tik Tok account too.

Bottle Sea Turtles

bottom of plastic bottle stuck to card shaped like a tortoise.

Reuse your plastic bottle bottoms and make these cute sea turtles!

Cut our the bottom lof a plastic bottle

Place on coloured card and draw around the bottle and give your turtle feet and a head.

Cut around your card outline.

Then fill your turtle shell with any craft pieces you have and glue the shell onto your coloured card.

Plastic Egg Storage Craft

These plastic eggs are perfect to decorate and paint to reuse as storage pots. My daughter always has small toys, jewellery and hair bobbles that need a safe place to go!

You could even fill them with sweets and give as gifts or how about party bag favours!

I mixed acrylic paints with a small amount of pva glue so the paint sticks better to the plastic. You can also finish them with a layer of pva so the paint stays on too.

Unicorn plastic egg being used as a jewellery box.

Valentine Love Bugs

Bottom of plastic bottle that has been cut off a bottle.

Make a cute love bug from the bottom of a plastic bottle.

Simply cut the bottom off a bottle, place on coloured card and draw around the bottle adding legs and a head, cut out, fill your bottle with valentines themed bits and bobs and glue onto the card.

Plastic Egg Jelly Fish

These jelly fish look so bright and colourful and are super easy to make.

I have just cut and then stuck coloured wool inside the top of plastic egg, added eyes and a wool tie so you can hang it up.

This is a great activity to help develop cutting and sticking skills.

They will brighten up your kids room or make a great classroom display!

Mini Beast Paper Craft

This activity is a bit more challenging so it's best to click the Tik Tik tab at the top of the page and watch the video on how to make these.

Paper Mushoom Terrarium

This is a really simple but creative activity.

Simply cut out pictures of mushrooms and plants.

I coloured some toy stuffing with green pen but you could put green tissue paper at the botom of a glass jar or plastic tub to look like moss.

Then place your cut out plants and mushrooms around the inside of your tub/bottle.

3D Mushroom Pictures

These fun pictures are made using egg boxes. Simply cut out and paint!

Silhouette Pictures

These pictures are easily created by printing od drawing different black shaoes. We then painted an orange/ red sunset sky and put our cut outs on the top.

Peg Pals

These are a great activity to develop fine motor skills, in particular strengthening the fine pincer grasp and co ordination skills.

Either you or your child can make them.

Under the sea foil craft

Simply let your child colour in/ make patterns etc on tin foil with sharpies. For an extra effect, rub the sharpie covered foil with a tissue to merge the colours together.

Then cut out a mermaids tail or a jelly fish to make your pictures!

Handprint fairy House

I love this activity!

Your child simply draws around their hand and then after you/ they have cut it out, they can decorate it to look like a mushroom fairy house!

I have provided some printable fairies, toadstool lids and more.

Build A Sandwich

This is a fun activity using just paper and glue.

First, fold a sheet of paper into a concertina.

Then draw and cut out different sandwich fillings.

Fill each fold with your fillings to make your sandwich yummy!

Fine Motor Painting

Cotton buds are a great way to help develop fine motor skills. Once you have darwn or printed a picture, fill the space with small circles.

The child then uses a cotton bud dipped in paint to fill in the circles.

Halloween Printables

Spooky Halloween Code Activity

Keep kids busy this Halloween with this spooky crack the code activity!

Instruction Activity

After drawing my own instruction grid, I decided to create one in word and upload for others to use.

This activity encourages comprehension, cognitive and reading skills. The shape one also encourages shape recognition and other maths skills.

There are three different versions to print.

Christmas activities...

Festive Code Breaker

Have festive fun with these Christmas code games.

Christmas Bingo

Have fun with this Christmas themed bingo game!

Christmas roll and draw.

Roll the dice and draw over the parts of a snowman and reindeer. Don't forget to print two so you can have one each and see who completes each character first!

Santa's Little Helpers Game

Have fun playing this printable board game, then why not make your own!

Santa's little helper board game to print

Build a snowman game

As you play, build your snowman collecting gloves,nose,eyes,stickarms, hat and a scarf!

Mini bottle tree decorations

To make these cute tree decorations you need:

glitter

mini craft bottles

string

craft decorations

glue

Glitter, mini glass bottles and string you will need to make the tree decorations.

Gingerbread Garland

Draw around a gingerbread man template

Cut them out and decorate using glitter etc

Punch a hole in each gingerbread man hand and thread through string to hang up.

Spin The Wheel Christmas Bingo

Have fun whilst learning to match, share and turn taking with spin the wheel christmas bingo!

Simply cut out the spinning wheel and arrow, place the arrow in the middle of the wheel with a butterfly clip and spin!

Christmas Snowglobes

Print the free snowglobes to make snowy pictures.

Once your child has coloured them in, cover with some clear plastic such as a plastic pocket, but leave a small gap at the top of the plastic so your child can pour in their festive decorations.

Then seal the plastic and give the globe a shake!

Paperchain Characters

My daughter struggles with her fine motor skills but loves making paper chains every christmas. This was a great activity that matched her interest and helped her skills at the same time.

Christmas Pud Tree Decs

These christmas puds were great fun to make and reused old jam jar lids so we helped the environment at the same time!

Simply paint the lids using acrylic paints, add a string tie to the back so you can hang it from your tree and finish with a pva/ protective clear finish.

Beaded christmas Trees

This activity was a great way to encourage concentration skills and fine motor skills. My daughter loves pinks and purples so we didn't use the traditional red and green for christmas!

Once you have twisted some some pieces of pipe cleaner around a single pipe cleaner, simply let your child thread the branches with beads.

French Bingo

My daughter has always been interested in other languages so I thought I would share this french bingo game I made to help her learn fruit and veg in french.

You can alter the game to suit your child's ability. They can match the pictures first or you call out the french words and they find the matching picture, whatever suits you!

Kinaesthetic Activities

Matching flag game made from kitchen roll tubes stuck on card with lolly stick flags.

Learning whilst moving can really help the child engage, especially if they are autistic or have adhd. This allows for excess energy to be used and can help if the child likes stimming and movement.

This flag matching activity allows for learning to take place whilst the child actively engages by sticking the correct flag in the tube next to the country.

Roll and Build a Picture Game

This game is a great way to learn whilst playing. Simply roll the dice and place a shape onto your picture.

This can be altered to suit your child's own level of learning.

You could put the numbers on the shapes if they are not at the right stage to recognise their shapes, you could make your key related to colours or add the pictures of the shapes to the key to make it less challenging.

It is really important to make activities achievable, especially when it is a new activity so the child can feel confident when they succeed and not as frustrated. You can then make it more challenging as they become more engaged.

Picnic Memory Game

This game can be played two ways and allows for memory, auditory memory, attention, fine motor and turn taking development.

Once you have printed and cut out the picnic blanket and food, place some of the food on the picnic blanket, once your child has looked at it for a short time, ask them to look away and you take away one or two pieces of the food. When your child looks again, they have to guess what is missing.

You place several pieces of food on the blanket, your child looks for a short time and then you cover the food, and your child has to tell you what they can remember is on the blanket.

Buzzy Bee Game

Learn all about bees with this interactive printable game. Simply roll the dice and move your bee along the hive answering questions as you go.

Roll and Fish

This game is a great way to develop colour recognition and colour matching as well as working memory.

The less challenging version has 4 colours.

Roll and Fish (4 colours)

Thread the Tunnels

This fun activity is just made from cardboard tubes cut up and stuck to a sheet of card or paper. You then give your child some wool or string and they can pass it through the tubes.

This is great for problem solving, co ordination and fine motor skills.

You can put numbers on the tubes so they can go through them in order.

The Kings Coronation Game

This game allows children to learn a bit about what the coronation is and some information about the Royal Family in a way that is fun and hopefully will help them recall information better.

Emoji Emotion Game

I saw this on pinterest and thought it was a really clever way to look at facial expressions.

Simply print off two copies of the resource sheet.

Next cut out two emoji strips.

Cut out the bunnies and cut out their faces.

Attach a small piece of paper on the back of the rabbit so you can thread it onto the emoji strip of paper.

Attach the strip of paper to make a band.

Cut out one set of emojis as these will be the cards you turn over.

take turns to turn over an emoji and its the first person to match the face of the bunny to this card by turning it along the emoji band.

Crazy Faces

This fun monster face allows your child to explore expressions, fine motor skills and more.

Fine Motor Colour Game

Another fun idea using things from around the home to create resources for learning.

This game uses coloured in cotton bud ends pushed into card to create a colour matching, cognition development game.

Mother's Day crafts

Home made Mother's Day card made using straws, paper and paint.

Pom pom Bears

These pom pom bears were easier to make than they look. Click on my Tik Tok link at the top of the page to see my video of how they were made.

Bunch of Flowers Printing activity

Create these spiral flower prints to make a beautiful card this MothersDay.

First cut out a small square of card.

Next spread glue on the card and start to wind some string or wool into a spiral.

Once it has dried you can use your stamp to press into the paint and then onto paper to create your flowers.

Pompom Print Card

Create this textured picture using paint and pompoms!

Simply draw and cut out the parts of the picture you want to not be covered in paint and place them on your paper.

Next use a pompom to dip in paint and press all over the paper.

Once the paint has dried, you can lift off your paper shapes to reveal your picture.

Cardboard Tube Flowers

Kids can make their own flower gardens using carboard tubes.

Use a pencil to draw their flower on a falttened tube as shown.

Next cut out the shape and paint.

The flowers will then stand on their own.

I used coloured paper to create petals for a sunflower and cut a spiral to make a rose.

Twisty Mother'sDay card.

This card makes a fun alternative to the usual cards you can buy in the shops.

First cut out two large circles that are the same size.

Next cut a segment out of one of the circles.

Decorate the circle with the segment missing qith pens/ paint.

On the full circle, write messages for Mum/Aunt/Nan that can be seen as the top circle turns.

Finally, use a split pin to push through the middle of both circles so it turns.

You can see how to make this on Tik Tok.

Easter Crafts/ Activity Ideas

Print and Match

This resource can be printed and used in lots of different learning activities.

You could colour them in and do a matching colours game, write times tables sums on one item and match it with the answer.

Daisy Paper Chains

These daisies make pretty room decorations for spring and easter.

Print the instructions to make them.

Hot Cross Bun Easter Cookies

These cookies are easy to make and taste delicious!

Easter Bunny Twistables

These cute pipe cleaner bunnies are great for developing fine motor skills.

Twist the pipe cleaner to make a small circle, then fold over the two pieces of pipe cleaner left into bunny ears. Add eyes and a pom pom nose!

Click on the Tik Tok link in the top right corner of my page to see this craft in action.

Easter Bunny Handprint

Turn your handprint into these cute easter bunnies.

Once your child has drawn around their hand, cut it out.

Then fold the thunb and little finger inwards to look like bunny paws.

The middle finger can be folded back so the first and third finger look like ears.

Then decorate!

Squishy Easter Bunny

Have fun making these easter bunny squishies!

Draw or print a bunny head and place onto clear sticky plastic.

Next let your child choose some squishy pom poms and place them where the ears and cheeks are.

Finally, place another sheet of clear sticky plastic over the top of the bunny and press down. Cut around any excess plastic.

Squish away!

Sensory Activities

Feely Mat

This feely activity should be supervised to ensure things are not put in your child's mouth.

I have shared how to make this on my Tik Tok page. All items are secured down with hot glue but I would always sit with my child with these types of activities.

Choose different textures and items depending on your child's age and ability.

Easter Egg Squishy

This squishy activity is great for sensory needs, fine motor skills and exploring textures.

Cut out an egg shape from card, then cut the middle out so you are left with just the egg shape outline.

Next place the egg shape onto some sticky, clear plastic.

Your child can then fill the egg with lots of pom poms or you might want to use other squishy materials.

Finally place another piece of sticky plastic over the egg and press firmly so the pom poms can't escape.

Summer activities

3D Ice Cream Cone Pictures

These cool cones are made from egg boxes. Add different materials such as tissue paper, pencils or even material to make your ice cream!

Summer Fruit Kebab

These cool fruit kebabs make a fun learning activity for summer. They are great for practising co ordination, fine motor, sequencing and many more skills.

I have provided a range of kebabs to copy for different abilites or just have fun making up your own.

Roll and Build an Ice Cream

Have fun rolling the dice and seeing who can build their ice cream to win!

Beehive Game

This beehive game is a quick craft to make but will help to develop gross motor skills, co ordination and concentration. Simply cut up cardboard tubes and cover in yellow paper/ colour them in. Next place or stick in a group on a piece of paper like hive holes. Then I used pom pom bees that I found in The Works and try to see how many your child can throw and get in the hive.

Summer Lolly Puzzles

These paper puzzles are super easy to make.

Your child can print and colour in a design like these summer lollies that are free on Twinkl, then simply cut into strips and see if they can make the picture again.

I have added some numbers to some of them to add a maths element too.

Paper Lantern

These little lanterns are made using just three things: greaseproof paper, lolly sticks and black acrylic paint.

You can paint your design on a square of greaseproof paper, stick your lolly sticks into a square shape and attach the paper using glue.

Then just add two more lolly sticks to the back of the lantern in a 'v- shape' to create a stand. Add a tealight to make it light up!

Life Skill Activities

Fill The Fridge

This activity is to start encouraging every day living skills such as understanding where your food should go in the fridge to be safe.

Print off the word document and cut out the food, then with your child, place them where they should go in the fridge. You can talk about why they go in certain places such as raw meat on bottom shelf so it can't drip on food etc and this leads to food safety.

Draws: Fruit and veg

Bottom shelf: Raw meat

Next shelf: Cooked food/leftovers

Top shelf: Dairy

How Often?

I have produced two tick charts which look at every day chores and personal care and how often you should carry them out. This can help your child to start to understand personal hygiene and understanding some more life skills.

Valentine's Day Activities

Valentines Gonk

Super cute valentines gonks using just your hand print!

Simply draw around your hand and cut out.

Turn the handprint upside down so your fingers create a beard.

Then use coloured paper or draw a hat, nose, and add hearts.