Animals 🐾

Use the tools “Paint, Animate and Mix”  found in the JIT Infant Toolkit to create a animal fact book about a self-selected animal by creating a series of digital drawings/animations and adding text and/or speech.

Explore data handing with animal pictograms within the Busy Things resource. Complete a survey on people's pets and display the results in a graph.

Explore the life cycle of chickens with this interactive digital life cycle tool within ‘Busy Things’. Choose a template and draw in the stages of a chicken's life cycle, or if you are lucky enough to have live chicken in your local environment then take pictures and add them to the life cycle.

Make a patchwork animal within 'Busy Things'! Choose from elephants, cows or sheep. Experiment with the different patterns, colours and textures.

Labelling parts of an animal within 'Busy Things': demonstrate anatomical knowledge of animals with this labelling worksheet. Basic anatomical awareness lays the foundation for the closer observations necessary for taxonomic classification

Ordering - How big is that animal? How large are these animals in real life? Put these animals in order from smallest on the left to largest on the right within 'Busy Things'.

When you think you are finished, select 'Mark' to see if you are correct.

Animal muddle: Click the arrows at the bottom of the screen to change the body parts. Click the animal to hear it and make it animate. Experiment with different combinations within 'Busy Things'.

Create your very own animal with this printable resource found in 'Busy Things'. 

Make your own animal; use paper fasteners, cardboard, scissors and glue to build your own hinged, crazy creatures from Animal Muddle. Thirteen animals over six pages in full colour.

Complete the animal:  Print out the eleven different animal bodies from 'Busy Things'  Animal Muddle game. 

Which animal? Listen to the animal: sound being played through the speaker. Click on the character that makes that sound. There are fourteen different animal noises to learn within 'Busy Things'.

Simply-drawn, colourful symbols for use in SEND, EAL and beyond within Widgit to illustrate concepts in a clear and concise way through a range of printables. 

Within the Literacy/English area you can find 9 sets of flashcards for popular children's books. Each set supports over 10 classic books including ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’ and ‘Rainbow Fish’.