Filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees. Richard Louv
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For adventurous and curious nature loving children and their educators
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•Team Ted Foundation•
This resource is inspired by a wonderful, brave boy named Teddy. He was a pupil in my reception class in 2021-2022 who brightened up the classroom every day and his favourite colour was orange 🧡
In October 2023, Teddy was diagnosed with a form of child cancer called neuroblastoma which he bravely fought. In April 2024, Teddy sadly lost his battle and passed away surrounded by his family.
His parents set up a charity named ‘Team Ted Foundation’ in memory of Teddy which provides support to others who are facing a similar situation to that of Teddy’s. All of the money from this download will be donated directly to the Team Ted Foundation. If you download and use any of the orange inspired activities, I hope you will give a little thought to Teddy as you play 🧡
If you are a member and download the resource, I will make a donation on your behalf or you can contact me to make one. If you aren’t a member, the resource is £4.00. The link is in my bio or you can comment with an orange emoji or the word orange and I’ll send the direct link to you.
You can support the charity directly by giving them a follow @teamtedfoundation
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Sep 7
🍁LEAF JIGSAW🍂
Grab some of those autumn leaves and cut them in half. Pop them in a tuff tray and it makes a super matching activity for little ones. Perfect for some early maths skills.
The print out is part of the Autumn activity download. Included in the membership! Or as an individual download.
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Sep 6
🌿Nature faces🍂
Collect some free nature and create a self portrait! There’s plenty of nature falling right now and this activity is a fun one to introduce vocabulary linked to facial features (and an all about me topic!).
You can download the nature faces and vocabulary on leaves from my website (included in the membership if you’ve joined!) If you want the direct link, comment ‘nature faces’ 🍁
The woven mats are from @hope_earlyyears
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Sep 3
I have had a few messages asking for a discount for the membership or help about how to convince SLT to purchase a membership! Just show them this video… a snippet of some of the resources you’ll have access to. The discount code is TENPERCENT for 10% off the annual payment.
Take your outdoor learning to the next level with ideas to enhance your provision, activities and resources. There’s plenty for the indoors too, helping to create a natural feel.
Included are nature activities in many themes, seasonal ideas, classroom resources, mud kitchen recipes, inspiring documents, signs, facts and soooo much more. Perfect for the early years, key stage one, forest school, teachers, nurseries, childminders, home educators or anyone that works with children. Take a look at my website, everything is priced individually. Once joined they all turn into no cost.
If you have any questions, just ask ☺️
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Sep 2
Protect your mud kitchen recipes from splashes and mud by putting them into frames. They’re not fully waterproof but will help the recipes last longer than usual. I got mine from Ikea, they’re plastic but I figured it’s better than laminating each one and the frames can be reused each season with a new set of recipes.
The lovely Autumn recipes are on my website with plenty of other gorgeous Autumn downloads. I’ll be adding loads more Autumn content over the next month too!
Membership is available, use the code TENPERCENT for 10% off the annual payment.
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Sep 2
•NEW DOWNLOADS•
This week I have added eight new resources to the website. I had loads of requests for logs linking to areas of the classroom/Autumn so I created the following sets:
🍂Autumn logs
🌦️Weather logs with a chart
🧪 Potion logs
💛Sand area logs
🌳Small world logs
🖐️ Funky fingers logs
✂️ Creative area logs
💧 Water area logs
Swipe through the images to see each set. There’s plenty of other downloadable log sets on my website too. You can choose to download each resource separately or join my annual membership and then they’re all included at no extra cost!
Comment ‘logs’ if you need the link sending.
I do have some more on my to do list! But feel free to make a request if there’s something you don’t see.
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Sep 1
After 17 years of teaching at the same school, I have decided to take a little break. I won’t return in September. I am going to continue creating outdoor and nature inspired resources for my website and membership which I absolutely love doing. I may do a little supply work or look at other jobs in the future, but for now I am going to enjoy my slower pace of life and focus on my family and myself. I was definitely burning myself out trying to teach, create my resources and also be a good mum. I couldn’t juggle everything and so I am going to focus on my little business for now.
I am excited for my new path in life and I’m very much looking forward to my new journey. It feels incredibly strange now that September is nearly here and I feel sad and emotional not going back to teach a classroom full of little ones or being able to work with my amazing colleagues and friends anymore. I taught at my lovely school for such a long time that this does feel daunting but also exciting!
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Aug 30
The colour resources are super popular at the moment and I love seeing how you all use them. It’s a really nice way to bring a little nature indoors or use outdoors.
On the website I have:
🌿Colour nature jars resource (empty jars, nature colour jars, sheets of nature to cut out and feelings labels)
🌿Colours in nature resource (nature colour sheets, colour mixing wheels, colour labels and colour addition sets)
🌿Bundle of colour and feelings set (includes the two resources above and a nature potion set, nature feelings activities and feelings on nature backgrounds.
Resources available on my website or included in the membership.
Thank you to each account for sharing their ways of using the resource. Click each photo to follow them.
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Aug 28
