Letter B: B is for Butterfly: Magnet Page

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Animal Dominoes

Busy Bee Kids Printables are a wonderful website and have five sets of animal dominoes to download and print for free. The sets on offer are farm animals, ocean animals, bugs, safari and dinosaurs.

Each pdf file has two pages and basic instructions.  Click here to go to the site.

Letter B:B is for Bee:Lacing Template

Free to download here from Activity Village

Minibeast wordsearch

Free to download here from Activity Village

Resources By Theme Master List: Minibeast/Bugs Theme

In an attempt to organise my own bookmarks and to pick and choose from all the great FREE resources available to download and print I have started listing them in these master lists by type of resource and also by theme.  You can access these master lists by using the tabs at the top of the page.
This post is on the theme of minibeasts or bugs and will be updated periodically as I add resources to this blog or discover new sources.  If you know of any that you think should be included feel free to leave a comment. Enjoy!

Ants

ladybird split pin character

Spider

Bugs resources by 1+1+1=1

Butterfly

bug lacing template

Minibeast 3 part cards

Today we walked to the local shops. Normally B would be in the pushchair whilst we all practically run to keep up with the whirlwind that is A. Today, however, we walked to the shops whilst the older two were at school. B released from his usual chariot was able to stop and look at everything he was interested in. Since Spring has definitely arrived here on the borders of Germany and the Netherlands most of the things we saw were of the creepy crawly variety. So we can remember what we saw today I made some 3 part cards when we got home.  There are cards for caterpillar, beetle, ladybird, bee, butterfly, spider and ant.

Download the file from here

Fine motor skills: split pin animals

Fine motor skills by stealth as we had to cut these out, punch the holes and attach the paper fasteners (brads?).  We downloaded the ladybird (ladybug) and caterpillar from here at Sparklebox (there are also other minibeasts in the file) and it fitted in with National Wildlife week in the UK (14th-20th March) and our general Spring theme.  The elephant came from the the animals link below.
A was in charge of the elephant since it is his favourite.  He got the chance to use his left-handed scissors to cut out the entire thing himself - something he is still not too confident in doing.  Then we used a sharp pencil and a pad of felt to punch the holes and he put the whole thing together.

R was in charge of the ladybird which was more complicated as it was multi-layered.

B got the simplest one of all the caterpillar.  I cut out the pieces but if you have a little one who is confident with scissors they could cut out the oval body pieces (beats scissor skills sheets!) He spent the rest of the day making all three move, jump, fly and wriggle.

They also have other characters that you can download:
Animals (lion, elephant, horse,tiger, and teddy)
Ocean animals (turtle, jellyfish,mermaid,octopus and shark)
Dinosaurs
Christmas (santa and a snowman
Teddy bear
Pets (cat dog fish and rabbit)