Templates & Activities

All the numbers

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This is a list of the number templates. Use them individually to focus on a particular number. Colour them, cut them out, use them as part of a bigger picture, decorate with drawings of things that are related to that number (eg shape, number of legs / wheels,  etc.)

Alphabet Cards

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These cards can be used for coloring, games, spelling and more! Simply print out the templates (card stock works best) and cut along the dotted lines.

Alphabet templates – All the letters

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Babies and children are surrounded by words and letters. The unusual thing about numbers and letters is that they can change if they are turned around – an upside down M becomes a W, and upside down 6 becomes a 9. Our alphabet and number templates are bare to allow you plenty of scope for Read more

Animal Matching Cards

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These animal matching cards can be used for matching games, memory games, to practice vocabulary and more! Color them before playing or play with them as is.

Ant

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This template shows an Ant to colour.

Apple Pie

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Template showing whole apple pie, a cut piece and an apple.

Balls

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Volleyball and Soccerball.

Bicycle

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Here are two bicycle templates.

Birds

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Here are some templates of birds to colour including a kookaburra, cockatoo and ibis.

Box of Crayons

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This template shows a box of crayons with some loose crayons

Bread

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This template shows three different types of bread

Bus

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Interested in buses? This blank template of a bus is perfect for coloring/designing your very own

Butterfly Templates

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Here are a range of templates for butterflies – plain and with patterns

Calculator

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This template shows A calculator for colouring, counting and discussion.

Camping – campsite, tent and campfire

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These template shows a campsite with tent, logs, fire and trees with a close up of the fire in the second template. Click image for the full-size template Click image for the full-size template Related skills: fine motor, gross motor, language Discussion Topics: Colour the templates and talk about camping, the food you take when Read more

Candy Canes

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A candy cane for coloring and a stripeless candy cane that children can decorate and color. The same templates are also available as colour-by-number activities for older children.

Car

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Interested in cars? This blank template of a car is perfect for coloring/designing your very own

Cats

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Here are a range of templates of cats – cute cats and a Halloween black cat

Cheese

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This template shows three different types of cheese.

Chinese Lanterns

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Print the page, decorate, and fold in half lengthwise to make a Chinese Lantern.

Christmas Angel

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This template shows a Christmas Angel to colour and the same template as a colour by number activity

Christmas holly with berries template

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This template shows Christmas holly with berries Click image for the full-size template Related skills: fine motor Discussion Topics: Talk about Christmas traditions and colours Do you use a different plant that is native to your area for Christmas decorations?  

Christmas Trees

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Christmas tree templates, blank and decorated so that you can draw them just the way you like them!  Plus a join the dots and maze.

Christmas: Santa and Christmas templates

santa and other Christmas templates

Here are some templates for Christmas: Santa, a Santa bear, toy sack, Santa’s sleigh, and Rudolf.  There is also a slight template and a matching join-the-dots sleigh.

Chutes and Ladders

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This template is a variation on the Snakes and Ladders game. This is a easy, fun game for children and families to play together. Included in the PDF version (download here) are instructions on how to play.

Clock with no Hands

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Here is a template of a clock with separate hands. Cut out hands and attach to the clock with a pin in the centre so you can change the time or draw hands to emphasise particular times (sleep time, play time, etc) on this clock

Cockatoo

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This template shows a Cockatoo

Computer and Keyboards

desktop computer and keyboards

These templates are of computers and including keyboards for colouring, writing letters on keypads and practice typing

Cooking

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These templates are for cooking and baking.

Cupcake

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This is a template of a cupcake

Dogs

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The faces of these three dog templates have been left blank so that you can draw them just the way you like them!

Dolphin

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This template shows a Dolphin to colour

Elephant

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Here is an elephant template and a connect the dots.

Eraser

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This template shows an eraser

Farm

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This is a template of a farm scene with barn and vegetable beds

Farm Animals

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Here are some templates of farm animals – a cow, horse and join-the-dots horse.

Frog

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This template shows a Frog

Fruit

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These templates have a variety of fruit.

Fruit & Vegetable Matching Cards

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These fruit and vegetable matching cards can be used for matching games, memory games, to practice vocabulary and more! Color them before playing or play with them as is.

Ghost for Halloween Template

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This template shows a blank ghost and the word Boo! Colour it in and use as a starting point for other activities.

Glue

glue stick and bottle

This template shows glue

Halloween Bingo

Halloween Bingo

This is a Halloween version of the popular game. Bingo is a game of chance which means that everyone has a good chance of being the first to shout “BINGO!”  The game provides practice for matching and is a fun way to encourage concentration.

Hammer

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Click image for the full-size template Related skills: fine motor, language Discussion Topics: Colour the template. Talk about what you do with hammers. Who do you know who has one or more hammers? What are hammers made of? Is the handle made of something different to the head of the hammer? Do you have different Read more

Hand Turkey – from a hand outline

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Making turkeys out of hand outlines is a popular Thanksgiving activity in America. You can use an outline of your own hand or this template.

Headstone

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This template shows a headstone with a cat, bats and a full moon perfect for Halloween.

Heart Templates

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These templates show heart shapes including mazes and a join the dots to make a heart

Hexagon templates

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A template with a single hexagon and one with multiple hexagons to colour

Ibis

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This template shows an Ibis – a wading birds with long legs and curved beak.

Jack-o-Lantern Mazes

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Jack-o-Lantern – with three mazes within a Jack-o-Lantern for Halloween, easy, medium and hard. Can you get from start to finish?

Kangaroo

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This template shows a kangaroo.

Keys

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Children are fascinated by keys. Here are two templates for keys, and a lock and key to decorate and discuss.

Kitchen Appliances

Kitchen Appliances

The templates are of appliances found in the kitchen – a microwave, stove or cooker, refrigerator, and kettle.

Letter – H, h, Hh

This template shows Letter – upper case H, lower case h, and comic sans Hh

Letter – P, p, Pp

These templates show Letter – upper case P, lower case p and comic sans Pp

Lunchbox template

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This template shows a Lunchbox and drink container.  Talk about the types of food you would put in a lunch box and either draw it in, or cut out pictures and glue them in

Make an Angel for your Christmas Tree

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Children can have fun colouring, cutting and putting together this angel. You could make one angel for the top of the tree, or several angels as Christmas decorations.

Make your own calendar

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Use this template to make a calendar for one month, or print twelves and make a calendar for a who year. These make great personalised gifts.

Notebook

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This template shows a notebook

Number – 0

This template shows Number – 0, zero or nought.

Number & Math Cards

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These cards can be used to practice numbers or math as mathematical symbols have been included. Simply print the templates (card stock works best) and cut along the dotted lines. Combine various numbers to make larger numbers (ie. 1 + 0 = 10; 2 + 5 = 25). For numbers with 3 or more digits Read more

Octopus

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This template shows an Octopus

Penguin

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This is  a penguin template with corresponding color-by-number template in two versions: “easy” and “hard”.

Pentagon

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This template shows a Pentagon

Planes – large and small

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Interested in planes? Here is a template for a passenger jet and a small plane with a single propeller.

Platypus

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The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) live in burrows beside rivers and lakes in Australia.

Pumpkin & Pumpkin Pie

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This template shows a Pumpkin Pie. Pumpkin pie is a traditional desert in America on Halloween and Thanksgiving. This template includes a whole pie, a slice and a pumpkin.

Ruler

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This is a template of a ruler to colour and discuss.

Scissors Template

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Click image for the full-size template Related skills: fine motor, language Discussion Topics: Colour the template. Talk about all the different types of scissors – safety scissors with blunt ends for children, dressmaking scissors, small embroidery scissors, manicurist’s nail scissors, hairdresser’s scissors, garden scissors. Big scissors are often called shears. What occupations can you think Read more

Shady Lanes Project – “What I saw on the way”

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“What I saw on the way” instructions This activity encourages children (and adults) to notice, remember, record, and discuss some of the things they see on their journeys – to and from school, going to the shops, or any other journey. When used in the classroom, all children can be included – those who come Read more

Shape Matching Cards

Shapes

These shape matching cards can be used for matching games, memory games, to practice vocabulary and more! Color them before playing or play with them as is.

Shapes

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This template shows some common shapes for discussion, colouring and to make into shape matching puzzles.

Shoes

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Templates with different types of shoes – lace-ups, high heels, thongs/flipflops…

Skirt

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Template of a skirt to colour plain or draw a pattern.

Snake

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One template of a snake to colour and one to connect the dots

Spider

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This template shows a spider. Draw on patterns and colour this large, blank spider for Halloween or any time of the year.

Sweets, Candy, Lollies

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Sweets, Candy, Lollies – this template can be used for coloring, but the wrapper has been left blank so children can choose patterns and colours.

T-shirt

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Add a design, then colour this t-shirt.

Teddy Bear

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This is a teddy bear template with corresponding color-by-number template in two versions: “easy” and “hard”.

Tiger

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This template shows a Tiger

Tortoise

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This template shows a Tortoise. Tortoises usually live on land.

Train – steam engine side view

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This is a series of templates shows the side view of a steam engine, carriages.  It will appeal to children who are serious about their trains.

Train Diesel

Train Diesel templates

This is a series of templates shows the side view of a diesel engine. They will appeal to children who are serious about their trains.

Tree

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Colour this tree and its surroundings. You could draw animals or children playing underneath.

Tulips

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Tulips – single or set of three

Vegetables

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These templates have a variety of vegetables.

Veterinarian

veterinarian templates

Cat and dog with Vet’s sign, syringe and stethoscope – all ready to see the vet!

Weather – clouds

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This template shows clouds partly covering the sun – for drawing and perhaps talking about shade and shadows or as part of a weather theme.

Witch

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This template shows a witch flying on a broomstick in front of a full moon – a fun coloring activity for older children on Halloween.

Zebra

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This template shows a Zebra