Zoo: EYFS/Early Years activities, Displays and ideas
🦁 Step into a world of incredible creatures with our fantastic 'Zoo' resources! From our immersive Zoo Dramatic Role Play Pack to engaging Zoo Animal Masks (both colouring and pre-coloured), we have everything to bring the wild into your learning space. Discover fascinating facts with Zoo Animal Fact Cards, explore animal footprints, and develop early literacy with Zoo Animal Word Cards and Alphabet Display Cards.
Delve into maths with Zoo Animal Counting Display Posters, Number Slice Puzzles, and fun Feed the Lion Counting Puzzles. Encourage creativity with 'Design Your Own Zoo Animal Sheets' and 'Drawing Zoo Animals' activities, and foster fine motor skills with 'Feed the Lion Counting Puzzles'. Our 'My Day at the Zoo' booklet and Zoo (Animal) Checklists are perfect for capturing observations from a real or imaginary trip!
You'll also find dedicated packs for specific 'Animals of the World' like Elephants, Lions, Tigers, Gorillas, and Sea Turtles, offering detailed body parts posters and mindfulness colouring. Plus, bring learning to life with Zoo Animal Lollipop Puppets, Activity Challenge Cards, and even nursery rhymes like 'Down in the Jungle'. We also have a range of organisational resources, from 'Well Done!' Certificates and Reward Charts to 'Self Registration Displays' and 'Animal Themed Floor Mats', making classroom and setting management a breeze. Get ready for an amazing animal adventure! 🦒
Please scroll down to browse our Zoo themed activity ideas, printable educational materials, planning inspiration, display resources, classroom & setting management tools and much more! If you’re looking for Preschool, Nursery, Childminder, Reception, SEND or Home Education resources for 0-7 year olds, you’ve come to the right place! Our interactive and engaging EYFS and KS1 learning resources are lovingly made (including original hand drawn images) by early years teaching and learning experts; a husband and wife team. We hope it helps! 😊
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Free Sample Resources
General (You can use the drop-downs below to filter by Area of Learning, Resource Title or Keyword for resources within this section) Please note that more resources are available in other sections on this page.
Area of Learning/Resource Title
- 2-PIECE PUZZLES
- ANIMALS - Decorate an Elephant Mask
- ANIMALS - Decorate the Elephants
- Area - Communication and Language
- Area - Expressive Arts and Design
- Area - Literacy
- Area - Mathematics
- Area - Personal Social and Emotional
- Area - Physical
- Area - Understanding the World
- BORDER SHEETS
- CLASS GROUP CHARTS
- COLOUR and COUNT
- COLOURING
- COUNTING POSTERS
- CREATE YOUR OWN ZOO MAP
- DESIGN YOUR OWN ZOO ANIMAL
- DISPLAY ALPHABET CARDS
- DRAMATIC ROLE PLAY PACK
- FACT CARDS
- FEED THE LION COUNTING PUZZLES
- FEEDING THE ANIMALS - DRAW THEIR FOOD
- FOOTPRINT PUZZLES
- INSECT HOUSE - DRAW A CREEPY CRAWLY
- MACTH THE FEEDING TIMES - PUZZLE
- MOVEMENT ACTIVITY CHALLENGE
- MY DAY AT THE ZOO - BOOKLET
- MY FAVOURITE/FAVORITE SHEETS
- NUMBER SLICE PUZZLES
- NURSERY ROOM CHARTS
- SNAP CARDS
- WHAT HAPPENS AT THE ZOO? - DRAWING
- WORD CARDS
- ZOO (ANIMAL) CHECKLIST
- ZOO - What Animal did the Zoo Send You?
- ZOO ANIMAL LOLLIPOP PUPPETS
- ZOO ANIMAL LOLLIPOP PUPPETS - COLOURING
- ZOO ANIMAL MASKS
- ZOO ANIMAL MASKS - COLOURING
- ZOO TRIP PACK
Keywords
- Activity 23
- Activity Packs 2
- Alphabet 1
- Amphibians 6
- Animal Footprints 6
- Animals 30
- Ant 1
- Art and Craft 12
- Banded Penguin 15
- Birds 17
- Cards/Flashcards 4
- Carnivores 3
- Checklists/Tally Charts 2
- Chimpanzee 18
- Colour & Count 1
- Colouring 9
- Counting 5
- Design Your Own 2
- Discussion Prompts 12
- Dramatic Play 2
- Drawing 7
- Elephant 24
- Endangered Animals 5
- Fact Cards 1
- Fine Motor 23
- Flamingo 13
- Frog 8
- Games 7
- Giraffe 20
- Gorilla 4
- Graph/Charts 1
- Gross Motor/Movement 1
- Group Activity 9
- Herbivores 2
- Iguana 1
- Insects 1
- Invertebrates 1
- Komodo Dragon 10
- Laminate to use with w/b pens 10
- Lion 21
- Mammals 23
- Mark Making/Drawing/Writing 18
- Matching Activities 5
- Measures - Size 1
- Measures - Time 1
- Meerkat 18
- Minibeasts 1
- Money 1
- Number 4
- Number Formation 1
‘Zoo’ related resources in ‘Animals of the World’ & ‘Endangered Animals’
‘Zoo’ related resources in ‘Birds’
‘Zoo’ related resources in ‘Nursery Rhymes’
‘Zoo’ themed resources available in our ‘GET ORGANISED’ sections
Related Topics you may be interested in
(Alongside the resources on this page, you may like to read: Dear Zoo, Hole in the Zoo, Rumble in the Jungle, Giraffes Can’t Dance or Who’s at the Zoo?)
FREE SAMPLE RESOURCES!
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