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Miscellaneous Activities

A selection of miscellaneous worksheets and activities for your child to complete! Just click the links below to download them.

Search and Find Challenge

A selection of small images children must find within a big picture.

Hunt Challenge

Another search and find challenge, with a selection of ‘thought of’ images needed to be found.

Jigsaw Challenge

A big picture, with multiple jigsaw pieces missing that need to be cut out and added to their correct place.

Spring Sudoku

A traditional Sudoku game, but instead of using number, there are images for children to position.

Animal Homes Challenge

Children must match each animal to their correct home. They must then label each home using the words provided.

Odd One Out Challenge

Children must pick which image out of a row of five is the odd one out. They must then write the reason for picking this.

Spot the Difference Challenge

Children must find the differences between two images, before having the opportunity to describe what is happening in them.

Directions Challenge

Children must describe the route to get to a variety of different destinations on a map.

Your Day Challenge

Children must describe their daily routines, and mark the times on the clock.

All About How You Feel

Child must complete a selection of sentences describing when they have different feelings.

Mountain Maze

Which path reaches the top of the mountain?

Colour Crossword Fit each colour into the grid correctly.

Fishy Trail

Colour the letters that appear in the word ‘fish’ and help the fish find its way home.

Honey Trail

Colour the letters that appear in the word ‘bee’ and help the bee find the honey.

Spring Wordsearch

Find each word in the grid and circle it.

Find the colour

Answer the questions by choosing the correct colour.

Trio of mazes

Use a pencil to solve each maze.

Shadow matching

Cut out the food and stick it on the correct shadow.

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Letter Sound Box

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Letter Sounds and Alternative Spellings List

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What is Jolly Phonics?

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Crossword Challenge

This crossword challenge is perfect for developing your child’s pencil skills as well as their problem-solving skills.

Jolly Phonics Readers And Book Bands

This handy 2-page leaflet gives vital information on the Jolly Phonics Readers and how they fit in with non-decodable reading schemes and the book bands.

Group Three Letter Sounds

Listen to the Group Three Letter Sounds of Jolly Phonics, spoken in British English. Perfect for parents, teachers and children who aren't sure how to pronounce the letter sounds.

Handy Tricky Word Lists

This Handy Tricky Word list gives you a helpful breakdown of the Tricky Words in the six levels of the Jolly Readers.