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If your child is 3 - 4

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A colorful informational graphic about key skills needed for children's reception, featuring a black-and-white illustration of a child and a hand holding a paintbrush or tool, with bold text in yellow and blue.

Book cover titled 'The Blossom Guide to School Readiness' featuring an adult and a child reading together, with the subtitle 'Practical and fun things to practice that will prepare your child for classroom learning'

Here is a selection of just some of the resources designed to support the parents and carers of 3 or 4 year olds in the year before school. Just click on the resource button to see more details.

You can see all the resources in each of our ranges by clicking on the buttons at the bottom of the page, or you can browse the shop where you will find everything! Happy browsing and if you have any questions, then email us!

These Blossom Guides help with common issues parents of 3 - 4 year olds experience. Just click on the icon to visit the guide.

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A colorful banner with children walking to school with backpacks, featuring text about preparing for school, and offering practical tips for parents to get their children ready for school.

An illustrated cover page titled "The Blossom Guide to Independence" with a subtitle about helping children develop independence and confidence in school, featuring two children sitting on the floor surrounded by scattered clothing, with one child putting on a green shirt.

Book cover titled "The Blossom Guide to The Characteristics of Effective Learning and Critical Thinking" with an illustration of a boy stacking wooden blocks in a room.

Cover of a guide titled 'The Blossom Guide to Oral Care and Teeth Cleaning' featuring an illustration of a child brushing their teeth with a toothbrush, and text emphasizing the importance of self-care for children.

Cover of a guide titled "The Blossom Guide to End of Nursery Expectations" with a drawing of a young girl in pajamas with polka dots brushing her teeth at the bathroom sink, surrounded by toiletries.

Cover of a guidebook with a cartoon illustration of a child sleeping on a pillow. The title reads 'The Blossom Guide to Sleep and Bedtime' in purple and blue text, and the subtitle explains it's a useful chart to help establish a bedtime routine for children.

Cover of a guide titled 'The Blossom Guide to Wees and Poos' with an illustration of a girl sitting on the toilet, wearing a colorful striped shirt.

Cover page of a resource titled 'Blossom Guide to Emotional Regulation' with an illustration of a woman comforting a child, both smiling, surrounded by a green border.

Cover of a guide titled 'The Blossom Guide to Developing Fine Motor Skills,' featuring an illustration of a young child in a green jacket holding a string of colorful beads, with black text on a white background framed in red

Illustration of a basket filled with various wooden toys and a peacock feather, themed for a book titled 'The Blossom Guide to Treasure Baskets' about early childhood developmental toys.

Colorful buckets each with a card displaying numbers from 2 to 10, arranged in a circle, illustrating a guide to number songs and rhymes for counting

Cover of a guidebook titled 'The Blossom Guide to the Early Years Curriculum,' featuring an illustration of children painting on a large sheet of paper, with a green border and colorful text.

A booklet cover titled "The Blossom Guide to Early Years Lingo!" featuring an illustration of a young girl with pigtails talking on a banana-shaped phone, with black text explaining the purpose of the guide about early years language and terms.

Illustration of a young boy with spiky hair wearing a blue jacket and yellow shirt, looking down and holding his hands together, on the left side of a green-bordered informational graphic about preparing for starting school.

Cover page titled 'The Blossom Guide to Scissor Skills' with a boy cutting paper with scissors, accompanied by a description about developing scissor skills.

Title: The Blossom Guide to NOT Sharing; Illustration of a sad child with messy hair and a yellow shirt sitting at a table with plates of food; Informational text about discouraging forced sharing among children.

Illustration of a school building with glass walls and greenery, titled "The Blossom Guide to What to look for in a school," emphasizing a helpful guide for choosing schools.

A colorful poster titled "The Blossom Guide to Critical Thinking" featuring a woman with leaves in her hair and a dress covered in flowers, with text explaining the importance of encouraging critical thinking in children.

An illustrated guide titled 'The Blossom Guide to Pencil Grip' depicting a child writing with a pencil grip and a desk with colored pencils and an eraser. The guide explains the importance of proper pencil grip for children.

Book cover titled "The Blossom Guide to The importance of Drawing" with an illustration of a child drawing with sidewalk chalk on the ground.

Illustration of three children playing a piano, with the text 'The Blossom Guide to 101-B46 Boost your child's learning power with these 101 fun free and fantastic things to do before you are 6!' in green, orange, and black on a white background, framed by a green border.

The cover of a children's educational guide titled 'The Blossom Guide to Learning to Read and Write'. It features an illustration of a child drawing with colored markers and crayons, with green, purple, and pink colors visible.

A book cover titled 'The Blossom Guide to Fight or Flight' with an illustration of a child hiding under cushions on a couch.

Cover of The Blossom Guide to Faces and Feelings, featuring illustrations of three children displaying different facial expressions, and text describing the book as a tool for vocabulary and emotions.

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Or scroll down for our Ten minutes Together activities!

Or scroll to the bottom for our amazing ebook for early reading and writing

Ten Minutes Together

Our Ten Minutes Together range of fun activities, designed to promote screen free time together, language development and connection, which research shows, reduces whining! Hooray! See the full range here

A child with dark hair wearing a yellow scarf and striped jacket practicing scissor skills with a pair of scissors, with a green border and a pair of orange scissors illustrated on the image. Text says, 'Let's practice our scissor skills!' and a green circle highlighting '10 Minutes Together' in the top left corner.

A colorful illustration showing two green leaves and a pair of scissors. Text in a green and white circle reads '10 Minutes Together.' The bottom text says 'Let's Practice Leaf Cutting!'

An illustrated guide to making sand foam, with a circular badge reading 10 Minutes Together, showing steps with bowls, sand, and mixing tools.

An educational activity card titled "Let's Play Egg Bomb!" with a subtitle indicating it takes 10 minutes to play. The card features an illustration of a young boy crouched and throwing white eggs into a basket, with a yellow cloth on the ground. The card promotes a game to develop shoulder muscles and practice controlled throwing.

Illustration of a young girl planting tea plants in a garden bed, with text that reads 'Let's... Grow Our Own Tea!' and a green circular label in the top left corner that says '10 Minutes Together'.

A colorful learning activity about buns featuring self-stick letters and numbers in a muffin tray with the text 'Let's... Have a BUN-NANZA! Some great Fun things to do with a bun tray!'. A green circle in the top left indicates 10 Minutes Together.

Instructional graphic showing four bottles filled with colorful glitter, titled 'Make Your Own Glitter Bottles,' with a circular badge on the top left corner stating '10 Minutes Together'.

Colorful illustration of different dinosaur shadows in the snow, with a green, orange, and yellow text saying "Let's Make Dino Shadows in The Snow!" and a green circle in the top left corner that says "10 Minutes Together."

A graphic with the text Enthusiastically encouraging children to practice putting on coats, with an illustration of a young boy adjusting his coat. The graphic includes a green and orange color scheme, with a badge indicating '10 Minutes Together'.

A young girl wearing a red sleeveless shirt blowing bubbles with a yellow bubble wand. The bubbles are floating in the air, some are large and transparent, and others are smaller. The image has a blue border and a green and white circle in the upper left corner that says '10 Minutes Together'. The text on the image reads 'Let's Have Fun With Bubbles!'

A colorful mosaic craft kit with the text 'Let's Make Easy Mosaics!' and a green circle indicating it takes 10 minutes to complete.

An illustrated cover for indoor activities, featuring a child stacking colored bowls and cups on a wooden table, with the title 'Let's Play Indoors!' in purple. A green circle in the top left corner says '10 Minutes Together'.

Top Tips

Our Top Tips range of resources is written by teachers to give you all the best tips they have gathered over years of teaching! See the full range here

Illustration of two young boys sitting on a couch, reading books. The image is in black and white. The background includes an orange border and title text about early reading tips.

An illustrated girl with wavy hair wearing a blue dress with a colorful button on it, inside a purple-bordered rectangle. The image contains text that provides tips for neutral questioning, aimed at staff, guardians, and parents.

Infographic with tips for smooth school pick-up, including a drawing of a woman and a boy smiling and holding hands, outlined in black and blue, surrounded by a purple border.

A girl kneeling on the floor playing a number bingo game with dice, with a colorful game card and chips. The image is part of a graphic with the title 'Top Tips for Counting with your eyes' and the subtitle 'Top tips to support parents in encouraging subitising and confidence with number.'

Illustration of two children sitting on the floor, engaging with colorful counting chips and a number line, accompanying text about tips for supporting early math learning.

A hand placing a pink mark on a surface with three different colored marks (blue, pink, green) and a needle. The text says 'Top Tips for Mark Making' and 'Top tips to support mark making and early writing' with a blue border around the image.

An illustration of a young girl writing with a yellow pencil. The text reads 'Top Tips for Writing: Top tips to support writing through fun games and activities!'

Illustration of a young child writing their name on a digital tablet using a stylus, with a support box underneath their hand, surrounded by a purple border. The text reads "Top Tips for Name Writing. Top tips for fun ways to support children learning to write their name."

A illustrated smiling person with curly hair, wearing a red shirt and a camouflage vest, alongside pink and white text that reads "Top Tips for Praising Achievement" and black text that says "Top tips to support building self esteem, self belief, and self confidence."

Infographic with the title 'Top Tips for Helping Your Child With Relationships'. It shows four children with different skin tones smiling and hugging each other, illustrated in a colorful style.

Illustration of a young girl with a sad expression, short dark hair, and wearing a light blue top, alongside text that reads 'Top Tips for Saying Goodbye. Top tips for parents to support their child's self-regulation.'

Illustration of a smiling multigenerational family, including parents and two children, with text overlay offering tips for guilt-free TV watching.

The cover of a preschool-1st grade educational book titled 'Ready to Write,' showing a child drawing with a marker and a teacher helping a young child practice writing. The background has a repeated pattern of the words 'Write' and 'Read,' and the cover includes a subtitle about helping children develop writing skills.

Cover of a parent’s guide titled "Ready To Write" with illustrations of children practicing writing, mentioning use for pre-schoolers, reception children, reluctant writers, home schoolers, supporting boys, older children with SEN or writing delay, and teachers.

Ready To Write - A Parent’s Guide to Developing Writing Skills at Home.

Helping your child to develop the will and the skill to write is simple when you have our amazing E- book, Ready To Write. Featuring many of our writing resources in 54 pages of help, guidance and support straight from the teacher’s mouth! We teach you how your child’s brain develops, how to start early with hand strengthening and co-ordination, pencil grip and drawing and move to the complex skill of letter recognition. Ready To Write is easy to read and is something you can dip in and out of as your child’s confidence develops. Our book talks you through supporting each stage right up to story mapping instilling confidence in every step!

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A collage of educational printables and worksheets for kids, featuring guides on writing, phonics, scissors skills, and marking tips, with a caption promoting their e-guide and variations to keep children engaged.

Next check out our amazing Ten Minutes Together range, packed full of fun activities that encourage learning through play. Something for every weekend and for all learners!

Illustration of a child and an adult smiling and touching each other's faces, surrounded by green borders, promoting a ten-minute activity to do together.

Or download this month’s bundle for 3 - 4 year olds (Seedlings) which mirrors what’s happening in nursery and gives you a heads up about what’s happening in nursery, a Blossom Guide, a Ten Minutes Together which promotes skills your child is developmentally ready for.

A design for Blossom Monthly Bundles featuring a smiling child with outstretched arms, wearing a purple t-shirt with a glowing cat face on it. The background is white with purple borders, and the text promotes bundles of resources to support school engagement.

Illustration of a child holding a leaf with a smile, wearing a green jacket, with text titled 'Blossom's Top Tips' providing educational tips for teachers on encouraging learning.

A bookmark with a purple border and the title 'Blossom Guides' in bold purple font. Next to it is an illustration of a tree trunk cross-section filled with flower petals, leaves, and small stones.

Illustration of a young boy sitting on the ground, looking at a book with a smile, holding colorful markers, with a blue border and text about recommended books for children.

Or check out our recommended reads - books hand chosen by teachers to delight and engage, and which are guaranteed to help build a love or reading for pleasure.

Find the whole range of Blossom Guides here….

And the Top Tips range here!