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Digital poster titled 'The 7 Day Screen Free Summer Challenge' featuring a drawing of four smiling people, with a subtitle 'Say goodbye to boredom and hello to meaningful moments that make summer count.' Bright, colorful background with abstract shapes and icons of electronic devices.

A line drawing of a woman with glasses and a young girl in a purple shirt, both looking at a bowl with eggs and a cracked egg. The girl is holding an egg over the bowl.

Illustration of two young girls sitting closely together on a porch surrounded by potted plants, sharing a joyful moment and looking at each other.

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Illustration of a child holding a cupcake with purple frosting, eyes closed in delight, and a person smiling in the background.

Illustration of a child pointing to a set of educational pamphlets titled 'Key Skills For Starting Reception,' with text offering the list for free.

News Flash!

A charity called Kindred² has put together a list of key skills that a panel of experts say are essential when starting school.

Click on the image to download the list of key skills that nurseries and schools are using as the new definition of ‘School Readiness’ and see how many your child can do!

Or, even better,

Get the Blossom guide to School Readiness here

It’s packed full of play based ways to get your kid practising and perfecting these skills!

A social story titled 'A Blossom Social Story' with a subtitle 'I Can Ask When I Need Support' featuring a drawing of a young girl being fed by an adult.

A woman and a young boy are interacting. The woman is sitting and holding the boy's hand, looking at him attentively. The boy is standing and looking at the woman, wearing a striped shirt.

Two young boys hugging each other, smiling, wearing casual shorts and T-shirts, with a black background and a white rectangular object at the bottom right.

Illustration of an adult and a child wearing backpacks walking together, with text "Let's Get Ready 4 School!"

Illustration of two young children holding hands, wearing backpacks, one with a blue dress and the other with a pink outfit.

A collage of educational guides titled "Blossom Guides," including "Let's Get Number-Ready!", "Let's Get Motor-Ready!", "Let's Get Letter-Ready!", and "Let's Get Book-Ready!". Each guide provides advice and activities for enhancing different skills, with illustrations of children engaging in related activities.

Our Teacher recommended book lists for children age 3 - 6

Here are our FREE top teacher recommended books for 3 - 6 year olds.

You could take them with you to the library and see how many you can find

OR buy one a month

OR give these lists to relatives and ask for them as gifts!

Illustrated poster titled "Recommended Books for 4-5 Year Olds" by Blossom, featuring ten children's books. Each book is accompanied by a brief description. Books include "The Bog Baby," "The Day the Crayons Quit," "The Squirrels Who Squabbled," "Say Something!", "A Treasury of Tales for 4 Year Olds," "The Baddies," "The Lost Spells," "The Tiger Who Came to Tea," "The Bear and the Piano," "When Grandad Was a Penguin," "Hansel & Gretel," and "The Steves." The poster encourages reading for young children. Book covers and descriptions have a playful design.

Recommended books for 5-6 year olds featuring titles like "Superbat," "The Couch Potato," "Billy & the Beast," "Lost Words," "Nonsense," "The Iron Man," "Stuck," "The Grumpus," "This is Our House," "Ottoline," "The Whale Who Wanted More," and "The Invisible." Each book is accompanied by a brief description and thumbnail image of its cover. The list is suggested by the Blossom team, highlighting books suitable for young readers, with an emphasis on enjoyable reading experiences.

Our Top Tips - Things You May Not Know About Early Reading

FREE! Your copy of Things You Might Not Know About Reading. We all know that reading is important, but do you know why? Here are some things you might not know about reading and these will explain why we go on about it so much!

Infographic titled 'Things You May Not Know About Early Reading' featuring ten benefits of reading to children. Includes illustrations of children reading books, a basket of books, and a graphic of an open book. Tips cover reading boosting grades, alternatives to phonics, high-frequency words, stress reduction, the importance of home libraries, introducing new words, high reading volume benefits, reading large numbers of books to toddlers, eye movement during reading, and personal improvement. "A Blossom resource" is noted at the top.

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Our Ten Minutes Together - Let’s Make Teds in Beds!

A baking activity that tastes delicious and is simple to make! Baking encourages so many skills and is such a valuable way to learn maths and science skills. This recipe is simple enough that your child will be able to make them again without your support until they get to the baking stage.

Drawing of a child cracking an egg into a bowl.

Step-by-step guide to making 'Teds in Beds' with teddy bear biscuits, croissant dough, and chocolate.

Our 101 B46 List - 101 things to do before you are 6.

A colorful poster titled "101 Things To Do Before You Are Six!" from Blossom with illustrations and numbered activities for young children, such as making a jelly, going on a bear hunt, blowing bubbles, petting a rabbit, planting a seed, making a cake, and more. The poster encourages playful and creative activities for kids with various small images depicting some items on the list.

FREE! Our Ten Minutes Together activity - 101 Things To Do Before You Are Six (or 101B46). This list ranges from really easy and simple things to do like washing a car or watching a bee, to more challenging things like looking at a real elephant!

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We hope this will give you inspiration on weekends and holidays to entertain, stimulate and excite your child. Why not let them choose?

P.s. One activity is icing a biscuit. I got asked by a student ‘What’s so special about icing a biscuit?’ I said ‘if you’ve never done it before, then everything is exciting about it! We mustn’t forget that the things we take for granted are new for our kids. Don’t forget to let them experience the simple things too!