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Give your child the very best start to writing by encouraging play and fun!
Do you want your child to grow up confident, curious, thoughtful, creative, and independent? Do you wish for them to develop their own ideas and the bravery to express them? If so, you are in the right place! Welcome!
Our ebook Ready To Write gives you a host of help to encourage the desire to mark make, write and develop the skills they need to be successful. Getting ready to write takes practise and lots of opportunities. We can help you give your child these with a host of imaginative and playful ideas they will love!
Ready To Write provides step by step guidance so you can seamlessly weave a love of writing into your days together. It’s one of the hardest things your child will learn to do - don’t leave it to chance - continue your amazing journey together by taking the next steps in their development and truly helping your child to blossom with us.
We are excited to present this 55 page E-guide, crafted to assist you in supporting your child's journey to becoming a skilled and self-assured writer. Writing serves as a fundamental skill that paves the way for creativity, communication, and learning. Although it may appear daunting, writing begins with small, enjoyable moments of discovery. With a bit of guidance, your child can flourish in their writing journey. Once you have purchased Ready To Write, you will be able to print it out or keep it on your device and refer to it over and over again!
As a seasoned early years educator, I understand that parents frequently ask, "How can I assist my child in developing writing skills at home?" This e-book will equip you with straightforward, practical, and engaging activities tailored for little hands and curious minds. Whether your child is just starting with early mark-making or beginning to form letters and words, you will find the tools and ideas needed here to foster their growth.
Ready To Write is broken down into easy to read sections which address different aspects of learning to write. We talk you through the reasoning and development behind each stage and give you practical ideas for how to support in fun and enjoyable ways.
We have gathered together some of our fabulous Blossom Guides, Ten Minutes Together activities and our Top Tips in one handy e-book that you can print out or read on a screen. Each bite sized resource is jammed full of useful information and tips from experienced early years teachers. You can read each guide as you need it, or read them all in order and then refer back to key ones as your child reaches that stage.
Share what you learn with your family members to ensure that all adults working with your child are on the same page and working towards the same goal - helping your child to be the most confident, successful and happy they can be!
Ready To Write is written by Blossom’s founder, Sarah Featherstone using all of her experience as an Early Years Lead in two schools and as a dedicated and passionate Reception class teacher. ‘I have put my all into this book, filling it with all the top tips, hacks, information and guidance that I wish I’d had when my kids were little, and which I have helped hundreds of families with over my career.
I am proud of the relationships that I built with the parents of the children in my class - some of them still email me years after I taught their child! I think that parents are often not given enough information or confidence to be able to boost their child’s learning at home. This book will help you to feel connected to your child’s learning, involved in their development, and it will help you to mirror and support what their teacher is doing in school. This benefits everyone and makes for confident, supported and happy children!’
Raising Resilient Kids – Part 1 - Developing Social Skills is your down-to-earth, practical guide to supporting your child’s social and emotional wellbeing from the early years up to age 10. Created by experienced educators and parents, this ebook gives you the tools to help your child manage big feelings, bounce back from setbacks, and develop a strong, positive mindset. Through simple strategies, real-life examples, and play-based activities, you’ll learn how to nurture resilience in everyday moments, without lectures, guilt, or overwhelm.
Whether your child struggles with frustration, anxiety, or confidence, this guide will help you feel calm, equipped, and connected. It’s not about perfection, it’s about progress, and Raising Resilient Kids will walk with you every step of the way helping you to feel confident, empowered and safe in the knowledge that you’ve got this thing called parenting nailed!
Raising Resilient Kids: Part 2 – Developing Emotional Skills. If you’ve ever wondered why your child suddenly melts down over a broken banana, or why calm reminders seem to bounce off them like rubber balls in a storm; this guide is for you.
In this part of the journey, we dig into why children respond the way they do. We’ll explore the incredible (and sometimes unpredictable) world of brain development, especially the bits responsible for those big fight, flight, or freeze reactions. When you understand what’s going on beneath the surface, everything starts to make more sense.
But we don’t stop at the why. This guide is packed with simple, effective strategies to help your child learn how to talk about their feelings, understand what’s happening inside their bodies, and develop tools to calm themselves when things feel overwhelming. From building emotional vocabulary to everyday mindfulness techniques, you’ll have what you need to support emotional literacy and self-regulation at home.
No perfection required. Just progress, patience, and playful connection.
Let’s grow their emotional toolkit together.
Recommended for children aged 5 and above.
Discover the magic of finger spaces – the secret ingredient that transforms a child's writing from messy to magnificent! But here's the catch: they can't sprinkle their writing with these crucial spaces until they understand what a word is and where to place the space before the next one. Don’t panic, because our quick-to-read and incredibly useful guide is here to save the day!
Unlock the power of two teacher-recommended and delightfully fun methods for fostering automatic finger spaces in your child's writing. With these tried-and-trusted techniques, you'll witness your child's writing skills soar to new heights as they master the art of spacing between words with ease and confidence. This in turn will boost their writing as others will find it easier to read, making it effective and purposeful.
Don't miss out on this invaluable resource that will revolutionise your child's writing journey and set them on the path to being a confident writer.
Subitising is a key skill for your child to learn, but it needs a lot of practice. Here are Blossom’s top tips and resources for helping your child develop this early maths skill. Along with tons of tips for weaving it into everyday life and games, you also get a set of cards to use for games which will reinforce this skill! All for a bargain price!
Scissors might be a strange thing to suggest cutting up, but there is something really delicious about cutting leaves. The need far less pressure to cut so are great for building control. And the best thing? Leaves are free! And if you do this outside, then there is no clearing up either! hooray!
Do you know what an expanded noun phrase is? Or a conjunction? Do you know your verbs from your adjectives? Well, if you don’t, then don’t worry, and if you do, then you’ll want to know how they are taught in school now so that you can help!
The Blossom Guide to Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar is a comprehensive guide to all things SPAG related and how it is taught in Year 1 and beyond. Useful, easy to read and packed full of games to play which practise SPAG skills, our guide is something you will want to keep handy and refer to time and time again!
The guide contains:
An easy to read breakdown of what SPAG is.
The expectations for the end of Year 1 and lots of practical ideas of what you can do to help your child reach them
2 pages of SPAG games and ways to weave practise into daily life!
The Conjunction Junction game to play together
A fun sentence builder game with instructions, some fun ideas, and a set of picture cards
Spellings sheets to help with thee learning of any spellings or high frequency words
This bumper pack is such good value and offer teacher written advice for turning some very boring practising into great fun!
Introducing the ultimate resource for unlocking the magic of reading: The Blossom Guide to Phonics! This essential guide is your all-in-one resource for understanding phonics, boosting your child’s reading skills, and making learning at home both enjoyable and effective.
Here’s What You’ll Find Inside:
- Comprehensive Phonics Breakdown: Discover exactly what phonics is and why it's critical to your child's reading development.
Practical Tips and Tricks: Learn effective strategies to support your child’s phonics learning at every stage.
Fun games that you can play over and over: Engage your child with enjoyable games and activities designed to make phonics fun and engaging.
Year 1 Screening Check Insights: Get ahead with detailed explanations and preparation tips for the Year 1 phonics screening check.
Why You Need This Guide:
Empower Your Child: Equip them with the foundational skills they need to become confident, enthusiastic readers.
Enhance Home Learning: Transform reading at home from a chore to a fun ten minutes a day together that your child looks forward to.
Revisit Again and Again: Packed with timeless advice and activities, this guide will be a valuable resource throughout your child’s early reading journey.
Make phonics a breeze and inspire a lifelong love of reading with the 8 page Blossom Guide to Phonics. It’s more than just a guide; it’s your partner in fostering your child's early literacy success!
Recognising symmetry is such a key life skill and is useful for all sorts of roles in life. This guide shows you fun and engaging games and ways to explore symmetry together. Together you can unlock the power of symmetry with our engaging guide designed to make learning fun and interactive! Recognizing symmetry is not just a valuable life skill; it's also essential for various roles in life. Our guide introduces a range of enjoyable games and activities that allow you and your child to explore symmetry together, and because we explain why this is unimportant life skill, your child will know why they are learning it. From exciting challenges to hands-on experiments, we'll help you ignite a passion for symmetry that will benefit your child in countless ways.
Ages 2 - 8 (and beyond)
There are so many ways that you can make recognising numbers fun - and one of the crucial tools is a set of number cards. With these and our instructions, you can play so many games to develop number recognition and your child will love learning through play. Our Number Cards up to 100 are the perfect resource for practising number recognition and sequencing with your children! This comprehensive set includes cards featuring numbers from 1 to 100, providing endless opportunities for learning and exploration. You can print out as many sets as you like to enable number matching games too.
Whether you're practicing ordering numbers, reading numerals, counting out quantities or exploring patterns and sequences, these cards are sure to make learning maths fun and engaging for your child.
With our Number Cards, you can create a variety of interactive games and activities to suit your child's learning style and level. From number races to number hunts, and even scoring in other games you play - the possibilities are numerous!
I game about links, themes and connections which really gets you talking. This set of 240+ cards of images, some with possible links, some with no apparent links. You can use these cards how you like, but there are several games included in the set and they focus on finding and talking about links between images and cards.
This game is a great ‘no rules’ resource to really get the family talking and it’s different every time!
NB: You will need to print this game out on card or laminate them to make them last longer
Number songs make early maths memorable, interactive, and fun. By weaving counting into music, you’re not only helping your child develop a love for numbers, but you’re also setting them up for future success in maths. So, whether you’re singing at bath time, in the car, or during play, know that every rhyme and rhythm is helping your child build strong number sense—one song at a time!
These tips help you if your child is not an enthusiastic reader and you struggle to get them interested in books or reading regularly with you. The Top Tips guide offers you lots of ideas for encouraging without nagging and supporting without pressuring and establishing new, healthy habits that stick. A must have for parents with active learners!
Suitable for ages 3 - 8
Reading and writing are two of the toughest skills children learn - they demand many smaller skills, steady practice and repetition. But helping your child get confident with them is simpler than you think.
This guide shows you how to build those skills through fun, low-pressure activities you’ll both enjoy. Instead of formal, restrictive tasks that can put kids off, you’ll find games and bite-sized exercises that feel like play. Children make steady progress without even realising they’re practising.
What you’ll get:
An insight into how children learn and the stages of developing reading and writing
Practical, easy-to-follow activities that fit into everyday life
Games that build phonics, vocabulary, sentence structure and fine motor skills
Simple ways to track progress and adapt activities as your child improves
Ideas to turn reading and writing into shared, confidence-boosting moments
The result: stronger literacy skills, growing self-confidence and more quality time together - learning that feels natural, positive and rewarding.
Singing nursery rhymes to children is as old a tradition as humans themselves - through rhymes children learn so much - rhythm, pattern, number, addition, take away, nonsense - the list of skills if powerful. Plus kids love to sing so sharing a song is a great way to play together. Most number nursery rhymes count backwards down the numbers, but we understand the importance of learning to count up as well. That's why we've carefully curated a selection of simple songs that focus on counting forward, helping your child develop essential numeracy skills in a fun and engaging way. With our resource at your fingertips, you'll have the perfect tool to support your child's early maths education and make learning numbers a joyful experience to share.
Introducing our Lowercase Letter Cards, the ultimate resource for helping your child master letter recognition and phonics skills! This comprehensive set includes two versions: one printer-friendly set for easy printing and another set featuring vibrant colors to engage your child's senses.
But that's not all! We've also included digraphs – pairs of letters commonly learned in phonics lessons – to further enhance your child's phonics knowledge and understanding.
With these cards, your child can play a multitude of games and practice memorising the letters and sounds of the alphabet in a fun and interactive way. Whether it's playing matching games, sorting activities, or creating words, these cards are sure to make learning a delightful experience for your little one. Invest in our Lowercase Letter Cards today and watch as your child's phonics skills flourish!
Turn taking is an important part of conversation and takes a lot of practise (there are even some adults who can't do it!). So I expect you'd be surprised if I told you that this practise starts with babies...? It's true. This communication guide shows you how to develop the important art of conversation from day one! You will also be shown ways that you can continue this teamwork, turn taking, and concern for others into activities for 1 - 2 year olds, and 2 - 3 year olds.
Unlock the potential in those first letters with a clear, practical guide to writing your child's name. A name is more than marks on a page - it’s a cornerstone of identity and an important early literacy milestone - and this guide explains why that matters while offering simple, stage‑appropriate ways to support learning. Inside you’ll find easy activities, step‑by‑step strategies and gentle encouragement techniques tailored for complete beginners through to more confident young writers, so practice feels achievable, enjoyable and rewarding.
The significance of their name is that it’s a word which represents them and therefore can motivate them to want to write and learn. Knowing the sounds in their name can encourage them to spot that sound in other words ands opens the door to letters and sounds.
Choose the approaches that suit your child’s individual pace, celebrate small gains, and watch their independence and confidence grow as they gradually master the special word that belongs to them.
Includes a Top Tips for name writing ideas, a Ten Minutes Together activity and a guide to why this approach works so you can improve your knowledge and skills too!
The Blossom Guide: How to Be Really Good at Learning looks at something teachers rely on spotting in kids - their attitude to learning. It’s the thing that weeds the great learners out from the crowd - shows the observer what sort of a kid they are working with, and which is arguably the most important bit of early education. The Characteristics of Effective Learning. They are a set of attributes and behaviours that, if you have, you will find learning easier, more enjoyable and more effective. This guide shows you how to develop them in your kid, and is a must-have for parents who want to help their children become the best learners they can be. This guide is perfect for those who want to understand their child's attitude towards learning and develop positive learning habits. We have written this guide in an easy-to-understand language that makes it accessible even for new parents, including practical tips on how parents can foster these skills in everyday life with children of any age.
If you're looking for a simple guide that will transform how you support your child’s learning, and help them achieve success in nursery, school and beyond, then The Blossom Guide, How to Be Really Good at Learning is just what you need.
Suitable for children age 1 - 7 (and beyond!)
Storytelling is more than just fun—it builds vocabulary, imagination, and problem-solving skills. Whether your child is babbling, making up short stories, or acting out elaborate adventures, every stage is a step toward becoming a confident communicator.
Most importantly, enjoy the magic of their growing imagination. Every wild, wonderful, and wacky story they tell is a sign of their creativity taking flight!
Forget perfect storytelling—embrace the silly, the nonsense, and the wild imagination. When kids see that words and stories are fun, they develop a lifelong love for language and creativity.
So next time your child says, “A dinosaur ate my socks and flew to Mars,” don’t correct them—ask what happened next!
Clapping games make early maths interactive, engaging, and fun. By incorporating rhythm into counting, you’re helping your child understand numbers in a natural and memorable way. Whether you’re clapping at playtime, bathtime, or even waiting in line, each clap brings them one step closer to confident maths skills—so go ahead, clap and count together!
Number songs make early maths memorable, interactive, and fun. By weaving counting into music, you’re not only helping your child develop a love for numbers, but you’re also setting them up for future success in maths. So, whether you’re singing at bath time, in the car, or during play, know that every rhyme and rhythm is helping your child build strong number sense—one song at a time!
A great, fun activity to share which celebrates the significance of your child’s name and highlights the gateway to reading that a child’s name is. An activity that you may return to to make presents and door labels as gifts for friends, or for holidays!
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