Learning

Through
Play
10 MINUTES
A DAY

Monthly
Activity
Planner

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 Month 1: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5

Touch and Play 'Who am Following 2-Step Make a chalk Finger rhyme:
feel bag I?' directions city My Rabbit

6 7 8 9 10

Action rhyme:
Play 'I spy with Story: Wake Drawing Ice-tray fine Hop a Little,
my little eye' Up Mum portraits motor fun Jump a Little

11 12 13 14 15
Counting song:
Play 'Would Make Can you spot Musical The Ants Go
you rather?' Playdough the animal? Statues Marching

16 17 18 19 20
Story time: Action song:
Odd one out Asking closed Paper plate Sorting the The Wheels
game questions face paint laundry on the Bus

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 Month 2: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5
Finger rhyme:
What's the Shortest to Grandmother's
song? Kim's game Mud painting tallest Glasses

6 7 8 9 10
Counting rhyme:
Story: Puppy Go on a Nature Hickory, Dickory
Aim and throw Dreams listening walk collage ...Crash!

11 12 13 14 15
Action rhyme:
Egg box Open, Shut
sorting Dough name Sound jars Build a fort Them.

16 17 18 19 20
Counting rhyme:
Story time:
Hedgehog Bean bag How Many
Asking open
Toy sort paper weight hockey Fingers on One
questions
Hand?

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 Month 3: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5
Finger rhyme:
Two Little
Balloon toss Build a story Leaf rubbings Pick up sticks Dickie Birds

6 7 8 9 10
Counting rhyme:
Story time: Listen and Make Ten Little
Ice-cube play Discussion draw patterns Fingers

11 12 13 14 15
Clapping song:
Who Took the
Play 'Broken Make a name Nature
Cookie From
telephone' plate Paint the wall necklace
the Cookie Jar?

16 17 18 19 20

Story time:
Lightest to Developing Counting rhyme:
heaviest opinions Block printing Play restaurant Ten in a Bed

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 Month 4: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5
Action rhyme:
Play 'I went to Play 'What Scavenger Zoom, Zoom,
the zoo...' Make a book sound is that?" hunt Zoom

6 7 8 9 10
Story: Five Rats
Match the and a Funny Sort the Make a magic Action rhyme:
leaves Hat cutlery potion The Hokey Pokey

11 12 13 14 15

Match the Bean bag Maths for Song: Teddy

socks Name tracing freeze dance dinner Bears' Picnic

16 17 18 19 20
Action song:
Positional Story time:
Long jump Here We Go
language Learning to Paper plate
competition Round the
picture deduce lacing
Mulberry Bush

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 Month 5: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5
Finger rhyme:
Bean bag Here is the
Sound jars racing Leaf printing Pasta sort Beehive

6 7 8 9 10
Action rhyme:
Dance to the Story: Friends Play a board The Elephant
music in the Forest game Play 'Shop' Goes

11 12 13 14 15
Counting Song:
Make a Big and small Listen and Ten Green
Pillow fight puppet hunt clap Bottles

16 17 18 19 20
Story time: Counting
Learning about Trace your Make fruit song: Five
Dominoes character traits shadow salad Little Ducks

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 Month 6: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5
Finger rhyme:
Box Rhyming Balancing This is My
construction game competition Soup recipes Garden

6 7 8 9 10
Story time: Action rhyme:
Clapping Making Dribbling the Row, Row, Row
syllables predictions ball Shape picture Your Boat

11 12 13 14 15
Counting Song:
Cloud stories Shaving Cork printing One, Two,
Body rhymes cream play Buckle My Shoe

16 17 18 19 20
Story time: Finger rhyme:
Sock hide and Thinking Play dress up Follow the Where is
seek creatively actions Thumbkin

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 Month 7: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5
Finger rhyme:
Play 'Tic tac Draw the Play 'Hide the Here is a
toe' music Picture story teddy' Bunny

6 7 8 9 10
Story: The Counting rhyme:
Spotty Grey Macaroni One, Two, Three,
Bowling Kitten necklace Build a house Four, Five

11 12 13 14 15
Shape Counting Song:
matching Listen and Play 'Who am Lego Five Little
cards draw I?' constructions Speckled Frogs

16 17 18 19 20
Story time:
Tooth brush Connecting Play 'A bird Finger rhyme:
painting stories to life flies' Messy play tray Ten Fingers

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 Month 8: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5

Make paper Finger rhyme:

airplanes Peg practice Bean bag toss Dice matching Here is a Turtle

6 7 8 9 10
Action rhyme:
Tight rope Story: Sulky Egg and We’re Going on
walkers and Stubby spoon race Name practice a Bear Hunt

11 12 13 14 15
Counting Song:
Play 'Who's Monster Five Little
voice is that?' walking Sand art Garden scene Snowmen

16 17 18 19 20
Story time: Clapping song:
Movement Alternate Body part Life-size A Sailor Went to
listening game ending dancing portrait Sea, Sea, Sea

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 Month 9: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5
Action rhyme:
Play 'What Is Sponge Magic cup Play 'Traffic I'm a Little
It?' painting game lights' Teapot

6 7 8 9 10
Song: Old
Categories Story: Learning Two step MacDonald Had
game to summarize Chalk house directions a Farm

11 12 13 14 15

Flamingo leg Pass the Make an Play 'Follow Counting Song:

lifting parcel animal mask the leader' Rabbits

16 17 18 19 20

Story time: Tell Song: Animals

Feel the shapes a familiar story Tissue dance Mosaic art in the Ocean

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 Month 10: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5
Action rhyme:
Play 'Think Animal Play 'Hide and Teddy Bear,
fast' dancing Straw painting seek' Teddy Bear

6 7 8 9 10
Action song:
Story: The Guess the Play 'Simon Hop Little
Number splat Mighty Meeting songs says' Bunnies

11 12 13 14 15
Action Song:
Move to the Play 'Hide Texture Make a Head, Shoulders,
beat and listen' collage macaroni name Knees and Toes

16 17 18 19 20
Story time:
Fingers and Fiction vs non- Finger rhyme:
toes fiction Body sounds Rock patterns Whale

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 Month 11: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5
Action rhyme:
Drum Object hide One Grey
Hear the
Picture copy rhythms and seek Elephant
instruments
Balancing

6 7 8 9 10

Song: Mary Had

Study the Story: Family a Little Lamb
picture Fireworks Shape collage Make a puzzle (With a Twist)

11 12 13 14 15

Action Song: If
Catch Toilet roll Mirror You’re Happy
bubbles Self portraits animals exploring and You Know It

16 17 18 19 20
Story time: Finger rhyme:
Who would you Make a Little Bunny
Clean up timer rather be? Life cycles bookmark Foo Foo

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 Month 12: Activity Plan

1 2 3 4 5

Floating and Frogs on lily Play 'Keep it Piggy bank Action rhyme:
sinking pads up' jars Raise Your
Hands

6 7 8 9 10
Story time:
Learn about
Number Musical Play 'What is Rhyme: Bed in
cause and
clapping chairs it?' summer
effect

11 12 13 14 15

Play 'In the Make an Make a Counting Song:

river, on the obstacle paper-bag Play 'How The Bees Go
bank' course puppet far?' Buzzing

16 17 18 19 20
Story time: Action Song:
Make up a Play Shake My
Potato printing nonsense story Hopscotch Song writing Wiggles Out

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