Selection of Collaborative Foundation Stage Resources

Foundation and Key Stage One Resources to try out as they are, or tweak, or use as templates for your own activities!

The project holds over two hundred activities developed by enthusiastic teachers at storyprops and games workshops that we ran in the eighties. We used to run them on Saturdays and everyone found them more calming than shopping! The aim was to make books as enjoyable as possible and help children and their parents develop ownership of storytelling and story changing. We are now putting these activities online in bite size pieces, because scanning makes them quite heavy files. The activities you see here are the tip of an iceberg! We currently have thirty more packs of activities online and more are being added. However, to protect authors' and illustrators' copyrights please send us your school address and email if you want access to all the activities. Contact me at

stuart.scott@collaborativelearning.org

It won't cost anything, because the project has and will always provide 'free to download' resources. We hold props and games for most of the well known stories that have stood the test of time, plus a few more that have not. Please let us know if there is any story you would like us to put online next. Our guides to making Track Games and the use of Core Texts can be found above. Please consider attending a development workshop if we are running one near you, or ask us to run one in your school (the best place to do it) if we are not! Host school staff can attend for free!

Vital for bilingual learners, good for all other learners.

Don't Cry Sly

To celebrate our partnership with Mantralingua here is a track game where you collect all the vegetables to make up the fake chicken. Like the books the games will be available from Mantralingua in sound enabled form. We'll be adding more to these very soon.
Please tell others about our network!

Turnip Games

To celebrate our partnership with Mantralingua here are the first of our activities around their books. Like the books the games will be available from Mantralingua in sound enabled form. We'll be adding more to these very soon.

We're Going on a Bear Hunt Track and Lotto

A variety of track games and we hope they will inspire you to produce better ones! Our online tracks are never as exciting as those you make yourself.

Dirty Bertie Track Games

A variety of track games with soap and germs competing to see whether you end up in school or in hospital. We are looking forward to seeing your germ pictures.

Harry and the Robots Track Game

Robots have to get to hospital and the track game takes you forwards and backwards and all over to get there.

Pants Track Game

Play a track game and get to design your own pants!

Peace at Last Pairs

A set of situations picture cards and noises cards. e.g Baby Bear playing with planes and "Nyaaow!". You can either make matching pairs or you can pair noises and situations. If you like the game you can also download

Peace at Last Lotto and

Peace at Last Track Game

The Doorbell Rang

A supply of plates and cookies to relive the mathematics of sharing over and over again.

Miss Brick Houses

A pairs or pelmanism game with misconstructed houses.

Miss Brick Knock Down Build Up Connect Four Game

One team has built up hen houses, jellies, sandcastles etc and the other team has knocked down versions. Which team will get four in a row first?

Mrs Mopple Props

Storyprops for telling the story and becoming the characters.

Mrs Mopple Pairs

Matching animals and the clothes they wore.

Track game will be online soon.

Hungry Caterpillar Game

Feed your caterpillar with different amounts of fruit. A collecting game with a lot of variations to encourage cooperation and mathematical thinking.

A complete set of resources to help you develop games and activities around the story.

Props

Animal and Situations Cards

Items Cards

Sample Track

General guidance on making track games can be found here.

Little Red Riding Hood

Dominoes

Not a matching dominoes game, but children have to work out the relationship between different pictures to justify joining them up.

Rosie's Walk

Storyprops, lotto and pelmanism games and two track games to get you back to the hen house without being caught by the fox.

Handa's Surprise Fruit Game

Move around the board. Land on an animal and lose a piece of fruit. First to lose all their fruit wins the tangerines!

Also take a look at

Fruity grid and riddles activities where you guess the fruit from clues.

But Martin

Games with variations for role play where you become the characters in the book and collect your descriptions. Extendable to other characters and good for describing similarity and difference.

Below are the activities currently available on the extra foundation stage pages, but to access them you need to send your school address and email.

Bad Tempered Ladybird
Bear in the Cave
Bog Baby Pairs
Burglar Bill Connect Three and Put it Back Pairs
Burglar Bill Matrix/Battleships Game
Can You Move Like an Elephant
Can’t you Sleep Little Bear Bingo
Cops and Robbers Track Game
Cops and Robbers Items Sorting Game
Cops and Robbers Who Am I Mugshot Game
Cops and Robbers Before and After Pairs
Dinosaurs Love Underpants
Each Peach Pear Plum
Farmer Duck Collaboration Game
Farmer Duck Lotto Game
Funnybones
Giant Jam Sandwich
Giraffes Can’t Dance
Grandpa’s Handkerchief
How Do I Put it On Storyprops.
Jim and the Beanstalk
Kapiti Plain Dominoes
Little Mole Poo Pairs
Little Rabbit Foo Foo Lotto and Pairs
Mad Food
Marvin Gets Mad
Meg and Mog Games
Mr Creep the Crook
Mr Magnolia
Mrs Plug Lotto
My House is a Squash and a Squeeze
Oi Get Off My Train Lotto
Oi Get Off My Train Props
Oi Get Off My Train Tracks
Pardon Said the Giraffe Props and Games
Rqinbow Fish
Tiger Who Came to Tea
Winter Garden

and lots more being added this term.

We have left this page on the site because many colleagues have links to it but we have a new version here.