For those who’ve been reading The SEN Resources Blog for a while now, you’ll probably remember me raving about a fantastic book for kids by Katie Flanagan called ‘What am I Feeling?‘(have a look at our review here). This book is a brilliant resource for helping children to […]
Many of us have now just completed our first two weeks of home schooling due to school closures because of the coronavirus outbreak. We’ve had lots of people ask us for recommendations of resources to help support their child’s homeschooling so we’ve compiled our favourite homeschool resources for […]
The former Science teacher in me did a little LEAP for joy this week as we found this wonderful Primary Science Lab Set by Learning Resources UK. Designed for children aged 3 and up, this Lab Set enables them to try out a whole range of fun science experiments […]
This week we’ve had SO much fun making dinosaur bones from salt dough. A wonderful activity for young children either at home, school or nursery. * *please please remember salt dough is NOT for eating, it’s just for making. As with all our crafts and activities we do […]
It’s Chinese New Year on Saturday 25th January 2020 and this year will be the Year of the Rat. As well as creating fun kids craft activities to celebrate it (have a look here at our easy to make paper rat) we’ve been searching over the last week […]
Chinese New Year is just around the corner and it will be the year of the Rat. We’ve therefore decided on a lovely children’s craft to create a paper rat. What’s great is it’s nice and simple and requires very little resources. * What do you need? Grey […]
We are loving children’s Christmas crafts on The SEN Resources Blog. Here’s how to make a Paper Plate Santa. Again it’s a fun craft that young kids can actually do themselves! What do you need? Paper plates Pva glue Red and white felt or card Pom Poms Felt […]
Scissors! We want kids to be able to use them correctly, safely and successfully…but in order to do that …they need to practise! And I’m sure I’m not the only one who worries a little bit about the practising part, especially if it’s unstructured. If it was up […]
It’s starting to look a bit Autumnal now and we’ve had a great time collecting leaves that have fallen from the trees for our craft activity. We wanted to get organised and think of some Halloween ideas for next month, so here’s our ‘Leaf Pumpkin Sun-catcher’ craft. If […]
We’ve been trying out a really fun Fine Motor Activity this week: Paper Weaving*. It’s such a versatile kids craft that can be done by itself or used to make cards or pictures. We made a dinosaur card, but you could use it to make any card by […]
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