Busy Busy Learning brings you the wonders of learning through stories, arts and play. Heavily inspired by books and the natural world you’ll find seasonal ideas including stories, activities and crafts to share with your children, grandchildren and classes.

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Macrame Christmas Candy Cane Craft Tutorial

Iris Folding Papercraft Free Christmas Robin Pattern and Tutorial

You can find the free template in this blog post. This would be a great craft for Christmas.

Most Recent Freebies Added

Oh Christmas Tree Iris Folding Pattern

You can find the outline to go with this here.

Audio Story: Tinsel and the Christmas Spider

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Most Popular Posts

Wow it’s been a busy year on the website for audio player information. Tonieboxes and Yoto Players have featured heavily. If you have any specific questions about audio players please feel free to drop me a message in the Facebook group.

Toniebox and Yoto Players Top Posts

Iris Folding Finds

I’m always on the look out for for iris folding resources. Here’s a few that we have that are good value:

Top Posts so far in 2024

Phonics Blog Series

Phonics Phases - Phase 1 - Phase 2- Phase 3 - Phase 4 - Phase 5 - Phase 6 - games - activities - ideas - satpin - tricky words - phoneme - grapheme - letters and sounds

Phonics is a real passion of mine and one of my favourite things to teach when I worked in early years. It is one part of a wide range of skills children need to be able to read and write. However, it comes with plenty of jargon and for many of us we were never taught it ourselves at school.

This series is ideal for parents looking to support their children with their phonics learning or planning to home school, but equally perfect for student teachers. Check out the series here.

Garden Series Posts

Are you looking for a little garden inspiration? Would you like your children to be able to explore the outdoors and enjoy learning through play? This is the series for you. Click on the titles below to head to that blog post