Bring the magic of Christmas into your classroom: Engage your EYFS/Year 1 children with festive poems, stories, and songs designed to inspire creativity and foster language development.
The Christmas Basket is a compendium of poems, stories, songs and craft ideas for you to share with your children during the festive season. Watch the video below to find out more.
A Festive Toolkit for EYFS & Year 1:
The Christmas Basket is a seasonal resource crafted for children aged 2 to 7, packed with age-appropriate, fun, and educational content. It offers a joyful way to introduce children to the wonders of Christmas, while supporting their communication, language, and creative expression throughout the festive season.
Whether you’re looking for an alternative to the traditional play or an exciting new way to boost Communication and Language skills, The Christmas Basket makes festive performances easy to deliver and inclusive for EAL and SEND learners to enjoy.
What’s included:
?Sixteen Seasonal Poems: Engaging poems that introduce festive vocabulary, perfect for building communication and language skills while children enjoy the rhythm and rhyme.
?Five Christmas Stories: Audio-only stories that spark imagination, helping children create their own narratives and develop listening skills.
?Five Festive Songs: Fun, acoustic songs that children can sing along to, reinforcing new vocabulary and providing a joyful musical experience.
?Five Yuletide Craft Ideas: Creative, simple activities to complement the poems and stories, allowing children to express their imagination through seasonal crafts.
? As a special treat, when you purchase The Christmas Basket, you’ll also have the option to sign up for our LIVE online Christmas poetry performance with Trisha Lee – because we want to make the festive season as magical as possible for your class.
Programme Highlights:
Supports Communication and Language Development: Seasonal poems, songs, and stories crafted to improve speech, vocabulary, and listening skills.
Encourages Creativity: Our festive poems, stories, and songs light up imaginations and nurture creative expression.
Inclusive and Accessible: The poems are ideal for children with SEND or EAL, ensuring that every child can take part and enjoy the magic of Christmas.
Year-Round Benefits: While festive in theme, the skills developed using the Christmas Basket will benefit children’s communication and language abilities long after the holidays are over.
Transform Your Classroom Atmosphere
The Christmas Basket is about creating an environment of joy, creativity, and learning during the festive season. From using stories and poems to enhance your daily inputs to involving children in seasonal crafts, this toolkit is perfect for bringing the spirit of Christmas into your classroom in a way that supports their developmental needs.
Pricing:
The Christmas Basket is available for just £25, with unlimited access. Buy once, and use it year after year for festive learning and fun.
I love the variety of poems, the videos are great and I link the poems in with ideas for lessons each week, thank you for this amazing resource.