Kitewren library / Childminders
Weekly planning for childminders
Browse resources whose intended audience explicitly includes childminders. Use yearly topics and EYFS learning areas to narrow the shelf, then open an activity to add it to your setting’s weekly plan.
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Plan with a childminder setting in mind
Browse resources whose intended audience explicitly includes childminders.
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Childminder weekly-planning examples
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Story Basket Listening Walk
A gentle outdoor prompt for noticing sounds, retelling discoveries, and extending vocabulary. Set it up for a calm transition, a short adult-guided walk, or a listening invitation that can be revisited outdoors.
Open resourceMove Like the Weather
An energetic movement sequence for exploring balance, direction, speed, and control. Set it up for a short movement break, a music-and-movement session, or a gentle way to explore space and self-regulation.
Open resourceSnack Shop Counting Play
A role-play setup for counting with purpose, comparing quantities, and noticing one more. Use it in a role-play area or small-group maths invitation to practise counting, comparison, one more, and mathematical language.
Open resourceTraditional / Fairy Tales
1 resource
Practitioner guidance
A gentle outdoor prompt for noticing sounds, retelling discoveries, and extending vocabulary. Set it up for a calm transition, a short adult-guided walk, or a listening invitation that can be revisited outdoors.
My Community / People Who Help Us
1 resourcePractitioner guidance
A role-play setup for counting with purpose, comparing quantities, and noticing one more. Use it in a role-play area or small-group maths invitation to practise counting, comparison, one more, and mathematical language.
Water & Weather
1 resourcePractitioner guidance
An energetic movement sequence for exploring balance, direction, speed, and control. Set it up for a short movement break, a music-and-movement session, or a gentle way to explore space and self-regulation.
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