🫐🌿Blackberry Explorers EYFS Printable Pack | Hedgerow, Foraging, Maths, Literacy & Nature Activities

Turn blackberry season into weeks of beautiful, meaningful learning with Blackberry Explorers, a 23-page printable EYFS resource pack inspired by hedgerows, foraging, wildlife and the magic of late summer and early autumn. 🌿🫐

Created in the signature Roxanne’s Little Explorers nature-inspired style, the pack combines early maths, literacy, fine motor skills, sensory play, science, creativity, mindfulness, cooking and outdoor exploration, with activities designed to flow naturally from a real blackberry-picking adventure.

🫐 What’s included

🌿 Getting started

• Blackberry Explorers illustrated cover
• How to Use Your Blackberry Pack guide
• Overview of how the resources support learning across the EYFS

🌸 Blackberries & the natural world

• From Blossom to Berry blackberry life-cycle sequencing cards
• Blackberry Hedgerow Scavenger Hunt
• Who Eats Blackberries? hedgerow wildlife resource
• Forage with Care blackberry-foraging safety guide

🔢 Early maths

• Blackberry number and quantity cards 1–10
• Numbers 9–10 page with ideas for:
  • subitising
  • matching numerals to quantities
  • one-to-one correspondence
  • ordering numbers
  • comparing more and fewer
  • using the cards as clip cards
• Blackberry Size Sorting Mat with tiny, small, medium and large
• Matching blackberry size-sorting cut-outs
• Snip-Your-Own Blackberry Puzzle for sequencing, number recognition and problem solving

✂️ Fine motor development

• Large blackberry threading card
• Blackberry-and-leaf threading card
• Blackberry leaf threading card
• Cutting, threading, sorting and clip-card opportunities throughout the pack

📚 Communication, language & literacy

• Blackberry Vocabulary Cards featuring:
  • bramble
  • thorn
  • blossom
  • ripe
  • unripe
  • drupelet
  • forage
  • hedgerow
• Story Prompt Cards for imaginative storytelling, vocabulary and conversation
• Opportunities for sequencing, retelling, describing and introducing new language

👅 Sensory exploration

• Blackberry Taste Investigation exploring:
  • look
  • smell
  • touch
  • taste
  • descriptive vocabulary

🎨 Creative & sensory activities

• Blackberry Taste-Safe Paint recipe and activity
• Blackberry Natural Dye Experiment, including the process of creating blackberry dye and using it to dye fabric
• Forage & Create Blackberry Playdough activity, taking children from picking their own berries through to making and playing with naturally coloured blackberry playdough

🧘 Mindfulness & movement

• A Mindfulness Yoga Story About the Blackberry Hedgerow
• A full little yoga adventure with 12 blackberry and hedgerow-inspired movements
• Breathing, listening, reflection and mindfulness prompts

🍦 Cooking & food exploration

• Vegan Healthy Blackberry Ice Cream recipe
• A simple dairy-free recipe using blackberries, banana, coconut milk, maple syrup and vanilla
• Opportunities for measuring, sequencing, chopping, scooping, tasting and talking about where our food comes from

🌱 EYFS learning

The pack offers meaningful opportunities across all seven areas of the EYFS:

Communication & Language • Physical Development • PSED • Literacy • Mathematics • Understanding the World • Expressive Arts & Design

It has been created to be used flexibly and child-led. Print the whole pack for a seasonal blackberry theme, or simply choose the pages that build on what your children are currently fascinated by.

Perfect for childminders, nurseries, preschools, EYFS classrooms, home educators, forest-school-inspired provision and nature-loving families.

🌿 23 printable pages
🫐 Instant digital download
🖨️ Designed for A4 printing
💜 No physical product will be posted

Pick. Taste. Count. Create. Move. Wonder.
A whole little world of learning, hidden inside the hedgerow. 🫐🌿