What’s included in the Christmas Activities Provision Enhancement Prompts and why is it useful?

EYFS Christmas Activities Provision Enhancement Prompts is a set of challenge cards for bringing Christmas into your continuous provision. It covers these areas: Construction/STEM, Creative, Fine Motor, Home Corner, Malleable, Music, Sand, Water, Small World, Tuff Tray and Writing.

Challenge Cards

Each card has a short challenge and a clear picture, such as “Build Santa a new sleigh.” or “Use percussion with your songs.”

Advice and Ideas

Next to each pair of cards, the Advice and Ideas panel tells adults how to set up the activity and what to ask, from making a Christingle to building words with magnetic letters and sieving flour over them like snow.

Example Activities

• Home Corner: decorate the class Christmas tree
• Small World: tell the Christmas story
• Writing: write a list or letter to Santa

How do our Provision Enhancement Prompts work?

Print the pages, cut out the challenge cards for the areas you have, and put each one in a frame in the matching provision area. Then set out the resources listed in the Advice and Ideas panel. The cards can stay out all week, so children choose when to have a go, and any adult can use the questions to extend the learning.

Children can use the picture to work out what to do, or have the challenge read to them, and Reception children can have a go at reading the words themselves.

Most areas have two challenges, A and B, giving children two ways into the same learning. Put both out together or swap them over during the week.

These cards work best alongside your Christmas topic. You could use them with our other EYFS Christmas resources, so the theme runs through your adult-led sessions as well as your provision.