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

EYFS Christmas Maths Provision Enhancement Prompts is a set of challenge cards for bringing Christmas maths into your continuous provision. It covers these areas: Maths, Creative, Fine Motor, Home Corner, Malleable, Outdoor and Tuff Tray.

Challenge Cards

Each card has a short challenge and a clear picture, such as “Measure the elf.” or “Help Santa sort the gifts.”

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 balancing presents on the scales to ordering parcels by weight.

Example Activities

• Creative: design a Christmas jumper
• Malleable: roll a dice and add the buttons to the snowman
• Tuff Tray: build a number sentence and make it snow

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.