Fairy Fan Flower Craft and Writing Ideas

Simple Midweek Classroom Ideas: Morning Writing, Letter F Activities, Handwriting and a Bee Math Game

Hello! I hope your week is going well. I’ve been adding a few new things and thinking about some simple ways they could fit into your classroom routines, so I thought I’d share a few quick ideas that might help with morning writing, handwriting, phonics and maths warm-ups. 

Morning Writing

A calm, structured start to the day can make a big difference for young writers. These Morning Writing worksheets provide a scaffold that helps students write independently while building confidence.

Each page begins with students recording the day and date, followed by a simple sentence starter to finish. Today’s prompt is:

“When it is sunny, I…”

You might begin with a quick conversation about weather and seasons. Model your own completed sentence and invite students to share ideas about what they like to do when it’s sunny. As children contribute ideas, record them together on an anchor chart to support vocabulary and sentence ideas.

This short discussion gives students a bank of ideas before they begin writing their own little “story”.

Fairy Fan Flower Craft

Speaking of sunny days — I spotted some beautiful purple flowers recently and it inspired a new activity in the Coloring Club: a Fairy Fan Flower craft.

After creating their flowers, invite your students to use their imagination:

• What might a garden fairy do with a fan?

This could spark some lovely storytelling or imaginative conversation.

And here’s a fun language bonus — Fan Fairy Flowers is wonderful alliteration!

Letter Learning: Focus on F

If your class is learning the letter F, you could extend the theme with a page from the Alphabet Cut and Paste Worksheets pack.

This activity supports:

• simple scissor skills
• beginning sound recognition
• independent work routines

All of the pictures begin with the focus letter, so students simply cut and glue them into position.

To make the most of the activity:

• Talk through each picture together
• Identify the /f/ sound
• Introduce any new vocabulary
• Sending the finished page home also gives students a way to share their learning with their families.

Quick Handwriting Mini Lesson

Grab your whiteboards or handwriting paper for a quick handwriting warm-up.

You might practice these fluency patterns:

• Downstrokes
• Horizontal lines
• Down and across combinations
• Curved downstrokes
• The letter f

For a playful touch, finish with a row of f’s with a little fish attached at the end to reinforce the sound-letter connection.

Fast Facts: Bee Garden Game

If you have the Bee Fast Facts resource from the Math Kit Bundle, I’ve added some new garden grids with mixed numbers 1–9.

Here’s a quick, low-prep warm-up idea:

• Students sit in a small group around one garden grid and each has access to hexagon pattern blocks.
• Choose a bee card (for example: +3).
• Call out a number — for example 2.
• Students quickly work out the answer and race to land their bee on the correct number in the garden (in this case, 5) using their yellow hexagon block.
• It’s a bit like a math version of snap!

This game can be fast-paced and competitive, so use it in a way that suits your class. Some groups love the energy, while others benefit from a slower version where students discuss their thinking together.

As always — you know your learners best, so feel free to adapt the activity to match your classroom culture.

I also shared a little letter-focused drawing on Instagram yesterday — a happy H horse, and today I’m working on a bunny for the letter B, so it all ties in nicely with the letter learning ideas in this post.

If you enjoy those little drawings they’re a fun way to reinforce sound–letter connections in a playful way, and you’re always welcome to come and say hello over on Instagram.

Thanks so much for visiting the blog today and spending a little time here. I hope you found an idea or two that might be helpful in your classroom this week.