Meg’s Eggs Jigsaw Craft

Meg's Eggs Jigsaw Craft cover. Includes 3 jigsaw types for one image. Practise animals, colours, numbers, number recognition.

Meg's Eggs Jigsaw Craft

Engaging game and craft fun with Meg's Eggs jigsaws that help your ESL kids learn useful numbers, animals and colours.

♦ Easy to differentiate for age and ability with 3 different templates.

♦ Use as a game AND a craft activity!

♦ Follow the tips and suggestions for fun ways to incorporate full sentences and story language in an interactive and dynamic way.

♦ Facilitates natural classroom language to talk about ordering, poisition and place.

Ready for some Meg’s Eggs jigsaw craft fun? Get your templates and lesson ideas here:

Or get them in the Meg’s Eggs Activities Bundle. Incredible value!
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What will my ESL young learners learn?

Depending on which activity procedure you choose, your ESL young learners can focus on listening or speaking skills or both!

Apart from the vocabulary in the images, there are plenty of opportunities to help them acquire useful phrases and structures.

Principal vocabulary

  • Animals: cat, owl, frog, lizard
  • Colours: black, white, green, yellow, purple, blue, pink, red, orange, brown, grey, multi-coloured / multi-colored
  • Other: witch, cauldron, stick, hat, cloak, hair, shoes, tail, eyes

Game and activity language

Where’s the…? It’s here. It’s there. Is it…? Yes, it is. No, it isn’t. What is it? It’s a.. It’s…

This is 1st, 2nd. This goes here/there.

Can you find the…? I can see a…

Can I have..? Here you are. Thank you. You’re welcome. Puzzle, paper, card, colours, crayons, pens, pencils, glue, scissors. I’m finished.

What do teachers say about the resources?

Wow! I used this resource for one of my labs and it has been explosive. Children were super excited and of course, I was as well! Nothing to complain about! Great work!
Daiana LiottaShark in the Park Activity Pack
I have recently started to use storytelling in my classes and ESL labs. Fiona’s resources are a real treasure. Lots of useful tips and ready-to-use material to bring the story to life and help kids use the language. Excellent, couldn’t ask for more.
Antonella SandriThe Very Hungry Caterpillar BIG BUNDLE
The resources were great and saved me so much time, the teaching tips gave me ideas. We had a lot of fun with it : the kids loved the activities, learnt the animals and movements and understood the story. And I feel like there is so much more I could have done. Thank you !
Alison BrownFrom Head to Toe Activity Pack
I found this resources few weeks ago and now I’m always have a look first on this web. The range of activities are awesome!
Addi de FreitasElmer Simplified Storytelling script
I love the resources and the kids seemed to enjoy too. I had a hard time today with a mixed-age group (from 6 to 14!), but the abundance of differentiated activities Fiona offers made it much easier for me to make the time spent together meaningful.
VeronikaShark in the Park Activity Pack
Most importantly, my students really enjoyed the process of making their own mini book. It also served as an assessment, as I was able to see clearly which students were having issues with reading and matching – but it didn’t feel like an exam or test for the students at all. I only wish I’d found this at the beginning of the academic year.
Jenny GalliganEditable Mini-books
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Frequently asked questions

Yes, of course! Maybe you have the time and enjoy creating things, but it has to be said that being a young learner teacher can involve a HUGE amount of extra work making materials. Give yourself a break!

All my materials have been tried and tested in the classroom. As well as having almost 20 years of teaching experience, I am also a qualified trainer for the Trinity TYLEC (Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate), so you can rely on the quality.

Yes! They work great for mixed aged groups and different abilities because they come with different templates AND different suggestions with how to use the resource. No time wasted on adapting different worksheets!

This resource includes plenty of activity suggestions to play and make the jigsaws. It’s definitely not a done in 5 minutes activity (unless you want it to be!)

It works great as the main part of a lesson but I’d recommend looking at the supplementary resources (link included).

 Add a song, tell the story (you can use the video if you don’t have the book), play a game with the vocabulary and use this resource interactively. You have all the ingredients for a lesson your esl kids will love.

You can certainly find some free worksheets out there, but it’ll be tough to find ones that exactly match the vocabulary in the story, and certainly not with the different options to cater to different abilities. I can guarantee your young learners will be much more excited to create this. Engaged and motivated children make for a happy lesson (and teacher!)

Once you’ve had a chance to use your materials, don’t forget to come back to leave a review. As a thank you, you’ll receive a 20% discount on any other resource : )

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