Resources
Watch how an activity is meant to look, read the Journal, and see the frameworks each printable is planned against.
Short films from early-childhood organisations and French children's media that demonstrate the activities and worksheet routines. None are sponsored and all open in a new tab.
A five-step video that shows the conversational turn-taking our 0–2 activities rely on. Watch it once before you start narrating your day in French.
Pairs with: Narrate the ordinary · Stage One pack
Watch · Harvard Center on the Developing ChildVideo demonstrations of the prompt–evaluate–expand–repeat cycle used in our shared-reading activity and in the Stage Two conversation sheets.
Pairs with: Dialogic reading · Stage Two pack
Watch · Reading RocketsShort clips that model emotional vocabulary. Watch one, then use the matching bilingual emotion card — "I am proud" / "Je suis fier·fière".
Pairs with: Emotion cards · Stage Two pack
Watch · Sesame StreetSlow, clearly enunciated French. Play one episode, pause, and ask the three follow-up questions from the school-readiness conversation guide.
Pairs with: School-readiness guide · Stage Three pack
Watch · 1 jour, 1 question (France TV)Hand-only demonstrations of the fine-motor set-ups behind our tracing and sorting sheets. Show the movement first, name it in French second.
Pairs with: Tracing & sorting sheets · all stages
Watch · MontessoriSimple episodes built on everyday outdoor vocabulary — perfect warm-up before the Seasons & Nature walk sheets.
Pairs with: Seasons & Nature mini pack
Watch · Trotro (French children's TV)Real footage of caregivers responding to babbling, gestures and eye contact — the foundation for every first-words worksheet.
Pairs with: First words · Stage One pack
Watch · Zero to ThreeThe developmental and academic foundations the packs are written against, in Australia and in France.
Australia
Australia's national framework for children from birth to five. Every printable is mapped to at least one of its five learning outcomes, so educators can drop our sheets straight into planning and programming documentation.
What this looks like in the packs
Australia
The ten national principles guide how photographs, family communication and children's work are handled here. They are the standard behind our consent and privacy practices.
What this looks like in the packs
France
France's cycle 1 programme (ages 3–6, with the petite section reaching down toward two) sets out five explicit learning domains. Our French vocabulary, phonological-awareness and early-number sheets follow its sequence so children can move between systems without a gap.
What this looks like in the packs
Starter templates you can print, adapt and make your own. Use them for weekly planning or for noticing the small wins that matter most.
A one-page rhythm you can reuse every week. Each day has a short bilingual prompt so French and English flow naturally through routines, play and provocations.
A quick developmental lens tied to the three stages. Use it to notice what a child can do now, what they can do with help, and what to plan next.
Short articles written from the classroom floor.
Bilingualism grows out of ordinary moments — nappy changes, snack time, the walk to the park. Here is how to fold a second language into the day you already have.
Read articleOpen-ended invitations, natural materials and a lot of listening. Seven small provocations that respect a two-year-old's real attention span.
Read articleA child who can say "je suis frustré" does not need to throw the cup. How to build emotional vocabulary in French and English in calm moments.
Read articleSchool readiness is far more about asking for help, taking turns and holding a pencil than it is about reading. A gentle checklist for the year before school.
Read articleOur own shelf: the picture books, open-ended materials and free tracking tools we recommend to families. Nothing is sponsored, and links go to the publisher, maker or organisation rather than a single shop.
Board books and picture books that carry real French — rhythmic, repetitive text a child can join in with long before they can read.
Eric Carle · Mijade
The French edition of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Counting, days of the week and food vocabulary in one repeated structure — our first-words sheets reuse the same nouns.
Find out moreOrianne Lallemand & Éléonore Thuillier · Auzou
A French classroom staple. Each title takes one theme — colours, seasons, feelings — with a refrain children chant back. Pairs directly with the emotion cards.
Find out moreBayard Jeunesse
Tiny everyday stories — the bath, the potty, the tantrum — in short present-tense French. Ideal for the routine-narration habit in the Stage One pack.
Find out moreJulia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler · Gallimard Jeunesse
Rhyming French that rewards dialogic reading: stop before the rhyme and let the child finish the line.
Find out moreVarious French publishers
One sturdy imagier does more than a dozen apps: point, name, wait. Choose one organised by room or theme so it matches the first-words sheets.
Find out moreFree
Most city library networks hold French picture books and let you request them between branches. Borrow six, keep the two your child asks for again.
Find out moreReggio-minded materials: few pieces, many uses, and nothing that talks for the child. Each one gives you something concrete to name in French.
Any untreated hardwood set
The single highest-value purchase on this shelf: maths, balance, and prepositions — sur, sous, à côté — the vocabulary hardest to teach from a worksheet.
Find out moreGathered, not bought
Pinecones, corks, shells, rings, fabric scraps. Simon Nicholson's loose-parts theory in a bowl — and the exact material the Seasons & Nature walk sheets collect.
Find out moreGrimm's, Grapat or handmade
Faceless figures leave the emotion to the child — which is precisely what makes them useful with the emotion cards and the feelings routines.
Find out moreSmall jug, tongs, sponge, bowl
Pouring and transferring build the pincer grip behind the tracing sheets. Assemble it from the kitchen — no branded set required.
Find out moreBeeswax crayons, liquid watercolour, clay
The Reggio "hundred languages" in practice — materials good enough that the child's work is taken seriously, kept where they can reach them.
Find out moreAny stable wooden tower
Cooking together is the richest French conversation of the week: verbs, sequence, quantity, and a reason to talk for twenty minutes straight.
Find out moreFree, credible tools for watching development over time — and for knowing when a quiet period is typical and when it is worth asking someone.
US Centers for Disease Control
Photo-and-video checklists from 2 months to 5 years, with a printable summary to bring to appointments.
Find out moreAges & Stages Questionnaires
The screening questionnaire most early-childhood services use; the public site explains what each domain measures.
Find out moreAustralian Government funded
Australia's parenting reference: age-by-age guides, short videos and a bilingual-families section, all clinically reviewed.
Find out moreSpeech Pathology Australia
One-page checklists per age band, including guidance specific to children learning two languages.
Find out moreACECQA
For educators: the outcome descriptors to attach to observations — the same five we map every printable to.
Find out moreLes Petits Learners
Two minutes of questions that place your child in Stage One, Two or Three and point to the matching pack.
OpenOutside resources we actually use with families — most of them free.
Evidence-based reading on how children acquire two languages, from universities and public health bodies.
Free research-based articles and family FAQs from an international network of language researchers.
Plain-language guidance on typical bilingual milestones and when to seek advice.
Serve-and-return, executive function and brain architecture explained in short guides and videos.
Practical age-by-age articles for the 0–3 window, including tantrums, sleep and early talking.
Places to find authentic French audio and books without a subscription.
Free original French story podcast written for young children — perfect for car journeys.
Free streaming with a children's section in French, available in most countries.
Thousands of free, openly licensed picture books — filter by French and by reading level.
Traditional tales read aloud in many languages, with side-by-side text.
Where to read more about the approach behind our printables.
The organisation founded in Reggio Emilia itself — publications, exhibitions and study tours.
Short, practical articles on play-based learning written for parents.
Useful for educators: the quality areas that frame Australian early-years services.
Good companions to our packs when you need more practice pages.
Official French curriculum documents for maternelle — useful for pitching activities at the right level.
Public-domain illustrations if you want to make your own sheets at home.
Free for verified teachers — the simplest way to lay out a bilingual worksheet.