busythings.co.uk key features

Setups enable you to control which games are available, the settings for each game and the control method (mouse, whiteboard/touchscreen or switch).

We have provided three ready-made setups at nursery, reception and advanced levels for you to use straight away. However, if you wish, you can easily create your own setups.

Children can select their setup from the menu or you can provide a direct login by giving them their own username and password.

Giving each child a username and password ensures they can use only the setup you have chosen for them and cannot access the teacher controls. If you do not wish to allocate login details to your children or create new setups - no problem! You can simply use the setups we have provided. Just encourage the children to click on their setup icon and away they go!

Teacher buttons can be turned on and off with the T key, making it easy to hide them from pupils.

There are all sorts of resources to support you in your teaching. First, there is the Letters and Sounds Resource Maker, a powerful and flexible tool for making paper-based worksheets, activities and displays. Secondly, there is our extensive library of clip art featuring our charming and amusing characters to save and print to use as you want. Thirdly, there is a library of PDF resources arranged by type: colouring pages, worksheets and things to make.

All the games in busythings.co.uk are arranged under four areas of learning to match your curriculum. Games and categories can be shown or hidden as required. All the games are tagged with curriculum links and you can search by these to find games to play. English and Scottish curriculums are currently supported and Welsh and Northern Irish areas of learning and curriculum links will be added soon.

As a subscriber you will get additional games and resources at no extra cost. The Latest release button takes you immediately to the new feature as soon as it’s uploaded. With each new game we add, busythings.co.uk becomes a deeper and more varied resource and your school gets better value for your subscription.

If, in using our creative activities, your children have made artwork that they are particularly proud of, it can be added to the Public gallery where it can be seen by subscribers all over the world. A link in the gallery takes you straight to the activities where you can create your own artworks.

For times when you need short and sharp gameplay to hold children's attention our Busy box is ideal. It contains a growing numbers of mini games that children can play in quick succession to collect stars and 'stickers'. As they work together to get their school higher up the leaderboard they won’t even realize that they are learning!

This feature is particularly good for practising acquired numeracy and literacy skills.

Use the Favourites area as a shortcut to the children’s most-used games or as a way of assigning a selection of games to a single menu.

Children are given full autonomy with the Easy search function. This unique facility lets children search for games using pictorial search terms - characters, props and themes.