Free Bluey Teaching Activities and Curriculum Resources
Cool Australia has partnered with Ludo Studio to create a range of Bluey educational resources. Hooray!
We’re bringing Early Learning and Primary educators, a range of FREE fun-filled resources we know kids will eat up, just like a stick of magic asparagus.
Each resource showcases an episode from Bluey and contains all the instructional information, curriculum mapping and teaching strategies needed to bring Bluey to life at home or in the classroom.
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About the Resources
Bluey uses her imagination to turn everyday moments into fun adventures, full of play, learning and social interaction! The same philosophy is demonstrated in each resource, encouraging kids to role-play whilst developing their mental and emotional resilience. The resources use a values framework to develop kids’ social and emotional learning.
Educators and parents/caregivers will find a wealth of information to support them to understand the research behind evidence-based teaching strategies and key early developmental stages. The resources provide instructions to facilitate experiential activities and socio-dramatic play.
“Socio dramatic play is the pinnacle of play and drives the heart of the show. This type of play sees kids working at their highest level of imagination, cooperation and group interaction.” – JOE BRUMM, Bluey Creator
Search Activities by Value
Achievement
Applying effort to do something successfully.
Bluey ‘Baby Race’:
Achievement – Parents
A challenging balloon game requires perseverance and effort for success.
Bluey ‘Squash’:
Achievement – Parents
Challenging physical games require perseverance and effort for success!
Caring/Kindness
Understanding how others are feeling, and helping them out.
Bluey ‘Favourite Thing’:
Kindness – Parents
Kids perform an act of kindness for someone in their lives.
Bluey ‘Christmas Swim’:
Caring – Parents
Children help a new friend to fit in with this fun game.
Bluey ‘Bus’:
Kindness – Early Learning
Children recreate a bus setting to practice acts of kindness for people in need.
Bluey ‘Tickle Crabs’:
Caring – Early Learning
Children work together and help one another to success in this fun physical game.
Bluey ‘Christmas Swim’:
Caring and Kindness – Early Learning
Children take care of a soft toy friend to explore different ways to be kind.
Communicating
Using your voice appropriately, listening effectively, and understanding non-verbal cues.
Bluey ‘Sticky Gecko’:
Communicating – Parents
Kids practice matching feelings with facial expressions and body language.
Bluey ‘Charades’:
Communicating – Parents
Engage with the Zones of Emotional Regulation to convey complex feelings.
Bluey ‘Bin Night’:
Communicating – Parents
Parents establish a ‘talk time’ to open lines of communication with their children.
Bluey ‘The Quiet Game’:
Communicating – Early Learning
Slow down and connect with nature, before working on non-verbal communication skills.
Bluey ‘Queens’:
Communicating – Early Learning
Children enjoy the royal life for a day as a queen, so long as they’re sure to use subject specific vocabulary!
Curiosity
Observing, thinking about things, and trying to figure them out.
Bluey ‘Dad Baby’:
Curiosity – Parents
Role-play as baby animals exploring the world for the first time.
Bluey ‘Rug Island’:
Curiosity – Early Learning
Children recreate a desert island setting and use their senses to explore the natural world around them.
Bluey ‘Seesaw’:
Curiosity – Early Learning
Through unstructured discovery play, children explore different weights and their balancing properties.
Bluey ‘Dunny’:
Curiosity – Early Learning
A challenging game requiring strong listening and speaking skills reveals differences in rules between families.
Bluey ‘Sleepytime’:
Curiosity – Primary
Students explore their wonderings about space.
Bluey ‘Flatpack’:
Curiosity – Primary
Students recycle everyday household waste into interesting props in their imagined worlds.
Finding Your Voice
Assertively expressing your unique views.
Bluey ‘Dance Mode’:
Finding Your Voice – Parents
Through a fun dance game, kids explore different feelings and how these feelings can be communicated.
Bluey ‘Dunny’:
Finding Your Voice – Parents
Children take charge, creating some rules the whole family has to follow.
Bluey ‘Double Babysitter’:
Finding Your Voice – Early Learning
Children calm their minds via a breathing exercise before expressing their inner worries.
Friendship
Understanding how to interact with someone else to maintain a positive relationship.
Bluey ‘Mum School’:
Friendship – Parents
Kids take charge of their own brood of bouncy balloon buddies.
Bluey ‘Barky Boats’:
Friendship – Early Learning
Children undertake acts of kindness for one another to practice making new friends.
Bluey ‘Army’:
Friendship – Primary
Students conduct a survey on what makes their friends unique.
Inclusivity
Empathising with others’ feelings, situations and motivations so that they can be effectively involved.
Bluey ‘Octopus’:
Inclusivity – Parents
Everyone gets a say in the rules of your own unique Octopus Game.
Bluey ‘Circus’:
Inclusivity – Early Learning
Children recreate a circus setting, putting on different acts and helping others be a part of the show.
Bluey ‘Featherwand’:
Inclusivity – Early Learning
An inclusive game which challenges creative thinking and listening skills.
Bluey ‘Muffin Cone’:
Inclusivity – Primary
Through a variety of fun games, students consider the physical limitations of others.
Bluey ‘Christmas Swim’:
Inclusivity – Primary
Students consider the personal strengths of their family and how to introduce them to new friends.
Listening
Making an effort to hear and comprehend when others are speaking.
Bluey ‘Library’:
Listening – Parents
Kids develop their listening skills through music, dance and literature.
Bluey ‘The Show’:
Listening – Parents
Kids develop their listening skills by putting on a show under instruction from a director who only whispers.
Bluey ‘Charades’:
Listening – Parents
Through fun dancing and charades games, children practice listening and comprehension skills.
Bluey ‘Hairdresser’:
Listening – Early Learning
Children recreate a hairdresser salon setting to practice casual conversations.
Mindfulness
Maintaining control of emotions during periods of heightened stress.
Bluey ‘Bad Mood’:
Mindfulness – Parents
Kids engage with their senses and practice other ways to get out of bad moods.
Bluey ‘Barky Boats’:
Mindfulness – Parents
Children practice bringing focus to the natural world and their breathing.
Bluey ‘Sleepytime’:
Mindfulness – Early Learning
Children use their senses to explore wonderings about space.
Bluey ‘Piggy Back’:
Mindfulness – Early Learning
Bluey ‘Movies’:
Mindfulness – Primary
Students engage with their sense to practice ways of calming their minds when under stress.
Bluey ‘Piggyback’:
Mindfulness – Primary
Children practice bringing focus to the natural world through their senses.
Bluey ‘Stumpfest’:
Mindfulness – Primary
Students recreate an ‘Important Place’ from their local environment in an artwork.
Patience
Tolerating delays or difficulties which cause discomfort, without getting anxious.
Bluey ‘Road Trip’:
Patience – Parents
A variety of physical challenges will require patience and emotional regulation for success!
Bluey ‘Road Trip’:
Patience – Early Learning
Bluey ‘Trains’:
Patience – Primary
Students recreate a station setting to practice waiting patiently for the train to arrive.
Bluey ‘Helicopter’:
Patience – Primary
Students engage in a variety of follow-the-leader physical games to practice waiting for their turn.
Perserverence
Sticking at it to overcome minor obstacles, failures and setbacks.
Bluey ‘Piggyback’:
Perserverence – Parents
Children explore how to embrace new experiences and strategies for building perseverance.
Bluey ‘Handstand’:
Perserverence – Early Learning
Children explore how to embrace new experiences and strategies for building perseverance.
Bluey ‘Squash’:
Perserverence – Parents
A challenging physical game requires perseverance and effort for success!
Problem Solving
Evaluating knowledge, clarifying concepts, seeking possibilities and considering alternatives.
Bluey ‘Feather Wand’:
Problem Solving – Parents
Mix oral storytelling and physical theatre in an imaginary adventure full of trials!
Bluey ‘Bingo’:
Problem Solving – Parents
Children consider how to answer a problem or question of their own devising.
Respect
Caring whether our words and actions have a harmful effect on other people.
Bluey ‘Escape’:
Respect – Parents
Create an ‘alone time play station’ to support independent play and give parents a much deserved break!
Bluey ‘Fancy Restaurant’:
Respect – Parents
Children recreate a restaurant setting to create a nice experience for someone they value.
Bluey ‘Burger Shop’:
Respect – Parents
Students recreate a supermarket setting to practice following social rules.
Responsibility
Being accountable for your decisions, actions and behaviours.
Bluey ‘Daddy Drop Off’:
Responsibility – Parents
Kids create a ‘box of tricks’ to make everyday routine activities more fun!
Bluey ‘Grandad’:
Responsibility – Parents
Children take personal responsibility for packing for an adventure outside of the house.
Bluey ‘Swim School’:
Responsibility – Parents
Children recreate a familiar setting to explore taking responsibility for their actions.
Bluey ‘Bad Mood’:
Responsibility – Early Learning
Children explore different emotions through a variety of challenging scenarios.
Bluey ‘Duck Cake’:
Responsibility – Primary
Students consider ways to stay responsible for the messes they create at home and in the classroom.
Bluey ‘Mr Monkeyjocks’:
Responsibility – Primary
Students make tough decisions on what is most meaningful for them to take to a desert island.
Sharing
Using or enjoying something jointly with others.
Bluey ‘Hammerbarn’:
Sharing – Parents
Kids share limited ingredients when making a paper pizza!
Bluey ‘Ice Cream’:
Sharing – Early Learning
Children share limited materials across a variety of creative activities.
Bluey ‘Cafe’:
Sharing – Primary
Students use divisible thinking to figure out how to give everyone an equal amount of food.
Storytelling
Highly structured communication to evoke imagery in the minds of an audience.
Bluey ‘Rug Island’:
Storytelling – Parents
Kids create an imagined world out of everyday household objects.
Bluey ‘Favourite Thing’:
Storytelling – Early Learning
Children recount their day using exciting storytelling structures and skills.
Bluey ‘Escape’:
Storytelling – Primary
Students mix oral storytelling and physical theatre as they play a cat-and-mouse game.
Bluey ‘Typewriter’:
Storytelling – Primary
Students use oral storytelling and physical theatre as inspiration for a written story.
Team Work
The effective and efficient combined action of a group.
Bluey ‘Trains’:
Teamwork – Early Learning
Children recreate a train station setting to practice waiting patiently for the train to arrive.
Bluey ‘Postman’:
Teamwork – Primary
Students must communicate and solve movement challenges to navigate a basketball court of pure lava!
Bluey ‘Hammerbarn’:
Teamwork – Primary
Bluey ‘Seesaw’:
Team Work – Primary
Students use a trial and error method to discover the scientific ‘tipping point’ of a fulcrum and lever system.
Achievement
Applying effort to do something successfully.
Bluey ‘Baby Race’:
Achievement – Parents
A challenging balloon game requires perseverance and effort for success.
Bluey ‘Squash’:
Achievement – Parents
Challenging physical games require perseverance and effort for success!
Caring/Kindness
Understanding how others are feeling, and helping them out.
Bluey ‘Favourite Thing’:
Kindness – Parents
Kids perform an act of kindness for someone in their lives.
Bluey ‘Christmas Swim’:
Caring – Parents
Children help a new friend to fit in with this fun game.
Bluey ‘Bus’:
Kindness – Early Learning
Children recreate a bus setting to practice acts of kindness for people in need.
Bluey ‘Tickle Crabs’:
Caring – Early Learning
Children work together and help one another to success in this fun physical game.
Bluey ‘Christmas Swim’:
Caring and Kindness – Early Learning
Children take care of a soft toy friend to explore different ways to be kind.
Communicating
Using your voice appropriately, listening effectively, and understanding non-verbal cues.
Bluey ‘Sticky Gecko’:
Communicating – Parents
Kids practice matching feelings with facial expressions and body language.
Bluey ‘Charades’:
Communicating – Parents
Engage with the Zones of Emotional Regulation to convey complex feelings.
Bluey ‘Bin Night’:
Communicating – Parents
Parents establish a ‘talk time’ to open lines of communication with their children.
Bluey ‘The Quiet Game’:
Communicating – Early Learning
Slow down and connect with nature, before working on non-verbal communication skills.
Bluey ‘Queens’:
Communicating – Early Learning
Children enjoy the royal life for a day as a queen, so long as they’re sure to use subject specific vocabulary!
Curiosity
Observing, thinking about things, and trying to figure them out.
Bluey ‘Dad Baby’:
Curiosity – Parents
Role-play as baby animals exploring the world for the first time.
Bluey ‘Rug Island’:
Curiosity – Early Learning
Children recreate a desert island setting and use their senses to explore the natural world around them.
Bluey ‘Seesaw’:
Curiosity – Early Learning
Through unstructured discovery play, children explore different weights and their balancing properties.
Bluey ‘Dunny’:
Curiosity – Early Learning
A challenging game requiring strong listening and speaking skills reveals differences in rules between families.
Bluey ‘Sleepytime’:
Curiosity – Primary
Students explore their wonderings about space.
Bluey ‘Flatpack’:
Curiosity – Primary
Students recycle everyday household waste into interesting props in their imagined worlds.
Finding Your Voice
Assertively expressing your unique views.
Bluey ‘Dance Mode’:
Finding Your Voice – Parents
Through a fun dance game, kids explore different feelings and how these feelings can be communicated.
Bluey ‘Dunny’:
Finding Your Voice – Parents
Children take charge, creating some rules the whole family has to follow.
Bluey ‘Double Babysitter’:
Finding Your Voice – Early Learning
Children calm their minds via a breathing exercise before expressing their inner worries.
Friendship
Understanding how to interact with someone else to maintain a positive relationship.
Bluey ‘Mum School’:
Friendship – Parents
Kids take charge of their own brood of bouncy balloon buddies.
Bluey ‘Barky Boats’:
Friendship – Early Learning
Children undertake acts of kindness for one another to practice making new friends.
Bluey ‘Army’:
Friendship – Primary
Students conduct a survey on what makes their friends unique.
Inclusivity
Providing equal access to opportunities and experiences for people who might otherwise struggle to be involved.
Bluey ‘Octopus’:
Inclusivity – Parents
Everyone gets a say in the rules of your own unique Octopus Game.
Bluey ‘Circus’:
Inclusivity – Early Learning
Children recreate a circus setting, putting on different acts and helping others be a part of the show.
Bluey ‘Featherwand’:
Inclusivity – Early Learning
An inclusive game which challenges creative thinking and listening skills.
Bluey ‘Muffin Cone’:
Inclusivity – Primary
Through a variety of fun games, students consider the physical limitations of others.
Bluey ‘Christmas Swim’:
Inclusivity – Primary
Students consider the personal strengths of their family and how to introduce them to new friends.
Listening
Making an effort to hear and comprehend when others are speaking.
Bluey ‘Library’:
Listening – Parents
Kids develop their listening skills through music, dance and literature.
Bluey ‘The Show’:
Listening – Parents
Kids develop their listening skills by putting on a show under instruction from a director who only whispers.
Bluey ‘Charades’:
Listening – Parents
Through fun dancing and charades games, children practice listening and comprehension skills.
Bluey ‘Hairdresser’:
Listening – Early Learning
Children recreate a hairdresser salon setting to practice casual conversations.
Mindfulness
Maintaining control of emotions during periods of heightened stress.
Bluey ‘Bad Mood’:
Mindfulness – Parents
Kids engage with their senses and practice other ways to get out of bad moods.
Bluey ‘Barky Boats’:
Mindfulness – Parents
Children practice bringing focus to the natural world and their breathing.
Bluey ‘Sleepytime’:
Mindfulness – Early Learning
Children use their senses to explore wonderings about space.
Bluey ‘Piggy Back’:
Mindfulness – Early Learning
Bluey ‘Movies’:
Mindfulness – Primary
Students engage with their sense to practice ways of calming their minds when under stress.
Bluey ‘Piggyback’:
Mindfulness – Primary
Children practice bringing focus to the natural world through their senses.
Bluey ‘Stumpfest’:
Mindfulness – Primary
Students recreate an ‘Important Place’ from their local environment in an artwork.
Patience
Tolerating delays or difficulties which cause discomfort, without getting anxious.
Bluey ‘Road Trip’:
Patience – Parents
A variety of physical challenges will require patience and emotional regulation for success!
Bluey ‘Road Trip’:
Patience – Early Learning
Bluey ‘Trains’:
Patience – Primary
Students recreate a station setting to practice waiting patiently for the train to arrive.
Bluey ‘Helicopter’:
Patience – Primary
Students engage in a variety of follow-the-leader physical games to practice waiting for their turn.
Perseverance
Sticking at it to overcome minor obstacles, failures and setbacks.
Bluey ‘Piggyback’:
Perserverence – Parents
Children explore how to embrace new experiences and strategies for building perseverance.
Bluey ‘Handstand’:
Perserverence – Early Learning
Children explore how to embrace new experiences and strategies for building perseverance.
Bluey ‘Squash’:
Perserverence – Parents
A challenging physical game requires perseverance and effort for success!
Problem Solving
Evaluating knowledge, clarifying concepts, seeking possibilities and considering alternatives.
Bluey ‘Feather Wand’:
Problem Solving – Parents
Mix oral storytelling and physical theatre in an imaginary adventure full of trials!
Bluey ‘Bingo’:
Problem Solving – Parents
Children consider how to answer a problem or question of their own devising.
Respect
Caring whether your words and actions have a harmful effect on other people.
Bluey ‘Escape’:
Respect – Parents
Create an ‘alone time play station’ to support independent play and give parents a much deserved break!
Bluey ‘Fancy Restaurant’:
Respect – Parents
Children recreate a restaurant setting to create a nice experience for someone they value.
Bluey ‘Burger Shop’:
Respect – Parents
Students recreate a supermarket setting to practice following social rules.
Responsibility
Being accountable for our decisions, actions and behaviours.
Bluey ‘Daddy Drop Off’:
Responsibility – Parents
Kids create a ‘box of tricks’ to make everyday routine activities more fun!
Bluey ‘Grandad’:
Responsibility – Parents
Children take personal responsibility for packing for an adventure outside of the house.
Bluey ‘Swim School’:
Responsibility – Parents
Children recreate a familiar setting to explore taking responsibility for their actions.
Bluey ‘Bad Mood’:
Responsibility – Early Learning
Children explore different emotions through a variety of challenging scenarios.
Bluey ‘Duck Cake’:
Responsibility – Primary
Students consider ways to stay responsible for the messes they create at home and in the classroom.
Bluey ‘Mr Monkeyjocks’:
Responsibility – Primary
Students make tough decisions on what is most meaningful for them to take to a desert island.
Sharing
Using or enjoying something jointly with others.
Bluey ‘Hammerbarn’:
Sharing – Parents
Kids share limited ingredients when making a paper pizza!
Bluey ‘Ice Cream’:
Sharing – Early Learning
Children share limited materials across a variety of creative activities.
Bluey ‘Cafe’:
Sharing – Primary
Students use divisible thinking to figure out how to give everyone an equal amount of food.
Storytelling
Highly structured communication to evoke imagery in an audience.
Bluey ‘Rug Island’:
Storytelling – Parents
Kids create an imagined world out of everyday household objects.
Bluey ‘Favourite Thing’:
Storytelling – Early Learning
Children recount their day using exciting storytelling structures and skills.
Bluey ‘Escape’:
Storytelling – Primary
Students mix oral storytelling and physical theatre as they play a cat-and-mouse game.
Bluey ‘Typewriter’:
Storytelling – Primary
Students use oral storytelling and physical theatre as inspiration for a written story.
Team Work
The effective and efficient combined action of a group.
Bluey ‘Trains’:
Teamwork – Early Learning
Children recreate a train station setting to practice waiting patiently for the train to arrive.
Bluey ‘Postman’:
Teamwork – Primary
Students must communicate and solve movement challenges to navigate a basketball court of pure lava!
Bluey ‘Hammerbarn’:
Teamwork – Primary
Bluey ‘Seesaw’:
Team Work – Primary
Students use a trial and error method to discover the scientific ‘tipping point’ of a fulcrum and lever system.
With thanks to our Partners
These lessons have been developed in partnership with Ludo Studio. We would like to acknowledge the support of ABC Kids, BBC Studios, Screen Australia and Screen Queensland.
BLUEY TM and BLUEY character logos TM & © Ludo Studio Pty Ltd 2018. Licensed by BBC Studios. BBC logoTM & © BBC 1996.
Cool Australia would like to thank the Phillips Foundation and the Thyne Reid Foundation for supporting the creation of the Early Learning Resource hub.