Articles on activities for birth to threes and three to fives, outdoor play and learning, and equipment and resources. Regular features include Let's Explore…, Tried and Tested, Outdoors, and Visits and Visitors.
Enabling Environments Outdoors: Granting wishes
Outdoor provision for the early years is set to grow and flourish...
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Rotation
Let the ideas go round and round the nursery with activities and...
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Shape
Try some innovative activities to consider shapes from all angles and dimensions,...
Enabling Environments: Building design - Making good
With all their good intentions, children's centres may still let down their...
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... foggy weather and glowing
Use a unique book by a popular children's author as a springboard...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Wrap up warm
Are you a mud-lover, a mug-hugger or somewhere in between? Annie Davy...
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... our senses
Everyday life can be a continuous topic when children are encouraged to...
Enabling Environments: Resources for Under-threes - On reflection
Stimulate babies' sensory and cognitive development with these simple, easily accessible resources,...
Enabling environments: Continuous provision, part 4 - The right stuff
In providing resources for playful learning we need to remember the process...
Enabling environments resources for under-threes: Pick and mix
Try treasure baskets and discovery boxes for babies to become engrossed in...
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Stick Man
Imagination is the only resource you'll need in abundance to enjoy activities...
Nursery Equipment: Care routines - Happy days
A well-resourced environment and sensitive adult support ensure care routines at Giant...
Nursery Equipment: Management software - Soft options
A good computer management system can work wonders for your business, but...
Nursery Equipment: Art - Paint work
What is needed for young children to express their creative ideas through...
Nursery Equipment: Science - Shed light on learning
Three early years settings tell Mary Evans about science resources they wouldn't...
Nursery Equipment: Role play - Act up!
Make-believe is integral to a child's development, and the more open-ended the...
Nursery Equipment: ICT - Power points
Equipment that's user-friendly for little fingers is vital for the right start...
Nursery Equipment: Sand and water - Dig in
Well-organised sand and water play leaves children absorbed and free to wallow...
Nursery Equipment: Outdoors - Balancing acts
Assess how your outside space is used before rushing out to spend...
Nursery Equipment: Small-world play - Little by little
Everyday events or great big adventures can all be played out in...
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