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A huge stock of articles with ideas for best practice and activities across the six areas of learning - Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Communication, Language and Literacy; Knowledge and Understanding of the World; Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy; Creative Development; and Physical Development. Includes our Let's Explore... series, plus great ideas for birth to threes for sensory play, messy play, music and rhymes.

 

Subscriber content Learning & Development: Resources for under-threes - Picture this!

Snuggle up with a homemade book to lay firm foundations for reading,...

 
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Rotation

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Rotation

Let the ideas go round and round the nursery with activities and...

 
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Shape

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Shape

Try some innovative activities to consider shapes from all angles and dimensions,...

 
Learning and development: Our bright idea - Sensory hangings

Subscriber content Learning and development: Our bright idea - Sensory hangings

A nursery resource that combines learning, creativity, decoration and physical enjoyment is...

 
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... foggy weather and glowing

Subscriber content 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

Subscriber content 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

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... our senses

Everyday life can be a continuous topic when children are encouraged to...

 
Enabling Environments: All about ... Growing your own vegetables

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: All about ... Growing your own vegetables

There's a lot to learn, and enjoy, from growing vegetables at any...

 
Enabling Environments: Resources for Under-threes - On reflection

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: Resources for Under-threes - On reflection

Stimulate babies' sensory and cognitive development with these simple, easily accessible resources,...

 
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Stick Man

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Stick Man

Imagination is the only resource you'll need in abundance to enjoy activities...

 
Enabling environments: Let's explore ... Ourselves yesterday

Subscriber content Enabling environments: Let's explore ... Ourselves yesterday

Go back in time for children to get a sense of themselves...

 
Enabling Environments: Resources for under-threes: In black & white

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: Resources for under-threes: In black & white

In the first of an occasional series, Claire Stevenson, Donna Luck and...

 
A unique child inclusion: Creative thinking

Subscriber content A unique child inclusion: Creative thinking

An early years project aiming to promote inclusion through the creative arts...

 
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Autumn leaves

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Autumn leaves

Now's the time to go out on a leaf hunt and discover...

 

Subscriber content Learning & Development: Sensory play - bags

In the bag

 
Enabling Environments: All about ... feeding the birds

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: All about ... feeding the birds

In any kind of setting you can provide a way for children...

 
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Castles

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Castles

Observation of children's interests as they play is at the heart of...

 
Learning & Development: Our bright idea - The colours of autumn

Subscriber content Learning & Development: Our bright idea - The colours of autumn

A display can reach far beyond the wall it's on. Jean Evans...

 
Enabling Environments: Continuous Provision Part 1 - Don't stop me now!

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: Continuous Provision Part 1 - Don't stop me now!

What is meant by continuous provision, and what does it require of...

 
Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Reflections

Subscriber content Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Reflections

From seeing the sky in puddles to finding the symmetry in faces,...

 
 
 
 

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