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.
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
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,...

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

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

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

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Autumn leaves
Now's the time to go out on a leaf hunt and discover...

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

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

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Reflections
From seeing the sky in puddles to finding the symmetry in faces,...
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