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: Making Spaces - A good read
When it comes to assessing your book corner for two-year-olds, take a look at it through children's eyes and provide a feelgood experience, advises Anne O'Connor.
Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - spring is here
Children enjoyed the first signs of spring on their latest trip to...
EYFS: Development Matters -Take the stage
Designed to be used in everyday practice, the revised developmental grids give...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Dig deep
Gardening helps children's development and brings them closer to nature, so having...
Learning & Development: Quality - Measure for measure
Identifying quality in early years provision may require more than one set...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Get the bug!
There's no end to the learning as well as the fun that...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Come rain or shine
Rain, sun and fog are elements children can have fun exploring with...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Come out to play
Boys were encouraged to discover new ways to play, learn and practise...
Learning and Development: Creativity - Shelter from the storm
An art project by a London children's centre aims to send reassurance...
Enabling Environments: Collections - It's a breeze
Nothing beats being outdoors to experience weather but many resources can support...
Enabling Environments: Physical Development - It's all go
Children's favourite activities are encouraged by Christina Saville, Maryanne Neil, Linsey Fulton...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Into the woods
Wherever a setting is situated, woodland creatures should be close at hand,...
Enabling Environments: Baby Rooms - Without walls
The pros and cons of caring for babies separately or letting them...
Enabling Environments: Equipment - Link to nature
The principles of a leading early years equipment maker are behind bags...
Enabling Environments: Boxes - Full of surprises
Don't throw away any boxes after Christmas, says Mary Barlow. They're the...
Positive Relationships: Working with Families - A visual journey
Photographs taken by parents gave practitioners new insight into how children experience...
Enabling Environments: Collections - In the castle
Every child can be the king of the castle when you choose...
Enabling Environments: Risk - Rise to the challenge
The benefits of providing risky activities to children and keeping their parents...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Baby talk
Don't stop at dolls, but supply all the equipment that babies need...
Enabling Environments: Under-threes - Hue and cry
Do practitioners need to be careful about the colours or visual contrasts...
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