eight-page guide this week. There has been little sound guidance on creating the right environment for young children, despite the boom in books, magazines and TV programmes offering advice on makeovers for homes, gardens and offices.
Too often, a nursery is kitted out and decorated with an overwhelming profusion of brash primary colours, or carpeted throughout with no washable floors for messy or wet play. Lena Engel shows you how to provide a space that is stimulating, calm and well-organised to meet children's needs.
Our monthly poster series on good practice around the nursery has been advising on resources and activities for individual areas. The final poster in this very popular series is published this week, and tackles the small world play area. We hope you have collected them all. From January, we will be running a new pull-out-and- collect series on working with the under-threes, linked to the Birth to Three Matters framework, which will build into an invaluable resource for early years practitioners and parents.
