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Small World Play in Early Years
Small World Play is imaginative play at its best. Children learn so much through Small World Play. So, what exactly is it? In Small World Play children use their creative skills to act out real life scenes, recreate fantasy or fairy tales from stories, or simply make...
Learning Mathematics through Pretend Play
Playing shops is part of children’s every day play because shopping is a way of life. They have first-hand experiences of visiting shops, choosing items, paying and taking their goods home. Introducing a traditional shop of food is a great way to engage learners with...
Bringing Stories to Life in the Early Years
A child who reads will be an adult who thinks… Daily reading with children is a gift that will have a lifelong impact on their learning. Hearing stories every day from a young age helps to close the word gap between children and introduces new vocabulary they may not...
Keeping Toddlers Safe in the Sun
With temperatures rising and summer holidays approaching, now is the perfect time to get clued up on sun safety for toddlers. Check out our blog post for advice on keeping your little ones safe in the sun.
Mindfulness Activities for Toddlers
Mindfulness is a state of awareness of our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and environment. It aims to help you feel calmer, manage stress, and become more self-aware of your emotions and how to respond to them. For toddlers, they can easily get carried away by the...
Soothing with the senses – developing emotional regulation
Our senses help us ‘make sense’ of what is happening in the world outside our bodies. Learning to interpret the information coming in from the senses and then produce an appropriate response, is how young children develop language, social skills and motor...