Early Years Blog
A hub for everything early years, EYFS and nursery education.
In our blog you’ll find inspiration for activities, news, events and advice from early years experts.
Mother’s Day flower bouquet craft for kids
Get set for Mother’s Day with this beautiful Mother’s Day flower bouquet craft perfect for early years, and surprise Mum with a lovely gift! Using resources all available on our website, we’ll take you through the step-by-steps. Let’s get started… What you will...
Paper plate Easter crafts for early years
Make Easter egg-stra special with these paper plate Easter crafts perfect for early years, including an Easter bunny and chick! We’ll be giving you the step-by-steps to creating both of these in this article, so let’s get started… What you will need for both: Paper...
3 Quick and easy Easter craft ideas
Make Easter egg-stra special with these 3 quick, easy Easter craft ideas, full of inspiration and creativity, and perfect for early years. We’ll be giving you the step-by-steps to creating an Easter chick basket, some hatched eggs, and Easter greetings cards. So,...
Supporting Children’s Mental Health in Lockdown and Beyond
Supporting children’s mental health is so important in lockdown and beyond, by recognising the signs of poor mental health and learning how to deal with it. This much is clear: the pandemic has had a dramatic effect on children’s mental health. While children often...
St Patrick’s Day: Easy crafts for kids
Follow our easy, step-by-step St Patrick's Day crafts, and let the kids create a hand-print leprechaun, a leprechaun mask and some four-leaf-clovers! We have also made sure to add all the resources you’ll need for each craft to make things easier for you. Enjoy! What...
Fun and creative Valentine’s Day crafts for kids
Valentine’s Day isn’t just for the adults anymore, little ones can get involved too with our fun and creative Valentine’s Day crafts! We love any excuse here at Hope to get our craft on, so we’ve put together a couple of craft gift ideas for you to try with the...
Make Mother’s Day simple: Quick and creative crafts!
Make Mother’s Day simple this year with these three, quick and easy creative crafts perfect for early years settings or at home! You will need… not a lot, actually! Although we love a good how-to, step-by-step craft, we recognise that there is not always time to get...
Outdoor play – Den building with @earlyyearsoutdoor
Children have created dens as part of their outdoor play for hundreds of years, but as children spend less time outdoors, getting them into fresh air and building a den can have huge benefits. Help them to reignite their passion and enhance many skills by providing...
Sensory Stories – encouraging literacy in early years play
Sensory Stories – encouraging literacy in early years play We worked with our Brand Rep, @Mamasden, to explore Sensory Stories, and how they help to incorporate and encourage literacy in early years play. Have you ever noticed how children just cannot keep...
Art Outdoors vs Outdoor Art: Is there a difference?
Our friends at Kids Planet Day Nurseries had a look into the difference between outdoor art and art outdoors, transient art, and how to make art messier, bigger and louder. Is there a difference between art outdoors vs outdoor art? The answer is yes! The difference is...
Messy Play Activities with our Brand Rep
Our Brand Rep, Natalie, who runs the Instagram account @mummyandthebears, has helped put together this blog filled with messy play activities and ideas, to help you provide the children with endless opportunities for learning and play! Messy play can be lots of fun...
5 Festive paper plate Christmas crafts
This Christmas, we want to bring your children some fun, creative, and easy Christmas craft ideas to make at home or in the nursery. It’s a good idea to stock up on paper plates during the festive season. They can be used for so many different craft activities! Below,...