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.
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,...
Christmas Crafts: Arctic Adventure Scene
This Christmas, we want to make sure your children have some easy, fun, and creative Christmas craft ideas to make at home or in the nursery. We’ve put together a number of how-to guides with different crafts for the festive season, with some resource recommendations...
Christmas Crafts: Wooden festive friends
This Christmas, we want to make sure your children have some easy, fun, and creative Christmas craft ideas to make at home or in the nursery. We’ve put together a number of how-to guides with different crafts for the festive season, with some resource recommendations...
Preschool Christmas Crafts: Clay tree decorations
This Christmas, we want to make sure your children have some easy, fun, and creative Christmas craft ideas to make at home or in the nursery. We’ve put together a number of how-to guides with different crafts for the festive season, with some resource recommendations...
Easy Christmas Crafts: Reindeer card
This Christmas, we want to bring your children some fun, creative, and easy Christmas craft ideas to make at home or in the nursery. We’ve put together a number of how-to guides with different crafts for the festive season, with some resource recommendations to help....