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Hopping and skipping are challenging skills to master. Here, Dr Lala Manners looks at how they emerge and offers ideas for supporting their development.
Viv Hampshire explains how she organised a story walk to bring the popular picture book We're Going on a Bear Hunt to life.
Try treasure baskets and discovery boxes for babies to become engrossed in self-directed play, in the second part of a series from Claire Stevenson, Donna Luck and Veronica Lawrence.
See how an array of simple resources can combine with curiosity to help children explore the properties of light, with nursery activities used by Angela Chick.
Create polar landscapes to help children learn about the people and animals that inhabit them, and to provide opportunities for role play, suggests Nicole Weinstein.
The quality of the tools provided for children to paint and draw is important. Nicole Weinstein suggests some key resources to encourage creativity.
Collage experiences not only benefit children’s fine motor development – they also provide a medium for children to represent their experiences and thinking, explains Nicole Weinstein
Special books – designed to help nursery children make the move to a new room or Reception – are child-led, so they also let practitioners see the world through their eyes, explains Zoe Kimber
Winter indoor gardening can make a good foundation for outdoor gardening later on, says Mary Whiting in the first of two articles
Pack-away nurseries need be creative to make their settings work. Nicole Weinstein asks three how they manage their storage solutions.