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Encouraging children to use their bodies in any way they want stimulates their physical and brain development and has a noticeable beneficial effect on behaviour, writes Annette Rawstrone
Making a bug hotel to protect insects during the winter can help children learn about the natural environment, while also building physical and team skills. Viv Hampshire explains.
In the run-up to International Mud Day on 29 June, Jan White and Menna Godfrey make the case for creating a mud kitchen in your setting and offer advice on how to best approach the task.
Sue Ball, of Setting Sail Day Nursery, Harrogate, describes the development of her Forest School and the benefits for the children.
Put books at the heart of your activities based on a favourite mythical creature, along with art and small-world play, as Helen Bromley suggests.
A simple way to encourage children's independence at nursery is explained by Tessa Fenoughty.
This topics enables each child to relate their own unique experiences, and offers insights for practitioners.
Construction block sets are among the essential equipment that any nursery will have, but that doesn't mean they're all alike. Mary Evans hears how early years settings rate a variety of the latest...
Anansi and the Magic Stick by Eric A Kimmel and Janet Stevens (Holiday House) Lazy Anansi stomps off when hard-working Warthog, Lion, and Zebra laugh at his messy house. He tries to steal Hyena's...
Let the ideas go round and round the nursery with activities and resources for following a natural interest, suggested by Diana Lawton.