Using light and dark as a medium for discovery and learning is well established in settings. Nicole Weinstein suggests resources that will maximise opportunities to explore and investigate.
A versatile resource for early years activities often gets overlooked, because it isn't there. Try these suggestions from Diana Lawton.
See how children's interests and a surprise piece of inspiration led to a nursery-wide project that prompted yet more projects, with Angela Chick.
An award-winning documentary has become required viewing for early years specialists around the world.
A display helped children at Yarm School nursery to explore the meaning of love, as Victoria Harrison explains.
Dr Julian Grenier of Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre in East London talks to Marianne Sargent about collaboration in part one of a new series on National Teaching Schools
Enclosed spaces can foster friendship and heighten young children's concentration and involvement in their play, says Annette Rawstrone.
The latest early years products can help children sleep comfortably and get around safely, says Ruth Thomson.
Allowing children to explore media and materials enables important learning, but how can practitioners support children's creativity and understanding? Nicole Weinstein explains.
A forest environment stimulates the use of descriptive language, says Caroline Watts, a Forest Schools leader for several schools in Kent.