Blocks are one of my favourite budget friendly resources for parents and educators because you can keep extending block play…
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Taking Dramatic Play Outside – Ideas to get you started!
The outdoor learning environment offers a wonderful stage to inspire little imaginations through dramatic play outside. By adding a few simple props from either indoors…
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Ideas for reading to active toddler groups
I love to see children reading books, I truly do believe they are such an important part of childhood. Books lay…
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Inviting Imagination into Outdoor Play with Facepainting
I think it is really important to ensure your outdoor play environment provides opportunities for a child to use their…
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How to Engage & Communicate with Families Effectively
Early childhood educators are often asked how they engage and communicate with families effectively as a regular process. It is…
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Social & Emotional Skills – Strategies and Activities for Teachers
Children can have a difficult time understanding their emotions and the way certain events make them feel in the early…
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How to become an assertive early years educator.
Being an assertive educator is not an easy task for many but it can be a learned skill and one…
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DIY Recycled Play Series #2 – Musical Fun!
Welcome to my weekly series ‘Recycled Play’. Regular readers of this blog will know that I have a passion for…
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Writing Engaging and Useful Newsletters for Parents
Newsletters are a fantastic way to share your early childhood service’s activities, events and children’s learning journeys and interests. But…
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Recycling with children – easy ideas to get them involved!
We all know that recycling is important for our community and world as a whole and most adults now contribute…
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How to Support Communication in the Early Years.
Supporting children to become effective and confident communicators is an important role for both parents and educators. Right from birth…
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Sustainable Fun with Kids – Making Lavender Perfume
My 3 and 4 year old family day care group have been showing a lot of interest in the lavender…
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Ideas for promoting and advertising a home day care business.
I never underestimate the importance of promoting and advertising my day care business in the community…and neither should you. I know…
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Introducing Sustainability to Children….Ideas and Inspiration!
Sustainability is a funny word, it’s one of those that has only recently entered our everyday vocabulary and yet for…
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10 Ideas for a Stress Free Sensory Seeker Bedtime!
The twins bedtime is always interesting at our place….I sort of look forward to it but I sort of don’t…as…
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