Instead of only doing Earth Day activities with children on one day of the year, why not incorporate simple yet…
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How to encourage outdoor learning with living things.
Inviting living things into garden and play areas provides playful opportunities for children to become active learners as they investigate…
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Outdoor Play Areas – Part 4 – Incorporating Sustainability
Finding ways to incorporate sustainability into outdoor play environments for children can seem a difficult or overwhelming process when doing…
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Gardening with Children – Make a Sensory Plant Tower!
Gardening with children can help to encourage a connection with the senses and a love of nature while also providing…
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Repurpose spools and reels for play!
I love finding inspiration and new ideas to repurpose wooden spools and cable reels into new equipment for play. They…
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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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Make a Recycled Plant Pot Scarecrow
As both a parent and educator I love finding ways to plan and create children’s recycling projects and our plant…
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Sustainability in the Garden – How to Make a Worm Tower!
I’ve recently been exploring worm towers as a different way to involve the children in composting organic matter and also learning…
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Sustainability – How can Early Years Educators show evidence of embedded practice?
The Australian Early Years Framework (EYLF) and indeed most early years frameworks across the international early childhood community asks educators…
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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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A Week of Play Based Learning – Ideas, Activities and Inspiration
Welcome to a new year of my weekly play based learning posts. It is my aim to inspire, support and…
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Recycling Fun with Rubbish and Pallets!
You know we love to make play resources from recycled pallets and this one has been on my list for…
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