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Designing Outdoor Play Spaces – Part 1 Assess & Reflect

I’ve noticed a gradual return to more natural outdoor play spaces for children across the past few years which is…
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I love finding inspiration and new ideas to repurpose wooden spools and cable reels into new equipment for play. They…
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Outdoor rainy day play provides many learning opportunities for children. Just because it’s raining or a little cold outdoors doesn’t…
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Repurposing and reusing tyres in outdoor play spaces is not only fantastic for limited educator and parent budgets but also…
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Providing open ended play materials allows children the opportunity to be curious, creative and direct their own play. There are…
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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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Creating and making your own simple DIY resources for learning can save early years educators a lot of money and it…
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As a parent and an early childhood educator I love to find different ways of making my own budget friendly…
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If you have been throwing those empty juice, water and soft drink bottles into the bin then STOP right there…
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We enjoy creating an environment that attracts birds and other wildlife to our garden and when the children told me…
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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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A sensory table tends to be a well used piece of equipment in most early childhood services and with good…
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We have entered the world of sight words! My 5 year old twins have recently started their first year at…
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Welcome back to my current series ‘Recycled Play’. Regular readers of this blog will know that I have a…
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Regular readers will know how much I love to incorporate natural elements and hands on sensory experiences into our play…
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