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Mischief Mouse's collection of craft activities for preschool and early years.
Printable resources to help support play - colouring, mark making, labelling, promoting, engaging and extending..
Magical Mammoth's recipes to play with and recipes to eat ..
Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
Activities for math - Calculator caterpillar's activity ideas to support children's numeracy, reasoning and problem solving play.
Hope Hedgehog invites visitors to take a look through some articles of interest ...
Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.

Preschool early years - Articles for play    Hope Hedgehog's articles ..  
This section is a list of articles promoting children's play, research, learning and development.

H
ome setting communications
contains complimentary ideas that support working partnerships.


 100 fine motor skills activities

Early hand skills - fine motor dexterity

Activities for 2 year olds

Handwashing resources

Head lice

Children's and adult learning styles
 Visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning

The nature of children's play

activity ideas for toddler two year olds
Hand washing activities for young children
Removing lice with the three step wet combing method
Learning styles
The nature of childrens's play - sensorimotor, pretend, games, rules and an adult's role..





Road safety awareness activities
ICT in early years

Skylanders - home setting digital & toy roleplay
Plotting outdoor provision
Road safety activities
ICT and preschool early years play
An introduction the the character names of Skylands ..
Map out your gardens play space



Winter feeding plan for birds
Messy play  what is messy
  Healthy preschool and school lunch boxes 
Meeting children's nutritional needs
England:
2012 Eat better start better
NI: 2013 Nutrition matters for early years
Scotland:  Food Choices for Children Aged 1 - 5
Wales: 2009 food and health guidlines

Help supprt the birds in your locality..
Messy play examples and ideas ..
Healthy lunch boxes ..