[Dingledel]

I work in a very small pre-school and we have just had our Ofsted inspection. One of the things mentioned was the fact that we didn't have enough evidence of supporting awareness of multi cutural and disabilty.

We have various dolls, puppets, costumes and books but due to size not everything is out all of the time. Not sure as to what was actually out as I wasn't in the day of inspection.

I am trying to come up with some ideas to help cover this area and any advice, links, ideas would be much appreciated. Finance is a BIG issue for us at the moment so costs would need to be kept to a minimum.

So far I have though of increasing the amount of resources, dolls, puppets, costumes, books etc but again cost is a major factor.

I would like to do some sort of "circle of friends around the world" mobile, this is something I wanted to do a while back but has never materialised.

Perhaps make some masks, different skin tones, head wear??

I have also thought about a more "hands on" approach to this, rather than a chat at circle time and a craft activity I would like to incorporate music, dance, perhaps even make our own versions of musical instruments, costumes.....??? (visions of sari's or maracas floating round my head.)

Any ideas please?