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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.

Building links with all children's settings Home - Setting communications
 ideas to support preschool and nursery parent partnerships
     

 Links to other parent partnership ideas:

 Tips for talking in the parent section of talkingpoint.org.uk

 CAPT - share resources between parents and colleagues that prevent accidents to children  

A list of summer holiday activity ideas and a week's daily activity planner

Summer holiday activity list - boredom busters and things for children to do
Daily week planner for summer holiday activities

partnership links Hand washing hygiene poster, a rhyme and word printables
partnership links Head lice activity ideas and prinable resources
partnership links Don't throw the wands away! request your parent's unused bubble blowers

Print hand hygiene resources for preschool
A range of head lice printables for parent setting communications
Enjoy bubble wands as tools for sphere making ..

   


partnership links Bug catching pot and slide
partnership links Apple pip seed share 
partnership links Blackberry brambles
partnership links Spring-time carrot hide and search
partnership links Recycled cardboard tube crafts
partnership links Crystal ball & jotter jars page!

Bug slide - catch and release ..
Grow apple trees from home sent seeds
Enjoy blackberries in the setting and at home ..
Chocolate carrot hide, find and exchange ..
Wrapping paper tubes
Feedback printables


Building links with all children's settings
  For reasearch and ideas about parent partnerships these    
  publications are available on amazon.co.uk

 Child initiated learning - building positive relationships with parents of young children: A guide to effective communication and parents as partners 2013 edition



Promote child intiated activity through knowledge transfer
Build confidence towards parent partnerships
Parents as partners



Reading & strategies

  Early home learning matters: a brief practice guide for practioners
  Funded by the 2009 Government Department for Children, Schools and Families

  Signs a child might be ready to begin using the toilet  - USA's Penn State and UK's NCT.org.uk

From education.gov.uk

  Supporting parents with their children's 'at home' learning and development
     
A guide for practitioners 2009

  2011 Provider influence on the home learning environment - gov.uk

  Every parent matters 2007 and helping parents help children    

Poverty and life chances report 2010 by Frank Fileds MP 

  Recognising the importance of children's experiences and life at home is underpinned by the research of Charles Desforges The impact of parental involvement on PEAL