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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.
Calculator Caterpillar's range of activity ideas to support math, reasoning and problem solving.
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.
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 Please enjoy the following early years partnership ideas, they aim to support children's
  learning and development in all their professional care and home settings, it's
also hoped  they'll help in managing the cost associated with providing a diverse range of activities.

 Links to other parent partnership ideas:
 Communication cookbook in the parent section of talkingpoint.org.uk
 CAPT - share resources between parents and colleagues that prevent accidents to children  

 





Chocolate carrot hide, find and exchange ..
 
 Spring-time carrot hide and search - game alternative to egg hunts
  
Wrapping paper tubes

 Wrapping roll tubes - print request slips that enable parents and carers  to recycle their unused cardboard tubing.


Enjoy bubble wands as tools for sphere making ..
 
  Don't throw the wands away!
 Request your parent's unused bubble blowers
 This page links to Magical's recipes for play section
 

Bug slide - catch and release ..

 Bug catching! share how to capture creature encounters safely  and release back outside with care ..
Enjoy blackberries in the setting and at home ..
 
 Blackberry brambles


 
 Caring about clothes
 Agree suitable clothing for children's play - fit for mud, for paint and glue ..
 


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
Early home learning matters - FPI.org
From education.guk.uk
Supporting parents with their children's 'at home' learning and development
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A guide for practitioners 2009
Provider influence on the home learning environment
Every parent matters 2007 and helping parents help children