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Preschool activities & Early Years resources
Developed for childcare providers, parents, children & for play learning
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On our character pages Silkysteps has many activities and links for EYs planning,
with focus crafts & play suggestions that use a range of ideas & tactile materials.
Please note that only the store has resources that can be purchased.
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A few of Silkysteps free resource pages ..
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 Colouring  Preschool Crafts  Craft Templates  Clipart
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 Outdoor play activities  Activity Sheets  & Playdough activities
Firework SPLATT .. Have a great and Safe bonfire night :-)
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Early years articles please read on for more !!
International Perspectives on Early Learning
© Wendy Ellyatt 2008 written for and hosted on the OpenEYEcampaign site.
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Early Years Forums  Sign up for Silkysteps Early Years Newsletter Latest Resource Competitions and Preschool Book Review Seasons Activities - Preschool planning ideas Take Part: regulation & policy Special Features Additional craft Activities Text Links
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Silkysteps Store - Craft resources
All our Early years store resources can be viewed on one page - mini topics, crafts, outlines and eBooks ..
each product contains a links that shows customers more information
Individual pages:
Mini Topics  Craft Books Craft kits Outlines & Templates
Early Years Miscellany - titles for a range of needs
These resources are all developed in-house they are designed for Preschool, Home and Early years settings.
Use them to promote your craft activities, display & parent's notice board areas.
Sales help ensure Silkysteps stays publishing free ideas for supporting and enjoying play.
Christmas is coming ...
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The website decorations will go up as usual on the 1st of December so please feel free to pop back and enjoy your festive activities with us ..
Silkysteps Christmas department for crafting projects and notice board resources
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 Elephant's stew Mini topic   Bouncy Squirrels Mini topic - numberline
Lily pad frog numberline
  
Silkysteps Image Map - Navigate through our craft resources with a little more ease ..
Plug Boad advertising for Preschool Crafts and Business websites.
Independant unaffiliated screenshots for visitors to browse excellent resources for home and Preschool
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 Preschool early years community ~ Completely free, they give all Early Years Professionals ~ Parents, Childminders, Teachers, PreSchool, Nursery and Toddler groups the chance to question & answer - discover & plan !!
Click for the past ... 3 Days | 4 Days | 5 Days or the Past Weeks posts !
 Silkysteps Early Years focussed eNewsletter
Sign up and keep ahead of everything happening on Silkysteps - new activities, forum updates and Early years news all delivered straight to your inbox !
Newsletter focus will be on activities suitable for Library craft and reading sessions, Hospital and outdoor playwork, charity & voluntary campaign work, fundraising and play led learning - all ideas and news come straight from an Early Years direction!!
For a Sample of our previous Newsletters ~ Please take a look HERE
NB: Registration for our newsletter is separate to your forum membership and store account
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 Bird seed cake
Looking after the birds outside your setting ..
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Enjoy some of the Early years focussed features on Silkysteps ..
  
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 Please visit our Early Years Preschool & home competitions - prizes for play on this page
Preschool 'Dates for your Diary' includes campaigns and awareness events that can help imform your planning and setting provision.
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Other networks
Business in schools : if you need help identifying links or getting in touch with local organisations please take a look at the information The Edge Foundation have on their initiative site.
Six Steps to Change manifesto - a campaign challenging the next phases of learning that our young children are able to access.
Policy and research
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 Better Regulation: from BERR - see how you can help improve restrictive regulation ..
DCSF Consultations - how does the Department for Children, Schools and Families want your help ...
Ofsted Consultations - Get involved, find out what's new and pass on your views ..
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Activities for a Preschool Autumn..
Looking to Winter ..
 Conkers and the Fall
 Blackberry brambles
Messy play article
Fir Cone Collage
Looking to Winter ..
Dinosaur ice
Whipped snow recipe
Our Winter forum - ideas and suggestions for play
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Our areas of Interest - Preschool: involvement, home and community
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Preschool and Early years book list titles
The links for purchasing these books are in association with our Amazon affiliate account.
Please, copy and paste the book title to search using your own independant supplier.
Book titles are based on personal experience and recommendations.
Wherever possible links to learning resources, reviews and additional information has been included.
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 Children In The Picture
This Inclusion poster is a great resource to help promote diversity in all types of settings.
You can order it for £5.00 inc P&P by emailing inthepicture@scope.org.uk
More about Richard Johnson and his wonderful Illustrations
For activity ideas please see our range of Themes and Topics forums. |
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Hospital Radio Activity Ideas
Have you thought of ways your Early Years setting can help support and network with the local volunteers working in your hospital radio stations?
 You can find contact details of your local station on the HBA ~ Hospital Broadcasting Association's website.
To introcduce concepts and plan activities for any links you hope to build please feel free to use and adapt these suggestions:
Early Learning Play Planning
Activity Sheets ~ Radio Listener ~ Request Sheets Print, write, tear off & enjoy !!
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Handykam and birds in Preschool, activities for home, nursery, school and foundation ...
PLease visit our affiliate merchant Handykam.co.uk for details on how to record, watch and combine technology with the nesting, hatching and day to day lives of your local birds ..
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These activities are a few play ideas to help explore protection, care and conservation of the birds we see regularly in and around our gardens ..
Watching and naming native - international migratory friends can be great fun and important for noticing changes to their habitats and routines.
Wherever possible involve the Children and interested adults in the lives of your birds and help secure a corner of your outdoor and indoor play for feathery awareness.
Playdough Bird Nests ~ an interactive activity from Magical Mammoth's Playdough page
Sakalava Rail ~ a craft collage activity from Mischief Mouse.
Our Birds forum - many activity ideas for a holistic approach and tactile play .. |
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 The-Snail-Trail.co.uk
Giant African Land Snails - GALS
 Join the snail trail and discover what GALS can do for your Childrens' learning horizons.
Giant African Land Snails are a great addition to any learniing environment ~ home or classroom ..
Lesson and activity plans for introducing GALS to your Preschool and Early Years children.
Download and print their free Breeding Awareness Poster, display it on your notice boards and help spread the word of responsible ownership with them! |
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 SillyBooks.net
Where Pen is put to Paper and wonderful Illustrations come to life.
Sillybooks is a stunning website run by some pretty amazing people - Full of original interactive stories, games, music, puzzles and much more. It's updated frequently so be sure to pop back and see what's been newly published!
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 Head Lice in your setting ?
Please click through for our free Headlice and nit activity pack - information, colouring pictures and preschool play ideas that can be printed out and enjoyed by your whole group and extended community.
Distribute the booklets or individual pages to your parents and display on notice boards for everyones information...
Our Bug busting day forum has lots of ideas on how to break the cycle of infestation and play ideas to openly discuss any problems ..
Heads craft activity from our 'All about us' Forum. |
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 Slither the snake - an interactive activity for paint and role play ..
Download 5 new coloured Slithers and enjoy displaying your role play paint stampers ..
Slither Snake extention
Use alongside our foil snake idea from the store's Jungle Craft eBook |
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 Dinosaur hand puppet - outdoor and indoor stomping role play !!
Dinosaur colouring pictures and Paint activity bases
Our Dinosaurs activity ideas Forum
We're Going on a bear hunt - adapt this well loved rhyme to a Dinosaur theme ..
Mixed with a Minibeast Theme and you have a great outdoor play adventure ..
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These links help us to increase visitor numbers.
Click through to register your vote of support for Silkysteps & to discover
many more websites !!
TeAchnology Topsites Sites for Teachers  Sites for Parents Mumszone
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Resource and activity links
Messy play ideas Outdoor lunar landings Hospital Playwork
The Nature of Children's Play National Bed month play and Early Years planning activities
Rhyming Sheets Cow Hitch Knot
The STORE
Daffodil playdough craft activity Halloween Outlines Pumpkin play
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Health and Safety tips from the UK's HSE ...
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Myth of the month from the HSE - Health and Safety Executive
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