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Preschool, Teachers, Parents and Childcarers
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On Silkysteps you will find play activities, planning & craft resources for the Under Fives, Foundation Stage, Early Years & many adaptable play ideas for older Children.
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Please see each of our Characters for their own free resource areas..
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 Colouring  Preschool Crafts  Craft Templates  Clipart
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 Activity packs  Activity Sheets  & Playdough activities
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Early years articles  outdoor - in play and more Free !!
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Visit our Download Store for some great resources.
Developed in-house they are designed for Preschool craft activities, Early Learning projects and to help promote your interactive Parent display & notice areas.
Mini Topics Craft Books Craft kits
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Silkysteps Image Map - Navigate through our craft resources with a little more ease ..
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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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FRONT PAGE INDEX
Early Years Forums and Newsletter Sign up  Latest Resource Competitions and Preschool Book Review
Take Part: regulation & policy Special Features Additional craft Activities  Text Links
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The newest Early learning resource available from our Early Years Download store
*New Christmas templates
See our Winter department page for lots of ideas to build your activity planning ..
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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 Free Monthly eNewsletter ~ 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 and voluntary campaign work and fundraising - all ideas and news come straight from Early Years !!
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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Christmas Advent Page
and Book review resources
Many many craft and play ideas for the festive holiday ..
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Please see all our current Early Years Competitions on this page
 
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 Preschool and Early Years Book lists - themed for focus play, Reviews, links & more information
 Early Years 'Dates for your Diary' planning campaigns
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These links are to help Silkysteps readers visit and put forward thoughts, views and opinions:
See how policy influences working practice and how you can contribute
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 Better Regulation: from BERR - see how you can help improve regulation that unneccessarily resticts or has yet to encompass ..
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 thoughts .. |
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Click for current news articles
Basic tips for approaching your own Preschool Operational Plan
Early Learning Goals and UN Convention for the rights of Children
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Our areas of Interest - Preschool: involvement, home and community
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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
 Inclusion & Wellbeing information from Sure Start
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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 Seeds in Preschool !
If you plan growing topics and focus activities in Preschool or organise fundraising events / craft experiences Unwins have an incredible range to exlplore.
Familiarise the Children and staff with names, varieties and growing tips ..
These links are through Webgains and are in association with our Unwins affiliate account
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Sweet Peas Garden Peas Beans Nasturtiums
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 Birds in Preschool, Nursery and Foundation ...
These activities and play ideas help explore how to protect, care and enjoy for the range of birds we see regularly and not so ..
Watching our native and international migratory friends is great fun and important for noticing changes to their habitats and routines !
Wherever possible involve the Children and interested adults in the lives of birds and help secure a corner of your outdoor and inddor play for them.
Playdough Bird Nests ~ great activity from Magical Mammoth's page!
Sakalava Rail ~ a collage craft from Mischief Mouse.
Our Birds forum - activities for tactile play .. |
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Videoing or watching birds nesting digitally
Can be organised in your Preschool or Foundation unit with the CCTV Bird Box kits from Handykam.
Full instruction on how to build and assemble your own observatory are part of the Nest box Video kit - please see HandyCam CCTV Website for more information.
This link is in association with our Handykam cctv birdbox Affiliate account.
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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 many more - and it's updated frequently so be sure to pop back and see what's been newly published! |
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Count Balloons - Courtesy of Sillybooks
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 Head Lice in your setting ?
For information, Colouring pictures and activity play ideas that can be printed out and enjoyed please feel free to download our activity pack.
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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 The NCB's - National Children's Bureau recycling campaign.
If you have a new Mobile and would like to help NCB raise funds with your unused one please click through the link and see how to apply for freepost recycling bags to send it over !
Funds raised help support their work with Children.
For Career information see the link on their front page
www.NCB.org.uk |
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 Penguin Painting original craft activity published on Under5s.co.uk
 Frozen paint sticks
Penguin painting - colouring and collage sheet |
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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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Craft eBook titles available from the store
Jungle Crafts eBook and Ocean craft eBook ...
Lifecycles Craft eBooks ~ Butterfly & Plant and Chicken & Frog
Chinese New Year downloadable craft eBook  Winter Craft activities
Christmas Around The World  Christmas
Harvest Time Ourselves - all about me crafts Crafts Bk Crafts Bk 2 Clothes
and our Best Selling mini topic Lily Pad frogs Mini Topic
Elephant's stew Mini topic Bouncy Squirrels Worms numberline mini topic
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Road Safety craft eBook - free updated edition will be sent via email when published.
These Early Years craft projects are great for Preschool safety and awareness activities.
Our Transport activities forum
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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
Outdoor lunar landings
Cath Smith's Deaf Sign article Hospital Playwork The Nature of Children's Play
National Bed month play and Early Years planning activities
Whipped snow recipe Rhyming Sheets Cow Hitch Knot
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Health and Saftey tips from the HSE ...
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Myth of the month from the HSE - Health and Safety Executive
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