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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.
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Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.

Navigator Narwhal - outdoor games and play ideas.    Outdoor play ideas
  preschool play and learning activities.

Outdoor water tray with floating summer suns!
Use this activity idea to raise awareness of sun protection and the measures involved with staying safe when the sun is out and shining. The images can also be used in dough play, mark making, and signage.

Sun safety activities - preschool children

Sun safety awareness activity resources

Water tray or bowls
  Laminated sun pictures
Gold glitter in shakers
  Pour and fill equipment - assorted cups, bottles, sieves
  Hats or shaded area for play
  Rhyme printouts to share with home and to display - sun safety rhyme poster

  blank sun outline  colour sun outline
  summer sun  sunny sun picture
  hot sun picture  shining  sun
  bright word sun   be safe sun words  


Blank sun outline image
Colour sun picture
Summer sun image
Sun image
Hot sun image
Shinning sun image
Bright sunny sun image
Staying safe under the summer sun





 Print, cut out and laminate the sun images and add to water play, fill shakers with gold glitter for sprinkling and use the picutres as scoops, floats, finding out what makes them sink and use the wording to open sun safety conversation.

Discuss staying safe, what Tshirts, hats, shade, suncream and drinking water all help to do.

Share the sun safety message with a mark making sun rhyme poster for display an
 home-setting slips



Sun safety poster printable
Sun safe awareness slips for preschool parent partnerships






Other sun and sun safety activity ideas

Sun craft activities


  Sun craft activity using collage and paint  
  Sunny yellow playdough

Sun protection activities
  Glasses outline template

Songs for sun safety awareness

  Dingle dangle scarecrow song with a flippy floppy hat
 
Other site resources
  Summer themed collection of story book titles
  Sun smart policy - setting guidance from CancerUk




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