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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.


Book titles for children's play, learning and development .. Storybooks for children's home, preschool and nursery.
promoting language rich and positive image filled learning environments

     
Picture books that promote writing, drawing and painting
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Rubbing plates, ink stamps, spray bottles, chalk, funnel imagery, paint dipping,
paper  - rip, tear, collage assembly

Make a mark and create a journey of art


 Patrick Paints a Picture by Saviour Pirotta and Linzi West
 Only one you by Linda Kranz pebbles art  
Patrick paints a picture
Only one you
 The magic brush  The tradition of storytelling
 My Picture Story by Rozanne Lanczak Williams, Benton Mahan
The magic brush - storytelling tradtitions fron China
Picture stories - supporting mark making that have a tale to tell ..
 The Pirates next door by Jonny Duddle
 
Herman's Letter by Tom Percival
The Pirates next door
Herman's letter




Make a mark with stories, scripts and plays

 Full Moon and Star by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Enjoy activities to support 'writing, mark making and signed creation that promotes role play scenario 
 Pudge's play by Hiawyn Oram and Tim Warnes
 Gregory and the magic line  
by Dawn Piggot
Make resources to support play writing and role play scenarios ..
Pudge's play - friend book for preschool
Gregory and the magic line



Make a mark with letter and invitations
 Herman's Letter by Tom Percival
 Meerkat mail by Emily Gravett
 Dear Dragon  by An Vrombaut
Princess Florrie is having a birthday and would like to invite the scariest dragon ever. Use to support invitation and letter, message making
Herman's letter
Meerkat mail
Dear Dragon ..



Make a mark with colours

 The Most Beautiful Color of All  by Kelly Fischer and Michelle Duckworth. An American with spellings that can be adapted for the UK . Use it to link colour names with creative materials such as paint, pencil, crayon and chalk.
Magic Monkey by Neil Morris and Peter Stevenson
 The day the crayons quit
Most beautiful colour of all Magic Monkey counts with colour ..
The day the crayons quit




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