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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.

  Storybooks for play
     Book titles for children's play, learning and development ..
Mirrors, reflection, day, night, light, dark and shadow themed preschool books.
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Please enjoy ..

Positive and negative space
Can't you sleep little bear ..
 
  Can't you sleep little bear by Martin Waddell & Barbara Firth

  Light and dark and bedtime.
Day monkey, night monkey explore what each ends of the day mean to each of them and waht happens when the line between them is crossed ..
 
 
  Night monkey, Day monkey by Julia Donaldson
 See what happens when two monkeys each familiar or  accustomed to their own part of the day, meet and cross each other's boundaries ..
 
 



Faces - book resource with inbuilt mirror for facial examination ..

 Faces by John Fordham
My shadow ..

 My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson and Penny Dale
Shadow - where a rabbit named shadow helps with the transition of moving home ..

  Shadow by Jill Newsome and Claudio Munoz
See how the word shadow can be the name of a Rabbit and how a rabbit can help with the turmoil of moving home and the awkwardness of making new friends ..

When I'm big ..
  When I'm big by Debbie Gliori
Shadows give an impression of size, they have a colour and are the negative space of light.





The Magic Sky - the northern lights or aurora borealis

 The magic sky by Lucy Richards
Explore the aurora borealis, northern lights
My little night light

 My Little Night-light by Claire Freedman and Alison Edgson
By lantern light

  By Lantern Light by Cat Weatherill and Alison Edgson
Jack 'o' Lantern

 The Story of the Jack O'Lantern by Katherine Brown Tegen and Brandon Dorman
Festivals of light:
 Hanukkah Lights by David Martin and Melissa Sweet: Jewish festival of lights on wikipedia
 Diwali - lighting a lamp by Jonny Zucker and Jan Barger Cohen: Hindu festival of lights
 
Lanterns And Firecrackers by Jonny Zucker and Jan Barger Cohen: Chinese new year
   


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