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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 ..
Staying safe, assessing risk, awareness of self, bullying and supporting conflict resolution, self esteem and resilience.
The books in this category reflect a small selection of issues surrounding children's emotional and physical well-being. please enjoy and build on them in your own way - links to Amazon.co.uk are in association with Silkysteps affiliate account.

Smile & well-being  Links for research into children's self esteem and confidence.
 What is self esteem & supporting children's self confidence  
 
Go for it Ruby!

  Go for it Ruby! by Jonathan Emmett
Examine risk and individual ways of assessing what next to do... A book that looks at attachment, confidence, understanding ability and self esteem.
 
Ruby flew too - support children's independance with the reassurance that help is on hand ..
 
 Ruby flew too by Jonathan Emmett
NB: The book Ruby in her own time is the same as Ruby flew too.

Attachment, confidence and self esteem.
Betty and the Yeti ..

 Betty and the Yeti by Ella Burfoot

Laura's star

 Laura's star by Klaus Baumgart 

A nice title to look at friendship, caring for one another and letting go.
The selfish crocodile  
  The selfish crocodile explores self elected exclusion, poor dental care and a rotten tooth. Mouse performs some dental work and helps the crocodile to see the friendships he's missing out on with all of the forest animals...

 
Tackling bullying, exclusion and helping conflict resolution


Am I really different?

  Am I really different by Evelien Van Dort and Gerda Westerink

A beautifully illustrated book exploring difference, exclusion and understanding
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Lucy and the bully

 Lucy and the bully by Claire Alexander
The terrible troublesome troll ..

 The terrible troublesome troll by Nick Ward

The terrible troll waits daily to take mole and little gruff's lunches. But they know this is wrong and together they formulate a way that helps make the troll see how his actions hurt others ..

It's okay to be different

 It's okay to be different by Todd Parr

  Promote the confidence needed to be proud of unique differences, similarities and aspirations.

MINE - resolving conflict
 
 MINE! by Rachel Bright
When a fearful KNight and a fearful dragon come face to face one dark story night they come to understand that they don't need to be scared of each other. That prejudice can be overcome by understanding how each of us is different and how that is good.

 Knight Time by Jane Clarke and Jane Massey.
Fiece dragon chasing knights and scary knight eating dragons .. meet one stormy night and come to understand how much better it is to make friends rather than be afraid of each other.


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