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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.
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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 ..
Transitions - preschool
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New home, new baby, new sibling, new family structure, new bed, no nappies, new school,
bereavement and the transitions in loss 

 
Complete set of first experiences for children to explore as transitions ..

  Complete first expeiences  

Always and forever - understanding loss

  Always and forever by Alan Durant and Debi Gliori
A book for examining loss, bereavement, the pain that absence causes and a way to overcome the heartache.

A new room for William
 A new room for William by Sally Grindleand Carol Thompson

Moving home, new room, layout and all things unfamiliar

 
A new home for tiger  
   A new home for tiger Joan Stimson and Meg Rutherford
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 ..

What's inside your tummy mummy - expecting a new baby and transitions for young children

  What's inside your tummy mummy  by Abby Cocovini 
There's a house inside my mummy ...

  There's a house inside my mummy ..
  Where my little brother grows,
  or maybe it's my little sister
  No-one really knows.


 Explain pregnancy and new babies to the youngest children - by Giles Andreae and Vanessa Cabban
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Along came Toto
 
  Along came Toto by Anni Axworthy
A great book that looks at the turmoil a new and enthusiastic member of a family can bring ..
Who's in the loo ..
 
  Who's in the loo by Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds
 
Nappy duck and potty piggy

 Nappy Duck and Potty Piggy by Bernette Ford and Sam Williams
Zoo poo toileting toddler book and awareness of self

  Zoo Poo by Roger Morgan
 An early introduction to toileting and who goes where!

 
Transition time - resource ideas for practitioners

   Transition Time: Let's Do Something Different
  by Jean Feldman
  A practitoners resource idea book

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