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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

     
Transitions - picture books to support change
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New home, new baby and sibling, family structures, bedrooms, no nappies, new school,
bereavement and the transitions in loss
  Complete first expeiences  
  Transition Time: Let's Do Something Different
  by Jean Feldman
Complete set of first experiences for children to explore as transitions ..
Transition time - resource ideas for practitioners
 Starting school
 
Starting school



 





Bereavement and loss

 Are you sad little bear?
Muddles puddles & sunshine
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.

Are you sad little bear
Are you sad little bear
Always and forever - understanding loss



Moving home and room


A new room for William by Sally Grindleand Carol Thompson

Moving home, new room, layout and all things unfamiliar

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

A new room for William
A new home for tiger
Shadow - where a rabbit named shadow helps with the transition of moving home ..



New babies

A new baby
 What's inside your tummy mummy  by Abby Cocovini 
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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New baby
What's inside your tummy mummy - expecting a new baby and transitions for young children
There's a house inside my mummy ...

Toileting transitions

Who's in the loo by Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds
 Nappy Duck and Potty Piggy by Bernette Ford and Sam Williams
Zoo Poo by Roger Morgan
 An early introduction to toileting and who goes where!

Who's in the loo ..
Nappy duck and potty piggy
Zoo poo toileting toddler book and awareness of self


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