Art & Craft Books
Beads & Buttons
Classroom Displays
Feathers
Glitter & Slime
Knitting & Sewing
Stamper Pads & Stencils
Wiggly Eyes, Pom Poms & Chenille
Wooden Crafts
Art & Craft Storage
Art Drying Racks
Storage Boxes & Tubs
Chalk
Colouring Pencils
Crayons
Markers
Oil Pastels & Charcoal
Glue & Adhesives
Scissors
Tape
Autumn
Christmas
Easter
Halloween
St. Patrick's Day
Valentine's Day
Art Easels
Canvases
Face Painting
Paint Brushes
Painting Accessories
Paints
Bikes and Trikes
Climbing and Balance
Outdoor Play
Ride On's
Sand & Water Play
Swings & Ladders
Gardening
Push Toys
Construction
Dolls
Dolls Houses
Hobby Horses
Imaginative Play
Kitchen & Housekeeping
Play Food
Playsets & Figures
Puppets & Puppet Theatres
Play Centres & Panels
Shopping
Small World
Tea Sets
Toy Tools
Balls
Blocks
Board & Educational Games
Magnetic Activities
Playground Games
Pocket Money Gifts
Puzzles
Sequencing
Skittles
Toy Sets & Accessories
Wooden Toys
Classic Toys
Lacing Activities
Wooden Railway
Bridges & Tunnels
Cranes
Rail Name Letters
Railway Accessories
Roadway
Stations & Sheds
Track Expansion
Train Sets
Train Tables
This Christmas, we want to bring your children some fun, creative, and easy Christmas craft ideas to make at home or in the nursery. We’ve put together a number of how-to guides with different crafts for the festive season, with some resource recommendations to help.
This Christmas craft how-to blog will bring you all the steps you need to create a Reindeer Christmas card for a friend or loved one!
We all love Christmas crafting, but have you ever thought about recycling items you already have, or using nature to help form the base of your decorations?
From toilet roll tubes, to egg boxes, parcel packaging and pine cones. You’ll be surprised at what can easily be repurposed into beautiful take home gifts for parents, all whilst minimizing plastic use.
Our friends over at @my_three_little_strawberries have been busy coming up with some ideas, perfect for all ages. Take a look….
The past 12 months or so has brought a type of collective stress and anxiety that we hadn’t experienced in the western world for over a generation. With vaccine rollouts continuing apace across the world, it seems (fingers and toes crossed, touching wood and counting chickens, etc.) that we have finally reached a point in our battle against Covid-19 where we can breathe a sigh of relief and begin to resume something resembling a ‘normal’ life again. Phew!
However, as often happens with stressful life events (such as bereavements, house moves, accidents or injuries etc.) it is only when the immediate threat, panic or stress is over and we begin to relax, that the impact of what has happened hits us. And so now, as we look around and breathe a sigh of relief again, we realise that we may be facing another even greater challenge – dealing with the impact on our children’s mental health.
The benefits of play to children’s physical, emotional and sensory development have long since been recognised and emphasised as part of the primary school curriculum.
Ines Lawlor presents the evidence* supporting the relationship between the deterioration in children’s mental health and the decline in unstructured play. She also highlights what teachers can do to create opportunities for play within the school environment or in collaboration with parents at home.
Despite having completed some CPD in the area, I’ve had minimal hands-on experience with Coding Robots. It’s one of those things that was on my to-do list for a long time! I had bought some books and resources, which were lying idle, waiting to be used. I had even bought Botley, the Coding Robot, which my own kids at home had some fun with, but never made it into the classroom.
For over 50 years, Multilink® cubes have been a stalwart of the classroom and are likely to be found in most teaching establishments around the world. A long-established piece of the mathematics classroom furniture, they have huge manipulative potential due to their simple and effective design.
But what is the history of Multilink®, how has it grown to become such a key mathematics manipulative and how can it be used in the classroom. Read on to find out more.
What is a decodable reader?
A decodable reader is a book that only contains words that can be ‘sounded out’ and the letters use their most common sounds. Usually, they are part of a set, where more sounds are added gradually. Children can use their letter-sound knowledge and read a book independently from an early stage (sometimes after only learning the first 6 sounds).
The look of the squares, particularly the multiplication squares, might be familiar to some parents. But it’s not the layout of these that makes Flexitable so unique – it’s the soft, flexible scored plastic material that they are made from. Each table is made from white, flexible plastic that is scored between the gridlines, allowing children to fold and manipulate the table to more easily locate the information they are looking for. This is fantastic for kids who might suffer from information overload, or who struggle to follow lines and grids. Dyslexic children often report that text appears to jump around on the page when they look at large amounts of information, so being able to fold the table and just focus on the key information is massively helpful.
As most of us know, learning to read isn’t always that simple. Many (if not most) children will benefit from using a systematic phonics-based approach when learning to read. As children learn using a phonics based approach, decodable books become a key component of this learning process.
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