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Posts
- 10 games to get set for school
- 100 Toys Talks To… Alexis Ralphs
- 100 Toys Talks to… Iris de Kan
- 100. Play
- 12. Process art
- 14. Nursery Rhymes and Action Songs
- 18. Wooden Train Set
- 2. Mobile
- 20. Doll’s house play and why it matters
- 21. Down with Pinterest-friendly craft ideas!
- 24. Den-Making
- 25. How to hold a pencil
- 28. Hand-Eye Co-ordination
- 29. Easel
- 3. Baby Gym and Play Mat
- 31. Needlework
- 32. Painting
- 33. Vehicles
- 34. Woodwork
- 35. Time
- 37. Collage
- 38. Memory Games
- 4. Mirror
- 40. Exploring Nature
- 41. Tidying up
- 42. Gardening
- 45. Shapes
- 47. Practical life
- 48. Imaginative play
- 49. Digging
- 5. Rattle
- 50. Executive functions
- 51. Playing with puppets
- 54. Games with rules
- 55. The Hundred Languages of Children
- 58. Dance
- 59. Gross Motor Skills
- 60. Music
- 61. Cooking with children
- 62. Listening
- 63. Provocations and invitations to play
- 64. A Beginner’s Guide to The Home Corner
- 65. Project-based Learning
- 66. Constructive play
- 68. Crawling
- 69. Walking
- 7 simple ways to boost learning on the way to school
- 7. Ball
- 72. Gender-Neutral Toys
- 74. Learn to think more creatively
- 75. Functional play
- 77. Outdoor Games
- 78. Start With The Child
- 79. Listening to Stories
- 8. Play Figures – People
- 80. Climbing
- 81. Conversation and Questioning
- 82. Days Out
- 83. Loose parts play: what it is and why it matters
- 84. Pattern-making
- 86. Parlour Games
- 87. Printmaking
- 88. Colours
- 89. Dramatic play and sociodramatic play
- 9. Play Figures – Animals
- 90. Improve your child’s balance
- 92. Managing Feelings
- 93. Using Technology
- 95. Solitary play
- 96. Taking Risks
- 97. Transient art
- 98. Cooperative play
- 99. The Paleo Diet for Toys
- A box of useful things
- A guide to schema play in toddlers
- A guide to toys for the first five years: a complete list
- A parents’ guide to enjoying play (even when you don’t feel like it)
- A starting school scrapbook | Banish first-day nerves
- A Year With My Child | Toddler Course
- Alphabet Lotto
- An Introduction to Grapat
- An Introduction to Maileg
- An introduction to phonics
- An introduction to role play
- Ask children open-ended questions
- Babies learn by looking for the unexpected.
- Believing in the fourth trimester
- Better than any toy
- Bilateral co-ordination: using both hands together
- Bowls
- Bringing storytime to life
- Builder’s tray and sand
- Children as young scientists
- Children don’t learn to read at school
- Children Using Real Tools
- Christmas Colouring Page
- Christmas Gift Guide for Preschoolers [2020]
- Christmas stocking fillers
- Colouring in | Your secret weapon for great handwriting
- Construction with natural materials
- Dice
- Discovery Bottles
- Do children have too many toys?
- Easy card games for preschoolers
- Easy Christmas Crafts
- Elastic band activities
- Fine motor activities
- Finger-paint recipe
- Five minutes might be all the attention your child needs
- Forest school fun in your garden with HABA tools
- Forest Treasures Colouring Page
- Free-flow play
- Get ready for school with Get Set Five!
- Gift Guide: Babies
- Gift Guide: Preschoolers
- Gift Guide: Toddlers
- Grapat Loose Parts | Mandalas
- Grimm’s Gift Guide
- Grimm’s Rainbow Review
- Guide to block play
- Guide to Playsilks: 100 Ways to Play
- Guide to Puzzles
- Hanging Upside-Down
- Happy, confident children play outdoors
- Having Fewer, Better Toys
- Help your child to focus
- Help your child to play
- Help your child to problem-solve with ‘sustained shared thinking’
- Heuristic play
- Higher-order thinking skills: how to create an agile mind
- How Children Learn
- How children learn to draw
- How to choose the right book for your child
- How to choose the right Wobbel board
- Imitation in childhood | How your child learns and how you can help
- In defence of toys
- Increase the play potential of your toys
- Independent Play
- Introducing Peaceable Kingdom: Non-competitive board games
- Introducing the 100 Toys Essentials
- Is it ever OK to use flashcards?
- Is non-attachment the answer to too much testing?
- Is play better with natural materials?
- Is starting school the end of childhood?
- Jugs and plastic bottles
- Junk Modelling | The Perfect Preschooler Activity
- Keep it simple
- Learn to write with these simple games and activities
- Letters and numbers
- Light and shadow activities
- Lonely onlies? How to support an only child to play like a sibling
- Magnetic Tiles Review
- Magnifying glass
- Maileg Size Guide for Mice and Bunnies
- Make-your-own board game
- Marbles
- Mark Making
- Mark-making materials: chalk, pencils, crayons, paint
- Maths activities for preschoolers
- Messy play ideas for the under 5s
- Money
- Moulin Roty Gift Guide
- Mud Kitchen
- Olli Ella gift guide
- Open-ended play
- Ostheimer wooden animals and figures [An introduction]
- Paper
- Paper Aeroplane
- Perceptual development in babies
- Poetry for Children
- Poetry for young children: why it matters and how to use it
- Postman
- Private speech and the importance of narrating play
- Process art
- Ramps
- RIE parenting essentials
- Roadmap: Getting ready for life
- Ruler
- Salt Dough Recipe
- Sand and Water Play
- Self care for preschoolers | Help your child become independent
- Self-efficacy: A tool to unlock your child’s potential
- Sensory play
- Small World Play
- Sorting activities | Help to your child organise her thinking
- Speech and language development in babies and toddlers
- Spring Colouring Page
- Starting School Books
- Starting School Guide
- Streamers
- String
- Summer Camp | Get ready for school in just a few weeks
- Symbolic play: the key to your child’s imagination
- Teach your child to read
- Teach your child to write
- The 100 Toys Guide to Christmas | Make, Bake & Sing!
- The 100 Toys Story
- The benefits of boredom | An early years superpower
- The Benefits of Using Sand Timers With Children
- The Concrete – Representational – Abstract Model
- The developmental stages of drawing
- The enclosing schema
- The Enveloping Schema
- The Environment as the Third Teacher
- The Four Types of Play
- The hidden benefits of soft toys
- The Importance of Play
- The importance of scissors skills in early learning
- The Montessori Approach: an introduction
- The Power of Snakes and Ladders
- The Power of Storytelling
- The secret to education that every Zen master knows
- The six stages of play
- The Ultimate Guide to Playdough
- Threading activities: the secret to perfect pencil grip
- Three Goodies and a Baddie: Tell Almost Any Story with Just a Handful of Figures
- Tissue Paper Stained Glass Butterfly
- Torch
- Toy box essentials
- Toy rotation | Get more play from fewer toys
- Toys, waste and climate change: should we buy toys at all?
- Treasure Basket
- Tyre Swing
- Understanding children’s drawings using schemas
- Vocal development in babies, infants and toddlers
- Washing Line Activities
- Water Play with Pipes and Guttering
- We used to sell toys
- What are the best educational toys?
- What is childhood?
- What is object permanence? Your baby’s first great cognitive leap
- What our children’s art can teach us
- What was the first game you ever played?
- What wine-tasting can teach us about play
- Why do we give babies rattles?
- Why We Love Lego (But Don’t Sell It)
- Wrapping Presents
- Writing corner
- Your are your child’s first teacher