Early years activities

Matthew 👨‍🏫 Early Years Lead 👨‍🏫 on Instagram: "🐙 Repeating Patterns 🐙 Practical fun for one of my baseline activities today! I saw this octopus tuff tray on Pinterest and thought it was great for looking at repeated patterns. In all honesty, the children were obsessed and couldn’t wait for their turn to have a go! Using the coloured Multilink cubes, the children had to continue a pattern with 2 and 3 colours, create their own pattern and correct a mistake I’d made in one of mine…

Bring in the spring with these fun math activities! Your preschooler is going to love learning all about numbers, counting, even addition with these 25 Spring Math Activities For Preschoolers. Let's go! It'll be fun

Find out the importance of mark making in Early Years to support child development. See how children can learn through play!

Fireworks painting activity - great new year's or other celebrations activity.

Check out this lovely autumn/ fall craft idea; making your own playdough hedgehogs! Children will love making their own hedgehogs! Below we have a recipe...

Do you study dinosaurs with your students? I am blown away by the level of engagement when studying dinosaurs! My 3 year old son is absolutely OBSESSED with dinosaurs right now. He plays with dinosaurs, wants a dinosaur birthday party, makes dino sounds… If you can think it, he probably does it!

Have fun with colors with this easy pom pom game which will help your toddler learn all about colors. The aim of the game is simple. Your child has to pick up pom poms and ‘post’ them in the coloured tube that matches. You can make this game using primary and most common colours at first then extend it by painting your cardboard tubes with some more unusual colours, such as turquoise, violet and burgundy to widen their colour knowledge. #learningactivity #kidsactivity #learningfun

Step by step directions for making tear free bubble foam using household items. A fun toddler sensory activity that's squeaky clean and easy to set up.