Anna Ryder was commissioned by Sound Children to record footage, take photos and do sound recordings of children exploring Sound Children’s new instruments. The aim was to test the instruments and really notice how children explored the instruments together, how they communicated and what kinds of things they did. The results were very interesting...

The Little Acorns project, in celebration of the city of Liverpool's 800th birthday, engaged 124 private and voluntary nurseries, 321 childminders within their networks and the nine established children's centres. The project saw artists develop inclusive practice hand-in-hand with the early years settings staff, children and families.

Starcatchers is an innovative project which works in partnership with artists, arts venues, child-care settings and families to experiment artistically with audiences of very young children, to encourage their participation and to develop exciting, inspiring performing arts experiences for children, aged 0-4.

This report by Áine McKenna from Kids' Own explores the impacts of the Being and Belonging project in celebrating creativity, diversity, inclusion and family learning, and in building a north-south interagency framework that could support a culture of mutual respect and understanding, both within the family homes and within the wider community.

This report features a number of examples showing what's possible when Sure Start Children's Centres across the West Midlands developed a strong arts-based focus for their childcare activities.  

Earlyarts contributed to Youth Music’s Spotlighting programme by filming and evaluating its professional development events for early years, arts and creative practitioners. This is the resulting evaluation report and videos.