Tools to Enhance Young Children's Thinking

Tools to Enhance Young Children's Thinking

Written by Angela K Salmon for the National Association for the Education of Young Children, this article provides ideas on different thinking tools using the arts that can help children solve problems and become more independent and more creative.

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Play based learning through movement and charcoal art

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Play based learning through movement and charcoal art

Ideas for taking children's physical experiences and developing them through thinking, moving and mark making skills by Sherry Hutton and Donna Ridley-Burns of Play Based Learning.

Teaching and Playing with Shadow Puppetry

Teaching and Playing with Shadow Puppetry

Shadow puppetry is a great tool for teaching stories, myths and legends from cultures and religions all over the world. Its great as a storytelling tool for stories that children create by themselves or as a group. Heleen Van Rossum shares some of her best ideas for early years educators.

Snap it up! Using digital photography in early childhood

Snap it up! Using digital photography in early childhood

This article by ACEI shows how early years teachers can use digital photography to build, almost instantly, a sense of community and belonging, promote feelings of security, build children's self-esteem, document children's growth, promote language and literacy, and enhance other areas of the curriculum.

I Made a Unicorn - guide to open ended play

I Made a Unicorn - guide to open ended play

A guide to open-ended or free-flow play with blocks and simple materials. Children of all ages should have abundant time for active free-flow play, during which they take initiative, think imaginatively and build friendship. A wealth of open-ended play - with simple materials - can set children on the road to being confident individuals with a lively interest in life.

Unlocking Children's Creativity - A practical guide for artists

Unlocking Children's Creativity - A practical guide for artists

This is a transnational guide for artists to work in primary schools, with a particular emphasis upon developing the skills and understanding necessary to work creatively in schools in disadvantaged areas.

Remida - creative recycling and revaluing objects

Remida - creative recycling and revaluing objects

Remida is a recycling project that explores learning and play environments through giving value to otherwise worthless objects. In doing so, it changes mindsets by fostering new opportunities for communication and creativity in a perspective of respect for objects, the environment, and human beings.

Woodwork in Early Years Education

Woodwork in Early Years Education

Written by Pete Moorhouse, a guide which sets out clearly and practically why woodwork is important, how to make a woodwork area, what tools to provide, and how to use them and encourage children to be safe, skilled and creative.  Pete Moorhouse delivers woodwork CPD training and can be contacted at www.petemoorhouse.co.uk

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