How Red is Red? A toolkit for art in the early years

How Red is Red? A toolkit for art in the early years

This toolkit from Engage, the national network for professionals working in gallery education, provides ideas about how to use art works and galleries as starting points for teaching and learning with children aged 3-7. 

Create Together music programme for SEN children

Create Together music programme for SEN children

This programme is designed to improve confidence, independence, communication, understanding and self-awareness of children with special educational needs by learning and performing with experienced professional musicians.

Confident, capable and creative boys: supporting boys' achievements

Confident, capable and creative boys: supporting boys' achievements

Excellent guidance for all early years practitioners, professionals and teachers on different creative approaches to supporting boys' own learning journeys. It provides examples of good practice and encourages practitioners to reflect on the quality of their provision. Still relevant for the revised EYFS.

Making a noise for music - guidance for practitioners

Making a noise for music - guidance for practitioners

Everyone knows how much young children love to sing and dance, but all too often music is thought of as something which only a few specially talented or gifted people will be good at. This article provides information about how to bring music into everyday life, exploring the benefit and educational potential in making music with small children.

Reflect and Review - a toolkit for arts and creativity in early years

Reflect and Review - a toolkit for arts and creativity in early years

Written by Jo Belloli and Felicity Woolf, this excellent toolkit provides evaluation guidance for early years practitioners on creativity and the arts in early years settings, helping to review current practice and provision.

Music and movement in the body using Dalcroze Eurhythmics

Music and movement in the body using Dalcroze Eurhythmics

Dalcroze Eurhythmics is a powerful route towards developing deeper musicality and creative expression through whole body movement. This remarkable approach offers teachers, musicians and performers of any age and stage the opportunity to enhance and enrich their skills. Written by Anita Strevens and published originally by NAME magazine, Issue 22, Autumn 2007, and by the Dalcroze Society.

Music education guidance for early years - the Kodaly approach

Music education guidance for early years - the Kodaly approach

All quality pre-school institutions profess that music is an integral part of their programme. The recent pre-school expansion in Britain has seen a corresponding expansion in demand for a properly structured approach to music education. Where can teachers find a high quality, educationally proven and affordable early years music scheme?

Resources and Ideas to encourage children as artists

Resources and Ideas to encourage children as artists

Children have amazing imaginations but sometimes need help to become artists. Just as you help plants to grow, you can provide the right conditions to help children develop as artists. Cathy Myer explores what children need to become artists in this toolkit from Early Education.

Music-making for babies and the early years

Music-making for babies and the early years

Choose from a selection of short video clips showing the Sound Children and Musical Baby Bonding approaches in practice in a variety of settings, and watch some of the best practice around creative learning that would be impossible to put over in words.

Seeing, Making, Doing - arts in early years practice

Seeing, Making, Doing - arts in early years practice

This publication offers practical advice to help early years staff to provide creative opportunities that support and enhance child development. It talks about how to respect children’s creativity whilst observing and developing their skills, and suggests practical and creative opportunities to do this.

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