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Preschool activities & early years resources.
Developed for childcare providers, parents, children & all areas of play.
On the character pages Silkysteps has many free activities & links to help with early years planning. Focus craft & play suggestions use a range of ideas & tactile materials that promote play, development and learning.
Please note that only the store has resources that can be purchased.
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A few of Silkysteps free resource pages ..
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 Colouring Preschool crafts  Craft templates Clipart
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 Outdoor play activities Activity Sheets Playdough activities
 Mark making activity ideas - this is a forum thread link and Downloads
 Early years articles  activities for Math
Front page early years index
Latest website resources  The store Map Plugboard Take part Competitions Diary Dates Seasonal activities: Summer - preschool planning ideas Special features Preschool Book reviews Additional craft activities Text Links
Bouncy Squirrel mini topic for autumn play ..
Design a playhouse competition from Waltons.co.uk
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Summer time outline templates £2.25
pay, download, print and and play.
& the most recently added store titles:
Glitter jar image activity cards £1.75
Pirate Dog's keys mini topic for paint & role play £2.50
 Hibenation outline set £2.25
Clover leaves mini topic £2.50
Reindeer Sleigh display board activity - craft kit £2.00
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Boat making for all ages
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Silkysteps Store
All our early years resources from the store can be viewed on one page, please click the image above or view by category: Mini Topics Craft eBooks Craft kits Outlines & Templates Early Years Miscellany
Most of the products available on Silkysteps are  downloadable: Once paid for, an invoice with instructions will be sent to your email address and please remember that support is always open.
About the resources
All the titles you see available on Silkysteps have been developed in-house, designed for preschool, home and early years settings.
Consideration is given to how the titles can be used for training purposes and how to adapt them to help promote your craft and play activities, display, parent's notice board areas and information centres.
Popular titles include
 Lily pad frog & numberline resources   Snack Dragon fruit outlines
 Elephant's stew mini topic  Bouncy Squirrels mini topic - numberline
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Silkysteps Image Map - Navigate through our craft resources with a little more ease ..
Plug Boad advertising for Preschool Crafts and Business websites.
Independant unaffiliated screenshots for visitors to browse excellent resources for home and Preschool
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 Preschool early years forums - online community. Completely free, they give all early years professionals - parents, childminders, teachers, preschool, nursery and toddler groups the chance to question & answer - discover & plan!!
Click for the past ... 3 Days | 4 Days | 5 Days or the Past Weeks posts
 Silkysteps Early Years focussed eNewsletter
Sign up and keep ahead of everything happening on Silkysteps - new activities, forum updates and early years news all delivered to your inbox.
For a Sample of our previous Newsletters ~ Please take a look HERE
NB: Registration for our newsletter is separate to your forum membership and store account
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Enjoy some of the interactive early years focussed features on Silkysteps ..
  
 Please visit our Early Years Preschool & home competitions - prizes for play on this page
Preschool 'Dates for your Diary' includes campaigns and awareness events that can help imform your planning and setting provision.
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Policy and research
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 Better Regulation: from BERR - see how you can help improve restrictive regulation ..
DCSF Consultations - how does the Department for Children, Schools and Families want your help ...
Ofsted Consultations - Get involved, find out what's new and pass on your views ..
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Summer activity ideas for your children's preschool play ..
Pick up a themed set of ocean activity sheets from Inky's page ..
 Daisy rhyme and downloadable play sheet - blow tissue paper petals with your rhyming play ..
Sun awareness poster
Sun collage and craft activity
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Summer themed resources from the store
 
  
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Our areas of interest - Preschool & Children's early years:
involvement, home and community.
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Books for preschool and Early years
 The list of preschool books contain links to purchase which are in association with our Amazon affiliate account.
Please, copy and paste the book title to search using your own independant supplier.
Book titles & reviews are based on personal experience and recommendations.
Wherever possible links to learning resources, reviews and additional information is also included.
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 Children In The Picture
This Inclusion poster is a great resource to help promote diversity in all types of settings.
You can order it for £5.00 inc P&P by emailing inthepicture@scope.org.uk
More about Richard Johnson and his wonderful Illustrations
For activity ideas please see our range of Early years themes and topic forums
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HBA - hospital radio activity Ideas
Have you thought of ways your Early Years setting can help support and network with the local volunteers working in your hospital radio stations?
You can find contact details of your local station on the HBA ~ Hospital Broadcasting Association's website.
To introcduce concepts and plan activities for any links you hope to build please feel free to use and adapt these suggestions:
Early Learning preschool play planning
Activity Sheets ~ Radio Listener ~ Request Sheets Print, write, tear off & enjoy !!
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Handykam - Birds in Preschool, activities for home, nursery, school and foundation ...
Please visit our affiliate merchant Handykam.com for details on how you can watch and monitor the birds in your area.
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These preschool focussed activities are a few play ideas that help explore protection, care and conservation of the birds we see regularly in and around the gardens.
Watching and naming native & international migratory friends can be great fun and important for noticing changes to their habitats and routines.
Wherever possible involve the Children and interested adults in the lives of your birds and help secure a corner of your outdoor and indoor play for feathery awareness.
Playdough Bird Nests an interactive activity from Magical Mammoth's Playdough page
Sakalava Rail a craft collage activity from Mischief Mouse.
Our Birds forum many preschool play & activity ideas for a tactile, holistic approach to your early years provision.
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 The-Snail-Trail.co.uk
Giant African Land Snails - GALS
 Join the snail trail and discover what GALS can do for your Childrens knowledge & understanding of the world.
Giant African Land Snails are a great addition to any learning environment, home or classroom.
Preschool & early years topical activity play plan ideas for introducing GALS to your setting.
Download and print The Snail Trail's free Breeding Awareness Poster, display it on your notice boards and help their efforts to spread the word of responsible snail ownership.
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 SillyBooks.net
Where pen is put to paper and wonderful Illustrations come to life.
Sillybooks is a stunning website run by some pretty amazing people. Full of original interactive stories, games, music, puzzles and much more. It's updated frequently so be sure to pop back and see what's been newly published!
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 Head Lice in your setting ?
Please click through for our free Headlice and nit activity pack - information, colouring pictures and preschool play ideas that can be printed out and enjoyed by your whole group and extended community.
Distribute the booklets or individual pages to your parents and display on notice boards for everyones information...
Our Bug busting day forum has lots of ideas on how to break the cycle of infestation and play ideas to openly discuss any problems ..
Heads craft activity from our 'All about us' Forum.
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Let me be I am a child by Peter Dixon - forum thread
International Perspectives on early learning
© Wendy Ellyatt 2008 written for and hosted on the OpenEYEcampaign site.
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People you may meet
A list of supporting professionals you may meet.
Download from the ECM publications website:
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Dinosaur stomping published on Under5s.co.uk
Take puppet making outdoors and enjoy the jungles found in your play areas ..
and on Silkysteps Dinosaur colouring pictures
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Monthly health and safety tips from the UK's HSE ...
5 steps to risk assessment
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Myth of the month from the HSE - Health and Safety Executive
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