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Upgrade and Refresh your Space: Tables
Upgrade and Refresh your Space: Tables
  • community playthings
September 15, 2021

Upgrade and Refresh your Space: Tables

For young children transitioning from playing beside their peers to interacting with them, tables play a key...
Upgrade and Refresh your Space: Choosing the Right Chairs
Upgrade and Refresh your Space:  Choosing the Right Chairs
  • Chairs
September 9, 2021

Upgrade and Refresh your Space: Choosing the Right Chairs

If the environment is so critical to early learning, your chairs might be one of your most significant teaching...
Outdoor Classroom Planning Guide
Outdoor Classroom Planning Guide
  • art
April 15, 2021

Outdoor Classroom Planning Guide

Over 50 pages of great ideas, real world examples,strategies, inspirations and tips for realizing an...
A Process Focussed Arts Centre: Furniture and Paint
A Process Focussed Arts Centre: Furniture and Paint
  • art
February 3, 2021

A Process Focussed Arts Centre: Furniture and Paint

Taking their inspiration from Reggio Emilia and other child directed early years curricula, many classrooms...
Four Ways Puzzles can Invigorate an Early Years Classroom
Four Ways Puzzles can Invigorate an Early Years Classroom
  • community playthings
March 5, 2019

Four Ways Puzzles can Invigorate an Early Years Classroom

Puzzles are more than just placing pieces in a frame. A puzzle’s engagement of fine...
Cots, Carts, Kids and Your Back
Cots, Carts, Kids and Your Back
  • community playthings
November 21, 2017

Cots, Carts, Kids and Your Back

“We’ve been searching for cots like these for 3 years!”  From the perspective of a...
6 Tips for Starting Your Block Centre - for Any Age
6 Tips for Starting Your Block Centre - for Any Age
  • blocks
November 6, 2017

6 Tips for Starting Your Block Centre - for Any Age

Blocks can ignite STEM exploration not just in the early years.  From juniors to teens,...