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Teaching Resources > Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

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Animal Sticker and Colouring Book by Jessica Greenwell

$13.00 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities | Series: Usborne Sticker and Colouring Books

Explore the world of animals and their habitats in this bumper activity book. Use the 250 stickers provided to create exotic scenes including an arid desert, a grassy African plain and a lush rainforest. Then colour in animals including lions, tigers, zebra, giraffes, tree frogs, snakes, alligators and a range of more familiar farmyard varieties. ...Show more

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50 Fantastic Ideas for Treasure Baskets by Sue Gascoyne; Alistair Bryce-Clegg (Volume Editor)

$24.00 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities | Series: 50 Fantastic Ideas Ser.

A quality well-made treasure basket offers children a wealth of exploration, play and learning opportunities that are not only great fun, but also match the requirements of the EYFS framework. Drawing on her years of experience and extensive knowledge of children's interaction, author and practitioner S ue Gascoyne provides 50 effective and fun ways to engage children in sensory-rich treasures that offer 'a world in a basket'.50 Fantastic Ideas for Treasure Basketsincludes the child-led stages of treasure basket play using the author's original Sensory Play Continuum as a framework, as well as adult-initiated activities for using treasure baskets with children. Its simple format supports practitioners, and ultimately the children in their care, in getting the most out of this amazing resource. ...Show more

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CREATING WONDER USING RECLAIMED AND NATURAL MATERIALS

$44.95 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

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Active Learning in the Early Years by Helen Moylett et al

$44.95 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

This series helps early childhood educators to build a thorough understanding of the characteristics of effective learning – but it doesn’t stop there. Crucially, it links that understanding to highly practical ideas for planning and developing a child-centred curriculum that recognises young learners a s active participants in the learning process. Each of the three easy-to-use resources explores one essential area of learning: learning actively; playing and exploring; or creating and thinking critically. Considering observations in early years settings as well as current research and thinking, they cover communication and language, the learning environment (both indoors and outdoors) and extended learning. Together they present the “big picture” of learning that can be put to work successfully across a wide range of early years settings. ...Show more

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ADVENTUROUS PLAY

$49.95 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

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DEVELOPING CREATIVITY AND CURIOSITY OUTDOORS

$48.00 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

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MESSY PLAY IN THE EARLY YEARS

$44.00 AUD

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The Useful Book: 50th Anniversary Edition by Play School

$17.00 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

The bestselling 50th anniversary edition of perennial Play School favourite, THE USEFUL BOOK, now in paperback. The perfect rainy-day book! Packed with activities, recipes, songs and so much more. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Australia's most iconic show with this brand-new edition of the Play Scho ol classic, THE USEFUL BOOK. With an introduction from much-loved presenter Justine Clarke and adorable pictures from bestselling illustrator Jedda Robaard, this is not only the most useful book you'll ever buy, but also a keepsake to be treasured. Ages 2-6 ...Show more

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GROUP TIME ACTIVITIES A TO Z by Joanne Matricardi; Jeanne McLarty

$47.95 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

Group Time Activities A to Z presents a detailed lesson plan format of fun and interesting group time activities for young children ages two and up. The child-centered activities in this text spotlight music, large and small muscle procedures, cognitive abilities, and games that are easy to understand a nd follow. Each section of the text will enable teachers and families to find group time activities for a theme-based curriculum, to incorporate a letter of the week, or to provide a spur of the moment exercise. Many different choices are given for each targeted alphabet letter, and the activities focus on such concepts as holidays, animals, healthy habits, the senses, shapes, the seasons, literature, and much, much more. A "Helpful Hints" section shares tried and true suggestions to make the group time experience easy and enjoyable, and a supply list of materials shows that most items are inexpensive and easy to acquire. Also included is a sample family letter that encourages active participation from all families. This wonderful resource focuses on a variety of concepts that preschoolers can relate to and grow with. Children, teachers, and families alike will enjoy the shared experiences of learning together ...Show more

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Creative Resources for the Early Childhood Classroom by Judy Herr

$149.95 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

Early childhood educators around the world use this best seller to plan daily curriculum and classroom activities. The book contains 76 different themes ranging from Ants to Zoo Animals, presented in alphabetical order. Content for each theme includes the following sections: Curriculum Flowchart, Theme Goals, Concepts for Children to Learn, Vocabulary, Bulletin Board Ideas, Sample Parent Letter, Arts and Crafts, Cooking, Dramatic Play, Field Trips, Fingerplays/Chants, Group Time, Science, Math, Sensory, Large Motor, Fine Motor, Social Studies, Books, Recordings and Song Titles, and Technology/Multimedia Resources. The updated book sections for each theme include hundreds of new children's literature references with a special emphasis on multicultural selections. In addition, the new Sixth Edition includes a brand new four-color insert on Using the Digital Camera in the Early Childhood Classroom. The text is accompanied by a companion website that contains important assessment tools, lesson plan forms, rainy day activities, developmental checklists, classroom artifacts, and much more. ...Show more

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EVEN MORE CRAFTY RHYMES AND ACTIVITIES by Helen Fletcher

$41.00 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

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PARACHUTE PLAY 2ED by Liz Wilmes

$35.95 AUD

Category: Indoor and Outdoor Play and Activities

Play wiggle, and laugh as you introduce young children to parachute play. Using a parachute or large bed sheet, start with the Basic Sessions to teach young children how to hold and move the chute. Now you're ready to expand into Warm-Up Exercises, play Holiday, Seasonal, and Everyday Games, and relax w ith Cool-Down Activities. Over 150 games which you and your children will enjoy playing inside and outside. The original Parachute Play book sold over 100,000 copies. Now it is totally updated, expanded, and revised. All new illustrations make this a light, airy, fun-to-use book with young children ages 3-"8. Sampling of ContentsIntroduction" What is Parachute Play?" Using Parachute Play" Keeping Things Under Control Warm-Up Exercises" Balloon Float" Parachute Pulls" Ripples & Waves" Number Snap 8 Basic Sessions Everyday Games" Happy Birthday" Window Washer" Parachute "Hello"" Tootsie Roll" Tummy Tag" Parachute Rollerball Holiday & Seasonal Games" Parachute Freeze" Easter Egg Hunt" Wiggle Worm" Red, White, and Blue" Turkey Feathers" Jingle Bells Cool Down Activities" Breathe & Wave" Rag Doll" Good Bye Balloons" Rock-A-Bye Baby" Are You Sleeping?" Shh! Liz and Dick Wilmes publish Building Blocks newspaper and live in Elgin, Illinois. Since the early 1980's they have written and published 27 activity books for preschool children. Janet McDonnell has illustrated ten early childhood books for Building Blocks. She lives with her husband and family in Arlington Heights, Illinois. ...Show more

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