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Early years

Discover Pinterest’s 10 best ideas and inspiration for Early years. Get inspired and try out new things.
Creative Area Ideas for Early Years

Excellent ways to provide an accessible creation station for children and lots of ways to vary art inside the classroom with a variety of materials.

Free Building Block Challenge Cards - Early Years/EYFS

FREE Building Block Challenge Early Years/EY (EYFS) resource - printable download for use with young children. Other resources found at Little Owls Resources include: role play, alphabet and phonics/letters and sounds teaching and learning, number lines, maths and literacy games, topic display board banners and borders, writing frames, phase 2 and 3 key word flashcards, colouring sheets, songs, nursery rhymes, fact files, activity ideas for use in Early Years settings and more. Ideal…

Creating Outdoor Playscapes on a Budget • Our Storied Home

Looking for some ways to create a fun area that will keep your kids outdoors? Here's some ideas I'm loving for creating outdoor playscapes on the cheap!

Mark Making Matters - Dream Gardens for Kids - Busy Busy Learning

Mark making, the early drawing and writing of children is so important for motor and cognitive development. Outdoors letslet's children be more free.

Creative Area Ideas for Early Years

Excellent ways to provide an accessible creation station for children and lots of ways to vary art inside the classroom with a variety of materials.

Mirror, mirror everywhere – A Journey Into Inquiry Based Early Learning

I’ve noticed that mirrors are the newest trend in childcare classrooms (of course… Reggio Emilia preschool centres have been using them forever, infant classrooms have always had a mirr…

Self serve paint station, This would be fun to do with the children. I really like how it allows them to explore and experience on their own!

Self serve paint station, This would be fun to do with the children. I really like how it allows them to explore and experience on their own!

Watch popular Early years videos

Looking for new and engaging activity ideas for teaching spelling? Struggling for inspiration? Then this is the book for you! The activities are perfect for teaching segmenting and early spelling to individuals or small groups. The book is an ideal phonics guide for teachers, tutors, home schoolers or parents of early years children! Alternatively, the activities can be used as an intervention to help children who find spelling a struggle.
This Early Years writing sentences video is filledearly years writing activities that you can take part in at home! Perfect for home learning, watch the video with your little one to help them to develop their writing skills. Follow the link to watch the full Early Years writing video today! #EarlyYearsWriting
How to make Rainbow Rice with three simple ingredients
How to design an engaging maker space for your elementary classroom. Your early years learning environment will benefit from a well designed and organised creative space. This blog post has tips, ideas, resources and inspiration to help you set up and organise your classroom maker space, box construction, collage area or creation station.