Creative Activities for the Early Years
- Stella Skinner - Early Years Teacher and Consultant, Brighton and Hove
Packed full of exciting ideas and powerful visual aids, Creative Activities for the Early Years offers field-tested activities to help practitioners encourage and nurture young children's creativity and imagination. The author presents practical activities in art, dance and music and ideas on how to link them, and guidelines for making the most of music, lighting, space and nursery resources.
This reader-friendly resource also provides:
- Ideas for cross-curricular work
- Suggestions for recording children's progress
- Ideas for selecting materials and a list of specialist suppliers
'The author, Stella Skinner, having worked in arange of early years pre-school settings has used her knowledge and experience to provide a number of practical activities in art, dance, music and explains in a clear precise way how the work supports the Foundation Stage Curriculum'. - Paula Moss, National Childminding Association
Really informative ideas for creating creative play.
Excellent resource, a must have for my students and myself as a reference to planning and implementing creative activities
Very engaging book. Highly recommended
Good general text for the whole programme as can be used for Creative curriculum, PAD, Work Based Enquiry and Holistic Development type modules
This is an excellent book for hands on active learning in placement. A student friendly read for all childcare practitioners.
An easy to read introduction to a variety of Creative activities/approches in early years. The book has adopted an 'In practice' appraoch that is appealing to students on their placements. I would reccommend this book to students as contains inspirational activities.
This is an amazing book and is extremely useful when teaching creative arts to young children. The chapter which focuses on music has been particularly useful as it reassures students that they do not have to be experts in this subject and provides examples of how music can be taught in a progressive manner allowing for increased enjoyment and motivation of children.
A really exciting book that offeres and range of activities to promote play and learning in the early years.
Easy to read with exciting examples of play. Useful for all levels working with children. A valuable resource that is a winner.
Very useful activity plans for group activities in Creative Arts for Early Years practitioners
