Ready, Steady, Play! Series

Exploring how play in this area can develop children's understanding of world cultures and healthy eating. Use Food and Cooking to help children understand how and where everyday foods come from, obtain valuable information on a variety of diets, and demonstrates how preparing and exploring food contrbutes to learning.

Role Play

by Sandy Green

Published 30 September 2005

Guaranteed fun for children and practitioners alike, the Ready Steady Play series provides lively and stimulating activities for children.

Each book focuses on one specific aspect of play offering clear and detailed guidance on how to plan and enjoy wonderful play experiences with minimum fuss and maximum success.

Focusing on how drama can promote learning and development in the Early Years, Role Play:

provides ideas for making props
includes templates and guidance for making dressing up clothes
is packed full of role play activities that relate to the early learning goals.

This is the essential resource for early years practitioners, students on early years courses and parents simply looking for ideas and inspiration.

Creativity

by Sandy Green

Published 6 October 2005

Creativity explains the ideal use of a variety of creative mediums and utensils, demonstrating how they can best be offered to supportthe learning and development of children within early years settings.

Creativity encourages children to confidently express themselves, improves students' paint and mark-making skills, and promotes fun, exploration, and investigation through a range of exciting activities.

Books, Stories and Puppets

by Sandy Green

Published 31 January 2006

Part of the Ready, Steady, Play! series, Books, Stories and Puppets promotes visual storytelling and provides ideas for extending learning through a range of stories and characters that are well-known and much loved by children and adults alike. This book:

provides ideas and templates for visual resources that will enhance storytime
outlines fun ideas across all curriculum areas, linked to favourite stories
encourages the use of drama as a mode of story telling.

Containing simple but excellent ideas for creative play experiences for all early years practitioners and students on early years courses, this book is also recommended reading for parents looking for inspiration.