Create Learning Provocations and Possibilities with Potion Bottles

Childhood memories of a perfume or potion mixed and swirled with a carefully chosen stick in a humble jar is a treasured memory. Help to create such powerful memories for your children and in doing so enrich them with vital key learning experiences. Potion Bottles The design and development of these potion bottles came to life because of…

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More than just a Crate!

For a long time here at Little Pips, our Nursery in sleepy Somerset, we have used loose parts and open-ended resources to extend our continuous provision. As a teacher I have always watched in awe as our Nursery children, aged 6 months to 4 years use them in many different ways. Recently, the outside area of our…

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Bee-Bot – The Story Behind our TTS Developed Award Winning Programmable Robot

Like all great inventions, the idea for the award-winning Bee-Bot Floor Robot was born out of a need, when teachers were struggling to deliver programming lessons to young children. It’s simple button functions, smiley face and inexpensive price have made him a hit in schools for over 15 years. A view from the TTS Product Development…

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Immerse children in the world of loose parts and construction

Children need a lot of time simply to play, experiment and create, and early years settings need to facilitate this in the best ways possible. Loose parts play is about providing open-ended resources for children to use in whatever ways their imagination takes them. The parts might be a mix of natural objects found outdoors,…

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Meet Trevor … Our Calming Cat

In this blog, Beccie Hawes, SEND expert, explains how she introduced Calming Cat into a Year 2 class and the children named him ... TREVOR! There have been several research studies that show that stroking a pet helps increase our happy hormones. This has to be a good thing – especially in these extraordinary times! In one…

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Tuff Trays – Top 10 Messy Play Ideas

We asked the team at our Babblebrooke nursery in Loughborough to tell us their top 10 messy play tuff tray ideas, here is what they said: 1. Potion mixing Adding into your tuff trays a variety of bottles, pans, jugs, perfume bottles, spoons, whisks, flowers, food colouring, food essence, leaves, mud…you name it! 2. Babies’ beach tuff trays Add a little sand and water in…

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Creating Magical Learning Opportunities with the Early Years Light Projector

As educators we are on a constant search to find innovative and exciting ways to engage, delight and motivate children. I would therefore like to share with you a little about a quest which is around the subject of light and how working with a hugely talented, patient and diligent team we attained our goal. Now I…

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Bringing imagination into your setting

Everyone has an imagination, but we all use it to varying degrees and in different ways. For some, imagination consists of building worlds of fantasy and make believe. For others it may be solving a problem when designing an invention. Imagination is a key aspect of development. It helps children to strengthen their minds and…

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All about Glow and Go Bot

Molly Howard (@create_make_and_play) shares her insights into the many different learning opportunities created by Glow and Go Bot for children throughout the Early Years. Over the past few months, we have been lucky enough to trial the Glow and Go Bot. This is a carefully considered robot, designed and developed by TTS who are educational specialists. The…

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Paola Lopez: Light Up Learning

Paola Lopez, Founder & Executive Director at Kinderoo Children's Academy, Inc, discusses how light-up learning can enhance children’s skills and the different ways children can discover colours, shadows and light with TTS Resources. Light-Up Resources Light-up resources are one of our favourite tools for observing children’s creative processes at work. As the children investigate and discover…

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