Role Play in the Early Years

As an Early Years practitioner, ever found yourself in the supermarket after a long day at work to find everyone staring at you, with you wondering why? Suddenly, it dawns on you that you are still wearing role play accessories made for you by the children – a paper cape cellotaped to your back, a…

BySimone Francis26 May 20250Comments

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Enhancing Children’s Experiences with Glow and Go Bot

Ideas to help enhance learning opportunities with the TTS Glow and Go Bot using construction, reflective materials and creative crafts. If you have a TTS Glow and Go Bot in your setting, then you will know just how captivating it can be for the children. There’s something fascinating about the way it glows and moves,…

BySimone Francis31 March 20250Comments

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Physical Play: Giant Light and Sound Spinning Top

In this blog Lorna Taylor, a Paediatric Physiotherapist, discusses the ways in which the Giant Light and Sound Spinning Top can support children's physical development. My Initial Thoughts on the Giant Light and Sound Spinning Top As a children’s physiotherapist, it was a pleasure to assess and review the Giant Light and Sound Spinning Top,…

ByAna Smith20 October 20230Comments

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Light up Learning by Little Miss Early Years

Is there anything more interesting than playing with light? As adults, we use light to create a mood, a sense of comfort and cosiness; is it any wonder that light is so appealing and calming for young children too? In this post, I want to share with you some ways we use light up learning…

ByAna Smith3 September 20230Comments

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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…

ByAna Smith3 September 20230Comments

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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…

ByAna Smith3 September 20230Comments

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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…

ByAna Smith3 September 20230Comments

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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…

ByAna Smith3 September 20230Comments

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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…

ByAna Smith3 September 20230Comments

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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…

ByAna Smith3 September 20230Comments

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