If you are just starting to plan circle time activities or just want some ideas for the youngest children, this book is ideal. It explores the first stages of circle time through easily planned activities with extensions for the children who are ready for them.

Use one of these simple trays for all sorts of activities from small world play, through maths and language, to cooking and messy play.

Make music with everyday objects and use your own instruments to accompany recorded music or familiar songs. The book includes body rhythms, making sound with textures and surfaces, using beaters, rhythm, creating sound environments.

Following the success of the Little Book of Investigations, this book goes one step further in size, scale and scope. It covers explorations indoors, outside and in the local community, from the water in the tap, the dust on the floor, the mud in the garden, to exploring connections, constructions and other early technological experiments. The natural world, minibeasts, weather, growth, change over time and making changes to materials and the environment are included in this easy to use book. The inventive activities will all also provide opportunities for children to sustain their thinking with other children and adults while using the skills of observation and experiment.

This book starts you off on the serious job of investigating materials, processes, objects and events. Investigation is a key scientific skill and this book enables you to support young investigators.

The Little Books series is packed with great ideas to help teach children important early learning concepts.

Hundreds of ideas for using home-made or commercially produced parachutes with young children. All the games have been tried with Foundation Stage groups and there are even simple instructions for making your own parachute.