Prime area of learning and development - Physical Development- the prime areas are the most important for children and help prepare them for school. The prime areas must be the focus for all babies and young children and, if a child is not developing well in the prime areas, strategies must be put in place to support them.

Moving

This is about gross (large) motor development.

Resources to support children moving include -

• Streamers
• Lily Pads Game
• Parachute Games - A selection of games to play with a parachute

Handling

This is about children’s fine (small) motor development including early mark making.

Resources to support children handling include -

• Lacing Cards
• Threading Buttons
• Shoe Lacing

Health and self care

This is about how children learn to be healthy (hand washing, healthy eating, sleep, drinking, toileting etc) and stay safe (crossing roads, sun protection, stranger danger etc).

Resources to support children with their health and self care include -

• Hand Washing Song
• Cooking Activities to do with Children
• Fire Safety Activities

Other Resources

• Mystery Box
• Finger Painting
• Finger Paint recipe - cooked
• Finger Paint recipe - cold/child can help
• Bubble Pop Boards
• Outside water painting
• Outdoor chalking
• Wooden Spoon Puppets
• Make your own newspaper
• Following the Leader
• How can we eat?
• Play dough recipe - Craft 'Clay' recipe
• Ball Painting
• Bubble Painting
• Play dough recipe - Shiny Dough
• Play dough recipe - Basic dough with variations
• Soap 'Snow' recipe
• Painting Techniques
• Play dough recipe - Modelling Dough
• Play dough recipe - Stretchy Dough
• Play dough recipe - Sawdust Dough
• Play dough recipe - Cornflour Dough Experiment
• Ball Painting
• Bubble Painting
• Painting Techniques
• Outside water painting
• Outdoor chalking

Links to other sites: -

(please note you will be leaving the Childminding Help website when clicking these links - Links are offered in good faith, Childminding Help cannot be held responsible for their content. Please notify me if links change or don't work, thank you)

• Animal hand puppets
• Cardboard box ideas
• Origami
• Paper crafts
• www.ukschooltrips.co.uk - a free online resource to plan educational days out. It is quick and easy to use. You search to your exact criteria including: age of children, type of visit, geographical area, etc and then the results suitable for you come up and each venue gives lots of useful information about how they can help you to make your visit fun and educational, plus lots of the venues offer really great discounts to educational groups, including child minders.

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