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Early Learning Part 1: Supporting healthy Brain development

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Early Learning Part 1: Supporting healthy Brain development

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Early Learning Part 1: Supporting healthy Brain development

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Best Start in Life: Traveller parents seeing the benefits of early years education for their kids

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Best Start in Life: Traveller parents seeing the benefits of early years education for their kids

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Best Start in Life: Traveller parents seeing the benefits of early years education for their kids

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Bookbug at Home Symbolised Resources-New for 2026!

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We are happy to share that for the first time ever, CALL Scotland’s symbolised shared reading resources for the ‘Bookbug at Home’ bag are available as printed boards inside the bags, thanks to our renewed funding from Scottish Government.1000 of these bags have been gifted to Scottish families.

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Explore Traveller culture while learning to count

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Use this simple checklist to explore daily routines and tasks at home

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Use this resource to chat about feelings and coping with emotions at home and at school

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A giggling child makes you happy too. We've put together some ideas of funny activities and games that will have you both in tears of laughter before you know it. Perfect for turning a frown upside down.

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Fun games to play with your toddler | Parent Club

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A giggling child makes you happy too. We've put together some ideas of funny activities and games that will have you both in tears of laughter before you know it. Perfect for turning a frown upside down.

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We’ve put together some fun stories and activities to help keep you and your child entertained when you’re at home.

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National Literacy Trust games & activities 

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We've been working hard to create engaging content for your pre-schoolers!

While our website focuses on learning resources for school-aged children, we know that pre-school little ones all over can benefit from educational fun at home. So to get you started, we've put together this guide of Early years content across Bitesize, BBC Teach and CBeebies.

Not a teacher? Not to worry - it's all made in collaboration with learning experts to make learning with your child as simple and engaging as possible. And for more inspiration, you can also download the CBeebies Go Explore app to access games and videos featuring CBeebies favourites, from phonics with the Alphablocks to shapes with Hey Duggee. We've got you!

Early years maths - Our dedicated Early years page covers counting, adding and subtracting and also provides practical tips for doing maths with your child.

Bud's Number Garden - Join Bud the bee to explore his magical garden and practise recognising numbers, counting, sequencing and much more. This game is great for children in their first year of school or for pre-school children who want a taste of what they'll be learning when they start.

Counting - A collection of musical films on counting one to 10, 10 to 20, sets and ordinal numbers.

Measuring - Songs for learning the vocab of measuring as well as how to counting time and money.

Space and shape - A collection of musical films on 2D and 3D shapes, movements, shapes and patterns.

Numberblocks - An animated series full of number tricks, available to watch on iPlayer.

Bitz and Bob - Join Bitz and her little brother Bob in their animated engineering adventures. Available to watch on iPlayer.

Bitz and Bob game - Help Bitz and Bob solve fun engineering problems and earn rewards along the way. A great way to explore maths and puzzles.

Literacy, Language and Communication

On our Early years English page, you can practise phonics, blending words and forming letters with our newly created content! There are also tips on how to support your child at home.

School Radio: Nursery rhymes collection - A collection of well-known nursery rhymes and counting songs designed to promote joining in with singing and actions.

School Radio: Playtime - Ideal for shared listening to get kids moving. Presented by Andy Day and Steven Kynman of CBeebies.

School Radio: Listening Skills - A collection of 14 audio episodes inviting children to listen carefully to sounds and identify them. An easy way to promote listening skills and sustained focus.

Welsh language - Learn the names of colours, the days of the week and how to count from one to 100 in Welsh.

Tiny Happy People - A huge collection of activities and advice to help build your child's early communication skills, arranged by age from newborn up to 5 years and designed to fit in and around your daily routines.

CBeebies Storytime App - Read over 40 interactive stories including fairy tales, nursery rhymes and stories with CBeebies favourites like Peter Rabbit and the Octonauts.

Alphablocks - Play to learn phonics with the Alphablocks.

Word waves - Watch the wave while you listen to a story. Key words from the story appear alongside the animated wave to reinforce listening.

School Radio: Listen and Play - A collection of 50+ audio episodes that include a story, a song to join in with and simple movement activities, ideal for learning at home. Presented by CBeebee's Cat Sandion.

Maddie's Do you Know - Learn new things with Maddie as she explores the world around us and discovers how stuff works. Available to watch on iPlayer.

Go Jetters - Funky Facts from Ubercorn and the Go Jetters crew to help explore places all around the world help with Geography.

Kit and Pup - Explore the wonderful world around us with Kit and Pup as they learn about everything from bubbles to trees.

Expressive Arts and Design

CBeebies Get Creative app - Get your kids painting, making music, creating stories, inventing toys and building blocks with their favourite CBeebies friends. Perfect indoor activities to inspire creativity.

Bring the Noise - The campaign to inspire music learning and make every child in the UK a musician. Includes songs, quizzes, musical exercises and more!

Ten Pieces - Resources to help your little ones get creative with classical music.

Wellbeing and development

Personal Development and mutual understanding (PDMU) - A collection of 17 films featuring puppets Pip and Declan to help children understand their feelings and emotions and how they can keep healthy and safe.

My first day at school - A great game to play with your child and walk them through their first day at school.

Starting Primary School - Support and resources for parents to help prepare your little ones take the first big step into Primary School.

Teach: feeling better - A collection of clips presented by Dr Radha Moghil that explore feelings and emotions, as well as providing talking points and tools to feel better.

Physical Education and Development

Super Movers - Resources across the curriculum to help get your little ones learning whilst staying fit and healthy! With subjects spanning from maths to Modern Foreign Languages, these musical videos encourage movement whilst engaging the brain.

See Bring the Noise for more songs with actions to improve rhythm, timing and counting.

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Early years resources to use at home - BBC Bitesize

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Early years learning content to help engage your little ones at home.

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We are pleased to say that Parent Club is the new home of PlayTalkRead!

You'll also find lots more useful activities to try to help keep your baby and toddlers busy and entertained. Parent Club is always expanding to include more information for parents- why not sign up for our emails to join the club and see what is happening next?

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We are pleased to say that Parent Club is the new home of PlayTalkRead! You'll also find lots more useful activities to try to help keep your baby and toddlers busy and entertained. Parent Club is always expanding to include more information for parents- why not sign up for our emails to join the club and see what is happening next?

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Discover games, puzzles and quizzes with CBeebies friends!

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Ideas to help your child play and learn

You can give your child lots of different opportunities to play, and it does not need to be difficult or expensive.

For example, you can:

look at books and sing songs and nursery rhymes with your child - it's fun and will help them develop language and communication skills

use things that you've already got lying around the house

get involved yourself - your child will learn more from you than they will from any toy

Play ideas at any age

Playing with water

Babies, toddlers and young children love playing with water - in the bath, paddling pool or just using the sink or a plastic bowl.

Use plastic bottles for pouring and squirting each other, plastic tubing, a sponge, a colander, straws, a funnel, spoons and anything else that's unbreakable.

Never leave a young child alone in the bath or playing with water. A baby or young child can drown in less than 5 centimetres (2 inches) of water.

Reading to your baby

You can start looking at books with your baby from an early age - it will help them with their future learning. The time spent sharing books with your baby also allows you to bond with them and is good for emotional wellbeing.

Even before babies learn to speak, they will enjoy hearing you read to them. Listening to you will give them a feel for the sounds, rhythms and rhymes of language. Even small babies like looking at picture books.

Local libraries usually have a good range of children's books. Some run story sessions for young children. Even if it's for just 10 minutes a day, looking at books with your child will help them build important skills and encourage their interest in reading.

Booktrust offers free Bookstart book packs to every child at 2 key ages before they start school. The aim is to help families enjoy reading together every day and get your child off to a flying start.

You will get a Bookstart Baby pack in your baby's first year, usually from your health visitor or other health professional. Your child will also get a Bookstart Treasure pack when they are 3 or 4 years old from their nursery, playgroup or other early years setting.

Visit the Bookstart website to enjoy interactive storybooks and games, and to find out about events at your local library. You'll also find plenty of other book recommendations.

You could also visit Words for Life for reading tips and ideas.

Play ideas from 4 months

Talk and sing to your baby cheerfully while holding them. You can also put toys near your baby so they can reach for them. Read and look at baby books together.

Play ideas from 18 months

Drawing and painting

Use crayons, felt tips or powder paint.

Firstly, show your child how to hold the crayon or paintbrush. If you do not have paper, you can use the insides of cereal boxes or old envelopes that have been cut open.

Sock puppets

Use socks and envelopes to make hand puppets. Draw faces on them or stick things on to make your own characters. Get the puppets to "talk" to each other, or to you and your child.

Walking

Encourage your child to walk with you (you may want to use reins for safety) as soon as they are able to. It might slow you down, but it's a great way for both of you to get some exercise.

Play ideas from 24 months

Dressing up

Collect old hats, bags, gloves, scarves, nighties, lengths of material, tea towels and curtains. Ask friends and relatives or try jumble sales.

Make sure there are no loose cords, strings or ribbons that could wrap around your child's neck or trip them (or you) up.

Paper plates or cut-up cereal packets make good masks. Cut slits for the eyes and attach them to your face with string or elastic.

TV and screen time

It's best to limit your child's daily screen time.

Always know what your child is watching. Watch with your child, so that you can talk together about what you're watching.

Play ideas from 30 months

Junk modelling

Collect cardboard boxes, cartons, yoghurt pots , milk bottle tops and anything else you can think of. Buy some children's glue (the type that comes with a brush is easiest to use) and help them to make whatever they like.

Toy safety

When buying toys, look for the British Standard kitemark, lion mark or CE mark, which show that the toy meets safety standards.

Take care when buying secondhand toys or toys from market stalls, as they may not meet safety standards and could be dangerous.

Toys usually have age warnings on them. If a toy is marked as "Not suitable for children under 36 months", do not give it to a baby or toddler under 3. Check toys for sharp edges or small parts that your child could swallow.

Button battery warning

Some electrical toys contain small, round batteries called button batteries. As well as being a choking hazard, these can cause severe internal burns if swallowed or lodged in your child's ear or nose.

Keep button batteries well away from your child and make sure that battery compartments on toys are properly secured with a screw.

If you think your child has swallowed a button battery, take them to A&E straight away or call 999.

Toys for children with special needs

Toys for children with special needs should match their developmental age and ability.

If your child is using a toy intended for a younger age group, make sure that it's strong enough and will not get broken.

Children with a visual impairment will need toys with different textures to explore with their hands and mouth.

Children with impaired hearing will need toys to stimulate language, such as toys that encourage them to explore and discover how it relates to their environment.

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Simple ways for children to be creative, including playing with water, reading books, rattles, play dough, drawing and painting, dressing up and making models.

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