“Get outdoors and let your creativity run wild. See all that you can make with simple components found right outside your front door!”
“This collection of 65 art projects for crafty kids features activities that use natural materials, including twigs, vines, pine cones, shells, and much more. Includes simple step-by-step instructions.”
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Food, Inc. “reveals how a handful of corporations control our food supply and often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, and the safety of workers and the environment.”
I have discovered the Resource Room @ Kids Can Press and I just can’t get enough. You have to become a member, but it is free – choose the “K to 3″ option and when it comes time to select a category, preschool shows up in the search.
Delicate new work from artists and landscape designer Mulysa Melco.
“I’ve been working on intricate, embroidery-like patterns of plants, flowers, seeds and insects. Some are individually painted on a panel, almost like a botanical specimen held for close observation. Others are in cloud or island shaped groupings with subtle touches of color. (All works are in graphite and oil paint on panel except where noted)”
“In the last 10 years the Sure Start (UK) programme has transformed the delivery of integrated services and quality early learning to children and their families.
Children’s centres are crucial to the government’s 10 year strategy for childcare, Choice for parents, the best start for children, and are key to improving outcomes for children as part of the Every child matters agenda. By 2010 there will be 3,500 children’s centres, one in every community. We want centres to be accessible, welcoming, flexible, inspirational spaces.
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) is the government’s advisor on architecture urban design and public space. CABE has worked in partnership with the former DfES and now DCSF since Sure Start’s inception. By providing advice guidance to partners involved in the delivery of children’s centres, CABE promotes good design, helping children’s centres to become the focus of the community.
This guide has been created with CABE for the next phase of delivery. Drawing on the lessons that local authorities and other key partners have learned and highlighting the importance of quality design, the guide focuses on both the preparation for, and the design of, a children’s centre and other early years facilities.”
For anyone interested in children’s spaces and design, VIEW the guide in detail and be inspired.
About Canada: Childcare. “In Canada, early childhood education and care includes childcare programs, kindergartens and nursery schools. When these programs are well-designed, they support children’s development and accommodate parents who work or study. About Canada: Childcare answers questions about early childhood education and childcare (ECEC) in Canada. Why doesn’t Canada have an ECEC system, even though other countries do? Why is ECEC so important? What is missing in Canada’s ECEC landscape and why? Can ECEC programs be designed as wonderful environments for young children or are they merely necessary but not particularly desirable places to keep children safe while mothers are at work? Is ECEC primarily a public good, a private family responsibility or an opportunity for profit-making? Early childhood education and childcare is a political issue, the authors argue, and Canada needs an integrated system of services. The absence of a universal publicly funded ECEC system is detrimental to families, women and children and Canada’s future.”
~ My Creative Life: Maria Vettese ~ an interview by Susannah Conway
Maria, I remember the days when you were working for someone else and daydreaming about being on your own – having time to see the projects you were dreaming up, come alive. You (continue to) inspire me!
from gayla @ yougrowgirl.com
“In celebration of the advent of summer, my partner Davin replaced the chalkboard portion of this frame with a new one (the old had become warped from a year spent outdoors) and made the first drawing of the season. Our goal this year is to document all the drawings on the board with a photo. We didn’t do that last year and subsequently lost any record of some brilliant drawings.”
Read more here.
Artwork by Lilie-Mélo
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