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6 Active Games You Can Play with a Pair of Socks
Looking for creative indoor active games for your program? Here are a few simple games that kids can play with sock balls with limited space and equipment—including single-player games for the kids to enjoy!
Bridging cultures: Mandela Kuet’s Journey to Empower Winnipeg Youth
Mandela Kuet’s childhood in Winnipeg’s North End was shaped by the sights and sounds of a community deeply intertwined with both Indigenous and newcomer cultures. It was a place where the sense of family, culture, and community provided a foundation for Mandela’s lifelong commitment to making a difference. Kuet now runs a non-profit organization that helps bridge gaps, build relationships and create spaces where young people, particularly Indigenous and newcomer youth, can thrive.
When All the Kids are White: How Does an Early Education Program Work Toward Anti-Bias, Anti-Racist Classrooms?
Children begin noticing race as early as six months old—and by age twelve, many have already absorbed racial stereotypes. What happens when a preschool with no racial diversity decides to take action? This article explores how an early years program is rethinking its approach to anti-bias, anti-racist programming.
WEBINAR: Creating Social Connections to Address Mental Health
In this Sesame Workshop webinar, participants will explore the benefits of social connections and discuss strategies to foster resilience and kindness to build relationships among young children and families to support their emotional well-being. You'll also find out how kindness can be used as an intervention for loneliness and isolation and get new hands-on tools and resources to support kindness, create connections, and build resilience in your program.
Halloween Safety: Tips for Families
Halloween can be a fun and exciting time for kids. Here are some safety tips to share with parents and children that will help keep everyone safe and happy this Halloween!
Happy Child Care & Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day!
How will you celebrate? Tuesday, October 21, 2025 is the 25th annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. This day recognizes the commitment, skills and hard work of Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) and staff who work with young children. This year’s Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day theme is Care Counts, to centre the importance of care in early learning and child care and the pride that ECEs and child care workers feel in their work. There is no education without care. “Care Counts” also speaks to the need to value and remunerate those doing care work better – and builds solidarity across care work professions.
Activities for Anxious Kids: How to Help Children Cope with Anxiety Through Play
We all have a range of feelings. We feel happy, sad, silly, disappointed, excited, amazed, surprised, angry, or brave. But we all, including kids, sometimes feel anxious. Anxiety is the feeling of worry, nervousness, fear, or unease. Even if these feelings in kids seem small to adults, they can be very real and important for a child. But they’re also very normal. Parents and caregivers can help by recognizing what anxiety looks like and providing activities and opportunities for play for anxious kids.
Nouveaux webinaires pour éducateurs et éducatrices francophones
Découvrez une série de trois ateliers présentée par l’ECCDC et animée par Hélène Pouliot-Cleare, pour enrichir vos pratiques en éducation à la petite enfance : apprentissage en plein air, communication avec les parents et compréhension du comportement des enfants. Inscrivez-vous ici.
Harvest Festivals Around the World
What is a Harvest Festival? How do people celebrate harvest around the world? In this video, children can hear about and see several different harvest festivals that are celebrated around the world throughout the year, from Pongal to Vendimia, Thanksgiving, The Moon Festival to Olivagando. It’s a great way to learn about some of the many ways people celebrate harvest around the world with the children in your CNC program!
There’s plenty to acknowledge and celebrate in October!
Are you busy collecting ideas and planning for your CNC program this month? If so, there are a few important days this month that you might want to incorporate and honour to raise awareness in your CNC program and community! October is Canada Library and Fire Prevention month, and there are harvest festivals around the world! Thanksgiving is celebrated on October 9th, and International Day of the Girl Child on the 11th. Diwali is October 20th, Make a Difference Day is October 23rd, and Hallowe'en is on October 31st.