50+ Creative and Fun Ideas for Play with Babies
Here is a compilation of
fun art and sensory activities for babies 6 months and up. Many of these activities would be fun even through the toddler years and beyond! You'll find lots of baby art and baby sensory play ideas to keep your baby entertained.
5 Toddler Transition Tips
Here's a list of
five creative transition activities designed to help make it easier for you to move toddlers from one task/activity to the next!
Best Practices for Guiding Children’s Behaviour
Healthy Child Manitoba has developed
a guide is for early learning and child care staff and family child care providers. It provides effective ways to guide behaviours and enhance the social and emotional well-being of all children in your care. The strategies described are research-based and can help all children, not just those experiencing difficulties!
New Research on How Babies Learn Two Languages
In a new study, an international team of researchers, including those from Princeton University, report that
bilingual infants as young as 20 months of age are really good at processing two languages!
6 Quiet Toddler Time Activities
If you have toddlers that have stopped taking afternoon naps, this doesn’t mean you have to replace this once-quiet time with a noisy or intensive activity. Here are
6 quiet, calm activity ideas that can help little ones wind down while other children nap.
Multicultural Principles for Early Childhood Leaders
This Head Start resource is divided into 10 chapters, with each chapter presenting one multicultural principle, the research and guidance to support that principle, and questions and/or discussion activities. You can download the individual chapters, or the entire resource here to use for professional learning activities, or for personal professional development
here.
Slime Sensory Activity Idea: Video
Sticky, gooey, sensory fun. And it's a safe alternative to borax based slime! Watch
this quick video for a recipe you can easily make with the children in your program.
Teaching Diversity without the Tourist Approach
One of our greatest strengths in CNC programs is our diversity. Unfortunately, even with our varied backgrounds, caregivers sometimes fall into the trap of teaching children about diversity mainly through special cultural holidays or events. This is referred to as the “tourist approach” because it gives a narrow view of a culture. This article,
Teaching Diversity without the Tourist Approach, shares some ideas for how to integrate culture into child care programs in a more holistic way.
Child Safety Information for Parents – Available in 12 languages
Help parents understand how to keep their children safe with these
multilingual checklists on topics like home, child and car seat safety.
Webinar: New Guidelines for Introducing Peanuts to Babies
According to the latest research, early exposure to peanut products can dramatically reduce a baby’s chance of becoming allergic. In response to this research there are new guidelines on introducing peanuts to babies. To help you understand the new guidelines Food Allergy Canada hosted a webinar with Dr. Julia Upton:
New Guidelines for Introducing Peanut to Babies: What do they mean?
