Check out our new Southwark Children and Family Centres YouTube channel – here you will find Chattertime clips, sing alongs and some playlists created for you including – messy play ideas, storytime, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, cooking and food ideas, parenting tips and more!

Our Early Years Practitioners have created some activity sheets for you to try at home. We hope you enjoy them!

Nurture and Mindfulness 

Take-a-pause-mindfulness

Breastfeeding-poster

Mindfulness-exercises

Age 0-6months

0-6 months Tummy time for babies

0-6 months Peek-a-boo

0-6 months exploring with feet

Age 6-12 Months

lets go find

Treasure baskets

Age 12-18 Months

Junk modelling

sock games

12-18 months Pots and Pans play

cardboard box role play

Bubble-blowing

Age 18-24 Months 

dress up and role play

Den Building

sticky tape game

Skittle bowling game

Scavenger hunt

recycle kitchen roll tubes through craft

Obstacle course

Sink or Float Experiment

Bubble snake

visual experiment to explain germs and washing hands

Make your own bubble mixture

Feeling-grateful-home-scavenger-hunt

Websites and apps to support with activity ideas

Physical Activities 

lets get moving

SAH Cooking mini tortilla quiche

SAH Fine motor skills

SAH Gross motor games

SAH Animal walk

Rhymetime

Wheels on the bus

Twinkle Little star with Makaton signs

Tidy up song

Row Your Boat Rhyme

one,two,three,four,five once I caught a fish alive

Old MacDonald had a Farm Rhyme

Nappy changing song

Little Boy Blue Rhyme

I hear Thunder Rhyme

Hickory dickory dock rhyme

Storytime

story bags

we are going on a big bear hunt

Pete the cat Story

One day in the jungle

I wrote to the Zoo to send me a pet

Dirty Dinosaur Story

Brown Bear

Outdoor Activities 

Neighbourhood search

outdoor spotting game

Mini beast hunt

Sound hunt

SEND

Positive Behaviour Symbols

Schedules, Routines and Timetables

Using Objects of Reference

How to make a Calm down bottle