Using Festivals to Inspire and Engage Young Children: A month-by-month guide
About this ebook
Aimed at those working with children aged 3 – 7, Using Festivals to Inspire and Engage Young Children covers a range of cultural celebration by each calendar month, explaining the background to these events and provides fun and imaginative activities and stories based around each one. Features include:
- a basic outline of each festival;
- a wide range of activities to suit children at different stages in their development;
- development and learning aims at the end of each chapter;
- suggestions for working with parents and links with home;
- top tips for creating your own activities relating to celebrations;
- story models that can be adapted and used to suit different events.
Highly practical with an emphasis on fun and hands on learning, this book is a fantastic resource for Early Years practitioners, Primary School teachers and those that want to inspire young children and celebrate the world we live in.
About the author
Alison Davies is an author of several fiction and non-fiction books, a professional storyteller and a creative practitioner. She writes for a wide selection of magazines, including Practical Pre-School, Nursery World, Teaching and Learning magazine and Child Education. Her features have also appeared in the Times Education Supplement, the Sunday Express parenting section, and various parenting and mother and baby magazines.
