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Learning & Development: Physical Development - Body doodles

Physical doodles can nurture young children's learning and help them understand their bodies in creative and playful ways. The following extract from a new book offers guidance on getting started.

Let us follow the children's lead and make our environments and their learning more physical not less. Let us engage them more in their own learning and gain a better understanding of their own body's fantastic abilities in creative and playful ways.

ARTIST'S INTENTION

HOW TO ... STEP BY STEP

DEVELOPMENT

This is an edited extract from Using Body Doodles to Nurture Young Children's Learning

CREATIVE RESOURCES

Using Body Doodles to Nurture Young Children's Learning is one of six new resources designed to promote creative, investigative and explorative activities fundamental to early learning and critical in fostering the characteristics of effective learning and development.

Created by Early Arts in collaboration with skilled artists and teachers, the series also includes:

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