Lindsay Jane Brown | Free Early Learning Resources for Teachers

Lindsay is a freelance creative practitioner and community artist. Her work focuses on developing and delivering innovative and creative programmes of engagement for children, young people and communities. She is a specialist in Early Years Creativity and has developed a number of workshops and projects designed to promote positive play and creative parenting at home and in accordance with EYFS and ECM. She is passionate about her work and has recently launched an initiative called Start with Art to promote early years creativity. She has two websites:  www.lindsayjanebrown.co.uk and www.polkadot-parties.co.uk

 

Visual Storytelling…Technology Convert

I felt compelled to share with you the following short video (Click on the link to download it). The voice that you hear is of a 3 ½ year old on the autistic spectrum. The activity itself was a visual storytelling workshop which I facilitated outside to encourage boys particularly to participate. Read More...

Validating Children’s Thinking Time

I attended a conference today with UFA (University of the First Age) which was extremely thought-provoking in many ways. Whilst I was there, I shared with the group a technique which I use with early years. The response from my fellow delegates reminded me just how important this type of process is and I felt perhaps it would be interesting to share. Read More...

Early years drama activities (part 4)

This is the final part of my collection of drama games for early years settings. I hope you will try them out and let me know how you get on. You can download a free pdf containing all 13 games here. Read More...

Early years drama activities (part 3)

Listed below are a few more activity ideas / games to encourage drama and socio-dramatic play in early years settings. They are taken from a document that I put together thanks to CCE funding. It is available to download as a pdf here. Read More...

Early years drama activities (part 2)

Listed below are a few activity ideas / games to encourage drama and socio-dramatic play in early years settings. They are taken from a document that I put together thanks to CCE funding. It is available to download as a pdf here. Read More...

Early years drama activities (part 1)

Listed below are a few activity ideas / games to encourage drama and socio-dramatic play in early years settings. They are taken from a document that I put together thanks to CCE funding. It is available to download as a pdf here. Read More...

Be square: incorporating drama in early years settings

Bringing drama into an early years setting can be a little out of the comfort zone of many teachers and professionals. So...to make things a little simpler I have one key piece of advice, and several activity suggestionsRead More...


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