Book Series

Ready, Steady, Play!

Guaranteed fun for children and practitioners alike, the Ready Steady Play series provides lively and STIMULATING activities for children.

Each book focuses on one specific aspect of play offering clear and detailed guidance on how to plan and enjoy wonderful play experiences with minimum fuss and maximum success.

Ready, Steady Play! Helps practitioners to:

develop activities easily, using suggested guidelines
ensure that health and safety issues are taken into account
Plan play that links to the early years curriculum

Each book in the Ready, Steady, Play! series includes guidance on:

preparing the children and the play space
what equipment and materials are needed
planning and carrying out the activity
adult: child ratios
developing language and vocabulary
extending learning

Simple but excellent ideas for creative play experiences for all early years practitioners and students on early years courses. Parents looking for ideas will also find inspiration here.

New and Published Books

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Music and Singing

By Durno Julie

Series: Ready, Steady, Play!

Packed full of exciting activities that display how song and music can enhance a young child's learning, Music and Singing conveys how you can: have confidence in sharing music with young children explore a range of musical instruments have fun with sound....

Published January 30th 2006 by David Fulton Publishers
Ready, Steady, Play! 10 pack

Series: Ready, Steady, Play!

Nature, Living and Growing focuses on outdoor play and how nature can contribute to a child’s learning and development. Split into four sections, which focus on each of the four seasons – spring, summer, autumn and winter this book: includes activities appropriate to each season offers ideas...

Published January 30th 2006 by David Fulton Publishers
Books, Stories and Puppets

By Green Sandy

Series: Ready, Steady, Play!

Part of the Ready, Steady, Play! series, Books, Stories and Puppets promotes visual storytelling and provides ideas for extending learning through a range of stories and characters that are well-known and much loved by children and adults alike. This book: provides ideas and templates for...

Published January 30th 2006 by David Fulton Publishers
Food and Cooking

By Sandy Green

Series: Ready, Steady, Play!

Exploring how play in this area can develop children's understanding of world cultures and healthy eating. Use Food and Cooking to help children understand how and where everyday foods come from, obtain valuable information on a variety of diets, and demonstrates how preparing and exploring food...

Published January 23rd 2006 by David Fulton Publishers
Play using Natural Materials

By Alison Howe

Series: Ready, Steady, Play!

Play using Natural Materials shows that natural materials can equal ready-made toys as an exciting stimulus for play in order to promote the learning and development of children within early years settings. Use Play using Natural Materials to "Get out and Do", support a child's investigation of the...

Published January 23rd 2006 by David Fulton Publishers
Festivals

By Carolyn Hewitson

Series: Ready, Steady, Play!

Festivals provides an insight into various events that children may, or may not, have in common. It will enhance your understanding of a range of cultural events, provides a range of activities that have meaning for children, and encourages knowledge and understnading of life in a multi-cultural...

Published January 23rd 2006 by David Fulton Publishers
Construction

By Lorna Boyd

Series: Ready, Steady, Play!

Exploring how construction play activities can promote the learning and development of children within early years settings, Construction will help enable children to develop an understanding of shape, size, stability and strength when making things, encourage the development of students' large and...

Published January 19th 2006 by David Fulton Publishers
Displays and Interest Tables

By Jayne Olpin

Series: Ready, Steady, Play!

Conveying how collections and displays can become the focus for much discussion and debate in circle time, and how they can be linked to other play areas and themes running throughout the nursery, Displays and Interest Tables helps you to: demonstrate the value of young children's efforts...

Published December 18th 2005 by David Fulton Publishers
Creativity

By Sandy Green

Series: Ready, Steady, Play!

Creativity explains the ideal use of a variety of creative mediums and utensils, demonstrating how they can best be offered to supportthe learning and development of children within early years settings. Creativity encourages children to confidently express themselves, improves students' paint...

Published October 5th 2005 by David Fulton Publishers
Role Play

By Sandy Green

Series: Ready, Steady, Play!

Guaranteed fun for children and practitioners alike, the Ready Steady Play series provides lively and stimulating activities for children. Each book focuses on one specific aspect of play offering clear and detailed guidance on how to plan and enjoy wonderful play experiences with minimum...

Published September 29th 2005 by David Fulton Publishers