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Celebrate the spiders: Encourage Creativity
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Elaine Hynes
Tuesday 31 January 2017
When reading an article recently about creativity, I was reminded of an experience some time ago in an early years setting. The children were colouring in template worksheets with numbers, letters and corresponding objects. I watched as one little boy coloured his sheet quickly. He then proceeded to turn over the sheet of paper, selected […]
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