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Our Thoughts About The Childcare Crisis
We’ve been hearing a lot about the childcare crisis. But it wasn’t until it affected us where we had to stop and think about how dire the situation is becoming.
20 Rainy Day Activities to Do with Kids
20 Rainy Day Activities to do with kids at home
Why it’s important to support your child’s brain development in the first 3 years of life
Did you know by age 3, a child’s brain has reached 80% of its adult volume? This is why it’s VERY important to support this massive brain development in the first 3 years of their life.
Volunteering with JA Worldwide
Here at Little Scholars Playground one of our missions is to serve and give back to our young people. This week we volunteered with JA Worldwide as part of their Junior Achievement Business Builder Bootcamp, for students in St Kitts and Nevis.
Our NEW STEM activity cards and why STEM should be introduced early on
Estimated reading time: 4 mins We're very happy to launch our NEW STEM activity cards today! The cards include 32 fun and easy Science Technology Engineering and Maths activities and experiments made with everyday items. Our unique pack of 32 cards makes learning STEM...
How learning music helps to improve maths skills
4 mins Learning music helps with a child's brain development. But did you know it also helps to improve maths skills? To play a musical instrument well, you need to develop your critical thinking and problem solving skills. These are key skills when learning maths. If...
Our book feature in Keepers of the flame: Saluting 100 Black authors
Our business is less than a year old and we have already been featured in a book! This is very exciting and we’re blown away. A big thank you to Garfield from Promoting your heritage for featuring us in his fabulous new book, Keepers of the flame: Saluting 100 Black authors
What is Read Caribbean Month and why it’s important
June is Read Caribbean Month. Read Caribbean month was created to raise awareness of the many amazing authors from the Caribbean. There are plenty of books from the Caribbean waiting to be read; including our very own lift-the-flap board book, Zara’s Caribbean Adventure.
How rhyming books and nursery rhymes helps to improve early language development
Estimated reading time: 6 mins Children love learning new words. They’re thinking which words sound different? Which words sound similar? Children’s speech and language development develops the most in a child’s first three years of life. Rhyming words and nursery...
The 3 core benefits of puzzles for early childhood development
Estimated reading time: 4 mins Children love puzzles in early childhood. It’s not only fun, but it also acts as a great source of development in early childhood. With babies you can start with peg puzzles with simple shapes. They can then move onto real world objects...
Hello, we’re Natalie & Denhue
We’re the founders of Little Scholars Playground. We create diverse childrens books and learning resources. Between us we have 20 years experience of working in the Stem industry, so we’re also passionate about encouraging young black children to embrace STEM.
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24 fun Christmas advent activities
Spread the Christmas cheer and have fun with the kids, especially on those rainy days with our fun FREE pack of 24 Christmas activities. The pack includes fun things like a Christmas memory card game, make a homemade snow globe and make Santa out of paper plates. This pack would also be great for a December 1st box.
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Time to count
This activity sheet will introduce maths to your little scholar in a fun way and get them started with learning to count.
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