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Great ideas for ways to be active indoors and outdoors at home. Have fun playing with people in your house - dress up, go on a hunt or make a tent. Being active can be playful and fun.

These 5 links will take children on exciting adventures with some of their favourite Play School characters.

Information, ideas and inspiration to make healthy food choices, and involve children in cooking at home. Learning about healthy foods can never start too early.

Identifying and managing emotions is a tricky thing to do, but with practice and encouragement, even young children can make it. These links provide resources for children and families to help them learn about identifying emotions and strategies to support emotional regulation in stressful situations.

Dancing and singing is great fun - especially if you get the whole family involved! The singing walrus is great to sing-a-long to and Banana, banana meatball will have families making up their own rhymes and raps about any and every topic. Inside you'll find some great songs to get you moving.

Ideas to keep your body moving. Young children love being physically active and they need to be, every day! Involve them in moving outside or inside and help them understand how their muscles move their bodies. You'll find links to online games and workouts the whole family can play to keep moving.

These links will give families lots of practical and fun activities to do with their children. The activities will help children learn about their body and how to build muscles to learn and play.

Get physical with fun ways to exercise and be active either by yourself, or with people at your home. Young children love to be active and need to move regularly and often. It's important to include some energetic play every day.

These resources will support children and adults to engage in a range of creative activities by offering ideas and resources that can be explored at home. The value of children’s creativity is not the product of the creation, but in the process itself.

Camping or making a cubby house in your back yard can be so much fun. A selection of ideas and activities for camping and playing, indoors or out.