Ages and Stages Series - National Network for Child Care- A set of pages outlining physical, socio-emotional, and intellectual development of infants and toddlers. Each stage contains a detailed section for caregivers.

Early Head Start Resource Center - All the articles listed below (and more) are found at this web site:

• The Baby's World - A good article on many aspects of infant development.
  
  
  
• Cognitive Learning and Development - This article is focused on cognitive learning in infancy.
  
  
  
• Helping Toddlers with Peer Group Entry Skills - Practical information about how to encourage toddlers to become part of a peer group.
  
  
  
• Helping Children Channel Their Aggressive Energies - More practical information on very young children and channeling anger and aggression.
  
  
  
• Making the Transition from Preschool to Infant/Toddler Teacher - An overview of changes in teaching practices required.
  

Developmental Milestones - Easy-to-read charts of milestones for children from birth to three on the Zero to Three website.

Social and Emotional Development - This is a starting point for a series of articles on this topic; also a list of children's books that are relevant.

National Parents as Teachers Center - The For Parents section has a set of links on activities to promote learning.

Sesame Workshop Baby Activity Center - From the Sesame Street folks. Features ideas for enhancing cognitive, physical, emotional, and social growth for children 0 - 24 months.

Activities to Help Your Child Learn About Language - Part of the KidSource Online web site. Material is adapted from the Dept. of Education.

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Children's Learning and the Arts: Birth to Age 8 - The beginning of this position paper is particularly relevant.

Great Beginnings - From the Cooperative Extension at the Univ. of Delaware. This series is designed for parents, but the first four topics for each age are quite relevant for early childhood practioners.

Early Childhood Creative Experiences - Part of the Crayola web site. You can search for a specific type of activity and age group. Each activity give specific directions for materials, and procedures. Also lists the developmental areas upon which the activity is focused. For each activity you can click a link to "printable" version of the page.

Understanding Toddlers Drawings - An overview of the characteristics of toddlers works of art.

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Alkema, Chester Jay. The Complete Crayon Book. Sterling Publishing Co.

Allison, Linda. Trash Artist's Workshop. Pitman Learning Inc.

Arts Education Partnership. Young Children and the Arts: Making Creative Connections.

Bayless, Kathleen M. and Ramsey, Marjorie E. Music-A way of life for the young child. CV Mosby, St. Louis, MO., 1982.

Booth, Eric. The Everyday Work of Art. Source Books, Inc. - How artistic experience can transform your life.

Brashears, Deya, Dribble Drabble-Art Experiences for Young Children. DMC Publications, Fort Collins, CO. 1993

Brookes, Mona. Drawing with Children. G. P. Putnam and Sons.

Cadwell, Louise Boyd. Bringing Reggio Home: An Innovative Approach to Early Childhood Education. New York: Teacher's College Press, 1997.

Carle, Eric. Animals, Animals. Philomel Books.

Carreiero, Carolyn. Hand Print Animal Art. Williamson Publishing.

Chen, Jie-Qi, Editor. Project Spectrum: Early Learning Activities. Teachers College Press, New York, NY.

Clough, Peter. Clay in the Classroom. 1996 - good for working with younger children.

Cowling, Tania K. Shake, Tap, and Play a Merry Tune. Fearon Teaching Aids.

Dodge, Diane Trister and Colker, Laura J. The Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood. Teaching Strategies, Inc., Washington, DC.

Edwards, C., Gandini L, & Forman, G. (Eds). (1993) The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education. Norwood, NJ, Ablex.

Ewing, Patrick and Louis, Linda. In The Paint. Abbeville Books.

Fong, Ellen. The Great Clay Adventure; Creative Handbuilding for Young Artists. 1999 -contains more advanced projects and is appropriate for older children.

Fowler, Charles. Strong Arts Strong Schools. Oxford University Press.

Gandini, Lella and Edwards, Carolyn Pope - Editors. Bambini: The Italian Approach to Infant/Toddler Care. Teacher's College Press.

Hart, Avery and Mantell, Paul. Kids Make Music. Williamson Publishing.

For A Child, Life Is A Creative Adventure. Head Start Publication.

Hughes, Langston. The Sweet and Sour Animal Book. Oxford University Press.

Jones, Elizabeth and Nimmo, John.Emergent Curriculum, NAEYC Publication, 1998.

Kohl, Mary Ann and Potter, Jean. Global Art. Coryphon House.

Kohl, Mary Ann and Potter, Jean. Science Arts. Bright Ring Publishing.

Kohl, Mary Ann and Potter, Jean. Scribble Art. Bright Ring Publishing.

Kohl, Mary Ann and Solga, Kim. Discovering Great Artists. Bright Ring Publishing.

Kohl, Mary Ann. Mudworks. Bright Ring Publishing.

Kohl, Mary Ann. Preschool Art. Coryphon House.

McDonald, Dorothy T. Music in Our Lives: The Early Years. NAEYC Publication, Washington, DC. 1999.

Mickelthwait, Lucy. A Child's Book of Art: Great Pictures, First Words. D.K. Publishing, 1993.

Milford, Susan. The Kid's Nature Book. Williamson Publishing.

Paley, Vivian Gussin, The Girl With The Brown Crayon. Harvard University Press, 1997.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. Bad guys don't have birthdays: Fantasy at four. Chicago, IL. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. Boys and girls: Superheroes in the doll corner. Chicago, ILL, University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. Molly is three: growing up in school. Chicago, IL. University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. The boy who would be a helicopter. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1991.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. Wally's Stories. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1981.

Paley, Vivian Gussin. You can't say you can't play. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1992.

Schick, Eleanor. I Have Another Language: The Language is Dance. Macmillan Co.

Shedd, Warner. The Kid's Wildlife Book. Williamson Publishing.

Silberstein-Storfer, Muriel. Doing Art Together.Harry N. Abrams

Smith, Nancy R. Experience and Art. Teacher's College Press.

Sullivan, Molly. Feeling Strong, Feeling Free: Movement Exploration for Young Children. NAEYC Publication. 1982.

Thompson, Myra K. Jump for Joy. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

Thompson, Susan Conklin. Hooray For Clay; Unique Clay Activities for Young Children K-2. 1989. Scott, Foresman & Co. Can be ordered from Davis Publications, Worcester, MA - good for working with younger children.

Tierman, Kevin. The Kids 'N' Clay Ceramics Book. Tricycle Press, Berkeley CA. A wonderful guide to handbuilding and wheel projects with excellent directions written for children five and older. Can be ordered from Davis Publications, Worcester, MA

Topal, Cathy Weisman, and Lella Gandini, Beautiful Stuff! Learning With Found Materials. Davis Publications, Worcester, MA, 1999.

Topal, Cathy Weisman. Children, Clay and Sculpture. 1993 - good for working with younger children.

Torbert, Marianne and Schneider, Lynne B. Follow Me Too - A handbook of movement activities for three-to-five-year-olds. Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Utley, Chris and Magson, Mal. Exploring Clay with Children- Twenty Simple Projects. A&C Black, London. Can be ordered from Davis Publications, Worcester, MA, 800-533-2847.

Venzia, Mike. Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists (series). Children's Press, 1989. Includes Botticelli, Bruegel, Cassatt, Dali, Da Vinci, Gauguin, Goya, Hopper, Klee, Michelangelo, Monet, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Rembrandt, VanGogh.

Warner, Sally. Encouraging the Artist in Your Child. St. Martin's Press.

Wiseman, Ann. Making Things. Little, Brown and Co.

Wiseman, Ann. Making Things, Book 2. Little, Brown and Co.

Woods, Donna. Move, Sing, Listen, Play - Preparing the young child for music. Gordon V. Thompson, Ltd., Toronto, Canada, 1982.

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A Good Beginning: Sending America's Children to School with the Social and Emotional Competence They Need to Succeed - A PDF booklet by the US Department of Health and Human Services about what children need to be successful by the time they get to kindergarten. Very well written and interesting. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this document.

Art in the Classroom, Making Every Day Special - by Sydney Gurewitz Clemens. Good treatment of what to do and what not to do.

ArtsEdge - The Kennedy Center Internet Resource. A beautiful web site, but slow to load. Take the time to load it and browse the teaching materials section. Activities are focused on K-12, but you might be able to adapt kindergarten activities for preschool. Many other features of interest including links, news articles about the arts and education.

Champions of Change - Report from Arts Edge on the impact of arts on learning. You will need Adobe Acrobat to view the report.

Child and Family, Canada - Informative article and creative dance and movement in early childhood education.

Crayola Web Site - Comprehensive site with an area for educators. Has activities that might be adapted for preschool children. Also an Arts Advocacy area with information on the company's strong commitment to advocate for arts education.

Creativity in Young Children - From the National Network for Child Care, an easy-to-read article about creativity with good pointers for teachers and parents. New 9/5/01

Early Childhood.com - Sponsored by Discount School Supply company and is quite an extensive site.Designed primarily for teachers and parents. Early Childhood News - Try the "Child Development" and/or "Multiple Intelligences" categories.

Early Childhood Educator - An online magazine for parents and teachers of preschool children.

Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner - The "Teachers Page" has a list of links about all aspects of early childhood development but also includes several categories concerning the arts.

Early Childhood Research and Practice - an electronic journal prepared by ERIC Clearinghouse on Young Children and Early Childhood Education. Click on Links to electronic publications on early childhood education for a an extensive list of other electronic journals and newsletters related to early childhood.

Early Childhood Today - This is Scholastic Magazine online for early childhood educatiors. Their Child Development section has interesting articles on child development in general that contained good concrete ideas.

ERIC Clearning House on Young Children and Early Childhood Education - A comprehensive site for everything having to do with early childhood education. Within this site, explore Elementary and Early Childhood Educational Resources on the Internet for a list of links covering a wide range of topics.

Head Start Publications Catalog - Search for publications, can order online, by email or by fax. This is where you can order a copy of "For a Child, Life is A Creative Adventure" ($7.50 charge).

Index to Young Children - Searchable index to Young Children magazine. You can see an abstract of the article with details as to when it was published, etc. Complete articles are not available online even for the current issue of the magazine.

Kindergarten Kafe - Another web site designed for professionals working with preschool children. Use the search engine to enter a keyword to find articles and activities of interest.

Music Rocks - A web site devoted to the value of music in education. From the contents page you can read many articles of interest about musical development in young children, early music experiences, etc.

Reggio Emilia - Bibliography about the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education.

Research on Early Childhood Education - From the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory, an interesting article.

Singing with Young Children - A good article from Earlychildhood.com about the development of singing in young children. New 9/5/01

The Idea Box - Early childhood education resources and activities. Has extensive lists of activities that could be modified to meet individual needs.

The Resource - Wolf Trap Institute's Teacher Newsletter - Online newsletter of the Early Childhood Institute. Contains articles on a variety of topics. The rest of the web site is a detailed description of this nationally recognized program.

The Teaching Exchange - An online publication of the Sheriden Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University. Articles are largely about K-8 issues, but some are relevant. In particular, Arts Training in Education article was a good overview.

Three Rs for the Nineties - This article is designed to show parents a host of practical ways to introduce their children-both in school and at home to creative writing theater, music, dance and visual art.

The White House Conference on Early Childhood Development - This is a "Read More About It" links page about the latest in brain research and early childhood development from this conference, held in 1997.

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Learning and Growing with the Arts- A resource guide for working with young children - This is a PDF document; you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it or print it.

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Young Children and the Arts White Paper (PDF)

Young Children and the Arts Fact Sheet (PDF)

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