50 Fantastic Ideas for Mark Making

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Children are naturally drawn to making marks. Long before they pick up a pencil or a paintbrush, they will experiment with making marks using hands, fingers, feet etc as well as various found objects that they come across in day-to-day life. For children to become really confident and secure mark makers we need to provide them with lots of different opportunities with a variety of exciting mark making resources in many different contexts. Alistair Bryce-Clegg has collected together a whole host of ideas for different mark making utensils, as well as exploring numerous substances and surfaces that children can mark make on. Some of the ideas will support children to create their own 'masterpieces' while others will encourage them to make make with other children in a group. As with all Alistair's ideas, 'engaging children' comes top of his list as when children are engaged they make the biggest steps forward on the road to writing and have the most fun! Review: 50 Fantastic Ideas for markm making- just what it says on the tin!!! - Alistair Bryce Clegg is an inspirational and experienced early years professional. This book is filled with new and exciting ideas for inspiring mark making. Most activities use resources most early years settings have to hand (which is refreshing) Ideas are clearly described with easy to follow instructions. Ideal for new practitioners or anyone wanting to take a new and refreshing look at mark making x Review: Fab book - Fab book - really easy to read and pick up some great ideas to develop mark making