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20 Sensory Play Activities for Babies

Touch, taste, sound, sight, 20 activities that stimulate all senses in the first year. Each card notes the developmental skill activated.

20 Screen-Free Play Prompts for Toddlers

Ready-to-print activity cards for 12–24 months. Each links to a specific Jaques toy or household object you already have.

Imaginative Play Prompt Cards: Age 2–3

30 story starters, character prompts, and scenario cards to spark imaginative play. No toys required, but they help.

Curiosity Cards: 40 Questions to Ask While Playing

The art of scaffolded play. 40 open questions to deepen play without directing it, building language, critical thinking and curiosity.

The Nature Treasure Hunt Pack

4 seasonal treasure hunts, spring, summer, autumn, winter. Works in any garden, park or pavement. Builds observation, naming and wonder.

Building & Construction Play: 25 Challenges

25 open-ended building challenges for wooden blocks and construction toys. Graduated difficulty. Spatial reasoning, engineering thinking, persistence.

10 Studies Every Parent Should Know

The ten most important pieces of research on real play and brain development, each summarised in two sentences. Readable in 5 minutes.

Your Child's Brain: 0–5 Visual Timeline

What's developing at 6 months, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years, and which real play activities support each developmental window.

The Screen Time Evidence: What the Guidelines Actually Say

WHO, AAP, RCPCH and UK CMO guidelines side by side, what each recommends by age, and what the evidence says about why.

The TIMPANI Toy Rankings: What Science Says

A parent-friendly summary of Dr. Trawick-Smith's toy quality research, with a ranking table and practical buying guidance.

The 30-Million-Word Gap: A Plain-Language Summary

Hart & Risley's landmark findings explained in plain English, with 10 practical things you can say today to grow your child's word count.

Full AntiScreen Bibliography

All 100+ academic sources cited across the AntiScreen guide, formatted in APA and ready to share with nurseries, health visitors, or sceptical relatives.

7-Day Screen-Free Week Planner

A beautiful, printable 7-day planner with AM and PM activity slots, each pre-filled with real play alternatives to screens. Ages 2–5.

The Real Play Monthly Tracker

Track the types of play your child gets each day, physical, creative, social, outdoor, quiet. See patterns and celebrate real-play wins.

Daily Screen Time Audit

A one-week honest diary to track actual screen time versus guidelines. Non-judgmental, practical, designed to help not shame.

Nature Journal for Young Children

A simple 12-week nature journal, draw what you see, stick in a leaf, write the weather. The earliest form of scientific observation and real-world attention.

The Parent's Guide to Real Play

What your role is (and isn't) in your child's play. When to join, when to step back, how to set up environments, and how to survive the "I'm bored" years.

The Grandparent's Guide to Real Play

Written lovingly for grandparents who want to understand why their grandchildren's parents are going screen-free, and what to do instead.

Real Play in the Nursery: A Staff Guide

A practical guide for Early Years practitioners, the evidence, the environment, and how to talk to parents about real play versus screen time.

How to Choose a Real Toy: The Checklist

Science-backed criteria for toy selection based on the TIMPANI research and Montessori principles. Use it in the shop, online, or with gift-givers.

Screen-Free Bedtime Routines: Ages 0–5

The evidence on screens and sleep, plus a practical age-by-age bedtime routine guide designed around calm, real-play wind-down activities.

The Parent's Phone Pledge

Based on Radesky's research showing parental phone use is as harmful as children's screen use. A simple, non-judgmental pledge card to put on the fridge.

Forest School at Home: 15 Activities

Bring the forest school principles to your garden or local park. 15 structured nature-play activities with developmental notes for each.

The British Wildlife Spotter Sheet

Spot and tick 24 common British garden and park creatures. Builds observation skills, vocabulary, and a love of the natural world.

Playing in All Weathers: A British Parent's Guide

Nordic research shows outdoor play in all weather shows no increase in illness and strong gains in resilience. Here's how to embrace it, with a kit list.

Garden Bug Hunt: 20 British Minibeasts

Find and identify 20 common garden minibeasts. Each card has a fact, a name, and a sketch box. Builds scientific vocabulary and wonder.

100 Words to Teach Before Age 3

The most developmentally important words to introduce in the first three years, grouped by theme, with play activity suggestions for each cluster.

Read-Aloud Prompt Cards: 20 Classic Picture Books

Before, during and after questions for 20 of the best early childhood picture books. Turns story time into a rich language and thinking session.

Nursery Rhyme Collection: 30 Classics

The 30 most phonologically valuable nursery rhymes for early language development, with words, actions, and notes on what each develops.

Real Play & the EYFS Framework

How the AntiScreen real-play principles map to the EYFS characteristics of effective learning. For practitioners and managers.

Parent Communication Pack: Explaining Real Play

A newsletter template, parent information sheet, and notice board poster explaining real play principles, ready to customise with your setting's branding.

Continuous Provision: Real Play Environment Audit

A self-audit tool for nurseries and childminders to assess how well their environment supports open-ended, real-play experiences throughout the day.