Something smells good in the Soft-Touch kitchen today... Winter-veg soup and cheese toastie! Perfect for these colder days. Available for those who need it ♥

Are you missing our family workshops as much as we are? Join our weekly Play Letter for all things family friendly at #LeicesterGallery. Full of activities, postal play packs and inspiration for things to do over the Christmas holidays. Click to join: eepurl.com/gX1UyH

Blessings please share this updated version of my top tips for parents homeschooling through this latest lockdown for Catford Chronicle - ranging how to give creative outdoor lessons to how to stay calm! catfordchronicle.com/stories/2021/1… #edchat #earlyyears

Our bby flesh is artificial xoxo just won Adam Carver DISCO BINGO on her bloody birthday!!!!! Happy birthday gal 🖤

Thanks to everyone who joined the Herb Heroes tonight for City Stories for @thesparkarts. Tonight's story was The Basil Who Built Bridges by Willsow.Books and we are SO excited to plant the books at the gallery!

Our artist call out closes tomorrow at 5pm -‘In the Mix’ is a programme of creative opportunities for Children & YP. Commissions available for pre-recorded content, How to’s, studio tours, talks, performances & workshops across a range of artforms. artsjobs.org.uk/arts-news/post…

This was so much fun! And I’m still finding spaghetti sprinkles everywhere 😅

“This is not an either-or decision. Social connection and play offer myriad learning opportunities and are positively associated with children’s academic attainment and literacy.” Call for 'summer of play' to help pupils recover from Covid-19 stress theguardian.com/society/2021/f…

SAY WHAT!! Only 3 months to go until #RocketRoundLeicester blasts off across Leicester for a summer of adventure in aid of LOROS Hospice 🪐 40 stellar Rocket sculptures will create Leicester’s biggest ever public art event from 19th July - 26th Sept 🚀 📷 Beth Walsh

Great ideas of 20th Century: "Play Streets" closed to traffic‚ but open to kids. (UK once had 700 of them)

Do you know any young people (10+yrs) that would enjoy the opportunity to make an original film during half term? 📽️ Sign up pedestrian.info/apply/

Every setting counts: parks, streets, schools, summer schools, playgrounds, public space and more. Together we can make this a positive legacy of lockdown for children. Let’s begin to restore their freedom with a #SummerOfPlay #FunFriendsFreedom 📷 Playing Out

Such an important read here. There IS such a thing as bad weather when you don’t have clothes to keep you dry or somewhere to warm up afterwards. Who gets to do what outdoors is a reflection of the inequalities we see elsewhere.

2,000 years ago a toddler stepped on this red clay tile drying in the sun of Roman Gaul ....

Join me in sowing sunflowers this spring by the dozen, sunflowers are the national flower of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and a symbol of courage in many cultures. It will be a growing protest of strength, of solidarity of collective grief. #sunflowersforukraine

Meet the teams! A fantastic project with some fantastic stories. The 100s and 1000s of ways of speaking - Moonbeams Triad Action Research Project with Libraries, EY Practitioners and Artists. #Moonbeams #ArtsConnectEarlyYears