The "Bright Ideas for Early Years" series has been written specially for nursery and reception teachers, playgroup leaders and all those who work with 3 to 6 year-olds. The books provide sound practical advice on all areas of learning. The essential skills of technology are those of practical problem solving and are therefore a vital part of early years learning. This book provides dozens of ideas for practical activities that lay the foundations for technology in the National Curriculum. The cross-curricular nature of technology is reflected in the organization of this book - with each chapter providing points in a different area, for example nursery rhymes and song, story time, finding out, shapes and sizes, long ago, working together and art and craft.