50 Things to Do Before You’re Five is a family-facing initiative featuring 50 fun, low or no-cost activities tailored to Cambridgeshire, for families to enjoy with their children. The initiative also features an events page, showcasing local low or no-cost events across the county, that families can enjoy together. Both the activities and the events help support families to develop their home learning environment, supporting them and their children, to develop the skills for starting reception.
The 50 low- or no-cost activities include fun indoor, outdoor, seasonal, home-based, and out-and-about ideas that will get children off to a flying start with their learning and language development.
Each experience has been suggested by parents, carers, and professionals and developed by early years experts and language specialists, to create activity ideas for children under five and the grown-ups in their lives.
The 50 Things to Do local events page is updated monthly, providing a one-stop shop for ideas at home or whilst out and about, for families with children from birth to five years. Families can tick off activities and events as they enjoy engaging with them. Families wanting to learn a little more about the activity can explore suggested books, songs and rhymes, keywords or research links, to support their understanding of the ‘why’ behind the activity, with further ideas to enhance it.
Parents and carers can download the free app from the Apple App Store and Google Play:
If you are not able to access the internet regularly or would like to record which of the 50 things you have done on paper, please reach out to earlyyears.service@cambridgeshire.gov.uk for a free 50 Things to Do, fold-out leaflet.
For further information, please visit the 50 Things to Do | Cambridgeshire & Peterborough website.
Support for practitioners
50 Things to Do Before You’re Five can be a great way to support parents with home learning by suggesting different activities that they can enjoy with their child. To support conversations with parents, you can access several webinars below.
