Category Archives: Useful Articles

The Importance of Social-Emotional Learning for Preschoolers

At preschool age, children are learning to identify feelings and emotions that they experience each day. This is a major developmental milestone for young children because expressing and managing emotions is a necessary social skill they need to interact with others. Noddy by Elizabeth is an early learning centre in Bangkok that emphasises the importance[…]

Discover the Magic of Storytelling in Preschool Education

A mother reading a book to her daughter

Hearing stories helps preschoolers easily learn new ideas and digest information in an engaging way. Listening to stories entertains while stimulating the imagination and developing communication skills. In this post, we’ll explore why telling short stories is an important tool for kids to learn, and how Noddy by Elizabeth’s international British nursery curriculum incorporates storytelling[…]

The Importance of Sensory Play and How Children Benefit from It

A child engaging in sensory play with coloured pasta

Educators of young children have found that sensory play is a useful and even necessary approach to engaging a child’s interests and cultivating a love for learning. Anything that stimulates a child’s senses of touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing can be a form of sensory play. With guidance from Noddy by Elizabeth, one of[…]

10 Games to Tap Into Your Child’s Sense of Creativity

Children playing together inside a blanket fort

Creativity is a vital skill that promotes problem-solving, emotional expression, and innovative thinking. One of the most effective ways to nurture creativity in children is through play, especially when they engage in creative games for kids or games to play with siblings. These interactive activities provide opportunities for children to collaborate, think outside the box,[…]