Free Creative Steps Magazine Winter 2025 Edition

New Winter 2025 edition out now!

Creative Steps is a unique quarterly magazine providing everyone caring for young children up to age 11 with dozens of fun, creative activity ideas, all designed to encourage learning through creative play.

CREATIVE STEPS is perfect for anyone caring for young children (0 to 11 years old) – especially childminders, nannies, preschools & playgroups, nursery settings, primary school teachers (early years to KS2), after school and holiday clubs, Guiding leaders, home educators, church groups… and of course, parents & grandparents!

Childcare.co.uk gold members are able to access the latest online issue for free and try out the many great activity ideas.

Gold members can view the magazine by clicking the Creative Steps link from the Gold Membership menu when they are logged in to their Childcare.co.uk account.

In this issue - Winter 2025

Exclusively for Gold members, here is your new WINTER issue of Creative Steps, packed with fun seasonal crafts & activity ideas to encourage learning through creative play throughout the coming months – perfect boredom-busters for keeping your kids engaged and entertained! This issue includes Last-minute Christmas makes, Imaginative Play ideas, Chinese New Year, Ramadan crafts, Valentine’s projects, Penguins and much more… plus book reviews, fun facts and printable templates.

This issue also includes a feature on Sustainable Crafting, from Rachel Fernley, along with the 2025 Creative Play Awards winners’ supplement, detailing all the Winners and Highly Commended products entered this year – perfect for some gift inspiration!

There are £100’s of fabulous games, toys, books and resources for you to WIN in our free-to-enter Winter prize draws/giveaways – including exciting new games bundles from Orchard Toys..

Plus Read Back Issues Free!

Gold members can also view back issues of Creative Steps magazine from 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025!