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Activity Library

Gain inspiration for activities for your setting, and add your own too

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Written by Julia Rose
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🔒 To manage the Activity library, you must have the Manage activity library permission enabled

The Activity library in Famly provides a collection of ideas and activities to use with the children in your setting. You can like and comment on activities you discover and even add your own to share with other Famly practitioners or keep within your nursery.


Accessing the Activity Library

To find the Activity library:

  • Head to Learning in your sidebar

  • From here, select the Activity Library tab


Finding an Activity

To search for a specific type of activity, you can filter by:

  • Keywords in the Search field

  • Age group by entering the relevant age range in the Age in months section

  • Curriculum area (Early Years Outcomes area) by selecting the Learning area

  • Language by selecting your preferred language from the drop down


Adding Your Own Activity to the Activity Library

You can create and upload your own activities to the Activity library. To do this:

  • Click New activity at the top

  • Famly will add a default image for the activity, but you can choose your own by clicking on Upload

  • Give your activity a Title and add the age range it is appropriate for

  • Next, select the Related learning areas

  • In the What you'll need section, add any materials required for this activity

  • Add a Description to outline how to do the activity

  • Click on Upload to attach files to support your activity. You can upload images, videos, PDFs, and even audio files (.mp3 and .m4a files up to 50MB)

  • Select the Language your activity is written in

  • Lastly, choose how to save the activity:

    • Click Confirm to keep it private to your nursery

    • Click Create & make public to share it with other practitioners using Famly

💡 Once an activity is made public, it cannot be changed back to private. Only the original author can edit the activity after it is created


Sharing Activities with Parents

You can share activities, whether from Famly’s library or ones you’ve created, directly with parents via the Newsfeed.

To do this:

  • Head to your Newsfeed and create a new post

  • Click the car icon Activity button

  • From the Browse activities section, search for Public activities or your own nursery activities using the tabs at the top

  • Click Add to post under the activity you want to include

  • Click Post

Parents will now be able to read about the activity their child is taking part in.

💡 When adding an activity, it may first appear as a long link. Once posted, it will automatically convert into an embedded link for easy viewing

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