Thought I'd post this on this board.
Amazon have a toy sale and loads and loads of the stuff is by learning resources which i thought may benefit any childminders, early years workers etc.
they also have multi ethnic hand puppets and hand puppets around different jobs like doctor, farmer, nurse etc etc.
I'll post in promotions section too but having picked through 1000 items, most would have been great as resources for childminding.
hope it helps someone.
www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=748862&ref_=pe_49481_23674361