This is a great idea. Create your own nail/beauty salon at home. You can use paints, crayons, pens etc instead of nail polish, but if you have any old bottles of nail polish this would be fab too! Why don’t you draw around your hands and feet ? Get creative☀️🌈

Hello everyone!
I know how much you all enjoy building things at nursery and we usually have lots of different construction materials available for you to explore. Lego is always very popular and I know many of you have Lego at home too, so I saw this cool Lego challenge online with a wee project to build every day. Use your imagination and get going! Using Lego bricks helps to get your fingers ready for writing too.
Have fun! 😊

https://www.freehomeschooldeals.com/free-printable-30-day-lego-challenge-instant-download/

A fantastic photo of all of the children together. Excited, happy and looking forward to Christmas parties and Santa visiting.  Hopefully we can create a new photo of all of our wee friends together again very soon. Xx💜🌈

Good afternoon everyone!

I have another interesting activity for you to have a look at. Edinburgh Zoo is closed at the moment, but they now have a facility where you can watch some of their most popular animals on a live feed webcam. You just click on the link below, select which webcam you want, and you will have lots of fun spying on the animals and having a nosey at what they are up to. Maybe you might want to draw a picture of your favourite animal?
Have fun and enjoy the weekend! 😊

https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/

Hello everyone!
It is another beautiful day and I have another activity for you to do at home with your grown ups.
Birds are fascinating to watch and the sound of them tweeting and chirping away always cheers me up.  I saw this ingenious idea online for a homemade bird feeder, which I thought would be a great way to be able to encourage birds in to your outdoor space and to be able to watch them from afar.

All you need is an empty milk carton, some string and some bird seed, or even stale bread. If you have some sharpie style pens, then you could decorate the front to make it look like a little house.  I’d love to see some photos of your bird feeders if anyone would like to send them in on Twitter.

Have fun and stay safe boys and girls! 😊

🌈🐥🦆🐦🌳🌷🌼🌻☀️🍞🎨

Hope everyone is staying safe and having fun. At nursery slime is a big hit with all the children. Usually we make our slime with PVA glue but I have a couple of recipes for easy edible slime which myself and my teenage daughter have tried and tested whilst stuck at home. The recipes are as follows:

JELLY SLIME

Ingredients: Cornflour, shop bought jelly sachets and water

Method

– Combine the powders in a bowl with a fork, stir in the water. It might seem a little solid but after a lot of kneading (with your hands) it becomes good stretchy consistency for playing with.

– There are a range of different fruity jelly flavours to choose from, so can be pink (raspberry) red (strawberry) or green (lime)

MARSHMALLOW FUNFETTI SLIME

Ingredients

Cornflour, icing sugar, mini marshmallows, vegetable oil, vanilla extract and sprinkles to decorate!

Method

– Melt the marshmallows in a large heatproof bowl in the microwave for 30-50 secs, until melted, stirring after 30 seconds.

– Stir in the oil and vanilla, mix well and then stir in the cornflour and mix again.

– Add icing sugar and stir in and now knead until flexible. If it feels a little sticky, add in the rest of the cornflour.

– Use extra cornflour for the surface if you need to, having a little veg oil to hand is good to keep your hands sticky free. Knead and play. Add some cake sprinkles for a funfetti effect!

Hope you have lots of fun trying out these different slimes and remember its ok if children put in their mouths as there all edible. Enjoy and if you do try them out we’d love to see some pics. Keep safe, keep smiling, stay happy.

A fun learning activity to do at home, have fun👍

Find some household items, pots, pans, spoons, cups etc, lay them on the floor and see how many things you can create( with some adult help). Animals, shapes and patterns are a good starting idea. Get busy👍💜

Hello everyone.

I hope you have all had a lovely day in the sunshine. I have another idea to keep you busy at home. Why don’t you start a ‘wish jar?’ Because we have to stay at home to keep safe at the moment, there are lots of things we usually do that we might be missing out on. For example, visiting family/friends, going on holiday, visiting places, eating out, etc.
Every time that you think of something you would like to do, get a grown up to help you write your “wish” on a post-it and pop them into a jar or a tub. Once this troublesome time is over, we can pick a post-it out one at a time and do what it says. This way we have so many lovely things to look forward to once this is all over. 💕☀️🥳🌴🌸🌟🌈🍦⚽️🚂🏕🎉
Lots of love! 😊

Hello everyone!
I hope you’ve managed to enjoy some of the sunshine we’ve been having and maybe even had a wee go at some of the activities that have been posted. At nursery,  we love reading stories, so today I have attached a link for the booktrust website that has lots of audio story books that you can listen to at home.
Enjoy! 😊

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/

Messy play is a form of play everyone enjoys in the nursery (even the ladies). I know at home the thought of messy play can be a little bit daunting, and a little bit messy!!! But messy play has so many benefits. Through this form of play children embrace their curiosity, imagination and exploration, building and developing confidence and self-esteem. The sensory side of messy play allows children to develop their senses as they explore how things touch or smell or look. Together you develop communication and language by using descriptive words, talking about the experience together. Mark-making in messy play encourages fine motor skills and early literacy. Anything can be used to mark make, from twigs to toy cars. There are endless amounts of learning and I trust you it is lots of fun.

2 ideas for messy play:

They might be messy but mess can be cleaned the fun and the memories will be precious. Stay safe everyone. Miss you lots.xx