April | 2026 | Cart Mill Family Centre

We have had lots of fun this week at nursery. We have been talking part in creative play.
We have also been exploring gross motor skill challenges in our garden this week. We have been walking like a dinosaur. We used a variety of dinosaur footprints to see the difference in size and shape. Some of our creative children tried to match our toy dinosaurs with the footprints.

Our children used their creative skills to create a pirate ship to set sail on an adventure. We used our building skills to make the ship and find loose parts to add to the inside. We used tyres as the steering wheel and tubes for our telescope.

Our children wanted to draw the sea and lava sharks surrounding the ship.

We loved our ship and used it as a cosy place to read stories together.

We enjoyed our pirate adventure so much we made our own pirate treasure imagination adventure. We made a map and had to follow all the directions, using our magic backpack along the way to help us at each stage of our journey.

One of our children made their own treasure map. Well done I wonder what treasure you will find.

To round off our creative week we had a drawing class. We put a you tube drawing tutorial and got our pens and paper ready to follow along.

We made stitch and Spider-Man aswell as some other favourite characters.

We used our concentration and were very impressed with our drawing.

In the STEAM room this month we have been very busy.

In the block area we have been planning, building, problem solving which has resulted in some great ideas. We have had dens, castles and even a bowling alley.

At the sensory table the favourite activity has been slime . This is great for developing strength in our hands and finger muscles while promoting language “this is stretchy” or cold ,soft, “ look how long it is”. We also had fun with corn starch and water !

As March was world book day the children chose to recreate the Hungry Caterpillar Story. They painted ,glued , decorated and did some mark making which gave us a beautiful wall display.

At the science table we had magnets . The boys and girls discovered what could be lifted by a magnetic force and some items that you were not able to lift “Why”. We also had a look at “magic water” and how it made the pen ink expand we had some lovely rainbows 🌈.

Our art area is always a popular area and the children experience lots of fun learning skills . Fine motor,sensory, design, imagination they enjoy chatting to each other, sharing resources and producing great art works they are very proud of as are we.