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Cute peerie bear singing “teddy bears picnic” Snack helper! Making obstacle courses – building confidence, balance and gross motor skills.

Today we set up some winter pattern making activities at the tinkering table.  Some of the children chose to copy some of the pattern examples, while others decided to create their own repeating patterns.  There was lots of careful thinking and sorting as they experimented with what came next in their patterns. Later on, we… Continue reading Pattern Making 11 December 2025

Christmas denner day – lots of festive fun! Thanks Margaret!

Secret Messages Today when we came into nursery we noticed that Tinsel our Christmas Elf had been very busy during the night and had left us lots of secret messages to find.   The children couldn’t wait to start looking around to find where he could have hidden them. Tinsel also left us a challenge and… Continue reading Friday 5th December

Our Adventure up into the garden. Today the children requested to head up into the garden so we headed up after lunch.   Everyone loves jumping in the huge muddy puddle.  Some of the children pretended they were Peppa pig characters as they splashed in the puddle. Some of the children explored the mud even further,… Continue reading Thursday 4th December 2025

Today we started to get ready for Christmas and make a postbox for our Santie letters and cards.  The boys helped paint up the box ready and then when it was all dry we set up a letter writing station.   This was a great opportunity for the children to practice their mark making and letter… Continue reading Thursday 27th November 2025

The children have been showing a growing interest in den building, leading us to extend their play by adding a dark den to the porch area.  We made it warm and inviting with the cosy blankets and the children were immediately drawn to the new space. Inside the den the children asked to have the… Continue reading Friday 21st November 2025

After our snow day we decided to try and make some snowflake spin pictures. to add to the setting.  Everyone worked hard at cutting out their circle and then adding it to the salad spinner and adding in our icy colours.  We loved seeing the different patterns that the paint made and then had load… Continue reading Thursday 20th November 2025

Today we took the Lino printing materials up into our trip up to the garden   The children carefully chose some leaves they found around the garden and then we pressed them and rolled them to make some prints.   We also looked for some other patterns in the environment.   We took some prints of the tyres… Continue reading Thursday 13th November 2025

Today we used some of the left over pumpkins from Halloween to make some feeders for the birds.  Together we scooped out the seeds from the pumpkins and made some holes to thread through some string to hang the feeders in the trees. We talked about how with the colder weather there is not as… Continue reading Thursday 6th November 2025