When you begin with paper, card, scissors and glue, you’re not just crafting—you’re bringing your imagination to life!

With a little creativity, simple materials can become something amazing. Today, a car rolled out of an idea and into reality.
Carefully constructed with determination, adaptability and lots of enthusiasm. Every cut, fold, and stick helped turn a vision into something tangible….! Just amazing!

We love the children’s creativity! 🌟 Today, a “bubble blower” was made using interlink stars. After testing it with water and washing-up liquid, we’re delighted to report that it worked! 🫧✨ What a fantastic example of imaginative learning and problem-solving.

Today the children enjoyed exploring our sensory trays. We talked about the different textures and used descriptive words such as crinkly, wrinkly, bouncy, bumpy, soft, hard, lumpy, and smooth. The children used their sense of touch to explore how the materials felt and their sense of hearing to listen carefully to the crunching sounds made by the paper. Sensory play is so important as it supports language development, encourages curiosity and helps children learn about the world through their senses.

After the activity, the children were absolutely amazing picking up pom poms and feathers – a big well done 😊

A little fine motor activity for those who chose to join…

The children carefully peeled the backs off stickers (all persevering), using them to create their own patterns. The activity encouraged hand-eye coordination, finger strength. The children showed exceptional concentration as they manipulated the small stickers and decided where to place them.

The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring with the pestle and mortar. The wonderful scents filling the nursery this week have been incredible.

We love providing different learning opportunities for the children throughout the week. Some children may feel curious and choose to join an activity, while others may decide not to and that is absolutely okay. We value each child’s individual interests, choices and learning styles in nursery.
This afternoon, some of the children made wax rainbows, others sculptures and experimented with Spirograph patterns. It was wonderful to see their curiosity, creativity and confidence shine through as they investigated the materials in their own ways. It was particularly impressive observing the children using the different Spirograph parts…circles, teardrop, cross shapes etc and moving them in the inner track to make patterns. It is quite a process and requires a lot of hand coordination. One of the children transformed their Spirograph pattern into flowers and trees…absolutely brilliant!

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The children enjoyed a bubble wrap sensory activity this afternoon. We applied paint to paper covered in bubble wrap and the children used their hands and feet to create textured, vibrant patterns on paper. They loved listening to the crackling noise when the bubbles popped. As they explored with their hands and feet, they thought it felt quite slimy under foot. A super fine motor activity.

Success! Operation Blueberry Muffin – Day 1 is complete.

We explored the different ingredients, discussing how they are made and where they come from. The children also enjoyed sharing their own baking experiences with their families.

A big well done to all the children for listening so carefully and following the instructions so brilliantly throughout the activity.

We’ll be baking again tomorrow so that children who attend on Thursdays can take part.

Thank you once again to all the parents who kindly donated ingredients to make this possible.

We read the story Owl Babies and then used our creativity and fine motor skills to make our own owls. The children explored colour mixing by experimenting with different combinations of paint to create a variety of feather shades. We also enhanced our continuous provision with soft owl toys, feathers, sticks, and lollipop sticks to encourage open-ended learning opportunities.
The children confidently shared their knowledge about owls, saying, “They make nests out of sticks,” “They live in trees,” and “They sleep in the day.” They also practised making owl sounds and learned that a baby owl is called an owlet.