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   Every year the little ones I look after have their own tree to decorate (and undecorate!) They spend a lot of time trying to get the baubles to hang…

 I decided to repeat this activity from the childminding group this week as it had been so popular.  We hadn't planned on doing it this way.  The idea at the group had…

 We've been to the park to collect autumn resources to explore! The children had great fun hunting for conkers, acorns and other 'autumnal' objects. Nothing like discovering a conker still…

 This week we've been experimenting with rolling objects.  We used heart templates with it being Valentine's Day and an assortment of objects to experiment with.  First we selected what object…

   This is just a quick post to share the wallpaper paintings we made today. We are looking at flowers this month as we build up to creating something special…

We were very busy yesterday exploring soap flake foam.  After searching every supermarket I could think of for months, I found soap flakes by accident in the hardware shop at the…

I made some small pots of jelly for the children and as they were setting, put Easter confetti into the jelly.  The idea was that the children would use the…

When the children were salt painting their Easter eggs the previous day, I noticed that their interest in the activity lay with using the pippettes to randomly splat paint onto…

Here is our Paper Discovery Basket that very little ones have been enjoying exploring recently. It contained an assortment of everyday paper items including; paper cups, heart post-it notes, small notepad,…

 The  children have been working hard on these box collages for the last few weeks.  They are very keen to explore paint at the moment, but I wanted to offer…

Learning to thread for little ones can be very tricky.  The whole finding the hole, threading through, swapping hands and then letting go of the buttons often proves very tricky…

We recently found a new forest park to explore.  It's only about a 15 minute drive, but I had no idea it was there! Alot of the play equipment was…