Easter!

This week the children have been joining in with some fantastic Easter activities. They started the week off by making their own Easter cards, decorating a big Easter egg with a lovely chick hiding inside. They the went outside, to take part in an Easter egg hunt all around the garden. They were so very excited to try and find them all. Jasmin said "I'm going to search everywhere- even in the bushes!" Damon replied "Well I'm going to eat them all up in my tummy!" They looked up high and low, working together to find the hidden eggs, and found them all ! The children were fascinated by an Easter sensory tray, exploring and searching through the hay and coloured oats. They pulled the hay apart, feeling the texture and investigating the smell. Joshua said "It smells like the farm!" Theo held one of the chicken eggs up and said "They live in nests with their mummies and when the egg cracks the chick comes out!"

This week the babies have explored natural material and the outdoors. We started the week being Easter bunnies looking for carrots in the mud, as we looked for the carrots we explored the mud around them feeling the textures and the way it squashes as well as listening to the sound it made when we threw it around the floor with James saying ‘Uh-uh!’ We explored some hay, this time we played with farm animals. Emily found the sheep and said ‘Wow!’, before hiding it away again and put her hands up as if to say ‘Where has it gone?’. Joshua did some of the sounds of the animals as he jumped them around in the hay. Then the little ones explored the outdoors feeling the way the grass felt as they played around. Freddie even had a go at using a stick to make marks in the mud and grass by the path. Xanthe and Millie had a turn climbing around some of the beams, and hiding behind them, Xanthe gave a big giggle when we played Boo! and Millie repeated this, trying to scare the staff members!

Happy Easter everyone!