Autumn Fun at Hampton!

Over the past few weeks Hamptons Day Nursery have enjoyed lots of different autumn themed activities. The children have enjoyed lots of walks to Bushy park and have loved collecting the conkers, acorns, and leaves. One day they all put on our wellies and went out into the park on a big bear hunt. They went around the park finding all the different areas in the story, reading the story as we went. Maxwell said “Look! Thick oozy mud” as we found a muddy puddle in the park. All the children enjoyed jumping in the muddy puddles and shouted “Squelch, squelch!”. The Woodland Gardens are perfect as the forest and they found a stream for the river in the story. Ines said “The wind is very cold, we can build a snowman in the snow like Olaf”. In the garden after a rainy day the children once again out on their wellington boots and splashed in the puddles, William and Zach ran around saying were sharks, this gave the children an idea for a new game as the sharks chased them around, Eve ran around shouting “Sharks, ahhh!” and Imani had an idea to splash in the puddle to keep the sharks away. With the children splashing they all began to laugh with Jasper watching and pointing at the splashing children saying “uh-oh” whilst Bodie covered his face. Oliver then found another puddle in their bubble and encouraged his friends to start splashing, shouting “Wet!” Great fun!

The children have also been learning about pumpkins, as they carved the pumpkins together and scooped out all the seeds. William asked “Can we grow our own pumpkin?” showing the staff the seeds that he had scooped out of the pumpkin. Zach said “I can fit my head in the pumpkin!” causing Sophia to laugh. Abigail pulled the seeds out and had some pumpkin wrapped around her fingers making her shake her hands and say “Yucky” whilst Alba enjoyed the mess, smearing the sticky seeds on to the tray.

Other activities that the children have enjoyed this week are autumn sticking, leaf printing, pumpkin pictures and making spider puppets.

The Babies have also enjoyed exploring the different textures of the pumpkin. Oliver squashed all the seeds and pumpkin insides in-between his fingers and wiped it on his face, which Freddie said made him look funny. Whilst out in the park the babies have fed the birds with some seeds, and when a bird flew down to eat the seeds Adeline copied the staff members and put her finger over her mouth and said “Sshhh”. She then copied the bird, and flapped her arms which made the other babies laugh. The babies collected some conkers, Jessie played with conkers after collecting them and tried to put them on a tree stump but they kept rolling of reach and said “Oof”. Isla then began to help her set the conkers down gently so they stayed in place. Back at nursery the babies have some fun sensory trays, including mud and vegetables which they spilt out onto the floor and then used their legs to make clear parts on the floor. As fast as we swept these into a pile, Zayne and Oliver would push the items away along the floor, making it messy all over again and laughing away turned it into a lovely game! They also had some shredded paper play, and the babies grabbed it and threw it up into the air making a fabulous shower, and Zayne said “Wow” as it fell back to the floor. Bodie began to pick it up of the floor and sprinkle it from his hands onto his head laughing. Alba spinkled it over Isla who was amazed and began to dance under it tapping her feet with excitement.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!