Picnics & People Who Help Us!

Over the past couple weeks the toddlers have loved exploring and experimenting both indoors and out. They had lots of fun exploring different jobs people do, starting with construction. Some of the toddlers made beautiful digger pictures using card and glue with Freddie saying “I made a big digger!”, whilst others enjoyed a construction tray with diggers and cereal for them to pick up, crush and move around. The tray also proved to be a bit too tasty as Cleo, Sophie and Oliver could not stop eating it while giggling with each other. The toddlers then enjoyed some role play where they were dressed as fireman to save the animals from the burning tower. Luco shouted to his friends “It’s fire!” then fireman Josh and policewoman Kitty helped to rescue the animals. Next the toddlers tried their hands at being doctors to the dolls. They used plasters and stethoscopes to check them over and make them feel better. Margot used gloves and a wipe to wash her doll, when she had finished she said “Baby all clean”, then all of a sudden Margot let out the biggest sneeze all over her baby and said “Oh, I clean it” and rushed to get another wipe.

The toddlers have enjoyed exploring the garden in the lovely weather. While doing rock painting in the garden, Izzy said “I like pink” as she was choosing her colour. There was also a rock cleaning station with water, sponges and toothbrushes, which proved to be a favourite area for Sebastian and Otto. T as the two of them had a great time splashing around in the water and laughing every time it got them wet. Continuing on with the theme of water play, the toddlers especially loved building the marble runs into different shapes and taking turns to pour water through each one to see where it would go. Otto. A stood on the bench to pour the jug of water and shouted “Look it’s there!”. When he saw it come out of the other end, he then turned to his friend saying “It’s you now” while passing them the jug. 

The last couple of weeks have been filled with lots of fun activities in the baby room, allowing the children to explore their senses and develop their social skills. The children especially enjoyed sensory play with cornflakes, with Monty and Oliver using their hands and spoons to scoop cornflakes up and drop them back into the tray below. Harry used his hands to fill his bowl to the top with cornflakes and then knocked it over, saying “Oh no!” as the cornflakes all spilled out into the tray. Amelie enjoyed squashing the cornflakes instead, listening to the crunches as she did so and laughing each time.

In the garden, the children really enjoyed joining in with some mud painting, using the mud from the garden mixed with a little bit of water. Isla, Monty and India had lots of fun coating their paint brushes with mud and spreading it around on their joint piece of paper with good control. Ava saw how much fun her friends were having from the sand pit and decided to join in, grabbing the spare brush and adding to the group painting.