Father's Day Tea Party!

What a lovely turn out for the Father’s Day tea party. The preschool children were so excited for party day and, on the days leading up to the tea party, Sadie and Lana were on the count down. On Wednesday, Sadie reminded Lana, “Only one more day and then our daddies are coming to the party!”. When it was time for the daddies to come and play, Joshua suggested to Jasper, “Jasper, let’s go and play and our daddies will find us in the tree house!”. Sebastian and Otto saved themselves a space at the food table, leaving a space for both of their dads and whilst Sebastian served himself a sandwich and a cup cake, Otto got himself a plate and said to Sebastian, “I’m going to wait for my daddy and share my cake with him.” and that’s exactly what he did. Ollie was very excited to take his daddy to the baby room where his little sister Maddie has just started. He loved spending time playing with his little sister in her new room and was joined by a few more of the preschool children. Outside in the garden, some of the children really enjoyed showing their daddies where they like to play and really enjoyed getting involved with some car rolling using the blocks and some guttering. 

The toddlers were so excited on the lead up to tea party and were overjoyed to finally see their daddies walking through the door on the afternoon of the party. Amongst their playing, the children had been decorating a beautiful mug and card to take home for Sunday. Emily was so careful whilst painting her mug, slowly sponging on the paint and looking for white spaces to fill with colour, while George went for the more excitable approach and dabbed on as much colour covering as much of the mug as he could. When the party started, Ethan took his Dad straight to the garden to explore before heading to the cafe set up in preschool room, in search of cake! Arlo and his Grandad had a wail of a time in the book corner, reading stories and laughing together as well as serving up “meals on wheels” by rolling a cupcake back and forth in a toy train which had both Arlo and Maximilian in fits of giggles! Inside, Cooper and his Dad role played in the home corner, making and drinking cups of tea together. Meanwhile outside, Santiago and his Dad weren’t put off by the rain as they did laps of the obstacle course whilst Joseph along with his Dad and sister explored baby garden.

Over the last week the under twos have been super busy in preparation for our Father’s Day tea party. The children have created such beautiful crafts that have been used to decorate the room and have painted their very own ‘Dad’ fridge magnet and ‘No.1 Dad’ awards. As the weather was lovely out, the under two’s decorated their dad awards outside in the garden. Margaux came marching straight over to begin her crafting and had attracted an audience of preschoolers. As they approached, Margaux said, “Hiya”, as she waved and showed them each of the items she stuck down. Leo said, “Wow” as he pointed and Sienna, “Nice” and leaned in to give Margaux a hug! 

The children were so pleased to have so many Dads join the tea party on Thursday, excitedly waving and saying hello to everybody who arrived. Phoebe and Cara were busy showing their daddies all around the nursery, pointing to different areas like the garden, the sensory sleep room and their favourite toys! Meanwhile, Sebastian and Cora were hunting through the shredded paper to find pictures of their families. Cora was elated when she saw one of her and her parents, and held it in the air, shouting “Oooh!” showing it to the others. Freddie and Sienna also brought their dad to visit the baby room, showing off the nursery toys and leading him around the garden, especially enjoying getting messy in the sand pit, transporting the sand to the carts and pushing them around!