Spring Nature Walks & Exploring Colours!

The toddlers went for such a lovely nature walk around the Imber court grounds one afternoon. After packing their explorer bags with paper, clipboards, crayons, paintbrushes and water colour paints, the children set off, hand in hand excited to see what awaited them. The first thing that caught their eye was the big willow tree! They were very interested in the long dangly branches and both reached out to grab them with both hands, giggling as the wind blew them away slightly and they had to chase after them a little. Emily was more interested in the tree trunk and wrapped her arms around it in a big cuddle with a little ‘Ahhh’. This then led on to the children doing some bark rubbing by holding their piece of paper against the tree and rubbing a crayon across it. Evelyn laughed and said “It’s all bumpy” as she moved her hand up and down over the ridges. After this, the toddlers made their way to the field, meandering along the path and taking in the sights along the way, Jenson shouted “Ah, aeroplane!” while pointing to the sky to direct his friends on where to look. This then echoed a chorus of ‘wow’s, ‘aeroplane’s and smiles. For the next stop the toddlers decided on a bench to sit on and retrieved their paint brushes and helped to gather some soil to paint with. Skandar pulled out a big piece of card to paint on and began banging his soil covered brush all over it, causing little bits to fly all around with him, causing lots of laughs.  Madeline was more interested in the watercolour painting and very intently painted her paper with lots of colours, pausing every few seconds to say either “Wow” or “look” while moving her hand in circles to show off her whole painting. As the children were sat on the grass painting a few birds flew over and Evelyn commented “It’s a parrot”! 

Over the last couple of weeks, the under 2’s have loved getting out and enjoying the weather as it is starting to get warmer and sunnier! The children have taken the opportunity to spend as much time as possible out in the garden and also out on walks and on the field. Whilst out on the fields, the children have loved playing with a range of balls that were brought along, and Lowen happily shouted “Ball!” as he saw them getting pulled out of the buggies. Calvin ran straight towards his favourite orange ball, scooped it up and took it towards the goal. He looked around to make sure his friends were watching, before throwing the ball into the goal. Lydia watched on and clapped her hands to congratulate Calvin for scoring such a great goal! 

Whilst inside and in the garden, the children have been taking part in lots of bright and colourful activities involving rice scooping and pouring and tissue paper play. Zakariya fully engaged himself in the tissue paper activity by opening up each piece of scrunched paper and shouting it’s colour. “Blue! Pink! Orange!”, he announced in excitement. This made his friends giggle and so Zakariya got louder and louder, until Isabella and Freya began copying the words Zakariya was using. Together they identified the colours blue, orange and pink and all gave it their best shot at saying the words.