Kidscape Early Learning Centre Albury

🌿📚 Stick Man Creative Fun! 📚🌿

After listening to the much-loved story Stick Man, our Preschool children were inspired to create their very own Stick Man pictures!

Using paddle pop sticks, leaves and leaf stems, the children carefully arranged and created their own unique Stick Man characters. 🍃🪵

This hands-on experience was a wonderful way to extend the story through creativity, while supporting fine motor skills, imagination and the children’s connection between literacy and art.

📚🐻 Book Week Adventures – We’re Going on a Bear Hunt! 🐻📚

To celebrate Book Week, our Junior Toddler children brought the much-loved story We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to life!

After reading the story together, the children set off on their very own sensory bear hunt, exploring different textures inspired by the story. They walked across a grass mat, splashed through water, squished through mud, made their way through a forest of paddle pop sticks, and finally stepped into some soft, fluffy snow made from shaving foam. 🌱💦🤎🌳❄️

This hands-on experience was a wonderful way to extend the story beyond the book, encouraging the children to explore with their senses, develop their gross motor skills and make connections between the story and their play.

This hands-on experience was a wonderful way to extend the story beyond the book, encouraging the children to explore with their senses, develop their gross motor skills and make connections between the story and their play.

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📚✨ Book Week – Day 2! ✨📚

The Book Week fun continues with Day 2 of our costumes! 🎉

We have loved seeing more of our children and educators arrive dressed as their favourite book characters. From much-loved classics to new favourites, it has been wonderful seeing so many stories come to life throughout the centre! 🐻🦸‍♀️👑🧚‍♀️

Book Week is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the joy of reading, encourage imagination and share our love of stories with one another. ❤️📖

We can’t wait to see what the rest of the week brings!

🎨 Our Creative Toddlers! ✏️

The Toddler children have been getting creative this week, using textas and pencils to draw, scribble and create their own beautiful pictures. 🖍️💕

As the children explored different colours and made their own marks on the paper, they were able to express their creativity and ideas in their own unique ways.

Drawing experiences are also a wonderful opportunity to strengthen fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and early pencil control, building important foundations for future writing.

We love seeing the wonderful creations our little artists come up with! 🌈✨

🐨 Australian Animal Sensory Fun! 🇦🇺

Our Junior Preschool children enjoyed getting hands-on with an Australian Animal sensory experience!

The children explored the unique texture of the oobleck as they squished, squeezed and moved it around, incorporating Australian animals into their imaginative play. 🦘🐨

This messy sensory experience encouraged curiosity, creativity and scientific exploration, while supporting fine motor development and providing lots of opportunities for imaginative play.

A fun and engaging way to explore some of our wonderful Australian animals! 🌿💚

🏗️ Busy Little Builders! 🧱

Our Toddler children have been loving all things construction! 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️

Inside, the children have been busy using foam blocks to build tall towers, carefully stacking and balancing the blocks as they explored size, shape and structure. Outside, the construction continued in the sandpit, where the children use construction vehicles and shovels to dig, scoop, move and transport the sand. 🚜🏖️

These experiences build on the children’s current interests while supporting problem-solving, creativity, coordination, fine and gross motor skills, and cooperative play.

We love watching our little builders bring their ideas to life! 💛🔨

✨ Junior Toddlers’ Potion Making! ✨

Our Junior Toddlers had a magical time creating their very own potions! Using bicarb soda, clear and coloured vinegar, and glitter, the children experimented with mixing and stirring their ingredients using spoons and wooden stirrers.

There was lots of excitement as they watched their potions fizz, bubble and change! 🌈🫧 This hands-on science experience encouraged the children to explore cause and effect, colour, texture and chemical reactions, while also developing their fine motor skills as they poured, scooped, mixed and stirred.

A wonderfully messy and magical way to explore early science concepts through play! ✨🔬

🍎✨Apple & Cinnamon Crumble Cups!✨🍎

Our Junior Toddlers enjoyed getting hands-on in the kitchen as they made their very own Apple and Cinnamon Crumble Cups!

The children took turns pouring and mixing the ingredients, before helping Miss Kelsey carefully scoop the apples into the cupcake cases ready for baking. 🥄🧁

Cooking experiences are a wonderful way for children to develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, turn-taking and independence, while exploring different ingredients, textures, smells and tastes.

What a delicious way to learn through play! 🍎🤎

To celebrate Science Week, Miss Queenie prepared sensory bottles with a small amount of water inside and a spot of paint on the lid. The children were encouraged to explore the bottles in their own way—shaking, holding, watching and rolling them across the floor, and observe the colour change and movement of the water.

The bottles were moved up and down while singing, “Shake, shake the bottle!”

The babies were curious to see what happened when they moved the bottles, and it was lovely to watch them using their little hands to grasp, shake and follow the bottles with their eyes.