Hoffy House Family Day Care

17/02/2023

Florence bought in some of her Honey for Neva today 🍯 so we decided to make sandwiches for lunch together.

What a treat, the honey was delicious 😋Thankyou Florence🐝

14/02/2023

Valentines Day at a Hoffy House 💕

15/01/2023

Oh dear 🙊 that wasn’t meant to happen.
Looks like the Hoffy House cubby needs a repair after tree chopping day!!

28/11/2022

Over two days in November the children enjoyed a very special occasion at Hoffy House- Grandparents Day 💕

24/11/2022

Outing to Osprey House Environmental Centre 🦅

30/10/2022

Happy Grandparents day to my kids Poppy!
No better way to show our appreciation for him than call him over today to help me upcycle the pallets to build a learning station and mud kitchen for the children. I tried but hammer and nails only got me so far lol! Poppy to the rescue

28/10/2022

Always grateful to read beautiful posts from Hoffy House FDC families, so lucky to have so much support.

Yesterday we wore red in honour of Daniel.

07/10/2022

07/10/2022

Thankyou so much Mia for donating your Sylvanian House to Hoffy House. The children love it and play with it everyday. It is the most popular play area at Hoffy House.
Such a wonderful opportunity for role play, creative play and group/individual play.

04/10/2022

Calm Down Yoga for Kids

https://childhood101.com/yoga-for-kids/

28/09/2022

Post 1 for today 😃

It’s Puppet Theatre time 😃
The scene was set and the children enjoyed their first puppet show where Mr Wombat went on a walk and along the way met Mr Clown, Moose and Lion 🦁

The Puppet show will be open to the children and hopefully overtime will see them doing puppet shows for each other as well as being the audience for Neva’s puppetry.

I wonder what Fairy Tales & Rhymes we could play out in the puppet theatre over the coming weeks 🤔 🤔 🤔

Do any of the children have puppets at home they may like to bring in and share with us??

Puppetry contributes to all 5 Outcomes children should achieve during their Early Learning stages.


Children explore different identities and points of view in puppet shows. They contribute to a shared play experience when being part of the audience or taking on a puppet character and its role within a dramatic play. Within the puppet show characters express a wide range of emotions, thoughts and views that children pick up and react on when being interactively involved in the story.


When doing a puppet show children need to cooperate with others and negotiate roles and relationships.


Within puppet shows children are highly engaged in the story. Therefore they share humour, happiness and satisfaction with their group.
They celebrate their own efforts and achievements and those of others when experiencing applause after finishing a story.


Children can use puppetry to investigate, imagine and explore their creativity. When creating or replaying stories, they contribute to play experiences of others. They need to apply a wide variety of thinking strategies to transform a well-known story into the new situation of puppet characters using direct speech and acting within a stage set. Within puppetry children have to use imagination, creativity and play in order to transport meaning to the audience.


With puppet shows children engage in enjoyable interactions using verbal and non-verbal language. Interactive puppetry helps them respond verbally to what they see and hear.
Taking on a puppet character and bringing it to life teaches children to construct messages with purpose and confidence using literacies of home/family and the broader community.
Puppets help children expressing their ideas and feelings in a playful way.
Puppet shows are highly interactive and children easily transform themselves as part of the story when listening to sounds, speech, stories and rhymes. They then respond with gestures, actions, singing, comments and/or questions.

Children use their language to imagine and create own roles. Puppet shows offer unlimited opportunities for children to share stories and symbols of their own culture and re-enact well-known stories.