Back to the Garden Childcare

Back to the Garden Childcare Nature inspired, child-led nurseries in the North-West. Altrincham | Lymm | Bowdon (2025)

🌸🌿 P I N K • P O T I O N S 🧪🌷Here is our pink potion making activity. 🧪🌸🌿We explored the beautiful colours, textures ...
03/09/2026

🌸🌿 P I N K • P O T I O N S 🧪🌷

Here is our pink potion making activity. 🧪🌸🌿

We explored the beautiful colours, textures and scents found in nature while creating our very own pink potions. The children collected delicate petals and used natural resources and essential oils to mix, pour and experiment, carefully combining their ingredients to create their magical pink potions. 🌸🌿✨

The children enjoyed developing their fine motor skills through mixing, scooping and pouring, while using their imaginations to explore and discover the different scents, textures and natural materials found around our forest school. 🧪🌸✨


🎨🌿 STICK•PAINTING 🪵✨Here is our stick painting forest school activity. 🌳🤎We explored colour, creativity and texture whil...
01/09/2026

🎨🌿 STICK•PAINTING 🪵✨

Here is our stick painting forest school activity. 🌳🤎

We explored colour, creativity and texture while creating our very own painted sticks. The children enjoyed free painting, experimenting with different colours and brush strokes to transform their natural sticks into unique works of art. 🎨🪵🌿

The children mixed different colours together, discovering how new shades could be created. They especially enjoyed experimenting with browns and earthy tones, connecting their artwork to the natural woodland environment around them. 🍂🤎🎨

This activity encouraged the children to express their creativity freely while exploring colour mixing and developing their fine motor skills through painting, manipulating and cord-working. 🤎🌿✨

✨🌿 C L A Y · F A C E S 🌿✨Here is our clay faces forest school activity. 🌳🤎We explored the wonderful textures, colours an...
29/08/2026

✨🌿 C L A Y · F A C E S 🌿✨

Here is our clay faces forest school activity. 🌳🤎

We explored the wonderful textures, colours and shapes found in nature while creating our very own clay faces. The children used natural resources they had collected during their forest school adventures, carefully choosing leaves, sticks, flowers and other natural materials to bring their clay faces to life. 🍂🌿🌼

The children enjoyed developing their creativity and imagination as they experimented with the different natural materials, creating unique faces and expressions. They then stuck their clay faces onto the trees, turning the woodland into a magical gallery of nature faces! 🌳✨

This activity encouraged the children to connect with nature while developing their fine motor skills through manipulating, pressing and arranging the clay and natural resources. 🤎🌿

✨🫧 M E S S Y • P L A Y 🫧✨Here is our messy play activity.We enjoyed a fun tea party experience while exploring the diffe...
27/08/2026

✨🫧 M E S S Y • P L A Y 🫧✨

Here is our messy play activity.

We enjoyed a fun tea party experience while exploring the different textures of fresh fruit and foam. The children enjoyed getting messy with the foam, using their senses to explore and investigate. They also had lots of fun cutting up the fruit, developing their fine motor skills while using their imagination during their tea party play. 🍓🍊🫧


✨🌿 P O T I O N • M A K I N G 🌿✨Here is our nature potion making activity. 🧪🌿We explored the wonderful colours, textures ...
25/08/2026

✨🌿 P O T I O N • M A K I N G 🌿✨

Here is our nature potion making activity. 🧪🌿

We explored the wonderful colours, textures and scents found in nature while creating our very own nature potions. The children used natural resources and essential oils to mix, pour and experiment, carefully combining their ingredients to create their magical potions. 🌸🍃

The children enjoyed developing their fine motor skills through mixing and pouring, while using their imaginations to explore and discover the different scents, textures and natural materials. ✨🌿🧪

✨🌸 P E T A L • P L A Y D O U G H🌸✨Here is our petal playdough activity.We explored the beautiful colours, textures and s...
20/08/2026

✨🌸 P E T A L • P L A Y D O U G H🌸✨

Here is our petal playdough activity.

We explored the beautiful colours, textures and scents of fresh flowers while using playdough to create and explore. The children enjoyed using their fine motor skills to press, pinch, roll and carefully place petals into the playdough, while taking time to smell and discover the different flowers. 🌼🌸

✨🌿 Nature’s Colour Splash 🎨✨Here is a little glimpse into our Nature’s Colour Splash activity. 🌿🎨The children used paint...
18/08/2026

✨🌿 Nature’s Colour Splash 🎨✨

Here is a little glimpse into our Nature’s Colour Splash activity. 🌿🎨

The children used paint and fine-motor skills to spray colourful paint around natural objects, creating their own unique nature-inspired masterpieces. They loved experimenting with the spray bottles, watching the colours spread and discovering the different patterns and textures created around the leaves and natural materials. 💦🍃

This was a wonderful hands-on activity supporting fine motor development, creativity, hand-eye coordination and sensory exploration, while encouraging the children to explore and express themselves through colour and nature. 💕

A messy, colourful activity filled with curiosity, creativity and lots of learning! 🌈🌿

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🧊✨ M E L T I N G · I C E ✨🧊Here is a little glimpse into our melting ice activity.We explored what happens when ice begi...
14/08/2026

🧊✨ M E L T I N G · I C E ✨🧊

Here is a little glimpse into our melting ice activity.

We explored what happens when ice begins to melt and it was such a fun and exciting activity for the children to take part in. The children enjoyed watching the ice change, feeling the cold textures and discovering how water is created as the ice melts.

A lovely hands-on activity filled with curiosity, exploration and lots of learning 🩵

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🎓✨ A L T R I N C H A M · G R A D U A T I O N 🎓✨Here is a little glimpse into our Altrincham Graduation Day.We had our gr...
12/08/2026

🎓✨ A L T R I N C H A M · G R A D U A T I O N 🎓✨

Here is a little glimpse into our Altrincham Graduation Day.

We had our graduation celebration and it was such a wonderful moment for all the children and parents to enjoy together. It was lovely to come together and celebrate all the amazing things the children have achieved and the memories they have made during their time with us.

A truly special day filled with smiles, laughter and memories to treasure 💛

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M A K I N G • P A I N T 🎨✨Here is a little glimpse into our creative activity.The children explored making their very ow...
06/08/2026

M A K I N G • P A I N T 🎨✨

Here is a little glimpse into our creative activity.

The children explored making their very own paint using natural ingredients. We used berries, coffee and cabbage to create a range of beautiful colours and textures. The children especially enjoyed bashing and squashing the berries, helping to develop their fine motor skills and hand strength through this hands-on process. It was such a fun and engaging experience as they discovered how colours can be made in different ways.

They then enjoyed freely painting, expressing their creativity and experimenting with their unique homemade paints.

A wonderful hands-on activity full of curiosity, exploration, creativity and skill building 💛

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Address

Sinderland Road
Altrincham
WA145JQ

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 6:30pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 6:30pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 6:30pm
Thursday 7:30am - 6:30pm
Friday 7:30am - 6:30pm

Telephone

0161 537 7999

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