Macey's Daycare

Our love heart peg activity, the children have to match the pegs to the right coloured heart ❤️ 💙 💜 Great for fine motor skills and colour recognition 😊 this was a bit tricky for our ones but they enjoyed exploring the pegs and seeing how they work.

This week we have been enjoying the theme of valentines day, making it more about feelings and emotions, building on relationships and friendships, we even incorporated learning our shapes into our week. Here is our messy lce love heart painting tray.

This afternoon the children had great fun creating thier own lemon and orange lemonade! 🍋🍊🫗

This activity was a massive hit with the children and supported various areas of development such as
Fine motor skills: pouring, mixing, squeezing, using tongs and turning the taps on.
PSED skills: sharing, turn taking and working together to fill the despensers back up when empty.
Following a list of ingredients to make the drinks which covers listening, attention and understanding as well as communicating with each other about the activity.
Maths: counting how many of each of the ingredients needed.

And many more. All in all a successful activity and we are happy with the outcome. The only thing we would change was to add some lemon squeezers rather than using just hands ✋️.

This morning our children got to help harvest our potatoes that we planted together at the beginning of the year, they got great pleasure from digging to find the buried potatoes and then washing all the mud off 😊🌱🥔

Today's activtiy is this simple colour sorting dinosaur game, using the tongs the children need to put the correct colour dinosaur in the pots. This promotes good hand co-ordination skills while helping children to learn thier colours. You can also incorporate counting too.

Today's activtiy, our sand pit has turned into a construction site!! 🚧🏗

Its a great way for children to explore various natural materials, while broadening thier vocabulary by discussing the different textures and how they feel to touch and it also supports thier fine motor skills and is a great mark making activity.

Let the fun begin! 😊

Pancake day messy play, let's see how well the children can flip their pancakes! 🥞 😊

This morning our children had a go at rescuing the dinosaurs from tape, string and jars, its a simple and easy set up and great to help children learn through critical thinking as well as working on their fine motor skills. 😊🦖

This is our autumn tuff tray we did back in October, great for helping little ones explore natural resources as well as work on their fine motor skills and hand eye co-ordination 😊