Happy Hive Childminding

Week 4 of the summer holidays ✅
This week we really have just been trying to survive the heatwave!
This week we visited Worsborough mill Reservoir, New Millar Dam and our local park.
Back at home we made nature wands, painted plant pots, and enjoyed all the water play activities including; ‘witches brew tea making’ in the mud kitchen, we’ve explored marine life in the water tray, and we had the paddling pools out to cool off.
We also looked at the Solar eclipse and the children made their own Eclipse pictures outdoors with chalks. ☀️🌒🌚
Iced lollies have been the saviour this week! 🍦🧊

Week 3 of the holidays ✅
We have visited Cawthorne park, and our local park this week.
The children have also enjoyed making loom band bracelets, making fizzy potions, making beautiful artwork, and painting outdoors with puffy paint, there also been plenty of music, singing, dancing, stories and games. 🥰🐝

Week 2 of the Holidays ✅ This week we enjoyed making bath bombs, visiting the sculpture park and local park, playing board games, free choice play, and getting creative.

Week 1 of the holidays, done. ✅
Headed to the coast for the day, ventured out to Pugneys and enjoyed a play date. ⛱️🏝️🎉

Few snaps from the last couple of weeks.
We’ve had plenty of themed water play, the children seem to really enjoy the water trays and the mud kitchen for exploring, experimenting and building on those fundamental skills.
We’ve done some baking which the children also love.
We’ve had lots of outdoor time for children to build on their physical, and social skills with children really impressing me lately with their kindness and caring attitudes towards each other. 🥰
Lovely to see these little people growing and forming these wonderful friendships.

Thrilled with the new mud kitchen! Set up ready for the busy bees next week. 🥰🐝

And that’s a wrap for what has been the hottest week so far! 🔥🥵
Well done to my little people for making it through a pretty sticky, and sweaty week!
We looked at frogs this week! 🐸
🐸We included frogs in our indoor and outdoor provisions, the children especially loved all the water trays available this week given the temperatures. 🌡️
🐸We looked at the life cycle of a frog, learning the names of each stage of the cycle (spawn, tadpole, froglet and frog.
🐸We explored a messy tray with sensory “frog spawn” and we sang 5 little speckled frogs, with children using the frogs as props for the actions as they sang. 🎵🎶
🐸The children used nets to catch frogs from the water and arrange them into groups of size, using some mathematical language.
We have explored mark making using water, chalks and pens.
🐸The children used tools and containers to transport water to make the water wheels turn, create some splashes, and explored colour mixing in the mud kitchen.
🐸Some of the children visited the local playgroup where they explored outdoor painting, balancing on wooden beams, threading activities, playing in the sandpit, playing with the cars and ramps, and cooling off in the teepee.
🐸The children really appreciated taking a dip in the paddling pool to cool off their feet after school and enjoyed lots of iced lollies as well.

Last week we released our Butterflies into the big world to do the important job of pollinating!
The children have really enjoyed watching the caterpillars grow and transform into butterflies, they have been actively involved with their learning of the Butterly lifecycle.
The children helped to feed our butterflies fresh fruit and sugar water up until their release.
Really beautiful to capture children being so gentle and brave enough to let butterflies rest in their hands. 🦋

That’s a wrap for this week.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The children have crafted their socks off to make beautiful cards and gifts for their Daddy’s ready for Fathers Day.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 We explored Father’s Day through our story times this week sharing ‘My Daddy’ and ‘Daddy Hugs’
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿The children embraced football fever this week, getting behind England by painting their faces, wearing tattoos, playing table top football, and having a little tea party.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿some children visited Worsborough reservoir and the play area to work on their physical development and try new things!
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Some children have helped to tend the vegetable garden helping to water, w**d and check on the growth/ progress of the vegetables.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Some children worked together to bake chocolate chip cookies for their Daddies, (they were as big as my head!)
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Some children went along to our local play group where we painted pinecones, played in the mud kitchen, explored mark making, explored water play, petted the rabbits and observed the ducks.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Some children came along to the local primary school sports day to cheer on our little friends.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿All the children have enjoyed using the new climbing frame, and testing their strength, confidence and agility. Brilliant to see the children being so brave and navigating risk taking.
Next week we will be taking a look at Frogs 🐸