Claire's Childminding

St Patrick’s day. Our sensory activity and some handprint pictures. Rice tray is always a huge hit and we also had Playdough but did t get photos. Both activities the children enjoy playing & creating for long periods of time.

Easter always so much fun with lots of lovely activities. We baked and had lots of sensory play activities and made some lovely Easter crafts and lots of pictures and prints to take home to our families. Far too many we didn’t get photos of them all in time before we broke up for Easter but we had a lot of fun 🐥🐰

Mother’s Day gifts. Personalised candles. Not as easy as we thought but we got there. Youngest made a trinket tray but cant find photo at the moment of that. Ensuring that siblings have a different gift for their Mommy to each other.
Along side these we made Mother’s Day certificates and few free personal crafts themselves and the yummy flower shortbread biscuits went down very well.

A spring table we recently went on a walk to collect flowers, leaves, pine cones, lots of grass and any weeds/plants etc.. we could find. We then set up a table once back to look at and discuss what we’d found. Continued onto a Butterfly life cycle and we have lovely caterpillars and butterflies from the butterfly farm. (Will try find this photos)

Father’s Day, Can’t post all pics as names and faces on pictures. But we made lovely bird houses. Some lovely prints/pictures. A hand print coaster from the youngest (Not pictured). And we also made yummy cakes which always go down really well 😀

Loving the sensory mats we recently brought. A big hit with babies and older children.

Learning how to do butterfly printing. A simple but fun painting activity. Even little ones can attempt this unaided or with little support to give it a try. We made so many butterflies! We made the Hungry caterpillar as the older child informed us that the butterfly was a caterpillar 🐛☺️. So a very spontaneous activity that turned into a lot of colourful fun and choosing own colours.l to paint their hands in.

Shape recognition & sorting. Finding small shapes to fill our bigger shape to create the shapes on the sheets. Children enjoyed this and lots of communication and working together to help each other.

Drawing ourselves followed by all our family and friends ☺️

Some sensory play enjoyable for all ages. New touch pads a huge hit! The basket is changed around and always very popular with all the children to see what’s inside and what they can do.

Easter fun! 🐣 🐰
Sticking, painting, printing, sensory, baking free choice activities

Few pics from Mother’s Day. All children took home a gift bag full of cards, certificates, pictures, a personal handpainted tea pot flower pot. Last min flowers as the original had dried out too much so quick dash to the shop for replacement flowers to fill. We made cakes with our friends. Seem to have lost a few photos of these but they were lovely gifts for all their Mommies ❤️