Anna's Little Explorers

Some tips: instead of putting the TV on. Have some books out, doll houses and arts and crafts stations, painting or sand playdough.

Feeling sad but I am not 100 per cent health wise and I been waiting a long time for customers, I can't afford the insurance. Maybe I open again in the future.

Today was national fairy day, we made some glitter fairy's to hang up on strings on a glitter dust World. It fun sprinkling the glitter.

At Annas little explorers, we offer outdoor play, going to Stanley Park, experimenting with natural resources like sand and water, making playdough, using expressive art and design, painting with glitter and making letters.

Summer time, during the summer holidays, I offer holiday club sessions, 8-5pm, £49.50 per day. Food and drink inc (allergies taken into consideration).

A little look in the garden, sand and water play, sports, a slide, we do gardening and looking of growing vegetables, at the end of the garden is a Wendy house which is a play cafe.

Some of the play areas: the reading area, role play and a music area, small world toys, which I store away later to give more space, I did some toy rotation for storage, the construction area and creative, art area (and board games), doll area and lastly a learning, sensory area. Everything a child needs at annas little explorers :).

My hometown Wuppertal, not far from cologne (30min on a train), its famous for its 'upside down train or monorail' hanging in the air, used as everyday transport, marly loved it, opening presents from friends and visiting the place where I used to live and park where I played as a child. Now back to work again :)

A bit more of our adventures

We're back, my daughter and I went to Germany, my home country for a week, I showed her what I grew up with, a puppet theatre show, showed the city cologne, a ride on a train, practicing pre school writing schools and visiting a fairy tale forest, where my parents took me as a kid.

Autism awareness week, a lot of people struggle and don't know how to cope or have an understanding of the condition. I am doing a walk for the national autistic society this week, a month to raise awareness. I myself have struggled a long time, not knowing what was wrong with me, I am in the process of an assessment for the spectrum of autism. I feel more relieved now knowing what it is and how to cope, like I can't cope with too much, I get certain ticks, I need lists. I also enjoy working with children, adults who are autistic, more severe, I loved working at a specialist school, they love coming up to me. I want to make them feel safe. It isn't just something people make up, there are ways to help children and adults to deal with behaviour, I would never use it as an excuse not to help them understand right and wrong, they are very intelligent they will understand. I think more awareness and understanding needs to be put out there, being more patient, I needed that when I was younger in school, sadly one teacher I had wasn't very patient with me. Now there is more understanding and knowledge out there. Also for Adhd, ocd etc. I got a just giving page, I can share the link to if you like to donate and support my walk. Thank you

For my previous post I meant to say £45 per day for sessions.