Tiny Shephards Child Care

☀️🌼 What We’ve Been Up To in May at Tiny Shephards Childcare 🌼☀️

What a fantastic month we’ve had! May has been full of sunshine, adventures, learning, laughter, and lots of fun with our friends! 🥰🌈

🌳🍃 We’ve made the most of the beautiful weather by visiting local parks, exploring the garden, and spending lots of time “relaxing” in the sand pit 🏖️ (although our little ones are always busy digging, building, and creating! 😄).

🤸‍♀️🏰 We also enjoyed some of our regular activities, including Leap Frogs, where the children had the chance to get active and develop their physical skills. The bouncy castle and soft play shapes were a huge hit, encouraging climbing, balancing, jumping, and plenty of giggles! 😆💪

🚶‍♀️🌊 Outdoor Learning Adventures 🌊🚶‍♂️

As part of our outdoor learning experiences, we enjoyed a lovely walk along Bognor Prom with our childminder friends and the children in their care. 🌞👫 We spent time running along the promenade 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️, collecting shells and stones 🐚🪨, watching the dogs go by 🐕🐾, and taking in the sights and sounds of the seaside. We stopped for a tasty snack 🍎🥪 and even enjoyed a cheeky Mini Milk ice lolly 🍦😋 — the perfect treat on a sunny day!

🚜🐑 Our trips to Aldingbourne were packed with exciting experiences. During one visit, we spent much of our time exploring the small world area, dressing up as veterinarians 🩺🐶, police officers 👮, firefighters 🚒, builders 👷, shopkeepers 🛒, and more. Another visit saw us meeting the animals 🐐🐰, building with the large blocks 🧱, and racing around the tractor track 🚜💨.

🌲🍂 For Outdoor Learning Week, we explored the forest area, climbing 🧗, balancing ⚖️, searching for bugs 🐞🔍, and discovering nature all around us 🌿🍄. Every visit included a picnic with friends 🧺🍓 and plenty of time to run, play, and explore before heading home. 💚

🧼🫧 This month we also learned about the importance of keeping clean through our handwashing activities. We had fun washing the “bugs” away 🦠🚿 and learning how clean hands help keep us healthy and happy! 🙌✨

🌞💛 Sun Week 💛🌞

Our Sun Week focused on the colour yellow 💛🌻 and taught us all about staying safe in the sunshine. We explored activities about sun safety 🕶️👒, why we wear hats, and the importance of applying sun cream 🧴 to protect our skin while enjoying the outdoors. ☀️😎

🐝🌼 Bee Week 🌼🐝

Bee Week brought lots of exciting sensory experiences! We explored sensory trays filled with soil and flowers 🌷🌱 for the bees to visit, used tweezers to carefully move bees into honeycomb shapes 🍯🐝, enjoyed splashing in water play 💦, and got creative making bees with paint 🎨, handprints 🖐️, coloured pasta 🌈, and pinecones 🌲.

💦🐟 To finish off our wonderful month, we enjoyed fishing for ducks and fish in the paddling pool 🦆🎣🐠, splashing in the water 💧😄, and making the most of the warm weather with our friends. ☀️👫

🥰 It has been lovely watching the children learn, explore, create, and grow together throughout May. We are so proud of all their achievements and can’t wait to see what adventures June will bring! 🌈✨

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Bognor Childminder
Playdays With Roro
Pagham Bay Childcare
Making Memories Tiney Home

We had a wonderful morning with all our childminder friends 🌈👫

The children had so much fun playing with cars 🚗, water 💦, sand 🏖️ and the role play kitchen 🍳. We explored bugs 🐞, used binoculars 🔍 to look all around us, and enjoyed the diggers 🚜 and climbing frame 🧗‍♂️.

We finished with a lovely picnic snack time 🧺 and a story 📖 — such a special morning together 💛

Back at tiney Shephards, we continued our playdough fun 🎨, using tools to help us get creative. We also played with balls in the garden ⚽, with lots of running 🏃‍♂️, sliding and more — burning off that energy and having lots of laughs 😄

Getting creative with colours using playdough 🎨✨ Lots of cutting ✂️, rolling 🤲, pushing 👉 and stamping 🔵🟡🟢.

We also had a go at dough disco 🕺🎶—squeezing, poking, rolling and more to help build up our hand muscles 💪🖐️.

Garden fun included building tall towers with wooden blocks 🧱🌿 and enjoying some wet and muddy play in the mud kitchen 🌧️🥄—messy fun all around! 😄

Fun at a new park today for Tiny Shephards Childcare! 🌳☀️

We had the best time playing with friends—climbing, swinging, twisting, spinning, digging in the sand and zooming down the slides! 🛝🪏

We also enjoyed a lovely picnic for snack and lunch 🧺🍎 and finished off with lots of running and laughter 💛

This week at Tiny Shephards Childcare has been full of fun, learning, and adventure! 🌈✨

We had a fantastic trip to Aldingbourne Centre, where the children made the most of the role play town 🏡 We had police officers 👮‍♂️, firefighters 🚒, shopkeepers 🛒, builders 👷‍♂️ and more – their imaginations were amazing to see! We also enjoyed a lovely picnic lunch 🧺 and plenty of time to run around with friends 🏃‍♀️💛

We also enjoyed a lovely trip to the beach 🏖️ The children had so much fun using diggers to scoop up sand 🚜, carefully selecting stones 🪨, splashing their feet in the water 💦 and playing together in the tent ⛺ – lots of smiles and laughter all around! 😊

We took a trip to the shops to look for new resources for our setting 🛍️, as well as choosing a special “well done” gift 🎁 for one of our friends.

Throughout the week, we explored colours in lots of exciting ways 🎨 We played “I Spy” 👀 to spot colours around us, experimented with our rainbow blocks 🌈 to see how colours change, and used coloured numbers 🔢 to support our learning. The children also practised counting, matching shapes, and recognising numbers.

To finish off the week, we welcomed friends from other childminders 🤝 The children had a great time playing together in the sand tray, mud kitchen, ball pit and more – a perfect end to a busy and happy week! 😊

🐸 Froggy Fun at Tiny Shephards Childcare! 🐸

Today we joined up with our lovely childminder friends for a fun-filled day all about frogs!

We explored a wonderful sensory setup with chia seed “frog eggs,” blue water and oobleck, along with frogs, lily pads, and tools to scoop, collect, and investigate in our tuff tray. We also enjoyed a story about one little frog’s adventures around the world 🌍📖

The children had such a fantastic time playing together—building towers with pebbles, mixing colourful water in the tray and mud kitchen, and sharing a picnic-style snack with friends 🧺

A lovely time and start to our day of fun and learning 💚

Playdays With Roro
Bognor Childminder
Pagham Bay Childcare

Over the last 2 weeks of term at Tiny Shephards Childcare, we’ve been busy getting ready for Easter 🐣🌼

We’ve enjoyed lots of creative activities, including printing and writing in our Easter cards 🎨💌 and decorating both large and small eggs to display and take home 🥚✨

Our sensory tray was full of fun with chicks, stories, and eggs to explore 🐥📚

We also had a lovely time joining friends for an egg hunt 🐣, taking part in an egg and spoon balance game 🥄 and decorating our own Easter biscuits 🍪💛

To finish the term, we had a fun day with lots of garden play 🌿, movies on for those who wanted to relax 🎬, and some little treats before breaking up for the Easter weekend 😊

We hope everyone enjoyed their Easter weekend and got to have lots of fun with family and/or friends (plus lots of chocolate 🍫🤭)

What a busy and fun-filled week last week at Tiny Shephards Childcare! 💚✨

We’ve been exploring our sensory room, enjoying the interactive floor and lots of exciting sensory toys 🌈🧸

For St. Patrick’s Day, we discovered all things green and gold ☘️💛

Out in the garden, we turned into little washing monsters 🧽🫧, using bubbly soap and sponges to “clean” our toys – so much messy fun!

We also had a lovely picnic morning at the park 🌳🧺 with balls, streamers, bubbles, and playtime on the equipment, finished off with a special snack and picnic lunch before heading home 😊