The Stables Day Care Nursery

Join Nursery Kitchen's Head of Nutrition and Policy and Registered Nutritionist Catherine Lippe and Development Chef Marnie Llewelyn for a practical and supportive webinar designed to help families navigate summer holiday snacking with confidence.

From the endless “Can I have a snack?” requests to balancing flexibility with routine, Catherine will share realistic, evidence-based guidance on managing holiday eating without stress or guilt. Learn how positive language around food, responsive feeding approaches, and role modelling balanced eating habits can help support healthy, long-term relationships with food.

You’ll also hear from Nursery Kitchen Development Chef Marnie Llewelyn, who will share fun, simple, summer-inspired snack ideas for families to enjoy at home.

This webinar is all about helping parents embrace the joy of summer while feeling confident around food, snacks, and mealtimes. ➡️ https://bit.ly/4xnTxms

Some helpful hints and tips by Talk, Listen, Cuddle to help encourage your child to enjoy brushing their teeth.

Brushing teeth is a daily need for your little one, but can also be a difficult activity to get your child to do willingly! We have some helpful hints and tips to help encourage your child to enjoy brushing their teeth - visit this article from our website: https://www.tlc-essex.info/resource/sing-sparkle-smile/

Positive potty training from Talk, Listen, Cuddle.

Most children are ready to begin potty/toilet training from around 18 months to 3 years old (and remember every child is different!). For some helpful hints and tips for supporting your child through this transition, visit this article from our website: https://www.tlc-essex.info/resource/potty-and-toilet-training/

Beautiful wall display inspired by Earth Day.

The children have produced some incredible work, all inspired by our ducklings!

Being able to provide children with real life experiences is such an effective way of teaching. The children have been able to fully experience the lifecycle of a butterfly through observing our caterpillars at the nursery.

Simple activities such as these are such an easy way to promote fine motor skills. During this activity the children used their hands to grab and pull some of the objects from the sticky wall. Throughout this activity the adult used single words to name the objects and their colour to help encourage speech and colour recognition.

As always all activities are age appropriate, allergy aware and supervised by adults.

This activity is so simple yet so much fun. The children have to use their critical thinking and hand and eye co-ordination skills whilst using the tweezers to remove the pompoms through the gaps in the tape, whilst counting each one.

As always all activities are age appropriate, allergy aware and supervised by adults.

This free webinar will cover various topics around nutrition - parents and carers can register and join the session on Wednesday, 17 June 2026 at 7:30pm. Please click the link below to register.

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Learning outdoors is such a fun, engaging way to build upon core skills. The children
have enjoyed exploring and investigating the recent variety of activities set up in the
garden. We used some planks of wood to make various size ramps for the monster trucks to go down and the children discovered angles and how they help to make the trucks go faster.

We had some warm blue water with different sized cylinders and jugs so that the
children could explore volume and capacity.

One of the turf trays was a giant spider web and the children had to use the tweezers
to free the insects and practice their fine motor skills.

We also encouraged the children to make up their own stories with the dinosaurs.

As always all activities are age appropriate, allergy aware and supervised by adults.