Little Darlings Childcare

🇦🇷 This Week at Little Darlings Childcare 🇦🇷

Our theme this week has been Argentina, and we’ve had lots of fun exploring its culture, wildlife and traditions!

The children decorated the Argentinian flag using sponges, tasted some delicious Dulce de Leche, and created colourful wooden houses inspired by the vibrant town of La Boca. They also made mud nests using clay, leaves and sticks, just like those built by Argentina’s national bird, the Rufous Hornero. To finish off our Argentinian adventures, the children even learnt some steps from the famous Tango dance, which they absolutely loved!

🌊 At the beginning of the week, we celebrated World Ocean Day by watching live footage from Steve Backshall, learning all about marine life. The children created ocean-themed stencil artwork and enjoyed reading Gilbert the Shark together.

🌿 We have also been taking part in Great Big Green Week, learning about the importance of caring for our environment. The children visited the recycling bank to recycle glass jars and have been helping with recycling paper, card and plastic at the setting. They also made beautiful sun catchers using flowers they collected during our walks.
The children also started growing their own cress this week and are looking forward to adding cress to their lunches once it’s grown.

Another wonderful week full of creativity, learning, exploration and fun! 💚

🌎🇧🇷 What a busy and exciting week we’ve had at Little Darlings Childcare! 🇧🇷🌎

This week’s theme has been Brazil, and the children have enjoyed learning all about the country’s vibrant culture. They decorated the Brazilian flag, created colourful carnival masks, headbands and bowls, and explored a variety of tropical fruits including passion fruit, pineapple, kiwi and watermelon. 🍍🥝🍉

The children also made their very own smoothies, mixing berries with Greek yogurt, and they all thoroughly enjoyed tasting their delicious creations! 🍓🫐🥤

Earlier in the week we celebrated International Dinosaur Day by decorating 3D dinosaurs, while our younger children enjoyed making their own paper dinosaurs. 🦕🦖

For World Bicycle Day, we talked about our bikes, discussed how to stay safe whilst riding, what safety equipment we should wear, and enjoyed colouring pictures of our bicycles. 🚲⛑️

Today we celebrated World Environment Day by creating a wonderful bug hotel using toilet roll tubes, leaves, flowers and sticks that we collected on our morning walk. We were very excited to discover that we already have our first resident – an ant has moved in! 🐜🏡🌿

The children also enjoyed leaf printing, creating beautiful nature-inspired artwork whilst learning about the importance of caring for our environment. 🍃🎨

We have also had lots of birthday celebrations this week! 🎂🥳 We celebrated Leia and Alfie’s birthdays at the beginning of the week and Arlo and Sutton’s birthdays today. We hope you all had a wonderful time celebrating with your friends at Little Darlings! 🎈🎁

Wishing a very Happy 2nd Birthday to our little Alfie and a very Happy 1st Birthday to our little Leia, We hope you both have had the best day 🎈🎁🎂🥳

Yesterday we celebrated National Biscuit Day and of course we just had to make biscuits! 🍪

All the children loved getting messy with the dough and cutting out different shapes for their biscuits. Some chose to decorate theirs using icing pens, while others added chocolate and coconut shavings for an extra special touch.

The best part was of course enjoying eating them afterwards… they were absolutely delicious! 🤎

Today at Little Darlings we explored a variety of tropical fruits inspired by our Thailand theme 🍍🥥🥭🍉

Some of the children had never tried pineapple, watermelon, coconut or mango before, and they all thoroughly enjoyed tasting the different flavours and textures. It was lovely to see them being so adventurous and willing to try something new 🌎✨

Some of the children also decorated beautiful Thai elephants to symbolise part of Thailand’s culture and heritage 🐘🇹🇭

We also enjoyed a lovely morning walk followed by a fun trip to the park this afternoon where the children had lots of fun playing with their friends in the sunshine ☀️🛝

The last few days at Little Darlings Childcare have been full of fun, adventure and learning 🌞🌿🇹🇭

On Tuesday we spent a beautiful day at our beach hut in Frinton, enjoying the fresh sea air, beach fun and making lovely memories with our friends 🏖️

Yesterday some of the children enjoyed a wonderful morning at the woods climbing trees, looking for wildlife, exploring nature and having lots of fun together before heading off to the park 🍃🐞🌳

Carrying on with our Thailand theme this week, the children decorated the Thailand flag using sponges & paints 🇹🇭

We also planted a variety of seeds to begin growing our very own vegetables, which the children absolutely loved doing and are very excited to watch grow

Beach Hut Day at Frinton … Sandy toes and sun-kissed noses 🌊🪣⛱️🐚

Our Little Darlings have had the best day at the beach enjoying the beach hut. We had a picnic, swam in the sea, jumped waves, made sand castles, dug holes and filled them with water & collected shells

🌸 Bank Holiday Notice 🌸

Little Darlings Childcare will be closed for the Bank Holiday.

All messages, calls and emails will be responded to on Tuesday morning when we reopen.

We hope you all have a lovely long weekend! ☀️🌸

Thank you,
Louise & The Little Darlings Team 💕

Today at Little Darlings Childcare we continued with our China theme by making beautiful Chinese flags using paper plates, paint, glitter and lolly sticks 🇨🇳✨

We also enjoyed lots of outdoor fun at the parks and in the garden, making the most of the lovely weather ☀️🌿

To finish off the day, we celebrated Strawberries & Cream Day with lots of yummy strawberries and cream for our snack 🍓🤍

A lovely fun-filled day of creativity, fresh air and tasty treats for our Little Darlings 🌸

Carrying on with our China theme over the last couple of days, our Little Darlings have been getting very creative 🌏🇨🇳

The children made their very own giant pandas using forks and paint, creating fantastic fluffy effects. We also designed beautiful Chinese lanterns, each one uniquely decorated using a variety of jewels, pens, glitter and lace ✨🏮

Some of the children also created our very own Chinese-inspired bookmarks using lovely flowers, before laminating them to keep them safe and special 🌸📚

We also celebrated Numeracy Day with Numberblocks activities, colouring and number 🔢

Today for World Bee Day 🐝 the children created beautiful flower paintings using sponges, yogurt pots and their fingerprints, alongside some adorable fingerprint bees. A lovely way to talk about the importance of bees and nature whilst exploring different textures and creative techniques 🌼💛