Puddle-Ducks Childminding service

The children explored how natural materials can be used to make their own paint. They began by collecting berries🍇, leaves 🍃and petals 🌻from the natural environment, carefully choosing different colours and textures.
The children experimented with mixing, squashing and stirring the materials, discovering that different berries, leaves and petals produced different shades. This was a lovely hands-on experience where the children could see that materials from nature can be transformed into something they can create with.
&Crafts

🌿 Using plants as stamps and printing tools
the children press corn stems /wheat/grasses, leaves and other plant material into soft clay, using the natural objects almost like stamps.
As they press the plants into the clay, they are discovering that a natural object can leave behind an impression or texture. They can see the veins, stems, grains and shapes transferred into the clay.

Over the half term we have been busy here at Puddle ducks with lots of activities here are a few things that we’ve been doing!

🌻 1. Collecting and exploring the sunflowers
The children are first exploring the sunflower plants, looking closely at the flowers and collecting fallen or loose yellow petals. This gives them a direct connection with the garden and lets them notice the colour, shape, texture and structure of the sunflower.

🦋 2. Making sunflower-petal butterflies
They then arrange the yellow sunflower petals onto butterfly-shaped templates. The petals become the butterfly's wings, with the children deciding where to place them and how to create their own patterns.

These are our leavers jumpers worn by our fabulous two school leavers 📚🎉

Our leaving ceremony ! Our lovely leavers this year they are off to school to start their new journeys , which they are all going to do great things ! We will miss having them everyday it’s been so amazing to watch them grow🌼

It’s our annual leavers party for our school leavers this year , we love to celebrate their journeys here by enjoying a whole day of fun this year being Hawaii theme🏝️! Making sand ice creams and water play like we are at the beach was well as fun fair games like ring toss 🎡dance parties💃🏼 all day and then enjoying ice creams and a picnic lunch outside 🌞!

Even though it didn’t come home last night we still supported England throughout the whole time !⚽️we made flags and spoke about all the countries playing !🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Also during our spring term we grew butterflies 🦋 from caterpillars 🐛 the children enjoyed learning about the life cycle and how they grow, they enjoyed activities like colouring and creating their own hungry caterpillars and butterfly’s !!

Hello everyone ! Just an update after not being active for a while because we have been super busy here at puddle ducks. These are some updated pictures of our fun spring time activities, from painting daffodils to planting seeds and learning all about the hungry caterpillar and all other insects too🐛🍏🌼🐝

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ukhsa-update-on-scarlet-fever-and-invasive-group-a-strep
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UKHSA update on scarlet fever and invasive Group A strep The latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows that scarlet fever cases continue to remain higher than we would typically see at this time of year.