Donna McLachlan Registered Childcare Provider

05/09/2026

Some great little activities learning through play . Colour recognition , the children had to find an item around the play area that matched each colour and then say the colour . Finding the pairs , a great little memory game and also understanding turn taking and the rules of the game 🥰🥰🥰

03/09/2026

Over the next coming months I will be taking part in these Webinar Sessions
These sessions will explore what neurodiversity looks like in childminding settings from both the childminder’s perspective, and in terms of supporting neurodivergent children and their families

02/09/2026

Today we went Foraging for blackberries to make a pie 🥧.
We risk assessed the area before the children began picking the blackberries. We talked about the colours and textures, then once they were happy at the amount we washed our hands 🙌
The children then washed all fruits before grating and cutting the apple then they tried a slice of lemon ( don’t think they liked that 😅) before squeezing the juice out . Then they added all cleaned and cut fruits to the lemon juice . We chatted about the safety of all utensils being used too.
The pie was cooked and cooled before eating 🥣

26/08/2026

🦋 Today we met up with a fellow childminder and her mindees and had the most wonderful day at our Magical Forest . 🌳 We went on a bug hunt , turning over logs , looking under leaves , digging the dirt and bark to find some . We found loads of mini beasts and the children used their magnifying glasses to have a closer look, then they marked it off their log sheet .
Not only did we find mini beasts but we found all the animals from The Gruffalo too . We had to have some stories and of course a picnic 🧺 🐞🐛🦟🪲🪳🐜🕷️

25/08/2026

13/08/2026

🐓 A lovely little met and greet with the Silkies . We were able to have a great conversation on the whole process from egg to being born and the care they needed from birth . Also what equipment we needed to have in place to support the whole process .was a lovely little moment. And of course washing our hands before and afterwards 🐓

11/08/2026

Great news for Glasgow families 🤩

07/08/2026

Only a day old here and we are chirping away happy as Larry , eating and drinking and loving life ❤️❤️

05/08/2026

And we have life … Welcome to the world little Silkies ❤️❤️ what an amazing thing to witness and we could have a forth on the way as there is also movement in one of the other eggs 🥚

04/08/2026

Day 21: well there is life in these eggs . There is now cracking appeared and we could hear little chirping too , we all are super exited to meet these wee guys xx