Jack and Jill's Day Nursery

🌊🏖️ Our preschool children have been diving into all things seaside! 🐚

Inspired by their conversations about beach trips, sea creatures, and sandy adventures, we’ve been enjoying some fun seaside-themed activities together.

The children created beautiful sand pictures using PVA glue and real sand, made colourful jellyfish using shaving foam paint and tissue paper, and had lots of fun exploring water play with our under-the-sea animals 🐠🐙

So much creativity, curiosity, and seaside joy in every activity! 💙

🦖 Dinosaur Day Fun! 🦕

Our children have been exploring all things dinosaurs!
Our toddlers enjoyed a dinosaur tuff tray filled with sand, logs, and colourful materials, using their imaginations to stomp the dinosaurs around and make lots of roaring dinosaur sounds. 🦕💚

In pre-school, the children had great fun completing dinosaur puzzles, using tweezers and magnifying glasses to discover hidden dinosaurs in the sand, stomping dinosaurs through a cereal tuff tray, and taking part in dinosaur themed counting and pen control activities.

What a ROAR-some day of learning and play! 🌟🦖

🌙 Eid Celebration 🌙

Today, the children explored a special Eid-themed tuff tray activity. They used a variety of wooden blocks in different shapes and sizes to create and build their very own mosques.

The children demonstrated wonderful creativity, imagination, and problem-solving skills as they carefully balanced and arranged the blocks to make unique structures. Sand was added to the tuff tray, allowing the children to use their fingers to make marks, patterns, and decorative designs. ✨

This engaging activity supported fine motor development, creativity, communication, and cultural awareness while celebrating Eid in a meaningful and enjoyable way. 💛

Happy Eid! 🌙

📸 Reminder...

Picture Day is on Wednesday 3rd June!

Please make sure to book in if you would like to have your photos taken. We look forward to seeing all your lovely smiles!

⚽ Football Day at Jack and Jill’s Day Nursery ⚽

To celebrate Aston Villa F.C. reaching the Europa League, we held a special Football Day here at Jack and Jill’s Day Nursery.

The children enjoyed a variety of football-themed activities throughout the day. We created a flour tuff tray for the children to explore, using their fingers to make circle shapes just like footballs. The children also had lots of fun decorating biscuits with black and white icing to represent footballs.

Just look at some of our children in their football kits, don’t they look amazing?

We would like to wish Aston Villa F.C. the very best of luck for tonight’s match! ⚽💜

🍓 Fruit Day 🍊

Our children had so much fun making their own fruit cocktails! 🥤✨

The children were able to choose their favourite fruits to add to their bowls and helped to cut up the fruit, supporting the development of their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. We then added fresh orange juice to complete our delicious fruit cocktails. 🍍🍇🍌

We talked together about our favourite fruits and the different colours they come in, exploring healthy eating in a fun and engaging way. 🌈

The children really enjoyed the experience and loved tasting their own creations! 😋

🐞 Insect Week 🕷️

Our toddlers have been learning all about insects this week! 🐜🦋

The children used tweezers to carefully rescue the insects from the spider’s web, helping to develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

We also created our own spider webs using paper plates, string, and spiders. 🕸️ The toddlers had lots of fun getting creative and exploring different textures and materials.

To help keep our insects safe, we worked together as a group to create a bug house using junk modelling. The children showed great teamwork and imagination while building a cosy home for the bugs. 🐛🏠

What a busy and exciting week of learning and creativity! 😊

✨ Self-Portraits ✨

In pre-school, the children used mirrors to carefully look at their facial features and the colour of their hair, eyes, and skin. Each child then used a pencil to draw themselves, creating their very own self-portrait. 🎨🪞

We used paint to match their eye colours and pipe cleaners to represent the colour of their hair. The children were so proud of their creations! 😊

We have displayed the self-portraits around the pre-school for the children to see and celebrate the wonderful work they have made. 💖

🌈✨ Rainbow fun with our little explorers! ✨🌈

Our toddlers have been diving into the magical world of rainbows, learning how they’re made and recognising all the beautiful colours. 🌦️🎨

To bring their learning to life, they created their very own rainbows using paper plates and paints. The children loved choosing the colours they needed and getting creative with their designs. 🖌️💛

Such a bright and joyful activity full of colour, curiosity, and creativity! 🌈

🎀🐣 Easter Bonnet Parade Fun! 🌸✨

We have seen some absolutely amazing Easter bonnets this year! The creativity and effort from the children has been truly wonderful to see each one was unique and full of personality. 💐🐰

We would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all our parents and carers for your continued support. It means so much to us, and we really appreciate all the time and effort you put in. 💛

In our eyes… you are all winners! 🏆🌟