Houghton le spring play group

15/10/2026

A nod to Autumn with leaf shaped collage and hedgehogs 🦔 as well as the end of Houghton Feast for another year, before looking forward to Halloween 🦇 activities over the next week or two!
Come and join us 🎃🙂.

08/10/2026

Hello, lots of enquiries about where we are.

We are here!

The blind centre building is next to the play park in houghton, next to the police station.

We have lots of spaces if anyone new would like to join. We open Thursdays term 9.30.

17/09/2026

Settling into the Autumn term with a range of Autumn-focused activities including glue and stick squirrels; a turn-taking, counting hedgehog game; throwing practice in readiness for Houghton Feast 😁; and a collection of sticks ( who doesn't like sticks!) to describe, order and make shapes or whatever your imagination prompts 🤔. Which would be your little one's favourite activity, I wonder?

03/09/2026

As Summer melts into Autumn - season of mellow mists and fruitfulness - we begin our Autumn activities. Come and see, stay and play 🐿🦔🕸🍂.

13/08/2026

A mini safari led to the welcome of some new visitors this morning in the shape of ladybirds at various stages of their lifecycle, and as a result we revisited the ladybug game...one of our favourites 😄. We also continued our seaside theme at the craft table as well as the ever popular picture hunt and sandpit! Meanwhile, fun on the slide had no age limit!!

06/08/2026

It has been lovely to welcome back past friends who have joined us for some holiday fun as well as our regulars 🥰.
Today we have started a seaside theme, using white, blue and green glass pebbles to create wave patterns as well as a limited colour palette of shades of blue to make a sea painting. We have made knickerbocker ice-creams at the games table as well as the ever-popular sand pit and some clever young people managed to hang all the monkeys on the tree without any of them falling off 😲! If you are at a loose end why not come and join us? See you there!!

15/07/2026

Caterpillar game in action!

15/07/2026

Following on from the release of our butterfly (😢 only one made it this year from caterpillar to butterfly) we have carried on with our butterfly theme. There were squeals of delight as our caterpillar game wriggled and challenged our hand/eye co-ordination, and our creativity was released in our butterfly paintings (see what I did there?). Budding stylists were also captivated by our hairdressing/beauty corner 🥰. I wonder what we will be exploring tomorrow? Come and join us on our next adventure 😁.

25/06/2026

25/06/2026

Looks like we got them into their new home just in time! A new arrival this afternoon 😲.