Purple Bees Day Nursery - Hounslow

🌟 Butterfly Education & Awareness Day at Purple Bees Day Nursery! 🦋🌟

Over the past few weeks, the children have been on a wonderful butterfly journey! 🐛🦋 We welcomed caterpillars into the nursery and carefully looked after them, making sure they had everything they needed as they grew. The children enjoyed observing the changes each day, learning about the butterfly life cycle, and talking about what might happen next. Today, on Butterfly Education & Awareness Day, we were delighted to see our butterflies emerge, giving the children a real-life experience of this amazing transformation. It was a fantastic opportunity to inspire curiosity, patience, and a love of nature.

Fun Fact:
Did you know that a butterfly starts its life as a tiny egg before becoming a caterpillar, then a chrysalis, and finally a butterfly? 🐛➡️🦋 This incredible change is called metamorphosis!

Try this at home:
Go on a butterfly hunt in your garden or local park! 🌼🦋 See how many butterflies you can spot together and talk about their colours, patterns, and where they like to land. You could even draw a picture of your favourite butterfly when you get home.

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🌼✨ What a wonderful May we have been having! ✨🌼

Across all of our rooms, the children have been busy exploring, creating, learning and making the most of the beautiful weather outdoors! ☀️🌿

👶 In our Baby Room, the children have been enjoying our garden upgrade and spending lots of time outside role playing in the play house, planting and watering flowers and plants, as well as exploring a wide range of exciting water play experiences. 💦🌱

🚗 In our Toddler Room, we have been getting creative with car painting, watching the wheels make colourful tracks across the trays while exploring key letters through paint activities. The children have also loved caring for our dolls, learning about babies and how we look after them with kindness and care. 🍼❤️

🎨 In Preschool, the children have been keeping active in the garden, jumping to reach targets and learning about risk awareness and how to safely challenge themselves. We have also enjoyed sharing stories independently and with friends, developing fine motor skills using scissors and different materials to create pictures, and using loose parts and natural resources to inspire creativity and counting skills both indoors and outdoors. Our themed tuff trays have also been a huge hit, supporting children’s interests and key areas of learning. 🍃✂️📚

We have also enjoyed celebrating lots of special themed days together across the nursery, including 🐢 Turtle Day, 🇬🇧 VE Day, ☀️ Sun Awareness Week, 🧼 Hand Washing Day and 🐝 Bee Day!

It’s been a month full of smiles, laughter, discovery and fun — and we can’t wait for more adventures ahead

🐝🐢☕ What a fun-filled week we’ve had celebrating World Bee Day, National Turtle Day and Tea Day! ☕🐢🐝

The children have loved exploring and learning through play all week long. 💛

🐢 We went on exciting turtle hunts in the water tray, searching high and low for our hidden turtles!

☕ The children enjoyed making their own cups of tea and coffee using water, milk, sugar, tea bags and coffee granules in our role play area. There were lots of wonderful conversations and imaginative play moments.

🎨 We also got creative by using tea bags to make beautiful marks and pictures on paper — exploring colours, patterns and textures.

🐝 For World Bee Day, the children created their own bees using play dough and used bee sticks and pasta honeycombs to invent imaginative stories and adventures together.

It has been such a lovely week full of creativity, curiosity and hands-on learning. 🌟

✨ Fun Facts ✨

🐝 World Bee Day is celebrated on 20th May to help raise awareness of the important role bees play in pollinating the food we eat.

🐢 National Turtle Day is celebrated on 23rd May and encourages everyone to protect turtles and their natural habitats.

☕ International Tea Day is celebrated on 21st May — and tea is one of the most popular drinks in the world after water!

✨ April Highlights ✨

What a busy and exciting month we have had across the nursery! The children have been exploring, creating, learning and having so much fun through play 🌿🎨💦

👶 Baby Room have been busy:
🍃 Painting with natural resources — exploring different textures, colours and sensory experiences from the world around us.
🐰 Sharing action nursery rhymes, with Sleeping Bunnies being our absolute favourite! Singing and movement activities help support language development, listening skills and confidence.
🌱 Taking part in planting activities — learning how things grow while developing patience, curiosity and care for nature.

🧸 Toddler Room have been busy:
🐠 Exploring sea creature tuff trays full of imaginative and sensory play opportunities.
🧮 Counting and sorting coloured bears — building early maths skills such as counting, matching and colour recognition.
🍼 Washing the babies in our role play area — encouraging nurturing behaviour, communication and social development.
🌿 Investigating nature and herb tuff trays using their senses to explore different smells, textures and materials.
🎨 Getting creative with painting activities to support self-expression and fine motor development.

🎓 Preschool have been busy:
🌍 Learning about Earth, how to care for it and exploring our natural world — helping children understand the importance of kindness to our planet.
🏴 Celebrating St George’s Day through themed activities and discussions.
☕ Enjoying tea and coffee role play experiences to develop communication, imagination and turn-taking skills.
💦 Making the most of outdoor water play with spray bottles, coloured water painting and transporting activities — exploring concepts such as full and empty while strengthening coordination and problem-solving skills.
🦖 Investigating dinosaur-themed table set ups that sparked curiosity, storytelling and imaginative play.
🍊 Taking part in fruit and vegetable cutting and squeezing activities to strengthen hand muscles and develop fine motor control.
⭕ Practising throwing hoops onto cones to support hand-eye coordination and concentration.
🧗 Challenging themselves on the climbing wall, developing confidence, balance and gross motor skills.

We are so proud of all the children for their enthusiasm, creativity and curiosity throughout April 💛 We can’t wait for more adventures in May!

April was International Pets Month and we loved every moment of celebrating the special bond between little ones and their little friends! 🐾💜
Did you know that growing up around animals can support children's emotional development, boost their confidence, and even help with language skills? Pets are some of the best teachers around! 🐶🐱🐰
Does your child have a pet at home?

🌟 Tell us about them in the comments — we'd love to hear all about their furry, feathered, or scaly best friend! 👇

Kids who love the Earth today are the ones who protect it tomorrow. 🌍

At Purple Bees, every day is Earth Day — we're raising little ones who notice the flowers, cheer for the bees, and treat this planet like the gift it is.
Happy Earth Day 💜

🐣 Happy Easter from all of us at Purple Bees Day Nursery! 🌸
Wishing our wonderful families a joyful, egg-filled Easter weekend full of laughter, love, and lots of chocolate! 🍫🐰
We feel so lucky to spend our days nurturing and watching your little ones grow — thank you for being part of our Purple Bees family. 💜
We'll see you back after the Easter break, refreshed and ready for more fun, learning, and adventures together!
🌷 From all the team at Purple Bees Day Nursery 🌷

🌸🐣 Easter at Purple Bees Day Nursery! 🐣🌸

This week, our little learners had a joyful time celebrating Easter! The children got creative making their own Easter baskets, enjoyed sticking and drawing activities, and explored exciting tuff trays filled with themed treasures. They practiced their fine motor skills by using tweezers to carefully pick up tiny eggs, and had so much fun making delicious chocolate nests using shredded cereal, decorating them with colourful treats, mini chicks, and lots of imagination! It was a week full of creativity, sensory play, and smiles all around. 🌈✨

Fun Fact:
Did you know that baby chicks can communicate with their mothers before they even hatch from their eggs? 🐥 They make tiny peeping sounds from inside the shell!

Try this at home:
Why not make your own Easter nests together? Melt some chocolate, mix it with shredded cereal, and shape it into little nests. Once set, let your child decorate with small sweets or fruit to create their own Easter masterpiece! 🍫🪺

Sandwich-making time at Purple Bees is all about curiosity, creativity, and hands-on learning 🥪

Our little chefs are layering, choosing their favourite ingredients, and discovering the joy of creating something on their own. From spreading to stacking, these simple steps help children build confidence, develop fine motor skills, and learn everyday routines in a fun and engaging way.

Watching them get involved, make their own choices, and feel proud of their creations is what makes these moments so special 💛

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