Garden House Nursery Ipswich

We are a childcare setting with children aged from birth to five years, with experienced staff who a

Operating as usual

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 10/07/2023

๐ŸŒป๐Ÿฅ”The Sunflowers have enjoyed harvesting the potatoes we have been growing in the garden. The children were very excited to see that some really big potatoes had grown too! ๐Ÿฅ”๐ŸŒป
๐ŸŒป๐ŸŒ๐Ÿฆ‹We also found some snails and watched the butterflies as they flew from plant to plant ๐Ÿฆ‹๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒป

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 21/06/2023

โค๏ธThank you to all the parents/carers that were able to join us for our Father's Day activity morning! We loved having you all join us and the children were all very excited to see you!! โค๏ธ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 14/06/2023

๐Ÿ†๐ŸŽ–We have had lots of fun taking part in our Sports Day! The children all did very well with the Hurdles, Egg and Spoon, Running races as well as a Bean Bag Throw!๐ŸŽ–๐Ÿ†
โญ๏ธ Thank you to all of the parents/carers who came to cheer us all on, an even bigger THANK YOU! to all the parents/carers who joined in with our adult races!! โญ๏ธ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 02/06/2023

๐Ÿฆ–๐Ÿฆ•๐Ÿ”This week we have celebrated Dinosaur Day! We have explored frozen dinosaur eggs using our hands and tools to try breaking the dinosaurs free, stomped our favourite dinosaurs in paint to experiment with mixing colours and making footprints on a large floor painting! We even got the opportunity to see some fossils that a child shared from home with us! ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿฆ•๐Ÿฆ–
๐Ÿฆ•๐Ÿฆ–Daisies had fun making dinosaur tracks by dipping the dinosaurs feet into different coloured paints.๐Ÿฆ•๐Ÿฆ–

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 19/05/2023

๐ŸThis week we have been celebrating World Bee Day! We have used finger painting to print and make our own bee paintings, dressing up as bumblebee's planted bee friendly flowers in our garden and discussed why bees are so important for our environments!๐Ÿ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 02/05/2023

๐Ÿ“šNational Library Week ๐Ÿ“š
๐ŸŒปSunflowers have been celebrating by practicing our chopping skills using children's knives to cut fruit and used their spoons to add and mix ingredients to make Gruffalo Crumble biscuits. We have made our own Library cards and joined in with our Library and book shop role play๐ŸŒป
In poppies we have been practicing and recognising our numbers placing numbers 1-10 on Jack's beanstalk. We also have been practicing noticing hard and soft items and so making porridge for Goldilocks and the three bears ๐Ÿป

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 11/04/2023

๐Ÿฐ๐ŸฃWe have all enjoyed a variety of Easter Activities throughout the setting! From making Easter cakes for our party, going on an egg hunt outside, making Easter bonnets at home to share for our parade and crafts throughout the week! ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿฃ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 30/03/2023

๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿป๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฟโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ’ช๐ŸปThe Poppies have transformed their role play area into Poppies Gym, they have explored a variety of ways to move and discuss how their bodies were feeling after exercise๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿพโ€โ™€๏ธ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 03/03/2023

๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŒŽWORLD BOOK DAY!
The Sunflowers enjoyed a trip to Waterstones to exchange some of our book tokens, we discussed the different shops on the way and spoke about the directions and routes we would need to walk! We have drawn our own illustrations for stories and re enacted The Gruffalo in a Gruffalo Crumble malleable tray.
Poppies have been making fruit kebabs for the hungry caterpillar story and practising our cutting skills with the knives, they have been making their own book marks. Sunflowers and Poppies also enjoyed visiting our role play library taking in turns to read each other stories
Daisies have been exploring different fruits from the Handa's Surprise story and a Dear Zoo story tray enveloping, posting and opening parcels from the Zoo!๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ“š

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 24/02/2023

๐ŸฅžWe have had lots of fun celebrating Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day this week! The Sunflowers have been making their own pancake mixes in the malleable tray, listening to Mr Wolf's Pancakes story as well as picking their own toppings for our Pancake Snack! The Poppies have been practicing their pancake flipping and Daisies have tried scooping and mixing their pancake ingredients!๐Ÿฅž

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 17/02/2023

โค๏ธ๐Ÿ’•We have all enjoyed celebrating Valentine's Day this week ๐Ÿ’•โค๏ธ We have taken part in lots of arts and crafts, sending and receiving cards from each other! We have discussed about a range of emotions and feelings, talking about what makes us feel loved and how we could show or let others know our feelings ๐Ÿ˜„
A big THANK YOU to our families who were able to come and join the children and staff for our Valentine's Lunch! We loved having you here! ๐Ÿ˜Š

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 08/02/2023

๐Ÿ’ŒThis week we have been celebrating Send a card to a friend day! The Sunflowers turned their roleplay into a Post Office to send lots of cards to their friends and family!
The Poppies decorated beautiful cards to deliver to their friends in Sunflowers and Daisies!
Daisies have been decorating lots of lovely cards and letters with stampers and crayons to send to each other! ๐Ÿ’Œ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 02/02/2023

๐ŸŒปThis week the Sunflowers have enjoyed taking part in National Storytelling Week! We have taken part in a variety of activities from number recognition on our alien underpants, hanging them on small and large washing lines, going on a bear hunt in our malleable tray feeling and exploring different textures! We have also been painting our own story illustrations! ๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ–Œ๐ŸŒป
๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿ“šThank you to all the children who also brought in their favourite stories from home to share!๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“–๐ŸŒป

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 31/01/2023

๐ŸงฉFor National Puzzle Day we have enjoyed a variety of different puzzles, we tried 8,12,16 and even a 26 piece alphabet puzzle. The Sunflowers worked together to problem solve and communicate different ways they could experiment with he pieces to fit them into place! Good Work Sunflowers!
The Daisies and Poppies have been experimenting with the inset puzzle boards and shape sorters, passing each other pieces to try and fit into the correct shapes! Well Done Daisies & Poppies!๐Ÿงฉ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 23/01/2023

๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ This week we have taken part in lots of activities to celebrate Chinese New Year! We have been helping to decorate a dragon head for our parade, tea making, noodles and rice malleable trays, making red and gold playdough๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿฒ
We even got to have a turn using a Chinese Lion head for our parade which was shared by one of our families from home!!๐Ÿฆ
๐Ÿฅข๐Ÿฅ ๐ŸœWe have all enjoyed trying a variety of different foods such as, Vegetable Spring Rolls, Prawn Crackers, Sweet and Sour Chicken and Noodles ๐Ÿœ๐Ÿฅ ๐Ÿฅข

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 17/01/2023

๐ŸŒปThe Sunflowers children have helped to celebrate MLK Day today by discussing their different dreams and ideas for the world, we spoke about being kind to everyone and how we can help others, we have had lots of stories about being kind to others and talking about different feelings๐ŸŒป
๐ŸŒนThe Poppies have taken part in making some origami doves and catching them in the air outside๐ŸŒน

23/12/2022

๐ŸŽ„Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year from everyone at GHN! We hope you have a fantastic time and we will see you all in 2023!!๐ŸŽ„

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 22/12/2022

๐ŸŽ„The children have enjoyed participating in our Christmas Party this week๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŽ We played musical bumps, danced and sang to Christmas music playing pass the parcel and even had a visit from Father Christmas ๐ŸŽ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 16/12/2022

๐ŸŽ„โ˜ƒ๏ธIt has been lovely being able to invite parents in for our Christmas Craft Activity Morning and our Christmas Lunch!๐Ÿฝโ„๏ธ๐ŸŽ„Thank you to all of those parents who could join us for these celebrationsโ˜ƒ๏ธ๐ŸŽ„

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 02/12/2022

๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ŸŽŠThis week we have been celebrating St. Andrew's day, we have enjoyed making Scottish Thistle hand painting, exploring Scottish Oats in the malleable tray, making Loch Ness in the playdough and learning a highland dance ๐ŸŽŠ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 02/12/2022

The Sunflowers are getting ready to turn into Elves and help in the Elves Workshop ๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ”จ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 21/11/2022

๐ŸปWe have celebrated Children in Need this week having lots of fun with spotty patterned, Pudsey bear and Pyjama related activities. We scrunched up tissue paper to make spots for our Blush and Pudsey headbands, Pom Pom colour matching, spotty Pudsey biscuit making and lots more! A BIG Thank you to everyone who donated!! ๐Ÿป

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 11/11/2022

โคIn honour of Remembrance Day, we watched a short animation about the event and decorated our own Poppiesโค

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 04/11/2022

We are ready for Bonfire night ๐Ÿ˜€
We set up a 'Food Stand' that sells all the traditional bonfire snacks, we have watched firework displays, built "bonfires", talked about bonfire safety, made edible "sparklers" for snack as well as lots more firework themed activities.๐ŸŽ†๐Ÿงจ๐ŸŽ‡

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 02/11/2022

The Daisies had lots of fun dressing up, making pumpkin shaped jam tarts and dancing to Halloween music for our Halloween party ๐ŸŽƒ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 02/11/2022

A selection of Halloween activities that have been on offer for Sunflowers and our costumes - we also played party games like musical bumps and pass the parcel!๐ŸŽƒ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 28/10/2022

The Daisies have had lots of fun mark making this week, we used sticks and rollers to paint and explored moving paint around in bubble wrap๐Ÿ–Œ๐ŸŽจ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 28/10/2022

This week, the Poppies opened their very own role play coffee shop! We made staff badges and cups as well as using real coffee beans for sensory playโ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 28/10/2022

The Sunflowers Room is ready for Halloween next week! ๐ŸŽƒ We have a Haunted House - Sunflowers' Doll House has turned into a Haunted Mansion! ๐Ÿ’€ Complete With:
- A Giant Pumpkin ๐ŸŽƒ
- Super Spooky Rugs ๐Ÿ„
- Slime Splattered Walls ๐Ÿ’š
- Pet Spiders ๐Ÿ•ท
- Sacred Skulls ๐Ÿ’€
- Bewitching Bunting ๐Ÿ”ฎ
- Fancy Dressed Dolls ๐Ÿฆ„
We have lots of fun and exciting activities ready for next week, we have set up a Halloween maths table, Halloween collaging and pumpkin seed trays

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 26/10/2022

๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•๐ŸชThe Sunflowers have been enjoying a food week to celebrate World Food Day. We have taken part in a variety of food activities, we have explored different textures in the jelly play, flour play, custard play, cooked pasta malleable tray. We have also taken part in a variety of cooking activities, we made, Calzones, Gingerbread men, Shortbread biscuits and fruit kebabs for snack๐Ÿ‰๐Ÿ‡ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒป

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 20/10/2022

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿš’๐Ÿš“๐Ÿš‘The Sunflowers celebrated '999 Day', we discussed different emergency services and how they help us, we also used the emergency vehicles and small world models to print and look at the different tyre tracks and footprints they made on their paper ๐Ÿ‘ฎโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿง‘โ€โš•๏ธ๐Ÿš’

A big THANK YOU to all of the Emergency services from everyone at GHN

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 17/10/2022

๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ‹๐ŸŽIt's been cooking week in Poppies! The children have been making lots of food using a variety of utensils to make pizza, cakes and fruit kebabs as well as having some fruity sensory water play and using real food for role play๐Ÿ๐Ÿซ•๐Ÿซ–๐ŸŒธ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 12/10/2022

๐ŸŒผ๐Ÿข๐Ÿ„The Daisies have been celebrating World animal day exploring a malleable tray with couscous, lentils, flour and pasta pieces. They made some animal sounds while moving the animals through the different resources and listening to the pasta crunching as they stamped๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒผ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 12/10/2022

๐ŸŒปProject Sandpit!๐ŸŒป

Sunflowers helped to empty out all of the sand from the sandpit ready for a new liner to be added!
They all grabbed a shovel, a ladle or even just got stuck in with their hands and worked hard to scoop up as much as they could!

Good job Sunflowers! ๐ŸŒป

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 12/10/2022

๐ŸŒผThis week the Daisies have been practicing their walking skills, becoming more confident and independent with every step! Well Done Daisies!! ๐ŸŒผ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 12/10/2022

๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ•The Sunflowers have been pretending to make pizza in the role play area. We then made some real pizza, we made the pizza dough together and then kneaded it out and added on the toppings they wanted. The Sunflowers did really well with using spoons to spread and knives to cut their vegetables!๐Ÿ•๐ŸŒป

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 04/10/2022

The Poppies have been enjoying some builder's role play this week! Learning about using tools and safety

04/10/2022

๐Ÿฆ‡๐Ÿด๐Ÿ ๐ŸHappy World Animal Day from everyone at GHN!๐Ÿป๐Ÿง๐Ÿ‹๐ŸŠ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 03/10/2022

๐ŸŒป๐ŸŒนThe Sunflowers and Poppies children enjoyed a visit from some Guinea Pigs "Honey" and "Matilda"! ๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒป
We spoke before the visit about how we thought they would look, feel and sound like, we looked online at different types of Guinea Pigs and predicted together what colour we thought they would be and how their hair would look. The children were all very excited to have a turn holding and stoking them gently and feeding them some Dill and Spinach leaves๐Ÿน๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฑ

Photos from Garden House Nursery Ipswich's post 03/10/2022

๐ŸŒปThe Sunflowers have been very interested in People Who Help Us recently, we took on many different occupations from Paramedics, Ambulance drivers, Doctors, Nurses, Vets, Refuse collectors, Sea animal ice rescuers, Fire fighters and Police officers. The children explored and enjoyed sharing different outfits that were shared from home from their parents professions too!๐Ÿ‘ฎโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ท๐Ÿง‘โ€โš•๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿš’๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ฌ

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