Sarah Stoddart Childminding

27/08/2026

🧚 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♂️ FAIRY GARDEN 🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️🧚

How cute are these?! Up Dunnikier woods opposite the Sensory Garden. So peaceful and special. The children have loved walking around the Fairy Trail looking at all the decorative wood cookies, painted stones, fairy houses, butterflies on trees, some animals & birds & so much more if you go deeper in. Highly recommend. Bring stone of your own wooden fairy doors & stones to add to the Fairy Garden x

22/08/2026

Girls are super happy after their first visit to Orchard cake shed! Me too after picking up a delicious GF treat 🤤 definitely will be back & highly recommend! Thank you! 🧁

18/08/2026

Highly recommend NRJ Dance Company to all children. They do such a huge range of dance classes for all ages. My 2 girls went there and loved it, also fab holidays camps too xx

Our mission is to provide a nurturing and inspiring space where dancers of all ages and abilities can grow in confidence, unleash their creativity, and forge meaningful friendships, while building strong skills

🔗 BOOK HERE: https://shorturl.at/lpKTc

16/08/2026

This week’s free guide is all about Starting School.

Starting school is a huge milestone — and while we often focus on uniforms, lunchboxes and learning, there is so much happening emotionally too.

New people. New routines. New expectations. Separation from familiar adults. Busy classrooms. Tired bodies. And lots of feelings that may not appear until a child gets safely home.

I’ve created this guide to help families think beyond simply being ready for school and focus on helping children feel safe, prepared and emotionally supported as they take this enormous step.

Inside, I look at preparing emotionally, building familiarity, practising routines, managing drop-off, supporting those first weeks and helping children decompress after the school day.

The free guide launches today and is available until 24 August 2026.
See visual for instructions on how to receive your copy. Tag someone for whom this could be useful.

09/08/2026

🟣 Primary 1 2026-2027 Cohort 🟣

See below from Wonderworld, Kirkcaldy!

🎒✨ Starting Primary 1 in Kirkcaldy this August? This is for you!

Join us for our Primary 1 Play & Meet, a fun, relaxed session where future classmates can play together, build confidence and make new friends before school starts.

🍎 2-hour play session
🤝 Fun icebreaker activities
🎁 Every child receives a special WonderWorld gift
👨‍👩‍👧 Siblings are welcome too
💙 Just £9.95 per child

📅 Monday 10th August – Wednesday 12th August
📍 WonderWorld Kirkcaldy

Tag your child’s school, nursery & fellow P1 parents so everyone can get involved 👇

🎟️Book now - https://wonderworldgroup.info/wwkirkcaldyp1

03/08/2026

Tomorrows is cancelled! 😢

Playday Roadshow Update ☔

Unfortunately, Tuesday 4th August Session in Riverside Park, Glenrothes is CANCELLED due to forecast heavy rain. Our next session will be at Lochore Meadows Country Park on Wednesday 5th August.

Apologies for any inconvenience and hopefully we will see you all later in the week. 🙂

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02/08/2026

This is always such a good day out. Lots of activities for the kids and always jumping to someone you know. Free and keeps the kids entertained for hours. Lots of different locations over the week so enjoy!

10 Days to go until Fife’s National Playday Roadshow! 😁

Come along and join the fun during the first week of August and take part in a variety of different activities for children, young people and families to enjoy!

Active Fife , Fife Active Schools , Early Years, Fife Council Out of School Clubs and Play on Wheels will be joining the fun with us providing a wide variety of playful activities. 🎾⚽️🎨🎭


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10/07/2026

🪼 Week 1 of the Summer ‘26 🪼

This week we have been out every morning and sometimes out for lunch. We have been at Seafield beach, Leven Skate Park & Play Park, Ravenscraig & Hollybrae’s “Double Park”. The weather has been good to us this first week, it’s made the week go by so quick. Children have loved the garden, the new outdoor toys, the mud kitchen, chalk, water and everything else. Only working Monday before going away for 2 weeks so made a wee space ready. Plans are to meet childminder friends so that will be a busy one at that park!!

10/07/2026

Day at work in the summer holidays when the weather is being kind to us! First week nearly done! It had gone fast but think it’s because of the weather being so nice, makes such a difference.

I have decided going forward, due to AI & other factors, I no longer will be sharing photos of children showing their faces. If I do, the children will be my own if it happens. I will make a conscious effort to update our floorbook and share our activities that way. This is the best way to keep our children safe online. This may mean less photos but trust me, we are always busy!!

23/06/2026

Come along and join the fun at Riverside Park, Glenrothes on Tuesday 4th August as we celebrate play in Fife with our National Playday Roadshow! 😃

We will be joined by Active Fife , Fife Active Schools , Early Years, Fife Council Out of School Clubs and Play on Wheels who will be running a variety of different activities for children, young people and families throughout the week! 🤸⚽️🎨

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