Knighton Day Nursery

I’m a little teapot… in the sand! ☕️🏖️
How wonderful are these miniature teapots, lovingly sourced from a local charity shop!🥰 They’ve been the perfect little tools for our children to scoop, pour and tip the sand, while also carefully matching and placing the lids on top! We love finding ways to give everyday and pre loved items a new purpose in our nursery!

Colourful ice cornflour to keep the children cool this afternoon🎨

Summer days are made for getting creative! 🌸 The children explored flowers, leaves, and vibrant paints, experimenting with colours, textures, and prints to create beautiful nature inspired masterpiece. 🌿✨

Ready for another curious day here at nursery… 💫✨

Knighton Summer Artists… 🎨🖌️ What a delight to explore paint amongst the blooming sunflowers. We are ever so lucky here at Knighton to have a huge garden where we can be creative.. 🎨 Placing paint pallets, nature and using recycled kitchen worktops the children can explore paint, printing and mark making on different surfaces at different levels!

Pre-school children create summer fruit drinks to support their role playing🍹

Tiny wings, big dreams, and endless adventures in our fairy corner!🧚‍♀️🌈

Large scale sand play 🤎⏳

Over the past few weeks, we’ve noticed a growing fascination with sand. The children have loved exploring how it feels, how it pours, moves, and changes with every touch

To support this curiosity, we took the sand out of the tray and onto the floor, creating a large scale sensory invitation that encouraged whole body exploration. With wooden spoons, teacups, and a selection of natural materials, the children immersed themselves in rich, open ended play. They sprinkled sand over their toes, created mountains, threaded natural treasures into the sand, and explored at their own pace.

As we head through the summer, we’d love to see how the children have been exploring sand at home too! Whether it’s in the garden, at the park, or on the beach during a holiday, please share your photos and experiences with us on our parent app⏳🏖️

☀️🌼 Our wonderful Summer Senses Outdoor Kitchen is in full bloom! 🌻🪻

Surrounded by beautiful summer flowers and filled with generous donations of fragrant lavender, our outdoor kitchen has been buzzing with creativity. With whisks, ladles, teapots and plenty of imagination, the children have been mixing up the most sensational summer creations! 💜🌿

There’s no better place to explore, create, and enjoy the sunshine together. We love making magical summer memories outdoors! ☀️✨

A little snapshot of what we have been up to this morning…🥰

Picking and collecting seeds from our sunflower heads :)

Making delightful tea recipes with authentic resources :)

Organising our new cups and plates sourced from croft car boot ☕️

Small scale sand.. ⏳

How many seeds can we find?

Lavender playdough…. 💜

Posting the pompoms, how many can we fit down the tube?

Whisking away with the dried petals and herbs 💐🌼🪻