The Village Childcare

This morning we’ve been using a range of different tools for mark making with paint 🎨 mark making provides the foundations for early drawing and writing, making it such an important step in early years development

Messy play just got a lot more fun! We’re so excited to try out our new play tray from Inspire My Play 🌈

A fun Autumn activity, we collected leaves on our walk and then stuck them to frames to create beautiful autumnal pictures! This activity encouraged lots of conversation about the seasons and how we can see the change to autumn by looking at all the different colours in the leaves! 🍂

Enjoying free play in the garden! Although we often enjoy structured play with activities, free play is just as important in children's development. Free play encourages problem solving, creativity and decision making, whilst also development skills such as independence and emotional regulation!

Teddy bear picnic! Today we enjoyed a picnic in the shade, we read the teddy bear picnic book and then did a sticking activity indoors

Our new water wall for the garden! The children enjoyed pouring the water into the tubes and watching it pour onto the patio. This activity helped with our colour sorting, as the children picked out a colour jug and matched it to the correct coloured tube, as well as developing those motor skills!

With the beautiful weather this morning we decided to pack up lunch and head down to the park for a play and a picnic!

Fun at the zoo! 🐍 🫏 🦜

The children enjoyed playing in the garden this morning even though it did rain on us! ☔️ they spent most of the morning filling up the pots under the tap, and then pouring the water into other pots around the garden🚰

Colour sorting! Matching the coloured Pom poms to the right slot using the giant tweezers 🟢🔴🟣