Little Houghton Day Nursery

We believe everyone is still growing.
That’s why everything we do is built around helping humans thrive - children, families, and teams alike.

The Old Station Nursery Group | We Grow Good Humans We grow good humans — little and big — and the communities they hel...

🍃 Loose Parts & Emotions 🍃
The children explored emotions by creating self-portraits using natural resources such as leaves, petals, and wooden rings. They carefully selected and arranged the materials to represent their facial features and express how they were feeling.

Through discussions about different emotions, the children developed their emotional awareness and vocabulary while using their creativity and imagination. The activity also supported fine motor skills as they manipulated and positioned the loose parts to create their unique portraits.

This engaging experience encouraged self-expression, confidence, and meaningful conversations about feelings.

🌈 Colour mixing & large scale mark making 🌈
The Preschool room have explored mark-making using a variety of tools and materials to create different lines, shapes, patterns, and textures. They enjoyed expressing their creativity while developing their fine motor skills.

The children also explored the colour wheel, identifying different colours and learning about primary and secondary colours. Through hands-on paint mixing, they discovered how combining colours creates new ones, such as red and yellow making orange, and blue and yellow making green.

This fun activity encouraged creativity, curiosity, and early understanding of colour while supporting communication and problem-solving skills.

Our story began in a railway station — with one simple idea: create a place where people feel at home.
That idea still guides us today.

The Old Station Nursery | Once Upon a Time We grow good humans — little and big — and the communities they hel...

We’ve grown—and our look has too.
But the care, connection, and community you know? That’s exactly the same.
Come and discover our new chapter.

The Old Station Nursery Group | Our Journey --Who we are: The Old Station Nursery Group was established in 2...

Wednesday Walks 👣🌳
Today the children enjoyed a lovely walk to the Scouts field where they explored the wonders of nature together. 🌿☀️
Along the way, the children discovered a “Stick Man family tree,” using their imaginations to create stories and identify different sticks and branches. They also enjoyed making beautiful daisy chains, carefully threading the flowers together while developing their fine motor skills and patience. 🌼
We also explored our physical development with a game of frisbee!
The children were fascinated by the bright yellow buttercups growing in the grass and enjoyed exploring them closely, noticing their colour and delicate petals. It was a wonderful opportunity for the children to connect with nature, use their creativity, and enjoy the outdoors with their friends. 💛

Happy Friday from the Toddler Room! 🌟
We hope you all have a very lovely weekend! 💛

🔢✨ Celebrating World Numeracy Day ✨🔢
Our preschool children had lots of fun taking part in an adult-led maths game to celebrate World Numeracy Day! 🌟

The children enjoyed spinning the dial, identifying the number it landed on, and carefully matching it to the correct number of bubbles on their cards.

This exciting activity encouraged number recognition, counting skills, turn taking, and problem solving while making maths fun and engaging through play-based learning. 😊

🐝🌼 Celebrating World Bee Day 🌼🐝

Today our little learners had so much fun exploring the wonderful world of bees! 💛
The babies enjoyed creating their very own bees and placing them into the hive, developing their creativity and fine motor skills. 🐝🏡

Our toddlers became busy little bee keepers, using playdough to make delicious “honey” while learning all about how bees work together in the hive. 🍯✨

A lovely day full of sensory play, creativity, and learning about these amazing little pollinators! 🐝💛