Kelly's Fun Days Childminding-Accredited Provision

This afternoon we dove into the deep blue sea with a simple ocean-themed sensory tray.
It was made up of blue, yellow and green dyed rice, clear jars, scoops, and plastic marine animals. This activity provided lots of rich imaginary play while building essential fine motor skills as the children scooped, poured, and transfered the rice. It is a fantastic way to develop their early language skills and their tactile awareness skills.

Today Gary and I spent the day completing an updated Paediatric First Aid course.
Day 2 of 2!
We refreshed our skills in CPR, choking response, allergic reactions, and managing burns, bleeds and seizures.
As a childminder it is important to have a safe, confident, calm response if an emergency happens.⛑️🤕

Happy National Childminding Week!

To all parents past and present -thank you for trusting me with your little ones. Your trust and partnership helps children feel safe, confident, and ready to explore.
Childminders play a vital role in supporting early development by providing nurturing, consistent care, personalised learning and everyday social experiences that build strong foundations.
Around 90% of the brain develops before the age of 5 years. This just highlights the importance for early education and creating solid foundations for our little people.

Lovely morning spent planting seeds with the children both at the allotment and in the garden.
So what did they plant?
Well they planted rocket, spinach, pumpkins, raddish, carrots and cosmos flowers.
We also looked at how our other plants and seeds are coming on. Things like shallots, potatoes, strawberries, blueberries redcurrant and garlic.
All this and of course we had to search for worms, ants, spiders and anything else we could spot. 🤪

We are on a role!
Silver award now achieved for the green tree school award.

Yesterday we get back from a fabulous morning at the beach and come home to my certificate for our "School Gardening Award".
Now on to level three, we will make a start on that next week. 🙂

We had a beautiful day yesterday exploring this little hidden gem, Lukesland Gardens.
It was a fabulous place to practice colours for one little munchkin and observing different shades of the same for another.
Despite the horrendous winds, once in the place it was well sheltered. Although it was calm where we were we could hear the howling of the wind in the tree tops.
Such a beautiful place and we can't wait to go back.😍

World Earth Day 2026!
The children loved making this in preparation 😀