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We had Ofsted Thursday to do a registration inspection with Nikki to become a childminder at little gems childcare. I am...
03/04/2026

We had Ofsted Thursday to do a registration inspection with Nikki to become a childminder at little gems childcare. I am over the moon to say that she passed with flying colours I am very lucky to have Nikki work alongside our wonderful team of ladies at little gems.
Congratulations Nikki ❤️xx

💎 This week at Little Gems we have joined in with World Book Day, and had a Book Week 💎 Rabbits Nap 🐇💤✨ Small world Wood...
09/03/2026

💎 This week at Little Gems we have joined in with World Book Day, and had a Book Week 💎

Rabbits Nap 🐇💤
✨ Small world Woodland Animals
✨ Rabbits Nap story plus others
✨ Decorating eye masks

Supertato and the Evil Pea 🥔🫛
✨ Supertato and the Evil Pea story plus others
✨ Hunt for the evil peas hidden in the real peas using tweezers
✨ Decorating potato head toys
✨ Making our very own Supertato!

Catch Me If You Can 🐟🐠
✨ Activity table - Sea life small world
✨ Catch me if you can story plus others
✨ Making an under the sea craft

Paper Dolls 👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏽👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏽
✨ Activity table with items from the story
✨ The Paper Dolls story plus others
✨ Making a paper doll craft

Sharing a Shell 🐚
✨ Sharing a Shell story plus others
✨ Sea life small world and finding the hidden shells activity
✨ Decorating and making a Shell craft

Every week the fun activities are helping the children with fine motor skills, colours, maths, shapes, extending vocabulary, expressive arts and design, understanding the world, British values, sharing and turn taking, social development and so much more 🥰

💎 This week at Little Gems we have been exploring Pancake Day and the Chinese New Year - Year of the Horse 💎 Pancake Day...
23/02/2026

💎 This week at Little Gems we have been exploring Pancake Day and the Chinese New Year - Year of the Horse 💎

Pancake Day 🥞🥓🍊🍋🍓
✨ Imaginative play Pancake station
✨ Flip a Pancake craft
✨ Food related stories

Year of the Horse 🐎 🐴
✨ Styling manes on horses
✨ Chinese New Year book
✨ Decorating and threading a horse craft
✨ Making a Chinese lantern

Chinese New Year
✨ Activity table - Chinese meal messy play with coloured rice, scoops, chopsticks and orange, red and yellow ribbons
✨ Making a Chinese style fan

Chinese New Year
✨ Magnetic shapes and weighing activity
✨ Decorating lanterns craft
✨ Chinese New Year colouring
✨ Threading a lantern craft

Every week the fun activities are helping the children with fine motor skills, colours, maths, shapes, extending vocabulary, expressive arts and design, understanding the world, British values, sharing and turn taking, social development and so much more 🥰

💎 This week at Little Gems has been Valentines Week 2 💎 Love Food 🍓✨ Tuff tray activity - Promoting fruit and healthy ea...
14/02/2026

💎 This week at Little Gems has been Valentines Week 2 💎

Love Food 🍓
✨ Tuff tray activity - Promoting fruit and healthy eating
✨ Toy fruit to practice chopping
✨ Love you berry much craft
✨ Coloured toys to look through
✨ Building wooden pebbles

Love Connections 🧩
✨ Magnetic shapes
✨ Waffle bricks
✨ You and Me Always story
✨ Decorate a heart pancake craft
✨ Valentines Bluey colouring

Family love and love monsters 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
✨ Activity table - Small world Happyland families and village
✨ Monster theme story
✨ Love Monster craft

Love is in the air ❤️🎈
✨ Heart maths matching game
✨ Valentines card craft
✨ Valentines sticker activity

Every week the fun activities are helping the children with fine motor skills, colours, maths, shapes, extending vocabulary, expressive arts and design, understanding the world, British values, sharing and turn taking, social development and so much more 🥰
The littles ones made Nanna Pat a card and she absolutely loved it 🥰 x

💎 This week at Little Gems has been Valentines Week 1 💎 Love Bug Day 🐞🐝🪱✨ Tuff tray activity - Small world bug table wit...
09/02/2026

💎 This week at Little Gems has been Valentines Week 1 💎

Love Bug Day 🐞🐝🪱
✨ Tuff tray activity - Small world bug table with sensory items
✨ Love bug craft
✨ Superworm Story
✨ Squash the spider story
✨ Bug themed singing
✨ Insect puzzles

Family Love 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
✨ Small world Peppa pig toys with families and homes
✨ I Love You Mummy story
✨ Make a bunch of flowers craft

Red and Pink Day 🩷❤️
✨ Activity table - Small world My Little Ponies
✨ Storytime
✨ Heart craft with sticking, paint stamping and threading

Valentines Teddy Bear Picnic 🐻☕️🍰
✨ Activity table - teddy bear picnic imaginative play
✨ Valentines Bear craft
✨ Bear themed stories

Love Potions 🫗🌌🧪💜
✨ Activity table - Potions making and lots of sensory creations
✨ Friendship stories
✨ Creating love hearts with paint and soap

Another great action packed week with so much fun and learning 🥰

💎 Last week at Little Gems - has been Animals week 💎 Woodland Animals 🐿🐇🦔🐀🐦🐞🐌🕷✨ Sensory tuff tray play with woodland ani...
27/01/2026

💎 Last week at Little Gems - has been Animals week 💎

Woodland Animals 🐿🐇🦔🐀🐦🐞🐌🕷
✨ Sensory tuff tray play with woodland animal toys
✨ Woodland animal themed puzzles and building blocks
✨ Storytime
✨ Woodland animal footprint and fingerprint craft
✨ Making a Little Gems Woodland animal story

Farm animals 🐑🐄🐖🐎🐐🚜
✨ Small world farm activity table with messy play sections and encouraging imaginative play
✨ Farm themed stories
✨ Sheep painting craft
✨ Singing Old Macdonald Had A Farm

Lion Day 🦁
✨ Activity table - fill in the lions mane with various yellow and orange objects
✨ Lion painting craft
✨ Lion stories

Turtle Day 🐢
✨ Sea life small world activity table
✨ Counting turtles activity
✨ Turtle mosaic craft
✨ Sea life story

This week has been a fun week helping children with fine motor skills, different maths elements, literacy, understanding the world and so much more, through imaginative play and other activities 🥰

💎 This week at Little Gems 💎 For the final week of 2025, we have had an action packed week with all the Christmas trimmi...
22/12/2025

💎 This week at Little Gems 💎

For the final week of 2025, we have had an action packed week with all the Christmas trimmings! 🎅⛄️🎄

✨ Christmas stories
✨ Christmas crafts
✨ Making keepsakes for our loved ones
✨ Christmas singing
✨ Making Christmas cards
✨ Making 2026 calendars
✨ Making magic Reindeer food
✨ Lots of activities and toys
✨ Festive winter walk
✨ Visit from Santa
✨ Snowball fight

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ❤️

Here's to a happy and healthy 2026

💎 This week at Little Gems has been week 1 of Winter/Christmas 💎 Monday - ✨ Winter theme tuff tray with silver, blue an...
06/12/2025

💎 This week at Little Gems has been week 1 of Winter/Christmas 💎

Monday -
✨ Winter theme tuff tray with silver, blue and iridescent stacking balls and cones
✨ Snowman keepsake craft
✨ Little snowflake story
✨ Squirrels snowman story

Tuesday -
✨ Activity table - children's choice of toys
✨ Walk out to collect sticks and look at local Christmas decorations
✨ Santa craft

Wednesday -
✨ Activity table- save stickman from being frozen
✨ Stickman story
✨ Stickman cake craft activity
✨ Stickman colouring

Thursday -
✨ Children's choice for toys on the tuff tray
✨ Christmas fancy dress
✨ Snowman craft

Friday -
✨ Grinch theme activity table - red and green toys
✨ Grinch craft
✨ Grinch dvd

A week with lots of fun activities, crafts, singing and dancing and getting into the festive mood 😊 also celebrated a little gems birthday 🎁

💎 This week at Little Gems - has been Rememberance and Children in Need 💎 Monday - ✨ Children's choices for toys on the...
18/11/2025

💎 This week at Little Gems - has been Rememberance and Children in Need 💎

Monday -
✨ Children's choices for toys on the activity table
✨ Poppy Crafts
✨ Storytime

Tuesday -
✨ Activity table - wooden blocks and Red toys
✨ Poppy Crafts
✨ Outline of poppies for fine motor skills and hand eye coordination

Wednesday -
✨ Activity table- pudsey bear coloured rice and pom poms to give him his spots
✨ 10 Little Friends story
✨ Pudsey crafts
✨ Life is a Rainbow story

Thursday -
✨ Story - adventure of Everywhere Bear
✨ Trip to the park
✨ Pudsey collage craft
✨ Hairdressers and builders role play

Friday -
✨ Pudsey tea party activity table
✨ Water play with yellow water and pom poms
✨ We are all different story
✨ Pudsey bear ear headband craft

Understanding the world development this week, learning about Rememberance and Children in Need. Lots of crafts, storytime, fine motor skills and hand eye coordination, messy and imaginative play 😊

💎 This week at Little Gems - has been Bonfire Night and Fireworks week 💎 Monday - ✨ Colouring station table - Colouring...
18/11/2025

💎 This week at Little Gems - has been Bonfire Night and Fireworks week 💎

Monday -
✨ Colouring station table - Colouring bonfire night pictures
✨ Peppa Pig Zookeeper Story
✨ Little Acorn Story
✨ Firework chalk craft

Tuesday -
✨ Activity table - sticks and yellow/red leaves to create our own bonfires
✨ Making a sparkler with breadsticks, chocolate and sprinkles
✨ Making a firework rocket craft

Wednesday -
✨ Activity table with wooden shapes with coloured acrylic middle, coloured dice, coloured magnet shapes and coloured looking glass
✨ Peppa Pig Nature Trail story
✨ Singing and Dancing
✨ Colouring

Thursday -
✨ Small world activity table - London toys and fire engines for bonfire and guy fawkes
✨ Stickman story
✨ Bonfire and firework craft
✨ Singing and Dancing
✨ Outdoor play

Friday -
✨ Walk out to the shops
✨ Trip to the park
✨ Activity Table - cones with pipe cleaners to make fireworks

Tieing together the bonfire and fireworks events along with the next steps for our little ones, the children have been doing lots of mark making, developing counting and colours, understanding the world, imaginative play and outdoor play, plus so much more!

💎 This week at Little Gems - has been HALLOWEEN week 2 💎 Monday - Black Cat Day 🐈‍⬛️ ✨ Mrs Blackhat story✨ How many days...
17/11/2025

💎 This week at Little Gems - has been HALLOWEEN week 2 💎

Monday - Black Cat Day 🐈‍⬛️
✨ Mrs Blackhat story
✨ How many days til Halloween Story
✨ Halloween Tea Party
✨ Black cat craft
✨ Halloween fancy dress

Tuesday - Witch Day 🧙🏻‍♀️
✨ Room on the broom story
✨ Room on the broom animation dvd
✨ Potion Station activity table
✨ Witch and broom craft
✨ Witch hats and Halloween accessories dress up

Wednesday - Halloween Party Day 🥳🎃
✨ Old Macdonald had a spooky farm story
✨ Trick or Treat story
✨ Halloween Den
✨ Halloween Colouring
✨ Halloween Disco
✨ Pumpkin carving
✨ Decorating Halloween cake/biscuit

Thursday - Mummy Day 🦇🕷🎃
✨ Sensory activity table - digging for mummies and Halloween characters
✨ Bluey Goodnight Fruit Bat story
✨ Spinderella story
✨ Threading mummy craft
✨ Autumnal walk out to the park

Friday - Frankenstein Day 🧟
✨ Frankenstein activity table - threading and sensory bags
✨ Frankenstein craft
✨ Halloween play doh
✨ Halloween stories

A great half term week spent with some of our friends from nursery and school. Keeping up the Halloween theme, doing lots of activities to help with our learning and development. Having outside play in the garden and a trip to the park when the rain holds off long enough 😁

🎃 Happy Halloween everyone 🎃

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Ripley

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