Bonita's Childminding Services

The children have had a wonderful week!

They thoroughly enjoyed watering the plants and picking fresh vegetables at the allotment, taking great pride in helping to care for the garden.

We also had a fantastic trip to Wildcatz Soft Play, where the children loved exploring both the indoor and outdoor play areas. The zip line was a particular favourite, with lots of smiles and laughter throughout the day.
Another highlight was our bike ride to Durrington Park. The children had great fun feeding the swans and ducks by the river before enjoying the park together. We also visit the new park in Amesbury.

We visited the meadow on Salisbury Plain, where they enjoyed catching grasshoppers and butterflies exploring the forest area, and running freely while discovering nature and using their imaginations.

The children also enjoyed making delicious banana and chocolate chip muffins. They took turns adding the ingredients, carefully mixed everything together, and spooned the mixture into cupcake cases before they were baked. It was a lovely activity that encouraged turn-taking, following instructions, and developing independence in the kitchen.

Today, we finished the week with a fun, nature-inspired art activity. We mixed water with turmeric and cinnamon before transferring it into spray bottles. The children used a variety of tools, including spoons, paintbrushes, bowls, and different leaves, to explore colour, texture, and creativity on paper. We then added blackberries to create even more beautiful colours. This was a huge hit, and the children thoroughly enjoyed experimenting, exploring, and expressing their creativity.

I can't believe it's the end of the summer term, how fast has that gone?

This week, we spent some time at the allotment, where we watered the plants together. The children loved watering the sunflower seeds they had planted themselves and were so excited to see how much they had grown. They also had lots of fun exploring the mud kitchen and using the diggers in the sand.

We had a lovely morning at Wildcatz, where the children worked together to build an obstacle course using the soft play equipment. It was wonderful to see their teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills shining through.

At play group this week, we celebrated with a fantastic Summer Party! The children had great fun playing with balloons and bubbles, dancing, and spending time with their friends. It was a lovely way to finish such a fun-filled week.

Thank you for choosing Bonita's Childminding Services. Have a wonderful summer break and see everyone back in September!

Over the last two weeks, the children have had lots of fun exploring our football tuff tray. They enjoyed using the characters to kick the little ball and score goals, while playing happily alongside their friends and developing their social skills. They also had a great time kicking footballs into the goal out on the field.

We were very excited to welcome some tadpoles to our pond last week. The children all helped to carefully release them into their new home and loved watching them swim away. We can't wait to see how they grow and change over the coming weeks!

We had a lovely visit to the allotment, where the children helped to water the plants and picked some delicious vegetables. They really enjoyed learning about how plants grow and taking part in caring for the garden.

The children had a fantastic time at Wildcatz, making the most of both the indoor soft play area and the outdoor space, where they enjoyed climbing, sliding, and exploring.

Role play has been a real favourite recently. The children have loved preparing and serving pretend food, including burgers, pizzas, decorated cakes, and many other tasty creations. This imaginative play has encouraged creativity, communication, and teamwork.

The children have also been enjoying building with the Duplo blocks, which has become a firm favourite. They have created lots of wonderful models, shared their ideas with one another, and have been very proud of their achievements.
We have also enjoyed lots of outdoor fun, including bubbles and music at the park, water play, water balloons, and flying aeroplanes. It has been wonderful to see the children having so much fun while developing their confidence, coordination, and friendships.

🌞 Summer Holiday Childcare Available 🌞
From 20th July to 7th August 🕗 8:00am – 5:00pm

Fun-filled days with plenty of activities, including:
🎨 Arts and crafts
🧱 Building and construction activities
💦 Water play
🌳 Walks to local parks and the river
🚗 Exciting outings planned to suit children of all ages and interests.

Based in Bulford, providing a safe, caring, and stimulating environment where children can have fun, make friends, and enjoy their summer holidays.

📩 Please get in touch for more information or to check availability. Bonita's Childminding Services

Happy Friday! ☀️

What a crazy week we've had! While the schools had to close because of the heat, Bonita's Childminding Services remained open and made sure the children had plenty of opportunities to stay hydrated and keep cool.

We had lots of fun water play and set out a variety of exciting activities for the children to enjoy. They explored frozen ice buckets filled with lemon slices, lime slices, and mint leaves, using all of their senses to investigate the different textures and scents.

The children also loved digging dinosaurs out of blocks of ice using spoons, which kept them busy and engaged for ages! We created ice blocks for the children to paint, watching the ice melt and the colours mix together. By adding flowers, they made their own colourful "potions," encouraging creativity and imaginative play.

Of course, one of the highlights of the week was running through the sprinklers! We also used spray bottles to cool ourselves down and enjoyed dipping our feet in cool water.

Despite the hot weather, we had so much fun staying safe, keeping cool, and making wonderful summer memories together! 💦🌞

Happy Friday!

This week the children enjoyed some lovely water play, pouring water onto the water wall and watching it run down. They had great fun exploring the water and flower tray, where they smelled the flowers, scooped, poured, and mixed the petals together.

The children also enjoyed playing with play dough, using a variety of tools and loose parts such as popsicle sticks, toothpicks, and large gems to create beautiful masterpieces. They had lots of fun engaging in imaginative role play with the toy food, using their creativity to invent different scenarios and stories.

We had a wonderful time at the park, where the children played, explored, and danced with bubbles. Afterwards, we went for a lovely walk to the river, where we saw the swans and their cygnets. We then returned to enjoy a picnic together and had fun kicking a football around.

The children also attended the Infant School Sports Day, where they enthusiastically cheered on their school friends and enjoyed practising their own running races.

The children made some lovely Father's days cards to take home.

It has been a fun-filled week with lots of opportunities for exploration, creativity, physical activity, and enjoying the outdoors.

Happy Fathers day to all the amazing daddy's! 😊

On Monday, we celebrated National Ocean Day with lots of different activities. 🫍🐬🐳🪼🐚🐙🦈🦀🐠🐙
The children explored a sea animal tuff tray and enjoyed using tweezers to sort the rubbish away from the sea animals, helping them to learn about caring for our oceans. They also had great fun playing a catching game with magnetic rods.
The children took part in a matching game, where they named the sea animals and practised their counting skills. We also worked on creating patterns, using shells and blue pebbles to make simple repeating sequences.
The children created some beautiful paintings by mixing colours and using sponges to print sea animals onto their pictures. Outside, we enjoyed making big bubbles and by mixing water and flower petals, which provided a wonderful sensory experience.
To develop their fine motor skills, the children made lovely pasta necklaces by carefully threading pasta onto string.
It has been a week full of fun, creativity, learning, and exploration!

Happy Friday!

Last week, we celebrated Bee Day and the children had a wonderful time taking part in lots of bee-themed activities. They enjoyed number games using dice and bee counters, painted some lovely bee pictures, and created yellow and black handprint art. The children also planted sunflower seeds and are excited to care for them and watch them grow. 🐝🌻 “We had a magical moment watching a bee visit our flower garden, busily collecting pollen.”

It was a lovely week full of fun, friendship, and learning through play alongside their friends.

Over half term, we enjoyed lots of water play to help keep cool in the hot weather. The children went on exciting adventures to the river, where they tried to catch fish using nets. We also had a lovely day at Longford Lakes, exploring the nature trail and spotting lots of little creatures along the way. ☀️💦🐞🦋🐛

Over the last few weeks, we have been very busy enjoying lots of outdoor and indoor play. The children have enjoyed building with a variety of different resources and exploring their creativity together. We also met up with our childminding friends, where the children had lots of fun building new friendships and developing their social skills. They especially enjoyed lots of imaginative play, using their ideas and creativity in many different activities.

What a lovely first week back after the Easter holidays. The children settled back in beautifully and were so happy to see their friends again.

The children especially enjoyed time in the sandpit, scooping and exploring with the different shapes. The new water wall was a big hit too, with lots of excitement as they filled jugs, poured water, and watched it trickle down. There was also some fantastic teamwork when building with the large wooden blocks, even creating a train by adding chairs and other materials.

Out in the garden, the children went on a little exploring adventure, searching for toy bugs with magnifying glasses and naming each one as they discovered them.

They also loved playing with the dinosaur tuff tray, watching the cars move around and along the tracks.

We had a lovely visit to Wildcatz Sofft play where we had a lovely time exploring the outside garden.

This morning, we visited Woodhenge, where the children had great fun running, climbing, and jumping around the stones. We finished our trip with a lovely picnic before heading back home.