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Little Sparkles Childminding Run by Melanie, Ofsted registered childminder, B.Ed(Hons) in Early Years; paediatric first aid trained Prior to this I was an Early Years teacher for 12 years.

I have lived in Greylees for 5 years now and have run a successful childminding business for over 13 years. I am able to care for 6 children under the age of 8, of which 3 of these can be under the age of 5.

18 years ago today I opened Little Sparkles' doors for the very first time. It was a big change from teaching but a step...
01/09/2026

18 years ago today I opened Little Sparkles' doors for the very first time. It was a big change from teaching but a step I needed to make. Since that day I've had the privilege of looking after many many children and starting them on their journey through life.

I'm lucky through the platform of FB to still keep in touch with many of their parents and can see what they are up to. Two are now mummies themselves and quite a few this year embark on starting secondary school, 6th form, college and even university.

I wonder what the next 18 years will bring - it won't be filled completely with childminding.

Nice weather in June and July meant we've been able to get out and about a bit. We've been for walks, played chasing gam...
11/07/2026

Nice weather in June and July meant we've been able to get out and about a bit. We've been for walks, played chasing games on the field, been to the park, met up with friends at The Bairns Play Cafe, played Billy Goats Gruff on the climbing frame, found apples that had fallen from the tree, looked for bugs and collected dandelions.

Indoors we've had water play, built race tracks with the new magnetic tiles, played with ducks in the sensory tray, baked cookies and tried to keep cool in the heat.

April and May fun for the Sparkles. We've had new toys with the magantiles. We've played outside in the water and made m...
15/05/2026

April and May fun for the Sparkles. We've had new toys with the magantiles. We've played outside in the water and made marks with chalk and water. We went for a walk in Greylees and saw the diggers. We went for a walk by the river and saw the baby swans and moorhens. We played ball and made a tractor pictures.

All about wheels this week. Today doing some tractor craft. We painted a ploughed field and then used the shapes to add ...
24/04/2026

All about wheels this week. Today doing some tractor craft. We painted a ploughed field and then used the shapes to add a tractor and some crops.

Easter holidays...just 1 little one in over the holidays so we've had a few days out and about. We went down to the loca...
23/04/2026

Easter holidays...just 1 little one in over the holidays so we've had a few days out and about. We went down to the local farm and saw the sheep, lambs and horses.

Meagan joined us at the garden centre and for a walk around Culverthorpe. We fed the fish and bought some fish food for our fish.

Then this week T returned and we've been busy thinking about things with wheels. We used the cars to mix blue and red paint to make purple. Then they were messy so we used brushes to clean them.

After this we went on a walk and made a tally chart of all the things we saw that had wheels - cars, lorries, vans, bikes, pushchairs and even wheelie bins. Oh and T spotted a lawnmower too.

Tomorrow its all about tractors.

Healthy eating and home cooked meals is something that happens a lot at Little Sparkles and the Sparkles love helping. T...
24/03/2026

Healthy eating and home cooked meals is something that happens a lot at Little Sparkles and the Sparkles love helping.

Today we had cheesy carrot waffles for lunch. They helped with carefully grating the carrot. Beating the egg and mixing in the flour and grated cheese (plant based for our dairy free Sparkle).

After it was cooked in the waffle maker we had it with cucumber, tomato, pepper, a few lentil crisps and some banana, nectarine and pear.

Empty plates all round.

Following children's interests is such an important part of learning. Following on from our walk the other day where we ...
20/03/2026

Following children's interests is such an important part of learning. Following on from our walk the other day where we spotted lots of ladybirds we read the story of The Bad Tempered Ladybird and then used our thumbs and fingers to paint ladybirds onto a leaf shape. Finally adding spots and legs with a black pen.

Sunny days at the park are the best days. Even better when you share them with friends and even better than that when yo...
19/03/2026

Sunny days at the park are the best days. Even better when you share them with friends and even better than that when you make new friends too.

Today we went to the park and met up with a fellow childminder and her little people. We made new friends and made plans to meet up again soon.

We needed to remember to take turns and help our friends too - especially when they fall over. We learnt that helping them up and checking that they are okay is a lovely kind thing to do.

We played ball with another new friend and learnt the importance of taking turns and giving things back when we have finished with them.

Friends and sunny days - you can't beat them.

Using those observational skills again to spot some ladybirds in the Spring sunshine. The older ones counted them but we...
17/03/2026

Using those observational skills again to spot some ladybirds in the Spring sunshine. The older ones counted them but we lost count when we got to 60 something. Easily saw over 100.

Now here comes the process art. This helps develop imagination, creativity and in this case observational skills. We pop...
17/03/2026

Now here comes the process art. This helps develop imagination, creativity and in this case observational skills.

We popped into the garden and picked a couple of daffodils. We've looked at different spring flowers on our walks so were able to identify the daffodils.

Then using yellow and green paint the Soarkles painted some beautiful pictures of the daffodils they picked.

Address

2 Anglia Close, Quarrington
Sleaford
NG348WX

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 7:30am - 5:30pm

Telephone

+447926351443

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