The Orange Tree Day Nursery: Hartshill

Balloon Painting 🎈🎨

Caterpillars have explored painting using balloons to create a fun and sensory mark-making experience. They experimented with different colours, noticing how the paint changed as they pressed, rolled, and dabbed the balloons onto the paper.

This helped to support the children’s fine motor skills as the children grasped and controlled the balloons. They explored different textures and enjoyed discovering the marks and patterns created by the balloons.

Our Blossoms children have had fun exploring water play using a selection of small jugs and bowls. This encouraged them to fill and empty the containers, pour water from one container to another, and enjoy splashing and exploring the water with their hands.

This activity supports fine motor skills as babies grasp, hold, lift and tip the jugs and bowls. It also encourages hand-eye coordination.

The sensory experience of touching and splashing in the water provides opportunities for babies to explore cause and effect, while developing confidence and curiosity through play.

We would like to say a huge Thank you for all of your support at our Summer Fayre at the weekend, helping to raise money for our Charity The Harley Jae Trust!
We would also like to announce some winners:
Guess the sweets-Freya and Nola
Guess the Teddy-Phoebe.F
Raffle prizes:
Large hot wheels-ticket number 432
Scooter-ticket number 470
Wicked set- ticket number 438
Small hot wheels- ticket number 446
Headphones- ticket number 519
Thank you for all your continued support

We are Summer Fayre ready!
Please come and join us 9:30-11:30!
We look forward to seeing you all 😊🍰

Ice Cream Shop 🍦🍨
Our Caterpillar children have enjoyed exploring our ice cream shop tuff tray, using play dough,
cornets and colourful sprinkles to create their own ice creams.

This activity encouraged the children to develop their fine motor skills as they squeezed, pinched and shaped the play dough. They also explored a variety of textures and sensory experiences while using the different materials.
The children also enjoyed exploring the ice cream menus and choosing which ice cream they would like.

The children were able to use their creativity and imagination as they designed their own ice creams and engaged in pretend play within the ice cream shop.

Parent Partnership!
Thank you to some of our Caterpillars children and parents for some fantastic creations of Bug Hotels. 🐜
These all look amazing, we would like to thank you all for your continued support.

☀️🌳 Join Us for Our Summer Fayre and Open Day! 🌳☀️

Saturday 1st August
9:30-11:30

Come along for a fun-filled day with us 😊

There will be something for everyone to enjoy, so bring the whole family and help us raise money for our chosen charity, the Harley Jae Trust !
Also call us on 01782 747270 to book for our Open Day🫶🏻✨

Graduation Day 🧑‍🎓 👩‍🎓
What a lovely afternoon we have had celebrating the Graduation for our children going to Reception!
We would like to thank all of our parents and grandparents for joining us for such a lovely afternoon.
We would also like to say a Huge Thank you to Bodhi’s mum of Belvedere Balloons Stoke for the amazing balloon backdrop! Thank you again 🎈✏️

👩🏼‍🍳🥕 Chef’s Club! 🥕👩🏼‍🍳

Today our Butterflies children had lots of fun in Chef’s Club baking delicious carrot cookies! 🍪

Our ingredients included:
🥕 Carrots
🧈 Butter
🌾 Flour
✨ Cinnamon
🥚 Eggs

The children had a wonderful time exploring the ingredients, taking turns to mix them together, and developing their confidence and teamwork skills. It was a fantastic opportunity to encourage communication, turn-taking, and a love of cooking while learning through play.

We love creating exciting learning experiences that help our children build new skills and have lots of fun along the way! 💛🍪

Ice Cube Painting 🧊🎨.

Our Caterpillars children have had a fun morning painting ice cubes!
The children used paintbrushes with paint to make marks on the ice and in the tuft tray!
The children enjoyed feeling the texture of the ice cubes and some children were saying that the ice was ‘cold’.
They also enjoyed exploring the sand tray with the spades and sand wheels.