Lakeside Day Nursery

What a wonderfully relaxing and refreshing Wellbeing Day we had at Lakeside today! 💆‍♀️💅✨🌿

The children had such a lovely time taking part in a range of calming, creative and sensory activities designed to help them relax, feel pampered and enjoy some special time together. From exploring our exciting sensory tuff trays to choosing beautiful glitter tattoos, there was plenty of fun and sparkle throughout the day! ✨

Our little ones also enjoyed having their nails painted, relaxing with a gentle coconut oil foot massage, and soaking their feet in a soothing foot bath. 💅🥥🫧 Of course, there was also lots of fun with hair styling, giving everyone the chance to feel extra special and enjoy a little pampering! 💇‍♀️💕

To complete our wellbeing experience, the children enjoyed some delicious and refreshing fruity water 🍓🍊🍋💧 — the perfect treat to help us stay hydrated while enjoying our relaxing day.

It was so lovely to see all the smiles, hear the laughter and watch the children take time to relax, explore their senses and enjoy the different experiences on offer. Days like these are a wonderful reminder of how important it is to slow down, practise self-care and focus on our wellbeing. 🥰🌸

A fantastic day filled with relaxation, creativity, sensory fun and lots of happy faces! 💖✨

This morning holiday club children took part in a life drawing activity using a variety of fruits as their inspiration. They carefully observed the fruits and copied what they could see, paying attention to their shapes, sizes and details.

Once they had completed their drawings, they used colour to bring their artwork to life. Through this activity, the children developed their observation and drawing skills, as well as their ability to look closely at objects and represent them on paper.

They also developed their creativity, concentration, fine motor skills and confidence in using different colours to enhance their artwork.🍏🥕🍌

This morning lakesiders children explored creativity and sensory learning by using the bottom of plastic bottles to make flower prints.

They dipped the bottles into paint and pressed them onto paper, creating colourful flower shapes and patterns. Through this activity, the children developed their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, creativity, concentration, and understanding of shapes and patterns.

They also enjoyed experimenting with colours and expressing their ideas through art.👨🏻‍🎨🧑🏼‍🎨🎨🖌️

A reminder that tomorrow is our wellbeing day. Children are invited to wear pyjamas to nursery. There is a consent form for glitter tattoos, hair washing and nail polish, younger children will receive foot massage.
We will also enjoy yoga and classical music throughout the day to create a sense of calm 🧘🏼‍♀️💆🏼‍♀️💅🏼

Our theme this week is Arts and Crafts 🎨🖌️

Yesterday holiday club had lots of fun free painting. They enjoyed choosing their own colours and making their own pictures. This helped develop their creativity, imagination and fine motor skills while having lots of fun 🧑🏼‍🎨🫟👨🏻‍🎨

Also lakesiders and holiday club had lots of fun out in the garden today. They enjoyed playing with their friends, running around and playing games together and enjoying the fresh air 😊

The toddlers have had a fun and engaging day filled with learning, creativity and teamwork. They enjoyed learning the first letters of their names, helping to develop their early literacy skills and recognition of letters and colours. They also worked together with their friends to learn and sing the ABC song, building their confidence, communication and social skills. The children enjoyed getting their hands messy as they explored coloured paper and glue, developing their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and creativity. They were encouraged to be independent throughout the activities, making their own choices and proudly taking part in their learning through play.🔠🫟🖐

This morning the Tweenies and babies had fun exploring the arts and crafts box to make their own colourful rockets. We used lots of different materials to decorate our rockets and enjoyed developing our creative, imagination and exploration skills 🎨😁🔴🟢🔵

This week, our toddlers have had a very busy and exciting time learning through play. They have enjoyed exploring and learning about colours in both Welsh and English, developing their language skills as they practised naming and matching different colours🔢🟡🔴🟢

The children particularly enjoyed a fun water activity where they matched colourful toys. This helped to develop their concentration, problem-solving skills and coordination. They also enjoyed mark making in paint sensory bags, exploring different movements and patterns while developing their fine motor skills and early writing skills.🎨😀

The children had lots of fun getting creative by painting their hands for our Eisteddfod celebrations. They enjoyed exploring the different textures of the paint while developing their hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. They also enjoyed colouring in pictures of their friends, giving them an opportunity to recognise and learn the different colours while developing their creativity and concentration🖐🔵🟠.

This week the children have worked incredibly hard creating items for our Lakeside Eisteddfod. Our Lakesiders used cotton buds and paint to draw and print their own Welsh dragons. Our Toddlers got busy making some fantastic Welsh flag bunting, handprint dragons and dragon prints, and our youngest Tweenies made some lovely pictures of sheep and daffodils.
Our Lakesiders and holiday club were also busy making welshcakes and bara brith which we enjoyed as part of our Eisteddfod celebration. They also worked hard at a Welsh folk dance and made a poem on wales together after brainstorming lots of ideas about Wales. A fantastic day with lots of effort made from staff and children, and our families for the lovely outfits and clothing children dressed in to celebrate our Welsh heritage 🌼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎀