The Young Ones Ltd

We’ve been making the most of this little heatwave with a mix of fun outdoor and indoor activities.

We’ve been enjoying some garden time in the mornings before moving onto calmer, cooler activities after lunch. The children have loved the water play, giving the baby dolls a good wash, as well as exploring the sand tray and playing with the outdoor cars and trucks.

Indoors, we’ve been getting creative by making beautiful sand pictures. The children drizzled PVA glue onto their drawings, sprinkled over sand, and then carefully sieved away the excess to reveal their lovely textured creations.

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We came in this morning to all five butterflies in their house! Mickey, Batman, Godzilla, Elsa and King Kong have made it. Five painted lady butterflies to pop in the garden next week after they have grown a little more in strength and had some time to feed on their sugar water. The children are thrilled and been popping into check on them and observe them all day - we will be doing some butterfly sketches & pictures next week before they are released. A great example of ‘understanding of the world’ development and looking at processes and life cycles.

WE HAVE OUR FIRST BUTTERFLY 🎉🎉🎉 We are so thrilled and the children are so excited! We wonder if the warm afternoon has helped? Watch this space for more updates! I wonder if this is Batman??? 🌸🐛🌸🦋 What an exciting afternoon!

The big transfer day! 😱It was tense! Our caterpillars are now in their cocoons and safely in their butterfly house - the children are very excited to see if we have been able to grow real life butterflies from caterpillars 🐛🦋 Godzilla, Kong, Mickey, Elsa and Batman are now safe and settled - fingers crossed!!!

Our lovely Shannen found our caterpillar to butterfly growing kit and ordered us some REAL caterpillars to grow and take care of.
Today they arrived and we now have Batman, Elsa, Godzilla, King Kong & Mickey to look after.
The children all had a look at our new friends and we are excited to see the transition, hopefully into chrysalis and with any luck some butterflies we can release. This is so important in working towards understanding of the world and learning about why things happen and how things work.
Watch this space for their journey! (And wish us luck 🤪) 🐛🍃🦋