Jade's Childminding

Today we have been creating rainbow flowers and minibeasts with tin foil, water and felts. The children have created some lovely pieces x

We've had a lovely day at Sandwell Valley and Forge Mill Farm. Didn't get to see any lambs being born but there were so many other animals to see and feed.

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We're all about the glitter today, giving our butterfly pictures lots of sparkle

So many bugs so little time...some of the little ones masterpieces

With the lovely weather today has definitely been a wet play kind of day ☀️😎☀️

Today we've started work on our Jubilee topic. Needless to say there's been glue and jewels everywhere

All about Easter this week, we've got bunnies and chicks galore 🐇🐣

We've been learning about the Year of the 🐅 and Chinese New Year

Today's been a very busy day at Beech House Farm Pumpkins. We've picked and decorated our pumpkins all ready for Sunday 🎃🎃👻👻

It must be the witching hour 🎃🐈‍⬛, the children have loved making our witchy friends

Today we've been making our own rainbow fluff, the children have been mixing in different colours and squeezing and rolling the bags to see which colour came out best

Autumn is most definitely here. We've been colouring and adding leaves to plates today

We've had a visit from some creepy crawlies today. Glittery spiders and webs and pattern stamping bug pictures

Since the rain came today, we've made the most of crafty time to make these handprint bugs and beautiful butterflies 🐛🪲🦋🦋

Today we've made some autumn leaf wands. Of course there were lots of gems involved too

We're having a teddy bear picnic today 🐻🐻🍇🍏🍌🍉🍒🍓

Today we've been decorating some autumn leaves and been bug hunting in the garden 🪱🐛🕷️🪲

Today we've made handprint trees with some red berries. ✋✋🌳🌳 the little ones loved sticking on the 'shiny' berries

We've had a very wet splashy time @ Willenhall Memorial Park today 🌊⛲🌊🌳💐🌼

A visit to one of our favourite places today. The kids love the park and we've been collecting leaves ready for some painting tomorrow 🌳🌲🍃🍃

We managed to miss the rain and go dinosaur and fairy hunting at Himley House, Himley the kids loved exploring and are very proud of their certificates 🦕🦖🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️🧚

My first trip to Baggeridge Country Park today, we explored, went bug hunting and had a quick go on the fair 🐛🦋🌳🌲

We've been exploring Northycote Farm today, there's been stick finding, tree climbing and dinosaur track prints to follow 🦕🦖🦕🦖

When it 🌧️s, it's softplay time. Playing sardines Spacehoppers , West Bromwich 🥵🥵

A great day for a visit to The Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford the kids loved seeing everything and playing on the new playground

We've had our own mini Olympics today 🥇🥈🥉 We made our own medals and redesigned the rings too.

A trip out in the ☀️ to see the animals Brockswood Animal Sanctuary 🦆🐴🐐🐑🐖

Today we've been to Sandwell Valley and had a lovely time on the park and the splash pad.

It's been an arty start to the day, with dotty animals and using different rollers and brushes to make different paint effects 🎨🖌️👨‍🎨👩‍🎨

We went on a stickman adventure at Willenhall Memorial Park, we managed to get the whole stick family and enjoy the water lillies as well.

Some of the figures from BrickLive Fantasy Kingdom @ Wolverhampton Art Gallery. We all enjoyed this, but the dragon was definitely everyone's favourite.

We've made these wild animal boards to continue with our topic today