The Purple Penguin Creche

The Purple Penguin Creche Providing high-quality childcare for children aged 6 months to 12 years since 2004. Welcome to the Purple Penguin Crèche!

For the past ten years, we have been in providing high quality childcare for children aged six months up to twelve years of age. We provide a stimulating environment that caters for the holistic development of your child. It is important for us that they feel at home and can learn through their play. We want it so parents can feel at ease when leaving their child in our care. We operate an open do

or policy to all parents/guardians who leave their children with us. Any member of our staff or management is always available to talk in person or take a call if you have any concerns regarding your child during the day. It is important for us to get to know not only the child, but also the family that surrounds them so we can work together to give the child the best start in life!

This week we thought we would give you a timeline of our daily routine in the cabin!
10/09/2026

This week we thought we would give you a timeline of our daily routine in the cabin!

This week we have been doing All About Me! 😎We chose our favourite colours and enjoyed doing some finger painting and co...
10/09/2026

This week we have been doing All About Me! 😎
We chose our favourite colours and enjoyed doing some finger painting and colouring. We also made masks of our favourite animals and talked about our favourite food.
We have also started exploring Montessori work and discovering all the different toys in the cabin.
It has been a lovely week full of fun and exploration! 🥰

This week, in the Toddler room, the children have been exploring our “All About Me” theme through a variety of creative ...
09/09/2026

This week, in the Toddler room, the children have been exploring our “All About Me” theme through a variety of creative and playful activities.💕 They enjoyed colouring, choosing and sticking different clothes onto their characters, while also learning about different parts of the body. 👀👃👂
We also explored an All About Me tuff tray with dolls, clothes, brushes and mirrors. The children enjoyed dressing and caring for the dolls while learning about body parts, clothing and simple self-care routines. 👗
Through songs such as “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes,” the children were encouraged to identify body parts, build body awareness and enjoy movement together. 🤚🦶
As All About Me was our theme it was a perfect time to let all children get to know everyone really well including our new children, We made a poster for our room with all children’s and teachers handprints with their names making awareness of all the children / teachers in the room for the upcoming year. 💕
It was a fun and engaging way to support communication, creativity and fine motor skills❤️🩵

A lovely simple activity in Naomi’s Montessori room , with lots of learning and joy. Salad spinner painting. Through thi...
08/09/2026

A lovely simple activity in Naomi’s Montessori room , with lots of learning and joy.
Salad spinner painting.
Through this activity the children learnt colours, about mixing colours, they worked on fine and gross motor skills, and had a sense of awe and amazement.

Aistear ~ Identity and Belonging , Aim 4
Children will Demonstrate dispositions like curiosity, persistence, independence and responsibility through engagement with learning experiences inspired by súgradh (play) and spraíúlacht (playfulness).

As we come to the end of our first week of Montessori in Naomi’s Montessori class, we give each other a big High 5 on a ...
04/09/2026

As we come to the end of our first week of Montessori in Naomi’s Montessori class, we give each other a big High 5 on a great week of trying new things and exploring our new environment. We explored and experimented with new toys, painting, playdough, sand, pouring and scooping grains , to new a few of our activities . We are looking forward to new week.

This week in Paula and Monica’s room we have been really focused on settling into our new routine, and we couldn’t be pr...
04/09/2026

This week in Paula and Monica’s room we have been really focused on settling into our new routine, and we couldn’t be prouder of our little ones!

They have been doing such a fantastic job singing our Circle Time songs, engaging with their Montessori work, and enjoying lots of painting and messy play activities.
We also wrapped up our Pirate theme this week, and our little ones have certainly proved that they are true little pirates! 🏴‍☠️⚓️

✨ Our first week of Montessori has been a huge success! ✨

Well done, Montessori 3! 💚

This week in the cabin the new children in the Afterschool room got to know each other and we talked about what it is li...
04/09/2026

This week in the cabin the new children in the Afterschool room got to know each other and we talked about what it is like to be an Afterschooler and the older children explained what we do and what is our routine. It was great to see the older children helping the younger ones. As a treat today we made a yummy apple crumble using apples from teacher Ana’s garden.

This week in Grace’s room, Montessori 2, we welcomed back some familiar faces and welcomed some ones too! Our new friend...
04/09/2026

This week in Grace’s room, Montessori 2, we welcomed back some familiar faces and welcomed some ones too! Our new friends have settled into the class so well and being made feel very welcome by the older children 🥰We had a busy week full of tuff trays of pouring and scooping, introducing some practical life skills and making our name stones .We finished off the week by making some yummy Smartie cookies 🍪.

This week in the Toddler Room we learned all about Fairytales and princesses.👑 The Toddlers love to play dress up and ex...
04/09/2026

This week in the Toddler Room we learned all about Fairytales and princesses.👑 The Toddlers love to play dress up and explore and read many fairytale books. Our favourite was the three little pigs 🐽 we did some fun tuff trays and even made our own magic wands 🪄 to finish of the week we baked some fairy cakes 🧁 yum yum!

This week we have welcomed are new class of ECCE students in the cabin 😀. We have been learning all about each other and...
04/09/2026

This week we have welcomed are new class of ECCE students in the cabin 😀. We have been learning all about each other and what we like. At circle time we have been learning about our favourite colours and animals we like. We have been able to explore the garden and all the interesting toys we have as well as exploring the classroom and what we can play with. We have had a super week and are looking forward to the rest of the term 😀😀.

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69 The Orchard, Oldtown Mill
Celbridge

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 6:15pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 6:15pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 6:15pm
Thursday 7:30am - 6:15pm
Friday 7:30am - 6:15pm

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01-6274791

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