Ballymore Cottage Créche

01/09/2026

🟢🔵🟡🔴 Colour Ball Activity 🎨
Today our babies enjoyed a simple hands-on colour activity, using their little hands to stick colourful balls onto the tape. A fun way to explore colours while developing fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and sensory awareness. 💕✨

01/09/2026

What toddlers learn from playing with oatmeal -Problem-solving: Children test cause-and-effect by burying objects, filling containers, or mixing textures.Vocabulary expansion: Describing the sensory experience introduces descriptive words like dry, soft, rough, or loose.

31/08/2026

Senses: tasting sweet & sour

29/08/2026

Tracing helps children build the foundational muscle control, coordination, and cognitive focus they need for future handwriting and drawing.

Sorting shapes helps children build foundational cognitive, physical, and language skills through hands-on play.

29/08/2026

Fine Motor Skills: Scooping, pouring, and picking up pieces of cereal like O's or puffed rice helps children strengthen their hand muscles and practice the pincer grasp.
Multi-Sensory Engagement: Children engage multiple senses at once by feeling the textures, listening to the crunching sounds, smelling the grains, and tasting the food.
Cognitive Growth: Manipulating cereal in bins helps children test hypotheses, learn cause-and-effect, and understand basic volume and measurement

27/08/2026

26/08/2026

Learning about the five senses. What happens when we close our eyes? Do you know the colour of your eyes?

26/08/2026

This activity gives the kids opportunity to feel various objects and textures which helps to refine their sense of touch and expand vocabulary

26/08/2026