Peacocks Early Learning Centre Epsom

As part of our giraffe exploration, tamariki used their arms to create long necks, tracing and painting with yellow and brown to form patterns and spots. Using sponges, loose parts, and leaves, they explored colour, shape, and connections to what giraffes eat—while expressing creativity, imagination, and early numeracy 🦒✨

tamariki explored giraffe patterns using mud and brushes, creating brown spots while engaging their senses and creativity. This experience supported movement, imagination, and hands-on learning. 🦒✨

Through the language of light and shadow...

The tamariki explored how movement, scale, and form changed through projection on the OHP, making their ideas visible.

Through their bodies, they embodied these ideas, exploring space, shape, and movement in relation to light and shadow 🦈✨

As part of our wild animal exploration, tamariki enjoyed a giraffe-focused setup with a “feeding station” where leaves were hung from strings. They stretched, reached, and moved their bodies to explore how giraffes eat, showing excitement and curiosity. Some also used toy giraffes, extending their imaginative play.
Later, tamariki explored giraffe patterns using mud and brushes, creating brown spots while engaging their senses and creativity. This experience supported movement, imagination, and hands-on learning. 🦒✨

As part of our zebra exploration, tamariki engaged in a sensory outdoor experience using mud, leaves, and water to represent a zebra’s habitat. Through imaginative play and a fun washing station, they explored textures, cared for their zebras, and developed creativity and responsibility 🦓💧

Gentle Water & Nature Play for Pēpi
Our pēpi explored sensory bags filled with water, colourful leaves, orange slices, and natural materials. They enjoyed looking, touching, and gently pressing the bags to see how the materials moved inside.

This calm, hands-on experience supported curiosity, sensory awareness, and early coordination through simple, meaningful exploration.

Tamariki explored zebras through a creative straw activity, using black and white to represent their stripes. As they glued and arranged the straws, they created patterns, counted along the way, and added features like legs, faces, and yarn tails. This hands-on experience supported their creativity, early numeracy, and growing understanding of zebra characteristics 🖤🤍

tamariki explored zebras through a creative loose parts setup using pebbles, leaves, twigs, and black-and-white materials. They designed their own zebras, thinking about body parts and patterns while arranging materials.
Through this hands-on play, tamariki showed creativity, problem-solving, and early numeracy as some counted pieces. They were focused and proud of their creations, enjoying learning through play. 🦓🍃✨

Shaping ideas through wire…

The tamariki shaped and transformed wire to represent sharks, exploring form, movement, and structure.

Beads added texture and pattern, making their ideas visible through their creations 🦈✨

On friday we had invited our whānau and tamariki to partake in numerous different provocations!
What a great afternoon 💗

celebrating love and care ✨