Little Seeds Children's Center

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Little Seeds Children’s Center was planned, designed, and structured to provide children, ages 12 months to 5 years old with a safe, healthy and creative environment in which they can grow. Our program is based on the philosophy where that by accepting children as they are, placing them in a warm and loving environment, we will be able to encourage the children to attain their full potential. Our beautifully designed facility was created for your children with low sinks, junior toilets, and beautiful outdoor areas for crawling, rolling, running, and jumping. Our play structures and toys have been carefully selected for your child’s various developmental levels.

Invitation to Create Piet Mondrian Inspired Art// Today, we read "Coppernickel Goes Mondrian" by Wouter van Reek. The st...
09/29/2026

Invitation to Create Piet Mondrian Inspired Art// Today, we read "Coppernickel Goes Mondrian" by Wouter van Reek. The story, by a Dutch artist himself, is about a bird Coppernickel and his dog Tungsten who go on a quest for the future, navigating Mondrian’s signature grids of primary colors as they make sense of the portal from their world to works of his art, and back again. After reading, we set out markers, paper, rulers, and tempera paint sticks and invited them to create their own Mondrian inspired art.

This invitation was a great way for children to practice math, critical thinking, and language skills. While the children were using the rulers, we talked about vertical and horizontal lines, and they discussed the shapes they were making. Drawing is a great way for a child to build up fine motor control and strengthen muscles. As they hold the marker, they are required to move their hand, wrist, and arm to create an image on paper while also working on their eye and hand coordination and visual planning skills.

A is for Apples Invitation //Today we invited the children to create apples with play-dough and loose parts and trace th...
09/24/2026

A is for Apples Invitation //Today we invited the children to create apples with play-dough and loose parts and trace the word apples. Play-dough has many benefits for children. The most important is the skill development. It is great for strengthening muscle tone in little hands – squishing, squashing, rolling and flattening playdough all develop children's muscles and encourage prewriting and other skills such as cutting with a scissors, using a tweezers and holding a pencil. It also engages the children in their senses. Invitations enhance a child's free creative play, exposure to sensory elements, requires concentration, and are truly relaxing and stimulating. Through this kind of free play children are really creating: using what they have and what they already know, and combining that to create a whole that’s greater than the parts. To start the invitation we showed them the words apple, going through each letter and the sound they make. We then let thel choose which color they wanted to make their apples out of. They made small ones, big ones, only a few, or rows of apples. Once the children were done making their apples out of play-dough we invited them to trace the letters in the word apple.

09/14/2026

Practicing Balance with Stepping Stones// Balance is a fundamental skill necessary for maintaining controlled positions such as sitting in a chair or engaging in physical activities like running or catching a ball. There are two types of balance; static balance refers to maintaining equilibrium while holding still and dynamic balance refers to maintaining equilibrium while moving. Stepping stones are beneficial for practicing both types of balance because a child needs to balance on a stone before stepping successfully onto the next. Having balance makes motor skill development easier, reduces the risk of injury, and helps children develop and maintain appropriate controlled body movement during task performance which limits the energy required thus minimizing fatigue.

09/11/2026

Sandbox Play//Children learn best when they are excited and engaged. The sand table is a great opportunity for social, emotional and language development. While playing, children use communication skills as they talk about what they are doing and how to do things. Children share equipment and learn cooperate with each other. As they role play and work together this also provides an opportunity for story telling. This sensory play provides opportunities for the children to develop their muscles. When they dig, shovel, lift, carry, tunnel, and rake it helps develop the large muscles – gross motor. Pouring, sifting, moulding, drawing, patting, and decorating all help exercise the smaller muscles – fine motor. This type of play develops an understanding of basic science and maths concepts. Sand play helps develop concepts such as exploring, classifying, estimating, experimenting, comparing, counting, measuring and constructing.

09/10/2026

Invitation to Explore Light, Shadows, and Reflections// From infancy, reflection, light, and shadows always fascinate any child, and it carries throughout their childhood. They are always enamored with the wondrous world of illumination as it is something that they are naturally drawn to, always provides limitless opportunities, and ignites their curiosity

For this invitation, we added our Silver Mirrored Stacking Pebbles and Marvelous Metallics Boulder Blocks from Discount School Supply , Silver Sensory Balls, Lovevery Drip Drop Cups, and water to our Tuff Tray. The children were so excited! They looked at the reflection of themselves and each other in the senory balls/pebbles/boulders. They poured water over the pebbles, boulders, and balls, watching it change/distort the reflections. The children explored, stacking the pebbles and watching the water cascade down as they poured. They experimented with bouncing light off one mirrored sensory object to another. Through playing with light, reflection, shadow, etc. children are exploring and engaging in a whole range of theories.

This week we got a visit from a very special person, Dawn from the Alameda Free Library! She brought us books from the l...
09/03/2026

This week we got a visit from a very special person, Dawn from the Alameda Free Library! She brought us books from the library, sang songs to us, and we even did some dancing! Reading to a child starting at a young age helps lay the neurological groundwork for effective language use and literacy, helping maximize their language and cognitive capacity. Books allow children to hear new vocabulary and new ways of putting words together, which expands their ability to make sense of and use language. Reading to a child improves memory, concentration, and basic problem-solving skills. Books are also an amazing tool for encouraging emotional awareness. They learn about their emotions, others perspectives, and the world around them through characters in the stories. Exploring new worlds, ideas, and possibilities through books promotes children using their imaginations and encourages creativity. We can't wait to see you next month!

08/18/2026

Invitation to Explore Mixing Colors//Today read Little Yellow Little Blue by Leo Lionni. After reading, we out to explore color mixing through a sensory science experiment. We set out the colored water that was made with Colorations® Liquid Water Colors from Discount School Supply in separate pouring utensils. We asked the children to think about what possible colors/shades could be created from these two colors.The children scooped, poured and transferred their colored water from the one container into another with a variety of utensils.The assorted containers helped encourage exploration, scooping, pouring, and more. Adding water play to this invitation it fosters creativity and enables children to experiment with science and math concepts. Children begin to understand and investigate with ideas such as more/less, same/different, many/few, empty/full, before/after, greater than/less than. Children also learn physics principles such as the effects of force (increasing the waterflow through increased force); effects of gravity (water runs downhill), etc. The social learnings from water play include collaboration, concentration, turn taking, problem solving, perseverance, self-regulation, and more. Children also gain physical learning through water play, such as precision in pouring, eye-hand coordination, and other skills. Exploring with water is captivating, engaging, engrossing, and absorbing to almost all children.

Jammin' in our Jammies!
08/14/2026

Jammin' in our Jammies!

08/13/2026

"It's Mine!"Sensory Play// To begin this sensory exploration we read the story "It's Mine!", by our author of the month Leo Lionni. To continue and expand the literacy experience we set the intention with going the multi-sensory route due to the fact that children learn best and retain the most information when they engage their senses. The sensory tray was filled with river rocks, sticks, lily pads, blue marbles, frogs, and a splash of our Colorations® Liquid Colorations from Discount School Supply. When children play with a sensory bins they are playing with a variety of materials and textures which stimulate the mind and body through the tactile experience. By giving children the opportunity to investigate materials with just a little bit of knowledge from reading the story we are helping them develop and refine their cognitive, social and emotional, physical, creative and linguistic skills. Our ultimate goal for the sensory bin is to tie it in with literacy experiences in order to further solidify any new words or language to children that come from reading the book. This helped them in practice in counting, sorting, listening skills, comprehension skills, and fostered imaginary play.

08/05/2026

House for Frederick Sensory Play// To begin this sensory exploration, we read the story "Frederick" Leo Lionni. To continue and expand the literacy experience, we set the intention of going the multi-sensory route due to the fact that children learn best and retain the most information when they engage their senses. The tray was filled with small rocks, sand, grass, plants, lentils, loose parts "mushrooms", tree blocks, corn, etc, and toy mice to represent characters of the story. When children play like this, they are playing with a variety of materials and textures that stimulate the mind and body through the tactile experience. By giving children the opportunity to investigate materials with just a little bit of knowledge from reading the story, we are helping them develop and refine their cognitive, social and emotional, physical, creative and linguistic skills. Our ultimate goal for this activity is to tie it in with literacy experiences in order to further solidify any new words or language to children that come from reading the book. This helped them in practice listening skills, comprehension skills, and fostered imaginary play.

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2055 Santa Clara Avenue
Alameda, CA
94501

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Monday 7am - 6pm
Tuesday 7am - 6pm
Wednesday 7am - 6pm
Thursday 7am - 6pm
Friday 7am - 6pm

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