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Mark Making

Mark Making

Mark making is not all about writing letters and drawing pictures there are many fun ways to encourage children to enjoy making marks. Here are some of the things we do to support mark making  Continue reading “Mark Making”

Author Caroline HopleyPosted on October 17, 2018May 15, 2019Categories Activities, Expressive Arts & Design, PhysicalTags Activity, Creativity, Exploring, Mark Making, Paint, Painting, Play Dough

Garden Activities

Garden Activities
Garden Activities

During this nice weather we have spent time enjoying some garden activities. Here are some idea for the garden to keep children entertained for hours. Continue reading “Garden Activities”

Author Caroline HopleyPosted on August 7, 2018August 7, 2018Categories Activities, Physical, Understanding the WorldTags Activity, Creativity, Discovery, Exploring, Expressive Arts and Design, garden, Mark Making, Nature, outdoor, outside, Physical

Clean Paint Colour Mixing

Clean Paint Colour Mixing

Paint colour mixing is a fun way to supporting children’s development. This  activity can support different areas of the EYFS…

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Author Caroline HopleyPosted on December 11, 2017December 27, 2017Categories GuidesTags Activity, Expressive Arts and Design, Mark Making, Paint, Physical

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Nice cooling spot of water play this afternoon. # Nice cooling spot of water play this afternoon.

#waterplay #keepingcool #Earlyyears #childcare #Childminder
Its no secret that I absolutely hate this heat! De Its no secret that I absolutely hate this heat! Despite the hot weather we had an amazing day celebrating one of the little ones 2nd Birthday. 

I usually make cinemon and banana muffins, and prepare a birthday lunch but it was so hot I was not putting the oven on to bake them, so this morning sorted out a last minute shop to get in some party foods. 

We started out morning in the garden with some water play followed by the balloons play along with some birthday party music. 

The balloons ball out was amazing. The children loved this so much. Dancing was a success,  some of the children were dancing with their friends. 

We are now enjoying a calm afternoon with the balloons. 

I also want to add, out of 36 balloons we still have 36 balloons! The children have not popped any. This is the first time in the 8 years of childminding I've not been hunting the room for stray bits of balloon when you hear that bang! 

We still have 2 hours to go it wouldn't surprise me if one went bang! 

#party #Earlyyears #Childminder #waterplay #childcare
More random fun the children have been enjoying. More random fun the children have been enjoying. 

#Childminder #childcarelife #Earlyyears #learning #learnthroughplay
Busy few weeks so posting has some of our activiti Busy few weeks so posting has some of our activities in a couple of posts we have enjoyed a range of activities to support our independent playing. And the children have been amazing working well together. 

#childcarelife #Childminder #Earlyyears #learning #learnthroughplay
This afternoon we have fun with rice! One of the l This afternoon we have fun with rice! One of the little ones likes cooking so we created this tray to encourage the different movements. Each of the children had their own preferences to how they pick up the rice.

Then after the mess one of the children said, "Caroline we need some books so we can pick up the rice, there is so much on the floor" so we got some books to push the rice into one place.

#messyplay #childcare #riceplay #learningthroughplay #learning
Recently the children have been asking for music. Recently the  children have been asking for music. Every day this week! 

Today a child arrived with bubbles for us to play with so we combined the music and bubbles. We had such a fun morning, it was suddenly lunch time and we had not stopped! 

#bubbles #childcare #Earlyyears #dancing #physicalactivity
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