Well, these children had a busy little couple of months as well.
Starfish have made beautiful butterflies by painting splodges on paper and the folding the paper in half to make a reflection. They rubbed the sides of the paper to make sure the paint was well spread and then loved watching the paint stick to the sides to be pulled apart with the butterfly effect appearing. They loved the end result too, demonstrated with claps of satisfaction. They look so pretty.
They also made spring flowers using coloured bits of tissue paper to stick onto paper to make
‘flowers’. The children loved the process of scrunching up the flowers and then sticking them onto the paper. There was lots of stickiness on fingers, tables and the work itself. -A lovely activity to lose themselves in while pottering away. To make some bumble bees the children used yellow tissue paper and black paint on card with some glorious glitter to dazzle them up.
We have bought some beautiful images of insects and plant life and laminated them for the children to look at and match up the same images. They absolutely love looking through them. They are so vibrant and interesting for the children and allow them to really look close up at flowers, plants and insects. We have been using them as flash cards for children to call out what they see, but also as images just left on a table for them to fossick through and look at ones that particularly interest them. With the bug pictures, we have been doing some actions for insects and dancing about pretending to be different insects.
‘flowers’. The children loved the process of scrunching up the flowers and then sticking them onto the paper. There was lots of stickiness on fingers, tables and the work itself. -A lovely activity to lose themselves in while pottering away. To make some bumble bees the children used yellow tissue paper and black paint on card with some glorious glitter to dazzle them up.We have bought some beautiful images of insects and plant life and laminated them for the children to look at and match up the same images. They absolutely love looking through them. They are so vibrant and interesting for the children and allow them to really look close up at flowers, plants and insects. We have been using them as flash cards for children to call out what they see, but also as images just left on a table for them to fossick through and look at ones that particularly interest them. With the bug pictures, we have been doing some actions for insects and dancing about pretending to be different insects.
Starfish highlight of spring was our trip to Kew Gardens. It was absolutely exciting and great fun to walk to the bus stop and catch two buses to Kew, and then great to be met there with the buggies so the children could take a break and be shuttled around the grounds before their picnic. We all looked at flowers, plants, enjoyed the open spaces and the play areas. We also looked at the fish and water creatures in the aquarium.
Seahorses and Starfish have been having lots of fun outside and we have been trying to cheer up the area with flowers and plants. We have done some lovely planting with the children and it is hard to give them too much input in the planting without setting the plants up for a tough life, so they have helped a bit, got all the plant boxes and pots organised and then we got down to some real messy business. We filled the sand tray with soil, children’s gardening tools and some plants that we had thinned, found or pulled and let the children dig, bury, scatter and trowel. They love this 
and it has been a big part of both the seahorses and starfish fun for a while now.
Our younger Seahorses children have been hitting the messy play, play dough, water play, paint and all sorts of textures to create pictures and just enjoy feeling new things, swishing different consistencies around making big messy splats on tables and themselves. Glorious.
Seahorses and Starfish have been having lots of fun outside and we have been trying to cheer up the area with flowers and plants. We have done some lovely planting with the children and it is hard to give them too much input in the planting without setting the plants up for a tough life, so they have helped a bit, got all the plant boxes and pots organised and then we got down to some real messy business. We filled the sand tray with soil, children’s gardening tools and some plants that we had thinned, found or pulled and let the children dig, bury, scatter and trowel. They love this 
and it has been a big part of both the seahorses and starfish fun for a while now.
Our younger Seahorses children have been hitting the messy play, play dough, water play, paint and all sorts of textures to create pictures and just enjoy feeling new things, swishing different consistencies around making big messy splats on tables and themselves. Glorious.
As well as all the different daily activities, they have had a good time playing with the puppets, both enjoying the teachers make funny noises and songs to actions with them and exploring them themselves.
nd we have had three new settlers as well. New settlers are always a good time for the older children as they all of a sudden feel so big and sure of themselvest in the room and develop a certain crawling swagger of
confidence. For the new babies, it is always so lovely watching them become settled and start to enjoy the toys, friends, singing and games that go on in the nursery. 