Napley Lodge Farm Day Nursery

The other day the babies put their waterproofs on🧥🌂and ventured outside to their outdoor area. They played on seesaws, in the little house, made food in the little shop and played with the toy diggers!

They had so much fun☺️

Farm Walks with Pre School 🐿🍂🌳🐮🐶

Baby room Halloween!👻🎃

Well done babies for dressing up! You all looked fabulous☺️

The babies enjoyed playing in a spider jelly tray, they picked the spiders out of the jelly(and ate the jelly too🙈) they had lots of fun breaking the jelly up into smaller pieces, exploring the texture and of course making lots of mess too!☺️

Ghost Sensory Tray 👻

Pre School have been busy playing in our cloud dough ghost tray. We used cloud dough to create the ghost and blackberries to decorate his face. The children enjoyed a sensory experience whilst playing in this tray and used describing words to describe what the ghost felt like and smelt like👻

Pre School Halloween Party 🎉🧙🎃👻

Yummy party food, dancing and pass the parcel fun🫶🏼🪩🕺

🎃👻Happy Halloween🎃👻

The piggies have had the best Halloween party! The children have enjoyed making some spooky potions pouring, scooping, tipping and mixing using pumpkin insides, orange water, glitter and Halloween decorations!🕷🎃👻🦇

They have explored a sensory slime jelly tray to find hidden spooky creatures! They children loved using their hands to get all messy and feel the different textures!💀

The children also played a game of pass the parcel and did really well sharing with their friends passing the present around and opening each layer to find some yummy sweets!🍬

We also have a little dance party showing off our best dance moves finished by some yummy party food!🎃👻💀🕷🦇

Pre School Potions 🧪🧙👻

Pre School have been having fun making potions this morning, they have used spiders and jelly, green foam and red and yellow water to mix up a spooky potion!!👻

Pre School Halloween Costumes 2024 🎃👻🧙

Pumpkin Rice Krispie Cakes 🎃👻

Getting in the spooky season, pre school have also decorated and made these yummy pumpkin Rice Krispie cakes!!
We melted the chocolate, added food colouring, mixed in our Rice Krispies and then they shared them out equally in their cupcake cases.
Very yummy pudding after dinner👻🎃😄

🎃🎃Pre School Pumpkin Carving🎃🎃

Pre School have had fun emptying and carving our rooms pumpkin today. They used their senses to smell, touch and look at the pumpkin and use describing words to talk about it! Gooey slimy fun 🍂🎃🐿

The children have enjoyed decorating a giant pumpkin with paints and glitter this morning!🎃

Pre School’s Acorn & Conker Bracelets 🍂🌳🐿

Pre School have enjoyed creating some acorn and conker bracelets today! The children threaded the acorns and conkers on and then an adult tied it together for the children. This developed the children’s hand eye coordination and fine motor skills.

The piggies have enjoyed getting creative in the tuff tray this morning creating some chalked pictures!🎨

Pre School’s Pumpkin Salt Dough🎃

Pre School have enjoyed creating their own salt dough pumpkins today. The children rolled out the salt dough, used a cutter to cut it and then decorated them this afternoon!😄🍂👻

Pre School Recycling Tray 🌍♻️

Pre School have enjoyed sorting items into groups of plastic, paper and metal. We spoke about each item and the children took it in turns developing their team working skills to do the task.
We spoke about other ways in which we can save the world like turning off lights, fixing leaky taps and picking up litter!
The children enjoyed learning about what items were plastic, metal and paper and extended their knowledge on recycling ♻️🌍🍂

🐿🦔🍂Autumn Tree Tray 🍂🦔🐿

Pre School have been busy this morning in this autumnal tray, we discussed what happens to leaves in autumn, what colour they are and the children then decorated the tree, using their knowledge and putting the leaves that are brown on the floor and the ones that were green in the tree.

The children discovered that conkers are the seeds from a Chestnut trees and they learnt that chestnut is a colour!!🌰

The children had a sensory experience, using describing words to describe the materials and objects in the tray. They used words like spiky, soft, crunchy, smooth and lumpy.🍂

Colour matching!

The piggies have been practicing their colours this morning, they used the building bugs in pairs to match the bugs to the tubes and worked together counting them in and matching the colours! They also selected images that matched the colours on their worksheet!🎨

Mexican Chilli 🌶 🇲🇽

Pre School have enjoyed tasting Mexican Chilli today.
We spoke about Mexico and the children guessed if the country was hot or cold and we all discussed what ingredients were in the chilli.. 🇲🇽

🎃Thursday 31st October🎃

The children will be having a fun filled Halloween party on Thursday 31st October! Lots of party food, games and prizes for best costume🎃👻

Australian Dot Art 🖼 🎨

Pre School have been learning about Australian dot art today, they used the ends of paint brushes to create dots on their pictures.
The children developed their hand eye coordination skills and fine motor skills!
Well done pre school, they are fabulous 🎨🌍🇦🇺

Dressing up fun!🎭

The piggies have enjoyed some pom-pom painting this morning!🖌🎨

Rice Krispie Autumn Leafs 🍂🍁

Pre School have been busy making leaf Rice Krispies today!! We melted chocolate, added our Rice Krispies and put it in a tray in the fridge for it to get hard, we then used a cutter to cut each leaf and ate them up for our pudding. They were very yummy!!
We spoke about Autumn and how the leaves change colours, how it gets colder and what animals may be seen more in the autumn months. 🕷🍂🍃

Farm walk fun! 🐑🐴

The piggies have been very busy this morning developing lots of different skills! They’ve enjoyed a sensory tuff tray of water and glitter and cereal and rice scooping, pouring, tipping, balancing, measuring and using their fine motor skills. 💦🍚