paint – First adventures nursery

July 03,2019

Fun with paint

The children in the Tweenie room have been very creative this week. We worked on our fine motor skills making a pasta necklace and sorting rainbow rice into the different colours. We tried a new colour paint experiment with Chloe this week. We mixed different colour of paint and added a variety of t

May 23,2019

Spiders

The children at Teddy Bear House have been very interested in spiders this week after seeing one in the garden. We visited the library to see if they had any spider story books we could borrow. We also enjoyed playing and mark making with the toy spiders in salt. We made some spiders webs and [&hell

May 22,2019

Outdoor Painting

The children have made the most of the lovely weather this week and have been very creative outdoors working together making large murals. We have explored a variety of techniques such as splatter painting, large roller and brush painting, cling film and tin foil painting and water painting. This ga

August 08,2018

Messy Day

The children in the Tweenie room have been exploring different messy play. They made patterns in the shaving foam, searched for animals in the jelly and played with the sticky slime. The children loved playing with the water beads in the water tray. We did some splatter painting in the garden and ma

August 03,2018

Northern Lights

The children on the second floor had fun at the beginning of the week tracking the aeroplane that Louise was on travelling to Vancouver. The children had fun guessing where her plane was on it’s journey by sticking paper onto the globe on the smartboard. Just before the nursery closed for the nigh

May 18,2018

Fun in the Sun

By Gillian Mustard
Turret towers
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We have been enjoying the fantastic weather this week. There has been lots of exciting things to see and do – we met a little bee, found tadpoles in our pond, completed an obstacle course with a balance beam and tyre to jump into, watched our handyman Andrew working on our new fence and genera

May 11,2018

Colour mixing

This week the children have been very interested in how colours change when they are mixed together. Louise was telling the children about a fabulous experiment – wax crayons are heated and start to melt and mix together. The children were very keen to try this. It made a fantastic colourful p

April 27,2018

First Adventures Rocks

By Gillian Mustard
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We are starting a new project to encourage families to get out and about and have some fun exploring. Some of the children have painted a small rock and the staff will hide this on Friday evening somewhere in the town for families to find ( a picture of the rock will be posted on […]

September 21,2017

Autumn Art

By Gillian Mustard
Teddy Bear house
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The babies have been using a variety of Autumn colours to decorate pictures of animals and leaves. We had a walk in the nursery garden and collected leaves that had fallen off the trees, we then used them to do some leaf printing and make collage pictures.

July 14,2017

Art and Craft day

By Gillian Mustard
Turret towers
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The children have enjoyed using a wide variety of materials and techniques to explore on art and craft day. The children made headbands and decorated then with sparkly jewels and salt dough models and then painted them. They also made junk models, free painting and chalk pictures both inside and out