Social and Emotional Development

Starting a Childminding business can be difficult with a limited budget but not impossible. I make a lot of my resources and this helps us save money where we can. I have discovered that when it comes to play with sand

We recently added a new addition to our garden. The idea started as a digging area where little man could dig in the mud to his hearts content. Over the last week a variety of different toys and resources have been

You will hear many parents comment that their child prefers the cardboard box a present is stored in rather than the gift its self, this is because it feels better to touch, looks more interesting and makes a more exciting sound when they move it.

Its not very often that Childminders receive funding. All the equipment I have has been purchased from my own pocket and I still feel like there is so much I am missing. So when my local council gave out some new

This week little man has been awfully ill with croup and has struggled to eat and sleep but nearly a week later he has started to feel more him self and has started to want to play again yippie!! So I

This week end has not been too successful. Little man came down with croup on Friday and we have been in and out of the doctors and hospital most of the weekend so unfortunatley we have not got round to any special

This month is National Heart Month and I thought it would be nice to focus some of our weekend activities towards this. So I made up some hearts with different actions on them such as run, hop, read, sleep. I made

This month we are celebrating national Heart Month which has also nicely tied into what Lady p is covering at school (PSHE AND Citizenship- healthy foods and healthy bodies). I spend the evening cutting our some yummy foods which were rather

This was one of many activities I have had suggested to me by a great reception class teacher. I love to sit with the children and get our hands buried into something messy. Little man was able to get his hands

I love simple activities, they take less prior planning and have the potential to be lots more fun! A great acitivity escepecially for under twos is this one. We did this on Sunday and little man enjoyed spending half an hour playing