We love any excuse to dress up in our house, so Halloween is always a time of great excitement. We have always preferred to throw a Halloween themed party rather than taking part in the usual guising and with Covid-19 and lockdown (2020) celebrations were going to be on a smaller scale. We decided to… Continue reading Halloween
The weather is something that is always the topic of conversations and consideration. It is also something that is always changing and unpredictable in Scotland, so something really interesting. Each day we looked at different weather states. It was such a good theme for allowing us to delve into science experiments. It is also another… Continue reading Weather
We are very proud to be Scottish and live in such a beautiful country so a focus on Scotland was a no-brainer. It's an added bonus my boy totally rocks a kilt and that there are so many great activities associated with this topic. We had such good fun during our Scotland theme. Below I… Continue reading Scotland
A popular theme in nurseries is the Teddybears Picnic. We decided upon this theme as Robbie's fantastic nursery was celebrating their 2 year opening birthday, but due to Covid-19 couldn't have the party they had hoped for. We decided to have our own little party in their honour. Below I have added a mind map… Continue reading Our Teddybears Picnic
Easter is always a fun time of year filled with chocolate for our family. This was the first year Robbie was old enough to fully understand Easter, however, due to Covid and lockdown (2020) we needed to come up with fun activities to make Easter special at home. Easter Planning Mindmap Easter Egg Craft -… Continue reading Easter
Robbie loves learning and is really interested in letters and numbers in particular. we constantly talk about letters, numbers, colours and shapes and always sing songs and read stories about them. Painting Painting is a fun way to learn. When we paint we talk about the colours that we have, we mix colours and talk… Continue reading Learning: Letters, Numbers, Colours and Shapes.
Under the Sea is another very popular topic and one that is easily incorporated into the nursery/infant years settings. There could even be adaptations and activities within this topic applicable throughout the primary school, e.g. conservation. I have added my planning mindmap below and will detail all the activities Robbie and I did. Under the… Continue reading Under the Sea
In my family, we are massive superhero fans. We love all the movies, tv-series etc. Robbie started becoming really interested in them too (age appropriately of course) just after his 2nd birthday so we decided to make superheroes one of our themes. This was one of my favourite themes and has produced games and activities… Continue reading Superheros
Everyone loves a day at the Farm, getting to see all the animals and tractors. The Farm is also a theme I could see being easily transferred to a nursery or infant setting as a longer topic. We had great fun with this theme and had we not been in complete lockdown (2020) we would… Continue reading On the Farm
During the course of lockdown (2020) we enjoyed lots of long walks around our surrounding areas and made games of how many birds we could spot. Robbie loved this and became very interested in birds, so I decided to do a bird theme for him. Again this could be adapted and added to for older… Continue reading Birds
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