Messy Play with Babies and Toddlers

This week the babies and toddlers have been taking part in lots of messy play activities. They have enjoyed exploring shaving foam and soap flakes. Whilst these activities are a great way to introduce new and different textures for the children to explore they are also lots of fun and very messy!

Babies shaving foam

25/06/2012

Here is Nia, Lucinda and Sam ready to explore the foam

Nia uses her hands to squash the foam

Lucinda is having lots of fun patting her foam down

Sam has covered both of his hands!

Toddlers Soap flakes

29/06/2012

Claire and Laura took the toddlers outside and made some soap flake mixture from the Grab and Go boxes.

Food colouring was added to the mixture to make different colours. We also added some strawberry essence so the mixture would smell different too. This was great as the toddlers used a lot of different senses during this activity.

Carrie-Ann uses a scraper to move the flakes around

Diana and Lucinda explore the mixture with their fingers and brushes

claire adds the strawberry essence to Becks's mixture

And they both lean in to smell the strawberries

Lucinda liked the blue food colouring in her mixture and swirled it round with her brush

Diana also used a brush to spread the mixture along the table

Diana and Becks watch Claire add the food colouring to their mixture

The Olympic torch

The Pre-school children were so lucky to see the Olympic torch travel through Shrewsbury. Thank you very much to Kierans Mummy and Tylers Daddy for coming along with us, we all had a great time.



Michelle and Jo painted Union Jack flags on to our cheeks to show our support for the Olympics.

Here we are on our way to Old Potts Way to wait for the torch to be carried past. we were all very excited.

We waited so patiently for the runner to run up the hill with the torch.

We then saw the torches 'kiss' and the next torch bearer walked past us.

We also saw these balloons in the sky that were set up from Asda car park. They were red, white and blue to represent the colours from the Union Jack.

Carding Mill Valley Trip

Sam and the sheep sign

Shropshires rolling hills

time for a snack break

The waterfall was flowing quite fast

the sheep were very friendly

we tried to slide down the hillsides on cardboard sleds

Rowan crossed the stream by rope

The view from the reservoir

The view of the reservoir

Crocky Trails - Spring 2012Aaron and Eleri at the top of the giant slide

Aaron and Eleri at the top of the giant slide 

Michelle took everyone on the spinning trailer

Phoebe looks trepidatious aboard the Titanic

Aaron and Rowan hanging on aboard the Titanic

Rowan and Leon climb the tower

Should we put Aaron in the canon?

Rowan jumps in the stream

Walking the plank

Rowan rockets down the slide

Ready for a group descent

Shannon sits while Rowan lies down

Eleri is half way down

Aaron is King of the castle

Rowan loses grip on the Titanic

Michelle fulfils a lifetime ambition by sliding off the Titanic

Paul walks out of the spider web while others slide back down

Everyone got stuck in the tunnel of doom

Eleri and Aaron at the disco

Eleri narrowly misses getting swiped off the bar

Time for a pep talk

Giant reaches up to get something off the tree

Kick the can!

Don't fall in!

Bridge over muddy water

Concentration

You can do it Michelle!

Aaron in war paint

Leon swings over the river

and then he walks back

On the merry go round

Shannon finishes the trail with a smile