Our Christmas Photo Collection From All At Tracie’s Treasures
Christmas At Tracie’s Treasures 2022
Tag: Seedlings
The Giant Came To Town
Today for Jacks birthday we went to the Liverpool Playhouse to watch a production of Julia Donaldson’s ‘The Giant Came To Town’ it was absolutely amazing.
It was Jack’s 1st time at the Theatre and he was so well behaved. He loved sitting on a special box so the seat was raised and wouldn’t keep going up. We shared a drink and popcorn while waiting for the show to start.
Jack laughed, pointed and clapped at the puppets as they told the story.
As the show finished and everyone was bowing, Jack got excited, clapped and waved goodbye.
Remembrance Poppies
This week the Chloe from Rangers wanted to make a window display in honour of all the soldiers who gave their life and courage to protect out country. She has been learning about Remembrance day in school and wears her Poppy with pride.
First, Chloe helped to design a Poppy on the iPad, we then photocopied it for everyone to be able to decorate it. Sophie and Chloe made theirs first. Chloe wanted to colour hers in and paint the middle black. Sophie copied Chloe’s design.
Sophie loved her poppy so much she wanted to take it home for mummy. She also wanted to have it displayed on the window so she ended up painting one too! Isn’t it pretty!
All the seedlings took it in turns to make their own Poppy. We used Paint, pens, pencils and lots and lots of red glitter!
What A Month For Our Seedlings!
This month the children have been working hard on their physical skills.
Izzy is now confidently walking the whole of the play rooms. She is growing in confidence even walking up the soft-play equipment.
Our youngest Seedling is not even 1 years old and can walk around the room with encouragement from adults and peers. Well done Alba!
Edie is well and truly walking, even running at times.
The three eldest Seedlings have been practicing their balancing skills. Balancing on the soft play equipment and balancing boards.
Halloween Fun
Everyone had fun for Halloween this year, Emma and her family looked amazing. They were very scary and got up to lots of mischief.
Poppy chose not to be scary but join in by wearing her favourite Anime costume. Her jacket stands out on a dark night, which keeps her safe when out and about trick or treating.
Alfie from the seedlings was such a cute bat. He even tried to sleep upside down on the soft play!
The Rangers all helped each other to carve the pumpkins. They were very careful while using the vegetable knives. I am so glad they carved them outside, the mess was phenomenal!
The Rangers and Wanderers enjoyed the carving and apple bobbing the best. The Seedlings enjoyed the hunting for buried spiders, Tracie put a few treats in the sand for them to find for a surprise.
Pumpkin Growing and Beyond
Back in April the Seedlings sowed pumpkin seeds in the vegetable plot hoping they would grow big for Halloween.
We had bought large pumpkins from the local supermarket last year and kept the seeds, dried them out and stored them in a paper bag to grow for this year. We hoped they would grow big and strong.
Unfortunately, our pumpkins haven’t grown as much as we hoped for yet so the Seedlings went to the shop and bought one for our activity.
First the Seedlings looked at the ones growing in the garden, they were way too small, green and some still had the flower on.
Next we looked at the shop brought pumpkin and Tracie cut it in half for the Seedlings to investigate.
They touched the skin and thought it was cold and hard. When the Seedlings were asked to touch the centre, two of the children said ‘yucky don’t want too’ but Martie prodded it with her finger and smelled it, she wasn’t impressed.
Earlier, while out in the garden the seedlings picked some pumpkin leaves, for the activity they used green paint to make prints of the leaves onto paper.
Tracie cut the pumpkin in half and put it into some orange paint, the seedings swished the pumpkin to make sure it was covered in paint then used it like a stamper onto the prints of the leaves.
The seedlings made lovely pictures of the growing pumpkins in the garden. Alfie squished his pumpkin and the orange paint, mixed with the green to make an abstract painting.
The Seedlings loved the activity and we have displayed them in the front play room.
Lincolnshire: Wildlife Park
Lincolnshire Wildlife Park is one of the UK’s largest animal sanctuaries. The residents are from all walks of life and from all over the world. They have an amazing array of animals which keep the keepers very busy daily, from Tigers to Parrots and lots in between!
We had a fun packed day out walking around the park, we discovered some amazing facts and information about Parrots and learned why the Charity is so important. We listened to the wonderful sounds of the rainforest, spanning from Australia to Africa to the Americas and discovered why they are the only park that talks back!
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park is a well established ‘National Parrot Sanctuary’ housing over 1000 re-homed Parrots & Parakeets, covering over 100 different species. They have a third of the UK’s Parrots here, and continue to re-home those that need help. These amazing creatures come in all sizes, colours and with some colourful language to accompany them! This parrot above kept saying hello to Poppy.
We found out some interesting facts about the Reindeer pictured above. Their hoof pads soften and widen in warmer weather to walk with ease on the soft ground, in colder weather their pads shrink, exposing their sharp hooves which are able to dig into the ice for extra grip. Their antlers are like a human’s fingerprints, no reindeer’s antlers are the same! How cool is that!
We loved the Tapir which are related to the rhinoceros and have special splayed toes to help them walk through soft muddy grounds. A group of Tapir in the wild is called a candle and baby Tapir are called calves. Calves have very different markings to adults, they are striped with white bands which helps to camouflage them in the wild.
They have a variety of Turtles at the sanctuary, including Yellow Bellied Sliders, Red Eared Sliders, Cumberland Sliders and Map turtles.
If you would like to visit you will find the details are:
Lincolnshire Wildlife Park,
Dickonhill Road,
Friskney,
Lincolnshire,
PE22 8PP
We all recommend a visit!
Grandad And Rosie’s Garden
Over the summer holidays Poppy went to Grandad Smith and Nanny Rosie’s to see how their wildlife garden and beekeeping were coming along.
Poppy’s sister Chelsea came along for the trip, she loved learning all about the wildlife and the bees in her grandad’s garden. We all talked about nature, looked at the bird houses and saw some footage of the baby birds learning to eat while still in the bird box via a webcam. Never too old to learn!
We brought along some tadpoles from our pond in Liverpool and set them free in Grandad’s pond, hopefully he will have some frogs next time we visit. Do you think they will croak in a scouse accent?
We sat and watched the tadpoles swimming around settling in their new environment. While we were watching them we saw dragonflies, water fleas, snails, hoverflies and lots of beautiful butterflies.
We looked around Grandad’s vegetable garden, he has grown lots of lovely vegetables and fruit this year. Poppy went hunting and found cucumbers, tomatoes, grapes and lemons in the greenhouse.
In the main garden we saw Sweetcorn, Beetroots, Green Beans, Cabbage, leeks, strawberries and lots of Raspberries.
Poppy picked so many Raspberries we had them for tea, snack and breakfast!
Edible Play-Dough Play
Today we made some edible play-dough for the Little Seedlings to manipulate, use cutters and mould into shapes. It was fantastic for the babies to play with because it was completely edible.
Charlie and Alfie sat well together and used cutters to make some shapes. Unfortunately the dough got stuck in the moulds, we added extra cornflower to make it more malleable and easier to play with.
The babies started the activity having sprinkles and chocolate stars on their trays.
They were given the Play-dough and were encouraged to move it around their trays to collect up all the sprinkles to make it tastier.
Because we normally use Play-dough and our rules are not to put it in our mouths Alfie was apprehensive to try and taste it. He watched everyone else have a go first. He soon got stuck in and had a go, he didn’t like the taste but loved the sprinkles.
Charlie tried to convince Emma and Tracie he hadn’t eaten any! Think this picture tells a different story.
Exciting Transitions
Today was an emotional day when our Georgia, Fearne and Sophie moved up to Anfield School.
They all looked so cute in their uniforms, Emma and I are so proud of them, they have grown into confident and well-mannered young girls. They have all been with us from babies and have been a pleasure to mind.
Wont be long and they will be coming back in school holidays!
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