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Homemade Lolly Ices

Posted on 18th Jun 20202nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Yesterday, Tracie went to cut a watermelon into wedges for snack time but it rolled off the surface and smashed up. Everyone gasped, then started laughing!

Tracie decided to take the hard skin and pips out of the watermelon and use it to make lolly ices instead! We put the fleshy fruit into a bowl and mashed it up, then we put the watermelon slush into lolly molds and put it in the freezer.

Today, it was a very hot, sunny day and Ivor asked if he could have his lolly ice.

All the children loved them. Ivor asked if we could make them again, Martha suggested not to let it fall again though!

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Thank You to Key Workers

Posted on 6th Apr 20202nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

All the children have been working hard making crafts and signs to thank all of the Key Workers for the hard jobs they are doing to protect our families.

Poppy painted a rainbow on our front room window asking everyone to stay safe.

All the children within the setting painted wooden letters to make the front garden sign for everyone to see as they pass the house.

We have been busy making banners, cards, rainbows, paintings and stood on the front step at 8pm to clap for the NHS workers.

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Homemade Plant Labels

Posted on 27th Mar 202012th Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

We have been looking on the internet for labels for our plants. We didn’t like the ones we saw so Tracie decided to make some. First she asked her brother, Jonathan to slice up a big log. Then Tracie sanded them all smooth so they wouldn’t give anyone splinters, and so she could paint on them.

Once they were ready for painting, we all sat around the table and decided which ones we needed making first.

Ivor wanted the tomato one, Martha the Cucumber, Fearne wanted Lavender, Poppy the Garlic and Tracie thought a salad bowl would be good for the raised bed that has everything we love eating as a salad.

As soon as the paint had dried Tracie took them outside and sprayed them all with varnish to protect them from rain. They all looked very good and we cant wait to make more.

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Wonderful Wanderers and Wildlife Rangers Celebrate St. Valentine’s Day

Posted on 25th Feb 20202nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

The Rangers worked together to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day.

To start the day everyone had Tracie’s special sugar-free pancakes, then the Wanderers and Rangers made healthy heart burgers for lunch and amazing cupcakes for pudding!

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A Summer Walk Around the Garden

Posted on 20th Feb 202012th Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

On our walk around the garden today we found lots of treasures. We picked some lovely large Lilies, Hydrangeas, Sweet Peas, Sunflowers, Lavender and Nasturtiums for a flower arrangement.

We looked at all out the fruit and vegetables that are growing in our beds and picked Cucumbers, Beans, Beetroots and Baby Cauliflowers which we will make into a vegetable soup.

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Homemade Breakfast Waffles

Posted on 7th Jan 20202nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

We made some amazing sugar-free waffles for our breakfast! Everyone took it in turns to whisk the eggs until they were light and fluffy. Then we added the wet ingredients into the dry. We used the hand mixer to make the ingredients into a thick batter. Tracie then poured the batter into the waffle maker and cooked until golden brown.

The waffles were absolutely delicious and got a thumbs up from everyone!

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On a Laser Quest

Posted on 7th Jan 20202nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Tracie, Hannah, Poppy, Jack and Chloe went on a Christmas holiday trip to the Trafford Centre in Manchester. We had so much fun in Laser Quest being the blue team and Zapping the red team. We had to hide and sneak around to find them and try hard not to get zapped ourselves.

After our fun in Laser Quest, the children had fun on the interactive climbing wall! Tracie was too worn out to have a go.

Jack and Hannah on the Interactive Climbing Wall

Chloe and Poppy Climbing to Hit the Bats!

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Christmas Party

Posted on 20th Dec 20192nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Two cheeky Elves came to see us and put us in the Christmas mood! We had fun and games and someone special came to see us!!

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Spooky Goings On

Posted on 31st Oct 20192nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

We had lots of fun at a Halloween party for the ‘Jazz It Up’ fundraising event. We started the day getting our outfits ready, painting our faces and body parts with blood and guts!

We began with six lovely children and ended up with a fearsome cat, a scary clown, a bloody school girl, a spider boy, a spider girl and a wolf!

The children decorated Tracie up as a moody pumpkin and made her go and sit in the pumpkin patch for a photo!

We had fun joining in with spooky games, dance competitions, find the spider, balloon popping and enjoyed eating fingers in rolls with sticky blood!

We enjoyed ourselves so much we decided to have another spooky day. We made pumpkin prints, played spooky snap and had afternoon tea, with wiggly worms, creepy eyeballs, long fingers, pumpkin soup, and spider cakes. Yuck!

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Moving On Up!

Posted on 23rd Sep 20192nd Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

This September we had a lovely tea party to wish our two Schoolies Martha and Lily good luck with starting big school! We looked back at the last four years, how much they have grown and all the activities, fun and laughter we have shared along the way!