Learn and Grow Outside School Care

MOTHER’S DAY PLAYDOUGH CUPCAKES 🧁👵🧑‍🧒

To celebrate Mother’s Day, the children enjoyed creating colourful Playdough cupcakes for their mums. They chose different colours and carefully decorated their cupcakes using their imagination and creativity. This hands-on experience supported fine motor skills, creativity, decision-making, and self-expression while encouraging the children to show love and appreciation for their mums.

WORLD OCEANS DAY - RECYCLED FISH CRAFT ♻️🐟🐠

Children participated in a World Ocean Day experience by creating fish using recycled materials such as empty milk bottles, bottle caps, googly eyes, and colourful triangle papers. They used creativity and imagination to assemble their fish designs.

This activity supported fine motor skills, creativity, hand-eye coordination, and environmental awareness. Children also learned the importance of recycling and caring for the ocean and marine life through sustainable craft practices.

NATURE SENSORY EXPLORATION 🍀🍃🌱🌿🌸🌺🌼

Children explored a nature-themed tuff tray filled with flowers, long leaves, stones, and a variety of natural textures. They touched, observed, compared, and talked about the different materials, using descriptive language to share their discoveries.

This experience encouraged sensory exploration, curiosity, language development, fine motor skills, and an appreciation for the natural environment through hands-on learning.

DINOSAUR DISCOVERY TUFF TRAY 🦖🦕🍃🌱🌿

Children explored a dinosaur-themed sensory tuff tray filled with natural materials and sensory resources. They used their imagination to discover, dig, and play with the dinosaurs while engaging in conversations with their peers.

This experience supported sensory exploration, fine motor development, problem-solving, creativity, language skills, and cooperative play. It also encouraged curiosity, imaginative thinking, and confidence as children explored and made their own discoveries.

LEARNING THE LETTER B THROUGH BANANA FUN 🍌🔠🔡

Children participated in a Letter B learning experience by tracing the uppercase and lowercase letter B and practising the word “Banana.” They coloured a banana picture and developed their fine motor skills by cutting and gluing small pieces of yellow paper to create a banana collage.

To extend the learning, we peeled and ate a banana together while discussing its health benefits and how it helps keep our bodies healthy and strong. This experience supported letter recognition, pre-writing skills, fine motor development, healthy eating awareness, and positive social interaction.

LEARNING THE LETTER A THROUGH APPLE FUN 🍎🔠🔡

Children participated in a Letter A learning experience by tracing the uppercase and lowercase letter A and practising the word “Apple.” They coloured an apple picture, then developed their cutting skills by snipping red paper into small pieces and using a glue stick to collage the apple.

To extend the learning, we cut a fresh apple together, discussed its health benefits, and talked about how apples help keep our bodies strong and healthy. The children enjoyed tasting and eating the apple together, encouraging healthy eating habits and positive social interactions.

This experience supported the development of fine motor skills, including pencil grip, scissor control, hand-eye coordination, colouring within boundaries, and accurate gluing techniques. It also strengthened early literacy through letter recognition, pre-writing practice, and vocabulary development while learning that A is for Apple. The healthy eating discussion promoted children’s understanding of nutritious foods, while sharing the apple together encouraged communication, turn-taking, and confidence in trying healthy foods.

NUTRITION FOOD PYRAMID 🍓🍒🥦🥕🍞🥖🍗🥛🧀🧈

Children explored healthy eating by learning about the food group pyramid. They sorted different foods into categories such as fruits, vegetables, carbohydrates, meat and dairy products. The children enjoyed discussing healthy choices and recognising familiar foods from home. This activity supported their cognitive development, language skills, healthy lifestyle awareness, and sorting abilities while encouraging meaningful group discussions.

OUTDOOR FUN GAMES

Children had lots of fun playing the “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” movement game along with an exciting cup game outdoors. The children enthusiastically followed actions, sang along, and enjoyed balancing and moving the cups with their friends. This playful experience supported listening skills, body awareness, coordination, turn-taking, and social interaction. The children laughed, stayed active, and confidently participated throughout the activity.

PIPE CLEANER FISHES

Children explored creativity by making fish using chenille sticks, using their imagination and fine motor skills to shape and design. They then floated their fish in water, observing how objects move and stay afloat, building early understanding of basic science concepts.

Using a skewer, children picked the floating fish from one bucket and transferred them to another, strengthening hand–eye coordination, control, and concentration. This activity also encouraged problem-solving, patience, and active engagement through sensory play.

GAMES
- Pass the ball
- Collect the cups with the straw

Children learn :-

•Hand–eye coordination
Fine motor skills (using the straw to pick up cups)
•Concentration and focus
•Problem-solving skills
•Turn-taking and teamwork