Cambridge Preschool

Support a love for drawing by using positive reinforcement when your child creates artwork, celebrate their creativity, ask them questions about what they have drawn and display it somewhere appropriate. Build a sense of pride and self-confidence in your child and allow them to explore their creativity”

Painting can be a wonderful outlet for expression, and finger painting is especially good for kids who haven’t yet developed their verbal skills. Through their painting style, subject matter and use of colour, children learn to share their emotions and communicate a message with those around them.

Cognitive Development: Cooking encourages children's thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. It also allows children the opportunity to use the knowledge they have and apply it by counting, measuring, following a sequence, following directions, and cause and effect.

Cognitive Development: Cooking encourages children's thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. It also allows children the opportunity to use the knowledge they have and apply it by counting, measuring, following a sequence, following directions, and cause and effect.

Our CMPS teachers always say : My children are the reason I laugh, smile, and want to get up every morning.”

Vegetables aren't just for eating! They can be used to make beautiful paintings and crafts – think celery-print flowers, runner bean-print leaves, apple-print butterflies and a pepper-print tree. This craft is super simple so vegetable printing is perfect for the younger ones.

There are many benefits of painting for children including sensory development, colour learning, fine motor development, exercising creativity, being able to express emotions and building self esteem. Painting is also a great activity to help teach concepts like shapes and letters in a fun and engaging way.

Kids learn by doing. Hands-on science encourages the children to DO something – observe, ask questions, touch, smell, experiment.

Allowing children to really get into science gives them the chance to make discoveries on their own. They’ll be more likely to remember a learning experience if it’s just that . . . a real experience.