It’s full of simple, low-cost experiences that help children learn through play — from splashing in puddles to spotting shapes in the park!

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🌿 Try ticking off a few activities each weekend — it’s a wonderful way to build curiosity and confidence through everyday adventures.

🧁 Make simple shapes, animals, or letter shapes.

🍋 Try scented playdough — lemon, lavender or cocoa powder for extra fun!

Click below for an easy no-cook playdough recipe:
👉 https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/playdough-recipe

Have fun with 'dough disco' videos available online.

🥣 Use tweezers or tongs to pick up pom-poms, peas, or beads — race to fill a bowl!

🎯 Aim to use thumb and finger like a pincer (this helps with pencil grip later).

🎈 Use pegs to clip around a paper plate or card.

🧩 Build Lego towers or use pegboards to strengthen fingers.

🎨 Use cotton buds or sticks to make marks with paint or water.

🪶 Write with different tools – feathers, paintbrushes, sticks, even cars through paint!

📰 Cut pictures from magazines and make a collage.

Always remind children: “Thumbs on top!”

Hunt around the house for other objects that have the same starting sound.

These ideas are play-based and practical, focusing on talking, exploring and noticing the world around us - just as we do in Nursery.

Families are encouraged to choose anything that feels manageable for them.
Keeping children safe, warm and happy is always our priority.

• Scoop snow into bowls or containers

• Talk about how it feels: cold, wet, crunchy

• Watch it melt indoors and talk about what happens

If there is no snow:

• Use ice cubes, flour, rice or cotton wool instead

• Still talk about cold, soft, white, melting

No recording needed — just talk.

Act out snow falling, shivering, stamping feet.