Ash & Claire Childminders

13/11/2025

11/11/2025

To remember November 11th, we also made our own poppy wreath and talked a little about them and remembrance.

11/11/2025

The mindees have really enjoyed playing with animals and we're pretending to be "puppies" this morning so Our little morning adventure was to Pets At Home.
We saw "Peanut" the rabbit, watched the lady sucking up the fish poo and lots of other animals.
Afterwards we were so good we also went to Lidl for a snack.

They were so polite to everyone, listened, talked about things we saw and were so well behaved.

Lidl GB Pets UK

06/11/2025

All this week we’ve let the mindees choose our outings, and today’s choice was… “museum!”
So off we went to Milestones Museum 🏠🖼️

We practiced our walking skills, climbed lots of stairs, explored the school room, did some colouring, puppets and play room, and spotted loads of old vehicles 😄

A brilliant morning and a very good choice from the mindees 👏

05/11/2025

Today’s child led activities were,off to eastrop to feed the ducks some oats “din dins”which you can see we were very popular and a bit of a play. Then off to the library for rhyme time and choosing our own books to read 📖

03/11/2025

Not often you have lunch really close to an Apache and a Huey Army Flying Museum

01/11/2025

I filmed the obstacle course at The Vyne - National Trust from my pov so you can see exactly what it's like doing it alongside the mindees, not just standing at the edge saying "Well Done" from the sidelines.

The girls were straight over the beams, jumping gaps and shouting “Ashleigh, help me!” while I was doing my best to lift, help.multiple mindees and not stack it in front of a National Trust audience 😅

They smashed the course with teamwork, patience and zero fear.

01/11/2025

I filmed the obstacle course at The Vyne - National Trust from my pov so you can see exactly what it's like doing it alongside the mindees, not just standing at the edge saying "Well Done" from the sidelines.

The girls were straight over the beams, jumping gaps and shouting “Ashleigh, help me!” while I was doing my best to lift, help.multiple mindees and not stack it in front of a National Trust audience 😅

They smashed the course with teamwork, patience and zero fear.

30/10/2025

Day 4, our final Halloween adventure! 🎃

We spent the day at Sunnyfields Pumpkin Patch, just a stone’s throw from where I grew up, so we picked up my mum (known all day as “your mum” 😂) and our family friend Anna to join in the fun. Huge thank you to them both for their help 💛, children loved you.

We chose pumpkins, tackled three spooky mazes, climbed Pumpkin Hill, rode the Halloween train, and took plenty of spooky photos 📸👻
There was lunch (with a few of my chips mysteriously disappearing 😅), and of course, plenty of wheelbarrow races and giggles along the way!

A fantastic day and the perfect end to our Halloween half term 🎃✨

29/10/2025

Day 3 of our Halloween half term adventures 🎃

Today we returned to 4 Kingdoms Adventure Park Hampshire; and what a day it was! 🚜🦖

We met up with Claire’s family, Finley, Gracie and Ashley, who the mindees instantly clicked with. A huge thank you for all the fun and laughter. the mindees had the best time playing with you 💛

We met “Pumpkin Man”, explored dinosaurs and animals, rode the tractor and train, and of course, spent plenty of time in soft play (from 1 right up to the 40+ 😄). Super proud of the little ones doing the drop slide too.

It was also lovely for Claire and me to be back where we used to work and catch up with some familiar faces.

28/10/2025

Day two of Halloween half term. 🎃

This time off to the Vyne for a Ghost Hunt 👻
The mindees walked, run, hide and climbed round the grounds searching for the ghosts and trying the games out.

Plenty of giggles, a few spooky surprises, and not a single ghost escaped us! 😄🕵️‍♂️👻

27/10/2025

First day of October half term 🍂
Our mindees were so excited to see the school mindees back again!

We had a lovely walk through the forest, lots of sticks collected, “jail” dens explored, and “hills” conquered 🪵🌳
Then an afternoon at the park meeting new friends and burning off that extra half-term energy 😄