Little Ones Childcare

Little Ones Childcare Little Ones Childcare- providing high quality childcare and early education. Nurseries based in Budlake, Honiton, Whipton and Bovey Tracey

Contacting us....if you would like some more information regarding Little Ones please find our individual nursery details in the 'Our Nurseries' section of this site. Alternatively you can contact our head office for more general advice on 01392 469909 or info@littleoneschildcare.co.uk You can also email Katie Porter direct on katie@littleoneschildcare.co.uk.

At Honiton....At Honiton last week we were learning about world book day and we went on a trip to our local library. We ...
09/03/2026

At Honiton....At Honiton last week we were learning about world book day and we went on a trip to our local library. We enjoyed picking out books from the shelves and read some of our favourite stories! We also enjoyed colouring some pictures of characters from stories we like to read. At the library we got given tokens to get a free books, therefore we went to the shop to pick some and took them back to nursery! After a busy trip we got the bus back to nursery, we had such a fun time!

At Budlake....Next week our story will be How much do I love you by Isabel Pope our word of the week will be love you an...
09/03/2026

At Budlake....Next week our story will be How much do I love you by Isabel Pope our word of the week will be love you and our sign will be Mummy. Next week we will be talking all about Mother’s Day and talking all about the people that our important to us. In the mark making area we will be making cards for our Mummies and other people that our important to us, we will be using a range of resources such as paint, glitter and scissors to make our cards, we will be practising our scissor skills and also talking all about how to stay safe whilst using scissors. In the water area we will be making love potions using potion bottles, glitter and petals. We will using mathematical language and practising our pouring, measuring and emptying skills.



For letters and sounds next week we will be taking part in activities such as rhyming pairs this is where we play a game with pairs of pictures and we have to see which pairs of pictures rhyme such as a peg and a leg. We will also be singing our favourite songs and rhymes and playing with rhyming puppets.



This week our book was the colour monster, we talked all about our emotions and what things may make us feel the different emotions such as what makes us happy or sad. We loved looking in the mirror and practising faces that linked to each emotion in our story. We also really enjoyed making our own colour monsters using lots of different coloured playdough, we talked all about the different colours of the dough and explored a range of resources to create our monsters. In the garden we enjoyed playing hide and seek and tag incorporating numbers into our play in many ways

At Whipton....Next week will be Science and Space Week, and the children will be exploring a brand‑new experiment every ...
09/03/2026

At Whipton....Next week will be Science and Space Week, and the children will be exploring a brand‑new experiment every day. Our number of the week will be 10, our word of the week will be experiment, and our Makaton sign of the week will be ‘rocket’.

 

The children will be learning all about the wonders of space, rockets, and simple science as we spark curiosity and hands‑on discovery. Each day will include a different experiment, such as fizzy moon rocks, colour‑mixing potions, balloon‑powered rockets, and mini volcanoes. In the tuff tray, the children will explore a space‑themed sensory setup filled with moon dust, stars, and hidden planets to uncover.

 

During focus time, the children will be designing and building their own rockets, creating planets, and taking part in small‑world astronaut adventures. We will also be practising counting to 10 using stars, planets, and rocket boosters, helping the children link numeracy to their space learning. Throughout the week, we’ll be talking about what scientists do, how experiments help us learn, and what makes space such an exciting place to explore.

 

Last week we loved learning all about Alan’s Big Scary Teeth and exploring oral hygiene. The children enjoyed brushing giant teeth, talking about how to keep our mouths healthy, and taking part in lots of crocodile‑themed fun. On Thursday, we had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day. We dressed up, shared stories and cuddles, and some of the children even had their faces painted. It was so much fun and a lovely way to celebrate our love of books.

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are learning about Mother’s Day the book of the week is Monkey Puzzle. Our number ...
09/03/2026

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are learning about Mother’s Day the book of the week is Monkey Puzzle. Our number of the week is going to be 9 and our word and sign of the week is ‘mother’. Next week we will be looking together at the different special people to us that look after us and why they are so important and the ways they make us feel. During our cube times we will also be doing our letters and sounds with the children. 

What we will be up to in the week will be lots of mark making using jungle animals to make foot prints on paper we will be looking at all different sizes of prints as well as the colours and patterns we can make. We also be doing some lovely cards for the important people in our lives and talking together about why they want to make the cards for those adults in their lives. We will also have a tuff tray available set up like a jungle with tissue trees and jungle animals like the animals in our book lives and have fun exploring different textures and having fun making homes for the animals in the jungle.

This week we have had the best time looking at books we have read plenty of different books together particularly looking at rainbow fish the children have had lots of interest in talking about why the rainbow fish was happy once he shared his scales. We had so much fun dressing up and seeing all the different characters from the books we love. We have been busy making lots of book marks and book covers as well as colouring in pictures of some of our chosen book characters and sticking lots of colourful scales onto our rainbow fish!

More pictures from our World Book Day celebrations
05/03/2026

More pictures from our World Book Day celebrations

What a lovely World Book Day we've had at nursery.... !
05/03/2026

What a lovely World Book Day we've had at nursery.... !

Thursday 5th  March is World Book Day. All Little Ones nurseries will be holding a dress up day BUT this year, as in pre...
02/03/2026

Thursday 5th  March is World Book Day. All Little Ones nurseries will be holding a dress up day BUT this year, as in previous years, we really want to 'put the BOOK 📖 back into World Book Day!' So please don't spend loads of money on an amazing costume just for the day... buy a book 📖 for your child instead! They can come to nursery dressed as whatever... reuse their Halloween costume... let them wear their pyjamas for the day... or simply just wear their normal clothes. World Book Day started as a celebration of books 📖 and reading, and we want to bring this back!

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton…. We are going to be looking at our favourite stories and celebrating World book day....
01/03/2026

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton…. We are going to be looking at our favourite stories and celebrating World book day. We will be celebrating all books and our favourite stories, our word of the week will be “book” and our number of the week will be 9. We will be talking about our favourite stories and characters. We will be creating some story spoons decorating wooden spoons as our favourite characters, using paints, wax crayons and different material scraps for their clothes. We will be making book marks and being creative with decorating our own book covers.

In the tuff tray we will have Rainbow Fish, we will use different coloured cornflour and water to create our rainbow fish and hiding amongst it will be different characters from the book for the children to find.

In the garden we will being creating large collages of our favourite story books using different materials, paint and chalks on large sheets of paper and cardboard boxes.

This week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year, we have had so much fun learning about the year of the horse, making lanterns, making masks and even having a go at tracing Chinese symbols and doing dragon dances.

At Honiton....This week in the baby room at Honiton we have been learning all about under the sea, we have been explorin...
01/03/2026

At Honiton....This week in the baby room at Honiton we have been learning all about under the sea, we have been exploring the under the sea tray with blue pasta for water and the fish have been swimming in it and sand to make sandcastles.

Outside we had coloured water for our sharks and whales to swim in we loved splashing with our hands.

We also had Jelly play where sea creatures were hidden in the jelly it was so much fun but very sticky!

We got creative making suncatchers in the shape of fish, turtles and starfish we used lots of different coloured paper to make them look very colourful.

We have enjoyed singing a wiggly fish and tiny turtle as well as 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive.

Next week we will be celebrating world book day by having a teddy bears picnic and sharing lots of books.

At Whipton....Next week our Book of the Week will be Alan’s Big Scary Teeth. Our number of the week will be 9, our word ...
01/03/2026

At Whipton....Next week our Book of the Week will be Alan’s Big Scary Teeth. Our number of the week will be 9, our word of the week will be Crocodile, and our Makaton signs will be ‘Crocodile’ and ‘Brush’.

 

The children will be diving into the world of crocodiles, teeth, and oral hygiene as we explore Alan’s mischievous adventures. We’ll be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday, where we encourage everyone to dress up pyjamas are absolutely fine or, if you prefer not to dress up, bring along your favourite book to share with your friends.

Throughout the week, the children will be taking part in activities linked to keeping our teeth healthy, including practising brushing techniques and talking about why oral hygiene is so important. In our tuff tray, the children will be exploring a crocodile swamp, filled with sensory materials to spark imaginative play. During focus time, they’ll be creating crocodile-themed crafts, counting crocodile teeth and cleaning them with brushes alongside exploring the story through small-world play.

 

Last week we absolutely loved learning all about the story Piwi the Lost Kiwi and Loulou’s adventures in Australia. The airport role play area was a huge hit, with children checking in, making passports, and boarding flights to exciting destinations. They enjoyed exploring travel, holidays, and different countries, and it was wonderful to see their imaginations take flight.

At Budlake....Next week our story is the colour monster by Anna Lienas our word of the week is emotion and our sign is H...
01/03/2026

At Budlake....Next week our story is the colour monster by Anna Lienas our word of the week is emotion and our sign is Happy. In the creative area we will be using lots of different coloured playdough to represent different emotions such as red for angry and yellow for happy and we will be using googley eyes, pipe cleaners and other resources to make our own colour monsters using the playdough. We will be talking all about the different emotions we feel when making our monsters and looking in mirrors to show our different emotions. In the mark making area we will be making marks in green monster slime using our fingers, we will be practising writing the letters of our names in the slime and copying other letters we might know. In the garden we will be using the water tray to make a calming water activity and whilst playing in the water we will be talking all about the things that make us feel happy and calm and what we might be able to do when we feel sad or cross such as finding a calming activity.



Next week for letters and sounds we will be taking part in singing our favourite actions songs in small groups, we will take in turns to each pick a song and have a go at remembering and copying the actions from each song.



This week our story was Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs have a happy birthday. We talked all about the different dinosaurs we knew such as stegosaurus and even learnt some new ones such as an apatosaurus. We loved exploring the dinosaur swamp using our imaginations to explore the tray using lots of different dinosaurs. On Wednesday we baked biscuits we were so good at weighing out all of the different ingredients and checking the recipe to make sure we were using the correct amounts and at the end we all got to take home a yummy biscuit. We have also enjoyed being outside in the sunshine this week and have loved exploring bats and ball and the slide

At Bovey....Next week our book of the week is ‘Elmer’ and our number if the week is ‘9’.Next week, on Thursday, is world...
01/03/2026

At Bovey....Next week our book of the week is ‘Elmer’ and our number if the week is ‘9’.

Next week, on Thursday, is world book day. You are more than welcome to bring your child in dressed up as a book character or even in their pyjamas. Please don’t go out and buy anything especially for this though!

 

We are looking forward to using our maths skills in lots of different ways next week – counting the elephants, problem solving and comparing sizes.

On the craft table, the children will be invited to create their own colourful Elmer using lots of bright coloured paint.

Outside and inside, we will have jungle inspired tuff trays for all of the children to explore and get messy with.

During focus time, the children will be using their hand eye co-ordination and fine motor skills to take part in threading, using scissors and using the peg boards.

 

This week, we read the book ‘what are stars?’. The children loved the messy tuff tray rice play, inspired by the sky and space. They also loved the coloured water with glitter that they were able to compare to the sky and what the sky looks like at nighttime. They children also had the opportunity to create their own stars using glitter, glue, paint and pom poms. Alongside this, the children took an adventure to space to see the stars – they loved the black tent with the sensory discs.

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Thursday 7:45am - 6pm
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