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 Bovey....this week we will be reading the book ‘easter egg hunt’ and our number of the week will be 3. Throughout the...
30/03/2026

At Bovey....this week we will be reading the book ‘easter egg hunt’ and our number of the week will be 3.

 

Throughout the week, we have planned lots of easter activities. This includes a big egg hunt each day in the garden! We will be encouraging the children to count the eggs,  describe the colour and the shape of the eggs, as well as comparing sizes which they have found outside.

In the book corner, we will be reading and exploring book about easter. At the arts and crafts table, the children will be offered easter craft daily to create their own art work and masterpieces.

We will have an easter inspired sensory tuff tray that the children will also be able to explore. In our small world area, there will be easter inspired set up with rabbits, lambs etc.

 

Last week we have been reading the book ‘greg the sausage roll’ and our number of the week has been 2. The children have enjoyed roleplaying in the home corner – they have been baking and making food using the kitchens. They have also enjoyed messy play roleplay baking too!

At Honiton....last week at Honiton in the baby and toddler room we have been learning about Spring. In the garden we hav...
30/03/2026

At Honiton....last week at Honiton in the baby and toddler room we have been learning about Spring. In the garden we have been planting our own flowers into pots to take them home to our families. We have also been painting flowers and talked about the different colours we were using to make our pretty flowers. We have been reading the story “Hooray for Hoppy” at group times and talked about what we see at Spring, including lambs, flowers and sunshine.

This week we are learning about Easter and our book is “Easter Egg Hunt!” The babies are going to be exploring a sensory tray with shredded paper and eggs hidden inside as well as lots of Easter crafts. The toddlers are going to be creating their own Easter eggs with playdough and looking at different patterns we can make. We are also going to make our own bunny craft using different shapes of card.

At Whipton....this week our book of the week will be We’re Going on an Egg Hunt. Our number of the week will be 3, our w...
30/03/2026

At Whipton....this week our book of the week will be We’re Going on an Egg Hunt. Our number of the week will be 3, our word of the week will be Easter, and our Makaton signs of the week will be Easter and egg.

 

Throughout the week the children will be getting ready to celebrate Easter. We will be talking about Easter traditions, springtime changes, and the different ways families enjoy this special time of year. The children will be encouraged to share what they enjoy doing at Easter and who they like to celebrate with. During focus activities, the children will be creating Easter crafts such as decorating eggs, creating Easter cards, making bunny masks, and designing colourful Easter baskets using paint, collage materials, and natural loose parts.

 

We will also be creating a large Easter display together, where the children can add their own chicks, eggs, and spring flowers while talking about the signs of spring they have noticed.

In the tuff tray, the children will explore an Easter-themed small world setup with eggs, chicks, bunnies, and grassy textures to inspire imaginative play and storytelling.

 

Last week we loved learning all about dinosaurs. The children especially enjoyed exploring the slimy tray filled with dinosaurs, trees, and swampy textures. They had a fantastic time making dino footprints, comparing the different shapes and sizes, and creating their own dinosaur habitats. We also explored playdough fossils, sorted dinosaur bones, and used brushes to uncover hidden “fossils” in sand.

At Honiton....At Honiton big room this week, we will be learning all about easter! Our sign of the week will be Easter a...
30/03/2026

At Honiton....At Honiton big room this week, we will be learning all about easter! Our sign of the week will be Easter and the number of the week will be 2. During our carpet time we will be learning all about why we celebrate easter and talking together about the special ways we all celebrate easter in our families. During letters and sounds we will be using induments and stories to learn about how we can make lots of different sounds and getting more understanding of how we use things such as instruments and our voices to make different sounds.

In our invitation to play we shall have a verity of easter craft bits out so we can make our own unique easter themed art work. We will also have playdoh out with bowls, flour, and tools so we can pretend to make our own hot cross buns. We shall also have practice at our cutting skills using scissors to cut out patterns from paper.

We have had a busy week learning all about spring! Our sign of the week was spring and our number was 1 during carpet time we have loved learning about spring and talking about how the weather changes and the trees get their leaves while flowers start to grow, we even talked about how we all grow through the seasons as well! Our favourite thing to do during letters and sounds this week was closing our eyes and seeing what we could hear around us. We had lots of fun making our colourful leaves out of tissue paper as well as making lots of patterns using cut up fruit.

At Budlake....this week our book is called were going on an egg hunt, our word of the week is Easter and our sign of the...
30/03/2026

At Budlake....this week our book is called were going on an egg hunt, our word of the week is Easter and our sign of the week is Rabbit. In the creative area we will be exploring an “chocolate” easter gloop tray using chocolate scented gloop and plastic eggs with hidden numbers inside. We will be pretending our tray is like a melted easter egg and using our sense of smell and touch to explore the gloop, we will also be having a go at identifying the numbers inside the eggs and having a go at counting that many little eggs. In the mark making area we will be painting pasta and using that to decorate easter egg shapes, we will be using our fine motor skills to paint the pasta and stick it to our egg shape and exploring the concept of patterns. Next week in the garden we will be taking part in Easter egg hunts every day and looking for the plastic eggs hidden around the garden, we will be following the signs around the garden to guide us to the eggs and there may even be a special surprise at the end.



This week for letters and sounds we will be taking part in activities such as mouth movements, this is where we practice moving our mouths whilst making different sounds whilst looking in the mirror to see how our mouths move when we make the sounds.



Last week our story was called 10 little chicks, we practised counting to 10 every day and back from 10 as well, in the small world area we explored a farm yard tray with spring chicks, and other farmyard animals. We loved making homes for the animals on the farm and using them to create stories in our play. In the mark making we made our own spring chicks using feathers, googley eyes and matchsticks to create our own fluffy little spring chicks. We have also loved playing outside in the garden on the bikes this week, and making easter paper chains

Just a reminder.... all Little Ones nurseries will be closed on Good Friday ( 3rd April) and Easter Monday ( 6th April) ...
26/03/2026

Just a reminder.... all Little Ones nurseries will be closed on Good Friday ( 3rd April) and Easter Monday ( 6th April) .

At Budlake....This week our book is called emergency by Margaret Mayo and our word of the week is vehicle and our sign o...
16/03/2026

At Budlake....This week our book is called emergency by Margaret Mayo and our word of the week is vehicle and our sign of the week is car. In the small world area, we will be exploring sand with diggers, lentils and toilet roll tubes to make our own construction site we will be exploring lots of different textures and using descriptive language to describe what we can feel. In the water area we will be playing with boats and other objects that float or sink we will be investigating toys that float and sink and learning about different concepts. In the garden we will be making ramps for the card using the large wooden blocks we will be working together to build the ramps and playing co-operatively we will also be using mathematical language of fast and slow. We will also be playing board games and collaging.

 

This week our book was how much do I love you, we talked all about Mother’s Day and all of the people in our lives that are important to us. We made our Mummies cards using a range of resources and tried really hard to write our own names. We also loved exploring the doll’s house and arranging the furniture in a variety of ways. In the water tray we made love potions using glitter and petals we practised filling and emptying and used mathematical language.

At Whipton....This week, the babies have thoroughly enjoyed engaging in creative activities, including exploring paint a...
16/03/2026

At Whipton....This week, the babies have thoroughly enjoyed engaging in creative activities, including exploring paint and pens to make Mother’s Day cards.

With the welcome appearance of some sunshine, we have also been able to spend more time outdoors, making the most of the brighter weather. the children have been developing their gross motor skills with great enthusiasm. They have shown growing confidence as they climbed the frame and navigated the steps to the slide.

At Honiton....This week in the baby and toddler room we have been learning about Mothers Day and the people who are spec...
16/03/2026

At Honiton....This week in the baby and toddler room we have been learning about Mothers Day and the people who are special to us. We made flower plant pots with the babies to give these to their Mummies. The babies and toddlers have enjoyed exploring playdough and making prints in the playdough using fresh flower petals and leaves. We also made cards using different shapes to make flowers and the toddlers were able to talk about their Mummies and the people who are in their families. At group times we looked at our family phots and read the story “Guess How Much I Love You”.



Next week we are learning about space, the babies will be exploring a space sensory tray and will have a space tent. The toddlers will be creating rockets by using building blocks and talking about shapes. In our mark making area we will be making planets using paint and paper plates!

At Bovey...this week, we are going to be reading the book ‘Superworm’. Our number of the week is going to be ‘10’.During...
10/03/2026

At Bovey...this week, we are going to be reading the book ‘Superworm’. Our number of the week is going to be ‘10’.

During the week, we are going to be identifying insects and understanding where they might live. We are also going to be supporting our friends by doing challenges like obstacle courses to try new activities and encourage our friends along the way – similar to the story that we are going to be reading.

Outside in the garden, we have planned lots of Superworm inspired play including finding the insects in the mud with the magnifying glasses, digging in the sand and planting flowers into flower pots.

Inside, we will be creating flower pictures at the craft table with lots of colourful resources.

During focus time, we are going to be focusing on our hand-eye co-ordination by practising our scissor skills, building with the lego and practising our pencil grip.

At music and movement time, we are going to be getting our bodies moving by joining in with yoga, danny go and the traffic light game.



Last week we have read the story ‘Elmer’ and our number of the week was ‘9’.

We had lots of jungle inspired play with animals and elephants with messy and colourful play. We loved reading Elmer!

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

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