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 Whipton....A very fun week for the babies’ full of speedy cars, spinning wheels and zooming around the garden! We hav...
01/02/2026

At Whipton....A very fun week for the babies’ full of speedy cars, spinning wheels and zooming around the garden! We have loved singing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ at Introduction, practicing our actions and Makaton signs for ‘bus’ and ‘car.’ The babies’ have really enjoyed having the sand tray set up with ramps and diggers, exploring movement and speed, and making marks with cars rolled through paint!



Next week, we are going to be learning about farm animals! We will be singing ‘Old McDonald’ and practicing our Makaton signs for ‘pig’ ‘cow’ and ‘sheep.’ The babies will be able to explore the small world farmyard tray, developing their understanding of the world and spending lots of time getting muddy in the garden with trowels and plant pots!

At Budlake....Next week our book of the week Topsy and Tim go to the dentist by Jean and Gareth Adamson, our word of the...
01/02/2026

At Budlake....Next week our book of the week Topsy and Tim go to the dentist by Jean and Gareth Adamson, our word of the week is dentist and our sign is teeth. We will be learning all about taking care of our teeth and taking care of our bodies by eating healthy food. In the small world area we will be using crazy foam as tooth paste to brush the pretend teeth using tooth brushes. We will be talking about how it is important to brush our teeth twice a day using toothpaste and why we need to brush our teeth. In the water tray we will be bathing the baby dolls in warm soapy water using flannels. We will be talking all about how to take care of babies and how we need to make sure we are really gentle with young babies. In the garden next week, we will be setting up a greengrocer’s shop with lots of role play fruit and veg, we will be talking all about what foods are healthy for us such a apples and carrots.

 

Next week for letters and sounds we will be taking part in activities such as I spy names this is where we play a game of, I spy using our names by sounding out the letters of our names to work out. We will also be taking part in silly soup; mirror play and name play.

 

This week our story was called Elmer and Wilmer, we loved learning about all the different colours and exploring the colour sorting pasta tray putting all the different colours into the coloured bowls using the tweezers. We have also really enjoyed making rainbow collages using a variety of coloured papers, sequins and glitter we have been talking about patterns we might be creating as we make our collages and beginning to recognise patterns we may see. At focus times this week we have been learning all about the different ways to make four using the number blocks, we talked about how the different numbers of blocks had different heights depending on the amount we used to make them and how we could use the configurations of number blocks to make 4 in different ways for example four lots of one or two lots two.

At Whipton....Next week we will be celebrating National Storytelling Week, and our focus story will be The Gingerbread M...
01/02/2026

At Whipton....Next week we will be celebrating National Storytelling Week, and our focus story will be The Gingerbread Man.

The children will be exploring the tale in lots of exciting ways, including acting out the story, using puppets, and joining in with the repeated phrases. Our number of the week will be 5, and we’ll be practising recognising it, counting groups of five, and spotting it in our environment. We’ll also be learning the Makaton sign for Gingerbread Man and using it during songs, story time, and play.

Throughout the week, the children will take part in a range of themed activities such as baking their own gingerbread people, decorating gingerbread characters, exploring gingerbread‑scented playdough, creating story maps, sequencing the events, and building small‑world scenes like bridges and rivers for the Gingerbread Man to cross. It’s set to be a fun, imaginative, and hands‑on week full of storytelling and creativity.

This week we have loved learning all about Dazzling Diggers and exploring different modes of transport. The children have enjoyed discovering how vehicles move, building their own construction sites, creating tracks and roads, and using their imaginations in small‑world play. We’ve talked about the job’s diggers do, compared different types of transport, and explored movement through songs, stories, and outdoor activities. It has been a brilliant week full of curiosity, creativity, and lots of busy hands at work.

At Honiton....This week in the baby room at Honiton we have been exploring the sensory room. We loved all the different ...
01/02/2026

At Honiton....This week in the baby room at Honiton we have been exploring the sensory room. We loved all the different lights and textures they were so pretty. We watched the fish swimming in the bubbles they were so colourful.

We enjoyed climbing on the soft play and sliding down the slide and rolling the shiny balls around.

We have been thinking about shapes and colours this week, we explored paint and made prints using different shapes and chose which colour we wanted to use.

Next week we are going to be sharing our favourite stories like the three little pigs and goldilocks and the three bears.

At Bovey....Next week, the book we are ging to be reading is called ‘Peace at last’ by …. Our number of the week is goin...
01/02/2026

At Bovey....Next week, the book we are ging to be reading is called ‘Peace at last’ by …. Our number of the week is going to be 5.

We have planned some messy farmyard and vehicle play in the small world area. We are going to be exploring different puzzles and using our thinking brains in small groups to problem solve and work together to complete the puzzles.

There will be opportunities through the week for roleplay in the home corner to use the story of the week as inspiration for the children to use their imaginative play and retell the story.

During focus time, we are going to be looking at letters and trying to recognise and copy some letters of our names.

Outside, there will be invitations to play where the children can explore different animals in their habitats and roleplay being animals.

 

 

This week, we have loved reading the colour monster book. The children have started recognising colours to feelings and whatever colour the colour monster is, they can recognise usually how he is feeling. We have had tea parties with the colour monsters in the home corner, as well as painting our own colour monster and choosing the colours we want it to be! Outside we have had lots of construction play with the vehicles and building with the duplo and blocks. We have also used the paint brushes for water painting on the windows and fences as well as building houses and tunnels.

27/01/2026

!!! All Little Ones nurseries are open this morning HOWEVER please bear with us as we juggle staff due to some not being able to make it in due to flooding. We also have lots of staff unable to come in due to the local schools being closed. We are trying our very best to accept all children in but need to be able to staff nursery safely. We will let you know asap if we reach the point of not being able to take any more children. If you are not planning on coming to nursery today please call and let us know. !!!

At Budlake...Next week our story is called Elmer and Wilbur by David Mckee, our words of the week is pattern and our sig...
25/01/2026

At Budlake...Next week our story is called Elmer and Wilbur by David Mckee, our words of the week is pattern and our sign is Rainbow. In the small world area, we will be exploring an Elmer colour sorting with multicoloured pasta, pom poms, Elmer elephants, tweezers and coloured bowls. We will be using and strengthening our fine motor skills by using the tweezers in a pincer grasp to separate the colours into different bowls. In the creative area we will be doing some rainbow collaging with tissue paper, sequins and other resources. We will be talking all about the different colours we are using whilst making our collages and begin to identify any patterns we can see. In the garden next week, we will be using paint to mix and make colours, we will be experimenting with making different colours and noticing what happens when we mix two different colours together.



This week our story was don’t let an elephant on the bus, we loved exploring the city and animals’ tuff tray pretending our animals were riding the bus and pushing our cars along the road re-enacting our story. We also loved looking out for the rhyming words in our story and would identify these during group times. We have loved taking part in board games and puzzles this week and have been building on our turn taking and sharing skills whilst taking part in these activities. The home corner has also been popular and we have loved looking after the dolls, making cups of tea and playing with small groups of friends.

At Whipton....Next week we’ll be getting stuck into a brand‑new story adventure as we delve into Dazzling Diggers! Our f...
25/01/2026

At Whipton....Next week we’ll be getting stuck into a brand‑new story adventure as we delve into Dazzling Diggers! Our focus number will be 4, and throughout the week we’ll be introducing transport‑themed Makaton signs, including car, train, bus, and aeroplane.

Our play invitations will revolve around the busy world of building and vehicles. Children will explore matching different machines to the tasks they’re used for, sorting construction vehicles by colour and size, and arranging ramps, planks, and tracks in order from shortest to longest. They’ll also be crafting their own “Dazzling Digger” characters using craft sticks, bright card, wheels made from bottle tops, and googly eyes, as well as designing their own construction passes decorated with their favourite vehicles.



In the tuff tray we’ll be creating a mini construction zone, complete with sand, stones, pipes, diggers, and road signs. Children can experiment with digging, pouring, transporting, and building, designing their own work sites and developing imaginative stories as they play.



Out on the decking we’ll be heading off on transport‑spotting adventures, keeping our eyes and ears open for different vehicles in the environment. We’ll also gather natural materials to build bridges, tunnels, and roadways, and set up large‑scale construction play using crates, blocks, and fabric to encourage climbing, balancing, teamwork, and big imaginative ideas.



During Focus Time, our preschoolers will dive into vehicle‑themed creative projects. They’ll be making transport puppets, designing construction scenes, and practising early maths by matching numbers, shapes, and colours, and grouping vehicles in different ways. We’ll also explore movement by copying how different vehicles travel — zooming like cars, chugging like trains, gliding like aeroplanes, and rumbling like buses.



This week we have loved learning all about the book All Aboard the Animal Train! The children have enjoyed matching animals to their carriages, sorting creatures by size and colour, and ordering train tracks from shortest to longest. Our animal‑themed crafts, including creating their own Animal Train characters and designing

At Bovey...Next week at Bovey our story of the week is ‘ The colour monster’ and our number is going to be 4. During the...
25/01/2026

At Bovey...Next week at Bovey our story of the week is ‘ The colour monster’ and our number is going to be 4.

 

During the week we are going to be spending a lot of time exploring colours. We are going to be using our fine motor skills in our multi coloured rice tuff tray. We are going to be using a range of equipment to help promote our fine and gross motor skills to pour, scoop and sieve the rice. While exploring our tuff tray we can talk about all the colours that we can see, we can see if the colours link to any emotions for us. We are also going to be exploring the story while playing in our tuff tray by using story props and pictures. In our creative area we are going to be exploring colour by using paint. We are going to be creating our own beautiful pictures deciding what colours we would like to use and we can also explore colour mixing by mixing our paint together and seeing what colour it changes to.  We are also going to be using lots of different materials to add texture to our pictures, such as tissue paper, pom poms, feathers and foil.

Outside in the garden we are going to be painting with water colours and playing with our colourful sand using it to explore and encourage us to ask questions. we are also going to be talking a lot about our feelings and what might make us feel a certain way.

During our focus time we are going to have the chance to take part in activities such as drawing emotions, we are going to be using mirrors to look at ourselves and we can pull faces into them to see how our faces change. We are also going to be taking part in more colour mixing activities, by painting our hands and then shaking our hands with our friends to see what colours we can make.

 

This week we have really enjoyed our story ‘dear zoo’ we have spent so much time pretending to be different animals, thinking about how they move or what noises they might make. We have had lots of fun exploring in our animal tuff tray. It was filled with hay and sawdust and we have been building different enclosures for the different animals thinking about what they might like in their houses. During music and movement the traffic light game was our favourite activity.

At Whipton....Next week we will be climbing aboard a brand‑new adventure as we explore the story All Aboard the Animal T...
18/01/2026

At Whipton....Next week we will be climbing aboard a brand‑new adventure as we explore the story All Aboard the Animal Train! Our number of the week will be 3, and we’ll be learning a variety of animal Makaton signs, Elephant, Tiger, Rhino etc.

 

Our invitations to play will be inspired by the animals on the train. We’ll be matching animals to their carriages, sorting creatures by size and colour, and ordering train tracks from shortest to longest. Children will also be creating their own “Animal Train” characters using craft sticks, coloured card, and googly eyes, as well as designing train tickets decorated with the animals they love most.

 

In the tuff tray we will set up a railway‑themed sensory tray with tracks, stones, shredded paper “straw,” and small world animals. Children can explore building their own train routes, creating habitats for the animals, and engaging in rich storytelling and role play.

 

Out on the decking we’ll be going on animal‑spotting walks, collecting natural materials to build dens, nests, and tunnels for our creatures. We’ll also be creating large‑scale train play scenes and building “animal carriages” with blocks and cloths to inspire climbing, balancing, and collaborative play.

 

During Focus Time our preschoolers will be diving into their animal‑themed crafts. We’ll be making animal puppets, designing train scenes, and practising maths skills by matching numbers, shapes and colours, and sorting animals into groups. Children will also explore movement by copying how different animals travel—stomping like elephants, padding like bears, or slithering like snakes.

 

This week we have loved learning all about Frog on a Log! The children have enjoyed exploring rhyming words, playing with sound patterns, and discovering the life cycle of a frog. Our pond‑themed activities have sparked wonderful conversations about growth, change, and the natural world, and the children have shown great enthusiasm in their imaginative frog play.

At Budlake....Next week our story is called You can’t take an elephant on the bus by Patricia Cleveland Pack. In the sma...
18/01/2026

At Budlake....Next week our story is called You can’t take an elephant on the bus by Patricia Cleveland Pack. In the small world we will be exploring a jungle animal in the city using the magnet tiles road with cars and the jungle animals just like in our story. We will be acting out the story in our play and recalling the parts we know whilst using the book to help us. In the mark making we will be using the cars in paint to make marks on large pieces of paper. We will be pushing the cars back and forth and looking at the patterns that the wheels make as we roll them. In the garden next week, we will be using the large wooden blocks to make ramps for the cars. We will be talking about how fast or slow the cars go down the ramps and using mathematical language of size when exploring the cars.



Next week for letters and sounds we will be taking part in activities such as actions songs and Roly poly, this is where we roll our arms fast and slow to the tune Roly poly ever so slowly Roly poly faster. We will also be describing words about sounds and playing noisy neighbour.



This week our story was called a squash and a squeeze, we loved learning all about the different animals on the farm and learning which of our foods came from the farm such as vegetables and meat. In the mark making we enjoyed using vegetables in paint to make prints on paper using matching colours to the vegetables for example orange for carrots. We enjoyed exploring a small world farm with all of the farm yard animals, barn and straw,

At Bovey....Next week at Bovey our story for the week is going to be Dear Zoo and our number of the week is going to be ...
18/01/2026

At Bovey....Next week at Bovey our story for the week is going to be Dear Zoo and our number of the week is going to be 3. During the week we are going to be exploring in our animal themed tuff tray. We are going to be using our exploratory skills to see if we can find the animals hidden in all the hay and tissue paper. We are then going to be talking about the different animals that we find,  thinking about where they might live, what noises they make and looking at the patterns on their skin/fur. In our creative area we are going to be using animals to paint. Finding out what prints it may leave on the paper if we use their feet to stamp our paint. Outside in the garden we are going to be making marks in the sand using animals from our story. We are also going to be using our fine motor skills to see if we can copy the patterns on our animals by drawing them into the sand with our fingers. We are also going to using the Duplo blocks to build different houses for our animals, we can talk about all the different colours, sizes and shapes of our blocks that we are using.

During music and movement, we are going to be moving in a variety of ways while pretending to be animals. Thinking about how fast or slow the animals may be and if the animal has big or small movements. Our focus time activities this week are going to include practicing our scissor skills, matching the animals and making our own animal puzzles.

 

This week at Bovey our story has been ‘A duck so small’. We have really enjoyed using a range of resources to make and decorate our own ducks. We have had lots of fun in our duck pond tuff tray, using our senses to feel all the different textures within our tray. Outside in our garden we have been playing with the water, pretending to be ducks.

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